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PGCJ.772.056
19 Dec 1772:11 (467)
[signed] Z.
I was always particularly pleased with that scene in the
first part of Harry the Fourth, where the humorous Sir John
Falstaff, after upbraiding the Prince with being the
corrupter of his morals, and resolving on amendment, forms a
very reasonable wish, 'to know where a commodity of good
names may be bought.' It happens indeed a little
unfortunately, that he immediately relapses into his old
courses, and enters into a scheme for the robbery that
night, which he endeavours to justify by calling it his
trade: 'Why Hal, says he, "as my vocation, Hal: 'Tis no sin
for a man to labour in his vocation.'. . . [2 1/2 columns on
dishonesty]
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