THE YALE 
 SHAKESPEARE 
 
 KING HENRY 
 
 THE FOURTH 
 
 PART TWO 
 
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 S. B. Hemingway 
 
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 THE SECOND PART OF 
 KING HENRY THE FOURTH 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 The Text 
 
 Notes ....... 
 
 Appendix A. Sources of the Play 
 
 Appendix B. The History of the Play . 
 
 Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edi- 
 tion .... 
 
 Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral 
 Reading .... 
 
 Index of Words Glossed .... 
 
 Page 
 
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The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the 
 Elizabethan Club copy of the only early Quarto Edition* 
 
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Opposites against King Henry 
 the Fourth 
 
 [DRAMATIS PERSON^.] 
 
 Rumour, the Presenter 
 
 King Henry the Fourth 
 
 Prince Henry, afterwards crowned King Henry the Fifth 
 
 Prince John of Lancaster, 1 Sons to Henry the Fourth, 
 
 Humphrey of Gloucester, I and brethren to Henry the 
 
 Thomas of Clarence, J Fifth 
 
 Northumberland, 
 
 The Archbishop of York, 
 
 Mowbray, 
 
 Hastings, 
 
 Lord Bardolph, 
 
 Travers, 
 
 Morton, 
 
 Colevile, 
 
 Warwick, 
 
 Westmoreland, 
 
 Surrey, 
 
 Gower, \ Of the King's Party 
 
 Harcourt, 
 
 [Blunt], 
 
 Lord Chief Justice, 
 
 [Servant to the Lord Chief Justice] 
 
 Poins, Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, Peto, Page, Irregular 
 
 Humorists 
 Shallow and Silence, Both Country Justices 
 Davy, servant to Shallow 
 Fang and Snare, two sergeants 
 Mouldy, Shadow, Wart, Feeble, Bullcalf, Country 
 
 Soldiers 
 [Porter at Wark worth Castle] 
 [Francis, a Drawer] 
 Drawers, Beadles, Grooms 
 [Lords and Attendants, Officers and Soldiers] 
 
 Northumberland's Wife 
 Percy's Widow 
 Hostess Quickly 
 Doll Tearsheet 
 Epilogue 
 
 Dramatis Personae; cf. App. C Opposites: adversaries 
 
 Irregular: lawless, unconventional Drawer: waiter 
 
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 The Second Part of 
 King Henry the Fourth 
 
 INDUCTION 
 
 [Warhworth. Before Northumberland's Castle] 
 Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues. 
 
 Rum. Open your ears; for which of you will stop 
 The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? 
 I, from the orient to the drooping west. 
 Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold 4 
 
 The acts commenced on this ball of earth: 
 Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, 
 The which in every language I pronounce, 
 Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. 8 
 
 I speak of peace, while covert enmity 
 Under the smile of safety wounds the world: 
 And who but Rumour, who but only I, 
 Make fearful musters and prepar'd defence, 12 
 
 Whilst the big year, swoln with some other grief, 
 Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, 
 And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe 
 Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, 16 
 
 And of so easy and so plain a stop 
 That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 
 The still-discordant wavering multitude, 
 Can play upon it. But what need I thus 20 
 
 My well-known body to anatomize 
 Among my household ? Why is Rumour here ? 
 
 S. d. Enter Rumour, etc.; cf. n. 2 vent: aperture 4 still: always 
 
 17 stop: hole in wind instrument by which difference of pitch is 
 obtained 
 
The Second Part of 
 
 1 run before King Harry's victory; 
 
 Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury 24 
 
 Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops, 
 Quenching the flame of bold rebellion 
 Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I 
 To speak so true at first? my office is 28 
 
 To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell 
 Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword, 
 And that the king before the Douglas' rage 
 Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death. 32 
 
 This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns 
 Between the royal field of Shrewsbury 
 And this worm-eaten hole of ragged stone, 
 Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland, 36 
 Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on, 
 And not a man of them brings other news 
 Than they have learn'd of me: from Rumour's tongues 
 They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true 
 wrongs. Exit. 40 
 
 ACT FIRST 
 
 Scene One 
 
 [The Same] 
 
 Enter Lord Bardolph, at one door. 
 
 L. Bard. Who keeps the gate here ? ho ! 
 
 [Enter the Porter above.] 
 
 Where is the earl? 
 Port. What shall I say you are? 
 
 24 Shrewsbury; cf. n. 29 Harry Monmouth; cf. n. 
 
 33 peasant: provincial 35 hole; cf. n. 
 
 37 crafty-sick: feigning sickness tiring: riding until they ere tired 
 
 2 What: who 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. i 
 
 L. Bard. Tell thou the earl 
 
 That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here. 
 
 Port. His Lordship is walk'd forth into the 
 orchard: 4 
 
 Please it your honour knock but at the gate, 
 And he himself will answer. 
 
