THE

LIFE

OF

SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.

ILLUSTRATED BY

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

WITH

A BIOGRAPHY OF THE KNIGHT FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES

BY

ROBERT B. BROUGH.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS.

"Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."

KING HENRY IV. Part 2.