John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
983 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 983 |
| AUTHOR: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| QUOTATION: | 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, as if they had gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison. There ’s but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like an herald’s coat without sleeves. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2. [text] |
| WORKS: | William Shakespeare Collection. |