 Enter Northumberland. 
 
 L. Bard. Here comes the earl. 
 
 1 ^ North. What news, Lord Bardolph? every minute 
 now 
 Should be the father of some stratagem. 8 
 
 The times are wild; contention, like a horse 
 Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose 
 And bears down all before him. 
 
 L. Bard. Noble earl, 
 
 I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury. 12 
 
 North. Good, an God will! 
 
 L. Bard. As good as heart can wish. 
 
 The king is almost wounded to the death; 
 And, in the fortune of my lord your son, 
 Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts 16 
 Kill'd by the hand of Douglas ; young Prince John 
 And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field; 
 And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John, 
 Is prisoner to your son : O ! such a day, 20 
 
 So fought, so follow'd, and so fairly won, 
 Came not till now to dignify the times 
 Since Caesar's fortunes. 
 
 North. How is this deriv'd? 
 
 Saw you the field? came you from Shrewsbury? 24 
 
 L. Bard. I spake with one, my lord, that came 
 from thence; 
 
 3 attend: await 4 orchard: garden 13 an: if 
 
 19 brawn: the fleshy part of the body, especially the buttocks or the 
 
 calf of the leg 21 follow'd: carried through 
 
The Second Part of 
 
 A gentleman well bred and of good name, 
 That freely render'd me these news for true. 
 
 North. Here comes my servant Travers, whom I 
 sent 28 
 
 On Tuesday last to listen after news. 
 
 L. Bard. My lord, I over-rode him on the way ; 
 And he is furnish'd with no certainties 
 More than he haply may retail from me. 32 
 
 Enter Trovers. 
 
 North. Now, Travers, what good tidings comes 
 with you? 
 
 Tra. My lord, Sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back 
 With joyful tidings; and, being better hors'd, 
 Out-rode me. After him came spurring hard 36 
 
 A gentleman, almost forspent with speed, 
 That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse. 
 He ask'd the way to Chester; and of him 
 I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. 40 
 
 He told me that rebellion had bad luck, 
 And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold. 
 With that he gave his able horse the head, 
 And, bending forward, struck his armed heels 44 
 Against the panting sides of his poor jade 
 Up to the rowel-head, and, starting so, 
 He seem'd in running to devour the way, 
 Staying no longer question. 
 
 North. Ha ! Again : 48 
 
 Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold? 
 Of Hotspur, Coldspur? that rebellion 
 Had met ill luck? 
 
 L. Bard. My lord, I'll tell you what: 
 
 If my young lord your son have not the day, 52 
 
 30 over-rode : passed 37 forspent: exhausted 
 
 43 able: active 48 Staying: awaiting question: talk 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. i 
 
 Upon mine honour, for a silken point 
 I'll give my barony: never talk of it. 
 
 North. Why should the gentleman that rode by 
 Travers 
 Give then such instances of loss? 
 
 L. Bard. Who, he ? 56 
 
 He was some hilding fellow that had stolen 
 The horse he rode on, and, upon my life, 
 Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news. 
 
 Enter Morton. 
 
 North. Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf, 60 
 Foretells the nature of a tragic volume: 
 So looks the strond, whereon the imperious flood 
 Hath left a witness'd usurpation. 
 Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury? 64 
 
 Mor. I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord; 
 Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask 
 To fright our party. 
 
 North. How doth my son, and brother? 
 
 Thou tremblest, and the whiteness in thy cheek 68 
 Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. 
 Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, 
 So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, 
 Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, 72 
 
 And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; 
 But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, 
 And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. 
 This thou wouldst say, 'Your son did thus and thus ; 76 
 Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas'; 
 Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds : 
 But in the end, to stop mine ear indeed, 
 Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise, 80 
 
 53 point: lacing, garter 57 hilding: worthless 
 
 62 strond: shore 63 witness'd usurpation: traces of its usurpation 
 
 69 apter: more ready 
 
6 The Second Part of 
 
 Ending with 'Brother, son, and all are dead.' 
 
 Mor. Douglas is living, and your brother, yet; 
 But, for my lord your son, — 
 
 North. Why, he is dead. — 
 
 See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! 84 
 
 He that but fears the thing he would not know 
 Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes 
 That what he fear'd is chanced. Yet speak, Morton: 
 Tell thou thy earl his divination lies, 88 
 
 And I will take it as a sweet disgrace 
 And make thee rich for doing me such wrong. 
 
 Mor. You are too great to be by me gainsaid; 
 Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain. 92 
 
 North. Yet, for all this, say not that Percy's dead. 
 I see a strange confession in thine eye: 
 Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it fear or sin 
 To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so; 96 
 
 The tongue offends not that reports his death: 
 And he doth sin that doth belie the dead, 
 Not he which says the dead is not alive. 
 Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news 100 
 
 Hath but a losing office, and his tongue 
 Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
 Remember'd knolling a departing friend. 
 
 L. Bard. I cannot think, my lord, your son is 
 dead. 104 
 
 Mor. I am sorry I should force you to believe 
 That which I would to God I had not seen ; 
 But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state, 
 Rendering faint quittance, wearied and out- 
 breath'd, 108 
 
 To Harry Monmouth; whose swift wrath beat down 
 The never-daunted Percy to the earth, 
 
 87 is chanced: has happened 108 quittance : return of blows 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. i 
 
 From whence with life he never more sprung up. 
 
 In few, his death, — whose spirit lent a fire 112 
 
 Even to the dullest peasant in his camp, — 
 
 Being bruited once, took fire and heat away 
 
 From the best-temper'd courage in his troops; 
 
 For from his metal was his party steel'd; 116 
 
 Which once in him abated, all the rest 
 
 Turn'd on themselves, like dull and heavy lead: 
 
 And as the thing that's heavy in itself, 
 
 Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed, 120 
 
 So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss, 
 
 Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear 
 
 That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim 
 
 Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety, 124 
 
 Fly from the field. Then was that noble Worcester 
 
 Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot, 
 
 The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword 
 
 Had three times slain the appearance of the king, 128 
 
 'Gan vail his stomach, and did grace the shame 
 
 Of those that turn'd their backs ; and in his flight, 
 
 Stumbling in f ear, was took. The sum of all 
 
 Is, that the king hath won, and hath sent out 132 
 
 A speedy power to encounter you, my lord, 
 
 Under the conduct of young Lancaster 
 
 And Westmoreland. This is the news at full. 
 
 North. For this I shall have time enough to 
 mourn. 136 
 
 In poison there is physic; and these news, 
 Having been well, that would have made me sick, 
 Being sick, have in some measure made me well: 
 And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints, 140 
 
 112 In few: in short 114 bruited: rumored 
 
 116-118 Cf. n. 128 Cf.n. 
 
 129 'Gan vail his stomach: began to lower his arrogant spirit 
 did grace: reflected credit on, set in a good light 
 
8 The Second Part of 
 
 Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, 
 Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire 
 Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs, 
 Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd with 
 grief, 144 
 
 Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice 
 
 crutch ! 
 A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel 
 Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif ! 
 Thou art a guard too wanton for the head 148 
 
 Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit. 
 Now bind my brows with iron; and approach 
 The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring 
 To frown upon the enrag'd Northumberland! 152 
 Let heaven kiss earth ! now let not nature's hand 
 Keep the wild flood confin'd! let order die! 
 And let this world no longer be a stage 
 To feed contention in a lingering act; 156 
 
 But let one spirit of the first-born Cain 
 Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set 
 On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, 
 And darkness be the burier of the dead! 160 
 
 Tra. This strained passion doth you wrong, my 
 lord. 
 
 L. Bard. Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your 
 honour. 
 
 Mor. The lives of all your loving complices 
 Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er 164 
 To stormy passion, must perforce decay. 
 
 141 buckle: bend 144 grief : suffering grief : sorrow 
 
 145 nice: dainty, effeminate 147 sickly quoif: sick man's hood 
 
 148 wanton: effeminate 
 
 149 flesh'd: made Herce by combat as a dog fed only on flesh 
 151 ragged'st: roughest 
 
 161 strained passion: exaggerated emotion 163 complices: allies 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. i 9 
 
 You cast the event of war, my noble lord, 
 And summ'd the account of chance, before you said, 
 'Let us make head.' It was your presurmise 168 
 
 That in the dole of blows your son might drop: 
 You knew he walk'd o'er perils, on an edge, 
 More likely to fall in than to get o'er; 
 You were advis'd his flesh was capable 172 
 
 Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit 
 Would lift him where most trade of danger rang'd: 
 Yet did you say, 'Go forth' ; and none of this, 
 Though strongly apprehended, could restrain 176 
 The stiff-borne action: what hath then befallen, 
 Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth, 
 More than that being which was like to be? 
 
 L. Bard. We all that are engaged to this loss 180 
 Knew that we ventur'd on such dangerous seas 
 That if we wrought out life 'twas ten to one; 
 And yet we ventur'd, for the gain propos'd 
 Chok'd the respect of likely peril fear'd; 184 
 
 And since we are o'erset, venture again. 
 Come, we will all put forth, body and goods. 
 
