Chimes at Midnight (1965)

Keith Baxter: Prince Hal

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Quotes 

• Falstaff : My King! My Jove! I speak to thee my heart!

  Henry V : I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester. I have long dreamed of such a kind of man, so surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane. But being awaked, I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men.

  [Falstaff laughs and rises] 

  Henry V : Reply not to me with a fool-born jest! Presume not that I am the thing I was.

• Henry 'Hotspur' Percy : No, Percy, thou art dust, and food for -

  [he dies] 

  Prince Hal : For worms, brave Percy; fare thee well, great heart!

• Prince Hal : Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

• Henry V : Presume not that I am the thing I was! For God doth know - so shall the world perceive - that I have turned away my former self; so will I those that kept me company. When thou dost hear I am as I have been, approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast, the tutor and the feeder of my riots. 'Til then I banish thee, on pain of death - as I have done the rest of my misleaders - not to come near our person by ten mile!

  [Quieter and more compassionately] 

  Henry V : For competence of life I will allow you, that lack of means enforce you not to evil. And, as we hear you do reform yourselves, we will, according to your strength and qualities, give you advancement.

  [Falstaff is crestfallen but looks at Hal with pride] 

• Falstaff : What time of day is it, lad?

  Prince Hal : What the devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack, clocks the tongues of bawds, dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

• Prince Hal : The tide of blood in me hath proudly flowed in vanity till now. Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,

• Henry 'Hotspur' Percy : If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.

  Prince Hal : Thou speakst as if I would deny my name.

  Hotspur : My name is Harry Percy.

  Prince Hal : Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere, nor can one England brook a double reign of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales!

  Hotspur : Nor shall it, Harry! For the hour is come to end the one of us.

  [They fight]