Shakespeare Henry Fourth 4th Part I Summary(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Falstaff, not missing a beat, tells him he knew all along it was he and that he went along with it because he knew he could not kill the heir apparent.
The Hostess (MistressQuickly) tells the Prince that a nobleman (Sir John Bracy) has come from his father asking for him, but Hal will not see him.
MistressQuickly ("Hostess") enters and Falstaff wants to know who has picked his pocket while he slept (see 2.4), calling her a liar and implying she knows.
The play differs from Shakespeare's other comedies of this period in that it is set not in an imaginary...
The comic character MistressQuickly appears in four of William Shakespeare's plays.
In Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, she is the colorful hostess of an Eastcheap tavern frequented by Falstaff and his companions, to one of whom (Nym) she is betrothed and another of whom (Pistol) she marries.