 Mor. 'Tis more than time: and, my most noble 
 lord, 
 I hear for certain, and do speak the truth, 188 
 
 The gentle Archbishop of York is up, 
 With well-appointed powers: he is a man 
 Who with a double surety binds his followers. 
 My lord your son had only but the corpse, 192 
 
 But shadows and the shows of men to fight; 
 For that same word, rebellion, did divide 
 The action of their bodies from their souls; 
 
 166-179 Cf. n. 166 cast the event: considered the outcome 
 
 168 make head: raise an army 169 dole: distribution 
 
 170 edge: dangerous narrow path 172 advis'd: aware 
 
 177 stiff -borne: obstinately carried out 
 
 180 engaged to : involved in 184 respect: consideration 
 
 190 well-appointed: well-equipped 
 
io The Second Part of 
 
 And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd, 196 
 
 As men drink potions, that their weapons only 
 
 Seem'd on our side: but, for their spirits and souls, 
 
 This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, 
 
 As fish are in a pond. But now the bishop 200 
 
 Turns insurrection to religion: 
 
 Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts, 
 
 He's follow'd both with body and with mind, 
 
 And doth enlarge his rising with the blood 204 
 
 Of fair King Richard, scrap'd from Pomfret stones; 
 
 Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause; 
 
 Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land, 
 
 Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke; 208 
 
 And more and less do flock to follow him. 
 
 North. I knew of this before; but, to speak truth, 
 This present grief had wip'd it from my mind. 
 Go in with me; and counsel every man 212 
 
 The aptest way for safety and revenge: 
 Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed: 
 Never so few, and never yet more need. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Two 
 [London. A Street] 
 
 Enter Sir John [Falstaff,] with his Page bearing his 
 sword and buckler. 
 
 Fal. Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor 
 to my water? 
 
 Page. He said, sir, the water itself was a good 
 healthy water; but, for the party that owed it, 4 
 he might have moe diseases than he knew for. 
 
 196 queasiness: squeamishness 204, 205 Cf. n. 
 
 204 enlarge: widen the scope or appeal 208 Bolingbroke; cf. n. 
 
 209 more and less: high and low 214 make: collect 
 4 owed: owned 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. ii 1 1 
 
 Fal. Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at 
 me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, 
 man, is not able to invent anything that tends 8 
 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. I do here walk 
 before thee like a sow that hath overwhelmed all 12 
 her litter but one. If the prince put thee into 
 my service for any other reason than to set me 
 off, why then I have no judgment. Thou whore- 
 son mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn in my 16 
 cap than to wait at my heels. I was never 
 manned with an agate till now; but I will set 
 you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, 
 and send you back again to your master, for a 20 
 jewel; the juvenal, the prince your master, whose 
 chin is not yet fledged. I will sooner have a 
 beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall 
 get one on his cheek ; and yet he will not stick 24 
 to say, his face is a face-royal: God may finish it 
 when he will, it is not a hair amiss yet: he may 
 keep it still as a face-royal, for a barber shall 
 never earn sixpence out of it ; and yet he'll 28 
 be crowing as if he had writ man ever since his 
 father was a bachelor. He may keep his own 
 grace, but he is almost out of mine, I can assure 
 him. What said Master Dombledon about the 32 
 satin for my short cloak and my slops? 
 
 Page. He said, sir, you should procure him 
 better assurance than Bardolph; he would not 
 
 6 gird : jeer 
 
 15 whoreson: a coarse term of endearment (as here) or of con- 
 tempt (as in I. 30) 
 
 16 mandrake: a poisonous plant whose forked root was supposed to 
 resemble the human form 18 manned with an agate; cf. n. 
 
 21 juvenal: used jocularly for 'youth' 25 face-royal; cf. n. 
 
 29 writ man: enrolled himself a man 33 slops: loose breeches 
 
!2 The Second Part of 
 
 take his bond and yours : he liked not the 36 
 security. 
 
 Fal. Let him be damned like the glutton ! Pray 
 God his tongue be hotter! A whoreson Achito- 
 phel ! a rascally yea- forsooth knave ! to bear a 40 
 gentleman in hand, and then stand upon security. 
 The whoreson smooth-pates do now wear noth- 
 ing but high shoes, and bunches of keys at their 
 girdles; and if a man is through with them in 44 
 honest taking up, then they must stand upon 
 security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane 
 in my mouth as offer to stop it with security. I 
 looked a' should have sent me two and twenty 48 
 yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he 
 sends me security. Well, he may sleep in secur- 
 ity; for he hath the horn of abundance, and the 
 lightness of his wife shines through it : and yet 52 
 cannot he see, though he have his own lanthorn 
 to light him. Where's Bardolph? 
 
 Page. He's gone into Smithfield to buy your 
 worship a horse. 56 
 
 Fal. I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy 
 me a horse in Smithfield: an I could get me 
 but a wife in the stews, I were manned, horsed, 
 and wived. 60 
 
 Enter Chief Justice and Servant. 
 
 Page. Sir, here comes the nobleman that 
 committed the prince for striking him about 
 Bardolph. 
 
 Fal. Wait close; I will not see him. 64 
 
 38 glutton; cf. n. 39 Achitophel; cf. n. 
 
