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...Why am I no longer ambitious ? once I was, but 'twas when I was young and foolish. Then methought " It were an easy leap to pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon ;" but now I am old and fat, and there is something in fat which chokes or destroys ambition. It would...

...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...

...what Hotspur has to say on the subject: By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor 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 honor by the locks, So he that doth...

...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...tread'st the presence strew'd, The flowers fair ladies, a fadom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks; So he that doth...

...what Hotspur says: By heaven methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor from the pale-fac'd moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line...could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks, So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities:...

...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...ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. (1. 3. 199-203) Choleric, fearless, gallant, perhaps a bit mad, Hotspur lives up to the ideal of honour....

...volcanic energy, for whom war is not so much a political instrument as the path to glory: By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon, i . Shakespeare suggests that the reason for the Archbishop's disaffection is Henry's...