...does Dame Quickly say in this sentence ? — " After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play icith flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew...nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green felds." And so the pen must lie upon a "table of green frieze" before the comparison of the sharp nose...

...proverbial expression for an inevitable event, — death. Thus Mrs. Quickly of poor Sir John ; ' ' After I saw him fumble with the sheets, [and play...his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way," &c. [Shakespeare's Henry V. act ii. sc. 3. D.] Frank. No, no, no ; a wing — Would I had wings but...

...been any chriitom child ; 'a parted cren juf t between twelve and one, e'en at turning o' the tids ; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play...sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields."— Act II., Scene 3. Mr. Collier's folio for " 'a babbled of green fields," gives on a table of green...

...had been any Christom child ; a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide ; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets...ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was sharp as a pen, and d babbled of green fields." This final phrase, to which so many meanings have been...

...had been any chrisom child ; || ;a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at turning o' the tide ; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets,...as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields. King Henry's Character by the Constable of France. You are too much mistaken in this king : Question,...

...escaped the attention of all the commentators until White. A mere reading of the passage suggests it: " for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play...as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields." What more natural than to talk of green fields after playing with flowers 2) It is hard to believe...

...had been any cliristom child ; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets,...as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields." '" Here the smile and the tear rise at the same instant. Nevertheless, the union of pathos with humour...

...just between twelve and one, even at [he turning o' the tide : for after T saw him fumble with tiie make it loocommon. 1: "what, man ! be of good cheer." So 'a cried out — " God, God, God ! " three or four times. Now...

...direction — for the property-man, Greenfields, to bring in a table — had been printed in the text. " After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with...one way ; for his nose was as sharp as a pen and a table of green fields. How now, Sir John ? quoth I. What, man ! be of good cheer. So 'a cried out,...

...conversant with the delightful touch of homely nature in Dame Quickly's account of Falstaff s death-bed : " After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with...as sharp as a pen, and a" babbled of green fields." JOHN FORD, DRAMATIST. H H oo (H H M M a H w 3 a MM Q o H It, PH 9 3 OS OQ [5 o ^-i r_j O < H H H O...