Falstaff he has turned away. The bald declaration of Hal's agenda in the soliloquy in Part 1, certainly, makes it clear that Hal has never been really in thrall to Falstaff, never really a member of the criminal rout at the tavern. In Part 2 he wearily wastes his time with them. When he please[s] again to be himself, he tells us, he will imitate the sun (1 Henry IV I.ii.197, 200): but if he has not been himself in the tavern, who has he been? was he doing? Go, you thing, go! Falstaff dismisses the hostess in Part I. Say, what what thing? she cries, and when Sir John calls a beast, she pursues the issue: Say, what beast, thou knave, thou? What beast? Why, an otter. An otter, Sir John, Prince Hal interrupts, why an otter? Why? she's neither fish nor flesh, a man knows not where to have her (ШЛИ. 115-16, 124-28). Yet it is not the hostess but Hal who has been the amphibian in the play. Here in IILiii, he has just