...is easily known out of what purse this black peny came. The Papists railing on him for a Heretick, and therefore he must also be a coward, though indeed he was a man of arms, 20 every inch of him, and as valiant as any in his age. Now as I am glad that Sir John Oldcastle is...

...those that dispraise it," and even calling Shakespeare to account for making a butt of Falstaff, who was "a man of Arms, every inch of him, and as Valiant as any in his Age." The book is by no means tedious reading, with its condensed presentation of fact, occasional...

...made the make-sport in all plays for a coward. It is easily known out of what purse this black penny came : the papists railing on him for a heretic, and...of arms, every inch of him, and as valiant as any in his age. Now as I am glad that Sir John Oldcastle is put out, so I am sorry that Sir John Fastolfe...

...Pleasure for Prince Henry to abuse, as one that was a Thrasonical! Puff, and emblem of Mock Valour; s, their C in Age, being for his Martial Prowess made Knight of the Garter by King Henry the Sixth.™ Winstanley...

...Pleasure for Prince Henry to abuse, as one that was a Thrasonical! Putf, and emblem of Mock Valour; though indeed he was a man of Arms every Inch of him, and as valiant as any in Age, being for his Martial Prowess made Knight of the Garter by King Henry the Sixth." SHAKESPEARE'S...

...Oldcastle in common with Falstaff. In war he deserved the hearty praise which Fuller gives to Oldcastle, as 'a man of arms every inch of him, and as valiant as any in his age.' In private life (as displayed in the Fasten Letters) he was a hard and grasping man of...