Today's Shakespeare quotation is dedicated to their honors of the Durham bench :
Falstaff speaking, Henry IV, Act V, Scene 1.
"Can honour set to a leg? No.
Or an arm? No.
Or take away the grief of a wound? No.
Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No.
What is honour? A word.
What is in that word honour? What is that honour? Air.
A trim reckoning!
Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday.
Doth he feel it? No.
Doth he hear it? No.
‘Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead.
But will it not live with the living? No.
Why? Detraction will not suffer it.
Therefore I’ll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon;
and so ends my catechism."