You say you know the wit of the knight and the wisdom of the King, but who called the crown a ‘polished perturbation’, really? This Henry IV Part 2 Quotes Quiz will humble anyone who has not studied the intricate dialogue of the late reign. Test your ear for Shakespeare,
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Henry IV Part 2 Quote Identification Quiz Questions
- “Rumour is a pipe blown by surmises”
- “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown”
- “I know thee not, old man”
- “The better part of valour is discretion”
- “I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms”
- “A man can die but once”
- “O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature’s soft nurse”
- “Presume not that I am the thing I was”
- “Food for powder, food for powder”
- “Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade”
- “The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long”
- “I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men”
- “Thou owest God a death”
- “A pox of this gout! or, a gout of this pox!”
- “I shall never be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company”
- “Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought”
- “The King hath run bad humors on the knight”
- “I would to God, thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought”
- “When I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle’s talon in the waist”
- “Faith, it does me; though it discolours the complexion of my greatness”
- “God knows, my son, by what bypaths and indirect crooked ways I met this crown”
- “I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness”
- “I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers”
- “Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of the day’s beauty”
- “Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack”
- “Why, there is it: come, sing me a bawdy song”
- “The King is weary of dainty and dangerous counsel”
- “I shall fall like a bright exhalation in the evening”
- “The King hath many marching in his coats”
- “This sickness doth infect the very life-blood of our enterprise”