...start a hare. North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,...

...humbled — and humiliation Is sometimes good for people in her station. (1) [" By heaven ! UK-thinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon." — Heart 1?) (2) [MS. — " Like natural Shakspeare on the immortal page."] (3) [" And when T have...

...hare. .\ '>/•//!. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon : Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,...

...he wishes ; for to Thebes this would be a reproach, * So Hotspur, of honour : By heaven, melhinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon : Or dire into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could nerer touch the ground, And pluck up drowned...

...without a soul. I.have always admired that speech of Hotspur in the first part of Henry the Fourth:— 'By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright Honour from the pale fac'd moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,...

...gentlemen what thou canst do; speak a huffing part', and he knows exactly what she wants, and declaims By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon. The most persistent critic of Shakespeare's style was undoubtedly Ben Jonson. Dryden recorded that...

...honour is directed, nor would we recognize that its application is not general, but quite specific. By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon (I. Hi. 199- 200) It is with these words that Percy Hotspur, in some ways FalstafFs...

...those follies which it can neither justify nor forsake. (IV, 123) [71] [Ibid., 1. 3.201 ff.: Hotspur. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon] Though I am very far from condemning this speech with Gildon and Theobald, as absolute...

...Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. HOTSPUR. By heaven, mcthinks ose the singing-birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew the bottom of the deep, Where fadom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour...

...King and rebel alike. Hotspur expresses his devotion to this ideal of military daring and courage: By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck...bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour...