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A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs,

      — King Henry IV. Part I, Act IV Scene 2

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KEYWORD: humour

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Henry V
[II, 1]

Nym

559

I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an
humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow
foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my
rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk
off, I would prick your guts a little, in good
terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it.

2

Henry V
[II, 1]

Nym

574

I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair
terms: that is the humour of it.

3

Henry V
[II, 1]

Nym

601

That now I will have: that's the humour of it.

4

Henry V
[II, 1]

Nym

620

Well, then, that's the humour of't.

5

Henry V
[II, 3]

Nym

891

I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.

6

Henry V
[III, 2]

Nym

1129

Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot;
and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives:
the humour of it is too hot, that is the very
plain-song of it.

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