 to keep these old definitions carefully in mind. I shall employ the word tempering in the sense of softening, as Falstaff uses it when he says of Shallow :— "I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him.  Nature - Page 12edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 260 pages
...FALSTAFF Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire, and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire. I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. Exeunt 4.2 Enterthe KING[, carried in a chair], WARWICK, Thomas Duke of CLARENCE, Humphrey... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...and enables the scholar 117 hushanded cultivated there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, Esquire. I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. Exeunt IV-4 Enter the King, carried in a chair, Warwick, Thomas Duke of Clarence, Humphrey... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...FALSTAFF. Let them go¿ I'll through Glostershire and there will I visit MasterRobert Shallow, esquire: I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. . [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Westminster. Thejerusalem Chamber. Enter the KING, THOMAS DUKE OF CLARENCE,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 356 pages
...ring 'All that glisters is not gold' (Merchant 2.7.65) 11 5 tempered moulded, like wax: as Falstaff says of Shallow. 'I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb' (2 Henry IV 4.3.127-9!. Probably a parody of God moulding man of clay (Job IO: 9. 33: 6. Romans 9:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 180 pages
...go. I'll through Gloucestershire, and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire. I have 120 him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. 128 [Exeunt.] * 108—9 vital. . . spirits inward forces 112 it ie, the weapon 113 a is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...FALSTAFF. Let them go. I'll through Glostershire; and there will I visitMaster Robert Shallow, esquire: friend: she has nobody to do any thing about her when I am gone; and she is old, Come away. [Exeunt. SCENE N. Westminster. Thejerusalem Chamber. Enter the KING, THOMAS DUKE OF CLARENCE,... | |
 | Ulrich Busse - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 366 pages
...Gloucestershire, and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire. I have him already temp'ring between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him" (2H4 4, 3, 128-131). 21. For the use of other military ranks as kinds of occupational titles see Stoll... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2007 - 36 pages
...Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire, and 475 there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire. I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. Exeunt 459—60 with this] Q; with his F 470 human] Q; not in F 472 SD] Placed as in F;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2007 - 36 pages
...Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire, and 475 there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire. I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. Exeunt 459—60 with this] Q; with his F 470 human] Q; not in F 472 SD] Placed as in F;... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...through Glostershire, id there will I visit master Robert Shallow, esquire; I have him already mpering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with m.' At this visit, perhaps, Falstaff borrowed the thousand pounds ; but ken could he, to use Shallow's... | |
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