...wrote off the yokels he contemptuously recruited into the king's wars, as born to be shot, they were 'food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better'.59 It was not so much the number of such references as the edge on many of them, sharpening...

...PRINCE HENRY. I did never see such pitiful rascals. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. Tut, tut; good enough to toss; ther head, And thither I will send you Matthew Gough: tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. EARL OF WESTMORELAND. Ay, but, Sir John, mcthinks they arc exceeding...

...an inferno it must be over yonder! All that youth mowed down. . . . "Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better; tush, man, mortal men, mortal men," says Falstaff. Can there be a more wretched humanity than the one...

...whatsoever, at one point even burlesquing the King himself in Hal's presence. Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better; tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. (iv. ii. 72) It is a supreme stroke of Shakespeare to have apprenticed...

...PRINCE HENRY. I did never see such pitiful rascals. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. Tut, tut; good enough to toss; ow sways it this way, like a mighty sea Forced by the tide to combat wi tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. EARL OF WESTMORELAND. Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding...

...crack'd crowns, And pass them current too. Hotspur — 1 Henry IV II.iii Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better: tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. Falstaff — 1 Henry IV IV.ii For that same word, rebellion, did...

...mortorio, e cosi finisce il mio catechismo. (Enrico IV, Parte I, V, I)61 " [Tut, tut, good (rimigh to toss; food for powder, food for / powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better: tush, man, mortal / men, mortal men.j " [What is honour? a word. What is that word honour? air. / A...

...Mine, Hal, mine. Prince I did never see such pitiful rascals. Falstaff Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better. Tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. Westmoreland 70 Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor...

...of an identical callousness at home. In appraising his conscripts - "Tut, tut! Good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder. They'll fill a pit as well as better" (/ Henry IV 4.2.62-3) - Falstaff embodies the heartlessness that the English preferred to assign to...

...protests the Prince, as they march into view; to which Falstaff retorts, "Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder, food for powder — they'll fill a pit as well as a better." It is a famous piece of cynicism; but seriously intended. For he leads them into the hottest...