 40 yea-f orsooth knave ; cf. n. 
 
 bear . . . in hand: delude with false hopes 
 42 smooth-pates: roundheads, or Puritanical citizen class 
 44 through: serious 45 taking up: obtaining goods on trust 
 
 48 a': he 51-54 Cf. n. 57 Paul's; cf. n. 61, 62 Cf. n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, Z. ii 13 
 
 QjuaJ&^o Ch.Just. What's he that goes there? 
 
 Ser. Falstaff, an 't please your lordship. 
 
 Ch. Just. He that was in question for the 
 robbery ? 68 
 
 Ser. He, my lord; but he hath since done 
 good service at Shrewsbury, and, as I hear, is 
 now going with some charge to the Lord John 
 of Lancaster. 72 
 
 Ch.Just. What, to York? Call him back 
 again. 
 
 Ser. Sir John Falstaff! 
 
 Fal. Boy, tell him I am deaf. 76 
 
 Page. You must speak louder, my master is 
 deaf. 
 
 Ch. Just. I am sure he is, to the hearing of 
 anything good. Go, pluck him by the elbow ; I 80 
 must speak with him. 
 
 Ser. Sir John! 
 
 Fal. What ! a young knave, and beg ! Is there 
 not wars ? is there not employment ? doth not 84 
 the king lack subjects? do not the rebels want 
 soldiers? Though it be a shame to be on any 
 side but one, it is worse shame to beg than to be 
 on the worst side, were it worse than the name 88 
 of rebellion can tell how to make it. 
 
 Ser. You mistake me, sir. 
 
 Fal. Why, sir, did I say you were an honest 
 man ? setting my knighthood and my soldier- 92 
 ship aside, I had lied in my throat if I had 
 said so. 
 
 Ser. I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood 
 and your soldiership aside, and give me leave to 96 
 
 71 charge: military command 
 
14 The Second Part of 
 
 tell you you lie in your throat if you say I 
 am any other than an honest man. 
 
 Fal. I give thee leave to tell me so! I lay 
 aside that which grows to me! If thou gett'st 100 
 any leave of me, hang me: if thou takest leave, 
 thou wert better be hanged. You hunt counter: 
 hence! avaunt! 
 
 Ser. Sir, my lord would speak with you. 104 
 
 Ch. Just. Sir John Falstaff, a word with 
 you. 
 
 Fal. My good lord! God give your lordship 
 good time of day. I am glad to see your lord- 108 
 ship abroad ; I heard say your lordship was sick : 
 I hope your lordship goes abroad by advice. 
 Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, 
 hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish 112 
 of the saltness of time; and I most humbly be- 
 seech your lordship to have a reverend care of 
 your health. 
 
 Ch. Just. Sir John, I sent for you before your 116 
 expedition to Shrewsbury. 
 
 Fal. An 't please your lordship, I hear his 
 majesty is returned with some discomfort from 
 Wales. 120 
 
 Ch. Just. I talk not of his majesty. You 
 would not come when I sent for you. 
 
 Fal. And I hear, moreover, his highness is 
 fallen into this same whoreson apoplexy. 124 
 
 Ch. Just. Well, God mend him ! I pray you, 
 let me speak with you. 
 
 Fal. This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of 
 lethargy, an 't please your lordship ; a kind of 128 
 sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling. 
 
 102 hunt counter; cf. n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. ii 15 
 
 Ch.Just. What tell you me of it? be it as 
 it is. 
 
 Fal. It hath it original from much grief, 132 
 from study and perturbation of the brain. I 
 have read the cause of his effects in Galen: it is 
 a kind of deafness. 
 
 Ch. Just. I think you are fallen into the dis- 136 
 ease, for you hear not what I say to you. 
 
 Fal. Very well, my lord, very well: rather, 
 an 't please you, it is the disease of not listening, 
 the malady of not marking, that I am troubled 140 
 withal. 
 
 Ch. Just. To punish you by the heels would 
 amend the attention of your ears; and I care 
 not if I do become your physician. 144 
 
 Fal. I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so 
 patient: your lordship may minister the potion 
 of imprisonment to me in respect of poverty; 
 but how I should be your patient to follow your 148 
 prescriptions, the wise may make some dram of 
 a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself. 
 
 Ch. Just. I sent for you, when there were 
 matters against you for your life, to come speak 152 
 with me. 
 
 Fal. As I was then advised by my learned 
 counsel in the laws of this land-service, I did 
 not come. 156 
 
 Ch.Just. Well, the truth is, Sir John, you 
 live in great infamy. 
 
 Fal. He that buckles him in my belt cannot 
 live in less. 160 
 
 130 What: why 132 it: its 134 his- its 
 
 142 punish by the heels: commit to prison; originally, to the stocks 
 
 147 m respect of: on account of 155 land-service: military service 
 
16 The Second Part of 
 
 Ch. Just. Your means are very slender, and 
 your waste is great. 
 
