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The Life of Henry the Fifth

The Life of Henry the Fifth (Henry V), Act II, scene iii (c. 1599; First Folio 1623) Inferred

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · c. 1599; First Folio 1623

InferredThis is a slightly modified direct quotation from Hostess Quickly's description of Falstaff's death in Shakespeare's Henry V, Act II, scene iii: "his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields." The phrase originates from Lewis Theobald's 1733 emendation of the First Folio's "a Table of greene fields." Fuller modifies "babbled" to "babbling" to fit her sentence structure. The source is identifiable from the quoted text.

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Documented 1845

Letters

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No datable encounters with Shakespeare, William have been catalogued yet.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

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“I must begin by "babbling of green fields.”

Also reprinted in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. IV: 1845-1847. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.

Inferred This is a slightly modified direct quotation from Hostess Quickly's description of Falstaff's death in Shakespeare's Henry V, Act II, scene iii: "his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields." The phrase originates from Lewis Theobald's 1733 emendation of the First Folio's "a Table of greene fields." Fuller modifies "babbled" to "babbling" to fit her sentence structure. The source is identifiable from the quoted text.