Best Falstaff Poems

That he is old more the pity
His white hairs do witness it

If food, wine and beer be a fault
Then God help the wicked

But for a sweet Jack Falstaff
Kind Jack Falstaff
True Jack Falstaff
Valiant Jack Falstaff 
Therefore more valiant
Being as he is old Jack Falstaff

Banish not him...

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My tongue is loosened by champagne but I speak as I do everything 
for all the world to know

That I am old more the pity and my white hairs do witness it
if good food wine and beer be a fault then god help the wicked

You...

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Avoirdupois

The endomorph enjoys our affection
as the comic figure of tradition.
Friar Tuck, Falstaff, and Old Toby
recall rotund revels and ribaldry.
Devils are always portrayed as thin.
the clown invariably has a double chin.
Unlike the hero, who's always victorious,
his wind and walk are somewhat laborious.
Though he's never very heroic,
who...

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