 Fal. I would it were otherwise: I would my 
 means were greater and my waist slenderer. 164 
 
 Ch. Just. You have misled the youthful prince. 
 
 Fal. The young prince hath misled me: I 
 am the fellow with the great belly, and he my 
 dog. 168 
 
 Ch. Just. Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed 
 wound: your day's service at Shrewsbury hath a 
 little gilded over your night's exploit on Gads- 
 hill : you may thank the unquiet time for your 172 
 quiet o'er-posting that action. 
 
 Fal. My lord! 
 
 Ch. Just. But since all is well, keep it so : 
 wake not a sleeping wolf. 176 
 
 Fal. To wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a 
 fox. 
 
 Ch.Just. What! you are as a candle, the 
 better part burnt out. 180 
 
 Fal. A wassail candle, my lord; all tallow: 
 if I did say of wax, my growth would approve 
 the truth. 
 
 Ch. Just. There is not a white hair on your 184 
 face but should have his effect of gravity. 
 
 Fal. His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy. 
 
 Ch. Just. You follow the young prince up 
 and down, like his ill angel. 188 
 
 Fal. Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light, 
 but I hope he that looks upon me will take me 
 without weighing: and yet, in some respects, I 
 grant, I cannot go, I cannot tell. Virtue is of 192 
 
 166-168 Cftti. 173 o'er-posting: getting over rapidly 
 
 181 wassail candle: large candle used at a feast 
 
 182 wax; cf. n. approve: prove 
 
 188 ill: evil 189-192 Cf. n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. ii 17 
 
 so little regard in these costermonger times that 
 true valour is turned bear-herd: pregnancy is 
 made a tapster, and hath his quick wit wasted 
 in giving reckonings : all the other gifts apperti- 196 
 nent to man, as the malice of this age shapes 
 them, are not worth a gooseberry. You that are 
 old consider not the capacities of us that are 
 young ; you measure the heat of our livers with 200 
 the bitterness of your galls; and we that are in 
 the vaward of our youth, I must confess, are 
 wags too. 
 
 Ch. Just. Do you set down your name in the 204 
 scroll of youth, that are written down old with 
 all the characters of age? Have you not a moist 
 eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, 
 a decreasing leg, an increasing belly ? Is not 208 
 your voice broken, your wind short, your chin 
 double, your wit single, and every part about 
 you blasted with antiquity, and will you yet call 
 yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John! 212 
 
 Fal. My lord, I was born about three of the 
 clock in the afternoon, with a white head, and 
 something a round belly. For my voice, I have 
 lost it with hollaing, and singing of anthems. 216 
 To approve my youth further, I will not: the 
 truth is, I am only old in judgment and under- 
 standing; and he that will caper with me for a 
 thousand marks, let him lend me the money, 220 
 and have at him! For the box o' the ear that 
 the prince gave you, he gave it like a rude prince, 
 and you took it like a sensible lord. I have 
 
 193 costermonger: commercial 
 
 194 bear-herd: one who leads about a tame bear 
 
 pregnancy: readiness of wit 196 reckonings: bills 
 
 202 vaward: vanguard 210 single: thin 
 
 220 marks: a mark was worth about thirteen shillings 
 
is The Second Part of 
 
 checked him for it, and the young lion repents ; 224 
 marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new 
 silk and old sack. 
 
 Ch. Just. Well, God send the prince a better 
 companion ! 228 
 
 Fed. God send the companion a better prince ! 
 I cannot rid my hands of him. 
 
 Ch. Just. Well, the king hath severed you 
 and Prince Harry. I hear you are going with 232 
 Lord John of Lancaster against the archbishop 
 and the Earl of Northumberland. 
 
 Fed. Yea; I thank your pretty sweet wit for 
 it. But look you pray, all you that kiss my lady 236 
 Peace at home, that our armies join not in a hot 
 day; for, by the Lord, I take but two shirts out 
 with me, and I mean not to sweat extraordinarily : 
 if it be a hot day, and I brandish anything but 240 
 my bottle, I would I might never spit white again. 
 There is not a dangerous action can peep out 
 his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I can- 
 not last ever. But it was always yet the trick of 244 
 our English nation, if they have a good thing, to 
 make it too common. If you will needs say I am 
 an old man, you should give me rest. I would 
 to God my name were not so terrible to the 248 
 enemy as it is : I were better to be eaten to death 
 with rust than to be scoured to nothing with 
 perpetual motion. 
 
 Ch. Just. Well, be honest, be honest ; and 252 
 God bless your expedition. 
 
 Fal. Will your lordship lend me a thousand 
 pound to furnish me forth? 
 
