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Henry IV, Apportionment 1 - Act 1, scene 3
Synopsis:
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Enter the King, Northumberland, Worcester, Hotspur,⌜and⌝ Sir Walter Blunt, with others.
KING, ⌜to Northumberland, Worcester, and Hotspur⌝
0332 My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
0333 Unapt to stir at these indignities,
0334 And you have found me, for accordingly
0335 You tread upon my patience. But be sure
03365 I will from henceforth rather be myself,
0337 Mighty and to be feared, than my condition,
0338 Which hath&nb
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Ancient Pistol
Character in several plays by Shakespeare
Fictional character
| Ancient Pistol | |
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Ancient Pistol meets Henry V disguised, while looking for Fluellen, illustration to Henry V by Henry Courtney Selous | |
| Created by | William Shakespeare |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Ensign |
| Religion | Christian |
| Nationality | English |
Ancient Pistol is a swaggering soldier who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare. Although full of grandiose boasts about his prowess, he is essentially a coward. The character is introduced in Henry IV, Part 2, and reappears in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V.
The character's first name is never given. He is referred to as Falstaff's "ancient", meaning "ensign", or standard bearer.
Henry IV, Part 2
[edit]Pistol is introduced as a "swaggerer" who suddenly turns up at the Boar's Head Tavern, contrary to the wishes of the hostess, Mistress Quickly. Falstaff tells her that Pistol is his "ancient" (ensign). He gets into a fight with Falstaff after an exchange of insults with the prostitute Doll Tearsheet, who calls him "the foul-mouth'dst rogue in England".
Later, when Falstaff stops off at Justice Shallow's house after the defeat of Scrope, Pistol appears bringing news of the death of Henry IV, assertin
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We know very little about the lives of the people transported to the Americas during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and who may have been forced into military service. Many of the 50,000 people who were transported there were illiterate, lacked resources to tell their stories, or died premature deaths in the inhospitable and punishing New World. Some traces of their lives survive in the form of wills and probate records. Some sensationalist accounts were told in pamphlets and booked which crossed the Atlantic. Yet we have a new resource which can give us a glimpse into their lives: recently, the English National Archives have catalogued a trove of letters, part of a collection called the Prize Papers, that were sent from colonists home to their families in the eighteenth century and which were on a ship, the Enterprize, which was captured by a French privateering ship on its voyage from Maryland to London in 1756. In the bundles of letters on that ship, we found two that convey the terror that transported men and women might feel at the prospect of the war and what it would bring for them.
The letters were from a man called Thomas Rhoades Showle, who was probably sentenced to transportation in 1739 from Gloucestershire. He directed the first letter to his grandfath