O, thou art a perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light! Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern: but the sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 1 From Henry IV. Gadshill promises the chamberlain a share in the profits in exchange for his information and remarks that he has a powerful accomplice that will ensure their freedom if they accidentally get caught. When thou rannest up Gadshill in the night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou hadst been an ignis fatuus or a ball of wildfire, there's no purchase in money. 124 (Oxford Standard Authors ed.) some editions prefer act 4, sc. Henry VI, Part 3 is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. The chamberlain tells Gadshill more about these men, who carry hundreds of marks in gold. Thou art violently carried away from grace: there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man a tun of man is thy companion. Now that he is an old man, Lear has decided to divide his kingdom between his three daughters. If thou wert any way given to virtue, I would swear by thy face my oath should be 'By this fire, that's God's angel:' but thou art altogether given over and wert indeed, but for the light in thy face, the son of utter darkness. Swearest thou, ungracious boy henceforth neer look on me. 1 Trevor White Hotspur and Jennifer Kirby. Example: 'Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis' (Henry IV Part II, 2.4.69). Calipolis (noun): In Battle of Alcazar, a play by George Peele (1556-1596), Calipolis is the starving wife of Muly Mahomet.
as underage because this fic involves the wedding/ arranged marriage of two people who would have been considered old enough to marry in their own time but are minors in ours (14 or 15). Example: 'They fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild-duck' (Henry IV Part I, 4.2.9). No, I'll be sworn I make as good use of it as many a man doth of a Death's-head or a memento mori: I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and Dives that lived in purple for there he is in his robes, burning, burning. Henry IV Part 1 - Shakespeare Relationship: Henry 'Hotspur' Percy/Kate Percy.