 | Paul Strohm - History - 296 pages
...theater. This virtuous rejoinder, Sir John Oldcastle, part 1, is launched with the announcement that It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sins; But one whose virtues shone above the rest, A valiant martyr and a virtuous peer. ..." The shape... | |
 | Kristen Poole - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 292 pages
...fleshy sins; the Prologue again asserts that the Oldcastle-Falstaff transformation was common knowledge: "It is no pampered glutton we present, / Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin, / But one, whose virtue shone above the rest, / A valiant martyr, and a vertuous peer" (ll. 6-9).... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - Drama - 2001 - 200 pages
...Playhouse 75) Oldcastle's prologue doesn't want its saint mistaken for the fat rogue at the Globe: "It is no pampered glutton we present, / Nor aged counsellor to youthful sins" (6-7). 7 Meanwhile, the epilogue of 2 Henry IV is just as afraid of its fat rogue being taken... | |
 | John Russell Brown - Art - 2001 - 598 pages
...Men commissioned the designedly correcrive Sir Johu Oldcastle, whose prologue promises the audience; It is no pampered glutton we present. Nor aged counsellor to youthful sins; But one whose virtues shone above the rest, A val1ant martyr and a virtuous peet. Sir Johu Oidcastle... | |
 | Nora Johnson - Art - 2003 - 234 pages
...Oldcastle exists in order to set the record straight on the life of the fifteenth-century Lollard martyr: "It is no pampered glutton we present, / Nor aged counsellor to youthful sins; / But one whose virtues shone above the rest."34 The record needs to be corrected because of... | |
 | Paul Whitfield White, Suzanne R. Westfall - Drama - 2006 - 340 pages
...fj6; Dutton, Mastering tlte Rerel*. i03. hero in Shakespeare's drama is proclaimed by the Prologue: "It is no pampered glutton we present, /Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin."32 The Admiral's Men's play championed the Foxian representation of Oldcastle as a godly, brave,... | |
 | Brenda Rickman Vantrease - Fiction - 2007 - 444 pages
...unquiet sobbing. [58] J-I6HT It is no pampered glutton we present Nor aged counselor to youthful sin But one whose virtue shone above the rest A valiant martyr and a virtuous peer PROLOGUE TO SlR JOHK OLDCASTLE (i600) .t was late in the afternoon of the next day when Lady Cobham... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 506 pages
...let this brief suffice : It is no pamper'd glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin,1 But one, whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr, and a virtuous peer ; In whose true faith and loyalty, express'd Unto his sovereign and his country's weal, We strive... | |
 | 1869 - 830 pages
...prologue said : — " ' It is no pampered glutton we present, Nor aged councillor to youthful sin ; But one whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr and a virtuous peer.' " These lines are thought to be Shakespeare's own. They are in his vein, and they repeat the... | |
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It is no pamper'd glutton we present, Nor aged counsellor to youthful sin But one, whose virtue shone above the rest, A valiant martyr, and a virtuous peer... 