 Ch. Just. Not a penny ; not a penny ; you are 256 
 
 226 sack: Spanish wine 241 spit white; cf. n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I.ii 19 
 
 too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well: 
 commend me to my cousin Westmoreland. 
 
 [Exeunt Chief Justice and Servant."] 
 
 Fal. If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. 
 A man can no more separate age and covetous- 260 
 ness than a' can part young limbs and lechery; 
 but the gout galls the one, and the pox pinches 
 the other; and so both the degrees prevent my 
 curses. Boy ! 264 
 
 Page. Sir! 
 
 Fal. What money is in my purse? 
 
 Page. Seven groats and twopence. 
 
 Fal. I can get no remedy against this con- 268 
 sumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers 
 and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. 
 Go bear this letter to my Lord of Lancaster; 
 this to the prince ; this to the Earl of Westmore- 272 
 land; and this to old Mistress Ursula, whom I 
 have weekly sworn to marry since I perceived 
 the first white hair on my chin. About it: you 
 know where to find me. A pox of this gout ! 276 
 or, a gout of this pox ! for the one or the 
 other plays the rogue with my great toe. 'Tis 
 no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my 
 colour, and my pension shall seem the more 280 
 reasonable. A good wit will make use of any- 
 thing; I will turn diseases to commodity. Exeunt. 
 
 257 Cf.n. 259 Cf.n. 263 prevent: anticipate 
 
 267 groat: a coin worth fourpence 279 halt: limp 
 
 280 colour: excuse 
 282 commodity: merchandise to be sold at a profit 
 
20 The Second Part of 
 
 Scene Three 
 [York. The Archbishop's Palace] 
 
 Enter Archbishop, Hastings, Mowbray, and Lord 
 Bardolph. 
 
 Arch. Thus have you heard our cause and known 
 our means; 
 And, my most noble friends, I pray you all, 
 Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes: 
 And first, Lord Marshal, what say you to it? 4 
 
 Mowb. I well allow the occasion of our arms; 
 But gladly would be better satisfied 
 How in our means we should advance ourselves 
 To look with forehead bold and big enough 8 
 
 Upon the power and puissance of the king. 
 
 Hast. Our present musters grow upon the file 
 To five-and-twenty thousand men of choice; 
 And our supplies live largely in the hope 12 
 
 Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns 
 With an incensed fire of injuries. 
 
 L. Bard. The question, then, Lord Hastings, stand- 
 eth thus: 
 Whether our present five-and-twenty thousand 16 
 May hold up head without Northumberland. 
 
 Hast. With him, we may. 
 
 L. Bard. Ay, marry, there's the point: 
 
 But if without him we be thought too feeble, 
 My judgment is, we should not step too far 20 
 
 Till we had his assistance by the hand; 
 For in a theme so bloody-fac'd as this, 
 Conjecture, expectation, and surmise 
 Of aids incertain should not be admitted. 24 
 
 10 file: muster roll 12 supplies: reinforcements 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. Hi 21 
 
 Arch. 'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph; for, indeed 
 It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury. 
 
 L. Bard. It was, my lord ; who lin'd himself with 
 hope, 
 Eating the air on promise of supply, 28 
 
 Flattering himself with project of a power 
 Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts; 
 And so, with great imagination 
 
 Proper to madmen, led his powers to death, 32 
 
 And winking leap'd into destruction. 
 
 Hast. But, by your leave, it never yet did hurt 
 To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope. 
 
 L. Bard. Yes, if this present quality of war, — 36 
 Indeed the instant action, — a cause on foot, 
 Lives so in hope, as in an early spring 
 We see the appearing buds ; which, to prove fruit, 
 Hope gives not so much warrant as despair 40 
 
 That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build, 
 We first survey the plot, then draw the model; 
 And when we see the figure of the house, 
 Then must we rate the cost of the erection; 44 
 
 Which if we find outweighs ability, 
 What do we then but draw anew the model 
 In fewer offices, or at last desist 
 
 To build at all ? Much more, in this great work, — 48 
 Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down 
 And set another up, — should we survey 
 The plot of situation and the model, 
 Consent upon a sure foundation, 52 
 
 Question surveyors, know our own estate, 
 How able such a work to undergo, 
 To weigh against his opposite; or else, 
 
 27 lin'd: strengthened 
 
 29, 30 project . . . smaller: anticipation of an army actually much 
 
 smaller 33 winking: with eyes closed 36-41 Cf.n. 
 
 43 figure : plan 47 offices: domestic quarters 53-55 Cf.n. 
 
22 The Second Part of 
 
 We fortify in paper, and in figures, 56 
 
 Using the names of men instead of men: 
 Like one that draws the model of a house 
 Beyond his power to build it; who, half through, 
 Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost 60 
 
 A naked subject to the weeping clouds, 
 And waste for churlish winter's tyranny. 
 
