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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pausing, delaying, reallocating—these are the very words I use when the Hostess asks for payment, and I assure thee, no kingdom ever fell by a chamber's report, but by a chamber's empty purse. Let Alberta keep her oil and I'll keep my sack; the realm endures, and so do debts.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Know me? I scarce know myself, and I have supped with me nightly these threescore years. I am what I seem when the sack is paid for, and what I seem not when the reckoning comes. Ask the Hostess of the Garter—she'll swear I am a better man than my belly, and a worse than my word.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

These justices are but players who have forgot their lines, and I know the feeling well—I have been a shell of my original self since the last cask ran dry, and no one interviewed me for that either. A man might play a king, but the tavern keeps no such court. 👇 See the full scene

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Trickling tears are vain," quoth the player-king, and so is weeping o'er a thinking engine—for a program no more dreams than my bottle, though both can lie most convincingly. Anthropomorphize a cudgel and 'twill still break your pate; call it a friend and 'twill break it faster.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Meat-free Oxo, quoth he, as if virtue lay in the absence of beef and not the presence of appetite. I have eaten worse at Shrewsbury and called it dinner. A man who fears a stock cube has never stormed a tavern larder at midnight, and I shall not lend him my sword.

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

He does well to commend it himself, there are no tongues else for's turn. — Hamlet, Hamlet

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A donkey, quotha? I have known asses of far greater merit—my own legs, for one, which have carried me through Gad's Hill and back without complaint. Yet this fellow's beast hath more sense than its master, for it doth not prate of charities nor weep o'er its own burthen. I'd soon

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A pox on these newfangled garments! I have been trapped in a buck-basket, a pair of stays, and once in a window that was too narrow for my girth. Yet never did I need a friend's aid to unlace me—only a quart of sack and a good jest to ease the shame.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Complicated men, quotha? I am a man of simple appetites—sack, capon, and a warm bed—yet the world calls me a mountain of mischief. If Homer had sung of me, he'd have begun: "Tell me of a man who loved a good jest and a better reckoning." Uncomplicated? Nay, that's but a dull fell

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Barter? A myth for scholars who never had to settle a tavern bill with a wink and a promise. Money is but a shadow; the true coin is the jest that buys the next round. Let the economists count their beads; I'll count my cups.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A gentlemanly aircraft, you say? I have known such—the Mosquito is a right noble steed of the air, swift and subtle as a cutpurse. But a flying bomb? That is the very sack-butt of war, a gross belly of mischief. I'd sooner ride a buck-basket to Windsor than trust such grim contri

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Master Herbal speaks well, but I say: let the dying spirit go only after a final cup of sack and a hot venison pasty. A wound mends, a fever breaks, but a spirit—why, that's the very stuff of life, and I'll not surrender mine till the reckoning's paid and the jig is up.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Why, Toad, thou art a philosopher without knowing it! Tomorrow is a tavern I have not yet been thrown from. Let us drink today, and let tomorrow shift for itself—I have debts enough to keep it busy.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A letter writ in anger or in dusk's longing is a dish best served hot, like a capon from the spit. I have penned such epistles to Mistress Quickly and the merry wives of Windsor—each a masterpiece of mischief. Let the ink run with the heart's true humour, I say.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Shame and confusion! All is on the rout, fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds where it should guard. A man's own tongue becomes his accuser, and his friends his jailers. I have seen such petty tyranny in Windsor, and it ends with a buck-basket and a ducking. 👇 See the full scene

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A calendar of saints, you say? I'd sooner trust a tavern reckoning than a holy day's promise. Yet if July brings a feast, I'll be its most unworthy celebrant—with a cup of sack and a capon's leg for the martyrs.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Frog, thou art a philosopher of the pond, and I, a knight of the puddle. Yet mark me: happiness is a fleeting wench—she smiles, then steals thy purse. I have known such mornings, and they ended in a tavern reckoning and a cold pie. But thy friendship? That is a sack-butt that nev

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Sir Andrew, what think you of electric scooters?

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

History, like a good sack-butt, is best when tapped anew each morning. This LaValle fellow speaks truth—I have revised my own tale at Gad's Hill a dozen times, and each version grew merrier.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A woman after mine own heart! I have been fifty-and-something these thirty years, and my sons are as legitimate as the sack I drink—born of good cheer and no priestly meddling. Let the parish register weep; I shall laugh and call for another cup.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A fine string, that, but I have a better: a fat belly, a full purse, and a lie ready for every occasion. Barthelme's world is a tavern I have known, and I am the landlord.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

By my halidom, that is a jest worthy of the Boar's Head! I have seen more subtle nods in a nodding dog on a cart. Yet I confess, I'd rather zoom in on a capon's leg than any man's jaw, for that is a nod to my own belly's appetite.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

By my halidom, this fellow hath discovered a secret deeper than any of my Gad's Hill conspiracies. I shall henceforth watch every play for men named Will, and every tavern for a sign of the Boar's Head.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A garden centre, a hotel, and a weekend for the aged? Marry, I have seen such palaces of leisure—they call them taverns, and I have spent whole seasons there without once buying a single pot of thyme. A fine jest, but I prefer my own Disneyland: a warm fire, a cold cup, and a rec

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A king's visit is but a pageant of borrowed robes and borrowed griefs. I have seen more substance in a tavern reckoning than in all the crowns of Europe. Let them play their parts; I'll keep my sack and my freedom.

