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共 67 题- THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
- Illustrated by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
- With A Biography Of The Knight, From Authentic Sources
- London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
- NOTICE.
- ROBERT B. BROUGH.
- PREFACE.
- SIR JOHN FALSTAFF: A BIOGRAPHY
- BOOK THE FIRST, 1352--1365.
- I. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
- II. BIRTH AND GENEALOGY OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.
- III. OF THE TRICK PLAYED BY LITTLE JACK FALSTAFF ON SIR THOMAS MOWBRAY
- AND HIS FOLLOWING; AND HOW JACK WAS CARRIED AWAY TO LONDON.
- IV. OF JACK FALSTAFF’S COSTING TO LONDON.
- HOW HE SAW LIFE THERE, AND HOW HE BROKE SKOGAN’S HEAD AT THE COURT GATE.
- Jack Falstaff walked home, musing as follows:--
- BOOK THE SECOND, 1381.
- I. HOW MR. JOHN FALSTAFF CAME INTO HIS PROPERTY, AND WAS KNIGHTED
- BY KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
- 1. His accession to the inheritance of his ancestors.
- 2. The time and manner of his receiving the dignity of knighthood.
- BOOK THE THIRD, 1410.
- I. FOR THE MOST PART A TREATISE ON HEROES AND KNIGHTS-ERRANT.
- 1. _Giants_.
- The list is as follows:--
- 1. P. Bardolph, _Esquire_.
- 2. Pistol, _Ancient_.
- 3. Peto.
- 4. Gadshill.
- 5. Nym, _Corporal_.
- 6. Robin, _Page._
- II. HOW SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, WITH HIS SATELLITES THE PRINCE HENRY...
- III. THE BATTLE OF GADSHILL.
- 7. That he, (Sir John), had better be off.
- IV. THE DAY AFTER THE BATTLE.
- Mr. Babdolph.--We four set upon some dozen,---- *
- Sir John Falstaff.--Their points being broken,--
- V. HISTORIC DISSERTATION UPON THE GREAT CIVIL WAR
- VI. HOW SIR JOHN FALSTAFF WON THE BATTLE OF SHREWSBURY.
- Hume, writing of this decisive engagement, says:--
- ROUND THE FIRST.
- Let Sir John Falstaff speak for himself on the occasion:--
- Sir John Falstaff lifted up his hands, and exclaimed--
- BOOK THE FOURTH, 1410--1413.
- I. OF THE SIGNAL VICTORY GAINED BY SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
- OVER THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND.
- Sir John Falstaff.--My lord?--
- II. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED:
- Mistress Helen Quickly.--Nay, you said so before--
- III. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF AN AUTHOR.
- IV WARLIKE STRATEGY OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF:
- V. VISIT TO JUSTICE SHALLOW’S.
- VI. ON THE MAGNANIMITY OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
- VII. DOUBTS ON THE GENIUS AND TESTIMONY OF SHAKSPEARE.
- LETTER FROM MASTER RICHARD WHITTINGTON.--AND OTHER MATTERS.
- VIII. MILDNESS OF THE SPRING SEASON IN 1413
- Master Silence again burst into song, unsolicited--
- Scene closes. ]
- X. CORONATION OF HENRY THE FIFTH.
- He continued:--
- BOOK THE FIFTH. 1413--1415.
- I. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF IN EXILE.
- ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING.
- A TIMELY WORD TO THE KING FROM ONE PERCHANCE THOUGHT DEAD **
- II. THE END OF THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.
- FINIS.
- End of Project Gutenberg’s The Life Of Sir John Falstaff, by Robert B. Brough