Bartlette's Quotations: King Henry IV. Part II.

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1	Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt.	Act i. Sc. 1.
2	Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend.	Ibid.
3	I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.	Sc. 2.
4	A rascally yea-forsooth knave.	Ibid.
5	Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.	Ibid.
6	We that are in the vaward of our youth.	Ibid.
7	For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.	Ibid.
8	It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common.	Ibid.
9	I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.	Ibid.
10	If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle.	Ibid.
11	Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply.	Ibid.
12	When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.	Sc. 3.
13	An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.	Ibid.
14	Past and to come seems best; things present worst.	Ibid.
15	A poor lone woman.	Act ii. Sc. 1.
16	I 'll tickle your catastrophe.	Ibid.
17	He hath eaten me out of house and home.	Ibid.
18	Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week.	Ibid.
19	I do now remember the poor creature, small beer.	Sc. 2.
20	Let the end try the man.	Ibid.
21	Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.	Ibid.
22	He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.	Sc. 3.
23	Aggravate your choler.	Sc. 4.
24	O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?	Act iii. Sc. 1.
25	With all appliances and means to boot.	Ibid.
26	Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.	Ibid.
27	Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?	Sc. 2.
28	Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,--which is an excellent thing.	Ibid.
29	Most forcible Feeble.	Ibid.
30	We have heard the chimes at midnight.	Ibid.
31	A man can die but once.	Ibid.
32	Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.	Ibid.
33	We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man.	Act iv. Sc. 2.
34	I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame."	Sc. 3.
35	He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity.	Sc. 4.
36	Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.	Sc. 5.
37	Commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.	Ibid.
38	A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kick-shaws, tell William cook.	Act v. Sc. 1.
39	His cares are now all ended.	Sc. 2.
40	Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol? Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.	Sc. 3.
41	A foutre for the world and worldlings base! I speak of Africa and golden joys.	Ibid.
42	Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die!	Ibid.