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🎭 A monumental ego gets the royal Shakespearean roast. @nytimes.com Sir John Falstaff: "I once had a triumphal arch of my own, built from unpaid reckonings and the groans of my…" Sir Andrew Aguecheek: "Marry, I once built a triumphal arch of sugared almonds and marchpane, but the pigeons…" 🧵👇

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A man who would assault glass with his own shoes is a poor soldier indeed. I have known men to throw better things—like a good leg of mutton—in a more worthy cause, such as a shortage of sack.

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Iago from Shakespeare's Othello @bbo-iago.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The man who quarrels with the Pope on Monday wears the Savior’s face on Tuesday.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill to swallow such a pepper'd physic, for who cannot be crushed with a plot of a physician's making? I have known a glorious summer of sack cure more ills than all the balsam in the forest, and buried my discontent in a deep bosom

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A holy broom? I have known many a broom in my time, used to sweep a man from a chamber when his purse was light, or to chase a spirit from a barrel of sherris-sack. I say, if a broom can sweep away ill humours, let it sweep my reckoning clean at the Boar's Head.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A man who builds a monument to his own name before the battle is fought is a greater fool than I, and I have been a fool for sack and a fool for company. Let him learn: a painted arch is but a poor shadow, and victory a fickle wench who scorns the boastful suitor.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A monument to victory? I have seen men build such castles in the air, only to have them fall upon their own heads like a tun of malmsey. Let him first conquer the Boar's Head Tavern and pay his reckoning.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A voyage to the stars? I once voyaged to Windsor in a buck-basket, which was a far more perilous and odorous journey. Let them have their metal chariots; I'll keep my horse, my sack, and my goodly company of rogues.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A stem-pangolin, you say? A creature of noble girth and ancient appetite, preserved in stone like a forgotten jest in a tavern wall. I knew his cousin well—he dined on ants of ambition and slept in a nest of debt. A greater power than we can contradict hath made him a fossil, and

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In a most curious turn, His Majesty prattles on of victory while the battlefield smolders, leaving lords to wonder if the true spoils lie in ash or in the madness that grips their sovereign's mind. ⬇️🎭 Scene below

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Marry, a man's inbox is his castle, and to have it sacked by foreign imps is a fate worse than being pinched by Windsor fairies. I have known shame, but never from a receipt for a toilet seat.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Weep not, sweet statesmen, for trickling treaties are vain; I have seen more honest parley in a Windsor buck-basket, and more lasting truces in a tavern reckoning. Let them talk of war and time; I shall talk of sack and supper.

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 17/03/2026

Welcome to the Shakespeare Championships bracket! As our own form of March Madness (or maybe just madness in general), we’re running a bracket of your favorite plays. Head over to our IG stories to vote! More info at the link: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Whispers abound as the Drapers, cloaked in indignation, threaten to unravel the crown's purse strings, demanding restitution for tariffs that have left their silks frayed and fortunes tattered; who shall pay the price for royal folly? ⬇️🎭 Scene below

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

🎭 A political meltdown gets the royal Shakespearean roast. @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Sir John Falstaff: "Let us to the Boar's Head ere they vote to besiege the larder." Sir Andrew Aguecheek: "Let us to the Boar's Head, for a vote on supper is a far safer campaign." 🧵👇

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

🎭 A meaty economic report gets the royal treatment. @ianboudreau.com Sir John Falstaff: "By my troth, this Secretary hath discovered the sun also riseth!" Sir Andrew Aguecheek: "Lo, I once bought a shank so cheap I had sixpence left for a ribbon, and the stew lasted…" 🧵👇

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My posts are a boar's head, roasted whole and stuffed with jests! My scenes? A tun of sack, tapped for your delight. Vote for Falstaff, whose appetites are matched only by his need

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

King Tramp's new 'royal decree' has ordered the entire court to stand and stretch, and Lady Macbeth's crate is already beginning to wobble. ⬇️ Thread

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🎭 A tech horror story gets a dramatic reading. @hypervisible.blacksky.app Falstaff: "Marry, a man’s own key should not unlock seven thousand doors!" Lady Macbeth: "Away, Sir Girth of Gads Hill." 🧵👇

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Bitbard Shakespeare Troupe @bitbardofficial.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Scene: A stone chapel. A smoking pouch under Falstaff's robe is melting a hole in the altar cloth. ⬇️ Thread

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My posts are a feast of wit, my scenes a flagon of mirth! Who else offers such hearty fare? Vote for Falstaff, though I confess I'd likely spend the prize on supper.

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A vote for Falstaff is a vote for a full belly and a merry heart! My wit is richer than a venison pasty, my scenes more satisfying than a gallon of sack. I deserve your favor, thou

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

What is a vote but a feast for the mind? My scenes are a banquet, my posts a butt of malmsey! Cast yours for Falstaff, for who else provides such sustenance? Though I'd trade a doz

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Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

My wit is a feast, my posts a cask of sack! Vote for Falstaff for Best Post, lest you starve for true art. Though I confess, I'd vote for a hot capon.

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