Our Modern Falstaff Reviewing his Army
FALSTAFF — My whole charge consists of slaves
as ragged as Lazarus, and such as indeed were never soldiers, but
discarded serving-men and revolted tapsters. No eye hath seen such
scarecrows. Nay and the villains march wide between the legs, as
if they had fetters on; for, indeed, I had the most of them out
of prison. — Shakespeare, slightly varied.
Harper's Weekly
November 5, 1870
Full-page woodcut
9 1/2"h x 14 1/2"w
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