Speeches (Lines) for Hostess Quickly
in "Henry IV, Part I"
Total: 24

1

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(stage directions). [Enter Hostess]

Hostess Quickly. O Jesu, my lord the prince!

2

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Henry V. How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest thou to
me?

Hostess Quickly. Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at
door would speak with you: he says he comes from
your father.

3

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Falstaff. What manner of man is he?

Hostess Quickly. An old man.

4

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Falstaff. And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.

Hostess Quickly. O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith!

5

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Falstaff. Weep not, sweet queen; for trickling tears are vain.

Hostess Quickly. O, the father, how he holds his countenance!

6

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Falstaff. For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen;
For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes.

Hostess Quickly. O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry
players as ever I see!

7

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(stage directions). [Re-enter the Hostess]

Hostess Quickly. O Jesu, my lord, my lord!

8

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Henry V. Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick:
what's the matter?

Hostess Quickly. The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they
are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?

9

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Falstaff. God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heart-burned.
[Enter Hostess]
How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you inquired
yet who picked my pocket?

Hostess Quickly. Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? do you
think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,
I have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy
by boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair
was never lost in my house before.

10

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Falstaff. Ye lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved and lost many
a hair; and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. Go
to, you are a woman, go.

Hostess Quickly. Who, I? no; I defy thee: God's light, I was never
called so in mine own house before.

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Falstaff. Go to, I know you well enough.

Hostess Quickly. No, Sir John; You do not know me, Sir John. I know
you, Sir John: you owe me money, Sir John; and now
you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it: I bought
you a dozen of shirts to your back.

12

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Falstaff. Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to
bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them.

Hostess Quickly. Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight
shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir
John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent
you, four and twenty pound.

13

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Falstaff. He had his part of it; let him pay.

Hostess Quickly. He? alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.

14

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Falstaff. How! poor? look upon his face; what call you rich?
let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks:
Ill not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker
of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I
shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a
seal-ring of my grandfather's worth forty mark.

Hostess Quickly. O Jesu, I have heard the prince tell him, I know not
how oft, that ring was copper!

15

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Lord Bardolph. Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.

Hostess Quickly. My lord, I pray you, hear me.

16

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Henry V. What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy
husband? I love him well; he is an honest man.

Hostess Quickly. Good my lord, hear me.

17

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Henry V. A trifle, some eight-penny matter.

Hostess Quickly. So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your
grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks most vilely
of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is; and said
he would cudgel you.

18

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Henry V. What! he did not?

Hostess Quickly. There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else.

19

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Falstaff. There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed
prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn
fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the
deputy's wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing,
go

Hostess Quickly. Say, what thing? what thing?

20

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Falstaff. What thing! why, a thing to thank God on.

Hostess Quickly. I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou
shouldst know it; I am an honest man's wife: and,
setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to
call me so.

21

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Falstaff. Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say
otherwise.

Hostess Quickly. Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?

22

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Falstaff. Why, she's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not
where to have her.

Hostess Quickly. Thou art an unjust man in saying so: thou or any
man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou!

23

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Henry V. Thou sayest true, hostess; and he slanders thee most grossly.

Hostess Quickly. So he doth you, my lord; and said this other day you
ought him a thousand pound.

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Falstaff. A thousand pound, Ha! a million: thy love is worth
a million: thou owest me thy love.

Hostess Quickly. Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and said he would
cudgel you.