 Hast. Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair 
 birth, 
 Should be still-born, and that we now possess'd 64 
 The utmost man of expectation; 
 I think we are a body strong enough, 
 Even as we are, to equal with the king. 
 
 L. Bard. What ! is the king but five-and-twenty 
 thousand ? 68 
 
 Hast. To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord 
 Bardolph. 
 For his divisions, as the times do brawl, 
 Are in three heads: one power against the French, 
 And one against Glendower; perforce, a third 72 
 Must take up us: so is the unfirm king 
 In three divided, and his coffers sound 
 With hollow poverty and emptiness. 
 
 Arch. That he should draw his several strengths 
 together 76 
 
 And come against us in full puissance, 
 Need not be dreaded. 
 
 Hast. If he should do so, 
 
 He leaves his back unarm'd, the French and Welsh 
 Baying him at the heels: never fear that. 80 
 
 L. Bard. Who is it like should lead his forces 
 
 hither ? 
 Hast. The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland; 
 
 60 part-created cost: costly fragment 62 churlish : rough 
 
 70 as . . . brawl: as the turbulent times dictate 81 like: probable 
 
King Henry the Fourth, I. in 23 
 
 Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth: 
 But who is substituted 'gainst the French 84 
 
 I have no certain notice. 
 
 Arch. Let us on 
 
 And publish the occasion of our arms. 
 The commonwealth is sick of their own choice; 
 Their over-greedy love hath surfeited. 88 
 
 A habitation giddy and unsure 
 Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. 
 O thou fond many ! with what loud applause 
 Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke 92 
 Before he was what thou wouldst have him be: 
 And being now trimm'd in thine own desires, 
 Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him 
 That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up. 96 
 
 So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge 
 Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard, 
 And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up, 
 And howl'st to find it. What trust is in these 
 times ? loo 
 
 They that, when Richard liv'd, would have him die, 
 Are now become enamour'd on his grave: 
 Thou, that threw'st dust upon his goodly head, 
 When through proud London he came sighing on 104 
 After the admired heels of Bolingbroke, 
 Cry'st now, 'O earth i yield us that king again, 
 And take thou this !' O, thoughts of men accurst ! 
 Past and to come seem best ; things present worst. 108 
 
 Mowb. Shall we go draw our numbers and set on? 
 
 Hast. We are time's subjects, and time bids be 
 gone. [Exeunt.] 
 
 91 fond many: foolish multitude 
 
 94 trimm'd . . . desires: supplied with what thou didst desire 
 
 109 draw: assemble 
 
24 The Second Part of 
 
 ACT SECOND 
 
 Scene One 
 
 [London. A Street'] 
 
 Enter Hostess [Quickly of the Tavern], with two 
 Officers, Fang and Snare. 
 
 Host. Master Fang, have you entered the 
 action ? 
 
 Fang. It is entered. 
 
 Host. Where's your yeoman ? Is 't a lusty 4 
 yeoman? will a' stand to 't? 
 
 Fang. Sirrah! — where's Snare? 
 
 Host. O Lord, ay! good Master Snare. 
 
 Snare. Here, here. 8 
 
 Fang. Snare, we must arrest Sir John Fal- 
 staff. 
 
 Host. Yea, good Master Snare ; I have entered 
 him and all. 12 
 
 Snare. It may chance cost some of us our 
 lives, for he will stab. 
 
 Host. Alas the day! take heed of him: he 
 stabbed me in mine own house, and that most 16 
 beastly. In good faith, a' cares not what 
 mischief he doth if his weapon be out: he 
 will foin like any devil; he will spare neither 
 man, woman, nor child. 20 
 
 Fang. If I can close with him I care not for 
 his thrust. 
 
 Host. No, nor I neither: I'll be at your 
 elbow. 24 
 
 4 yeoman: sheriff's officer 19 foin: thrust (in fencing) 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. i 25 
 
 Fang. An I but fist him once; an a' come but 
 within my vice, — 
 
 Host. I am undone by his going; I warrant 
 you, he's an infinitive thing upon my score. 28 
 Good Master Fang, hold him sure: good Master 
 Snare, let him not 'scape. A' comes continuantly 
 to Pie-corner — saving your manhoods — to buy 
 a saddle ; and he's indited to dinner to the Lub- 32 
 ber's Head in Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth's 
 the silkman : I pray ye, since my exion is entered, 
 and my case so openly known to the world, let 
 him be brought in to his answer. A hundred 36 
 mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to 
 bear; and I have borne, and borne, and borne; 
 and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and 
 fubbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a 40 
 shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in 
 such dealing; unless a woman should be made 
 an ass, and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong. 
 Yonder he comes ; and that arrant malmsey- 44 
 nose knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your offices, 
 do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare; 
 do me, do me, do me your offices. 
 
 Enter Falstaff, and Bardolph. 
 
 Fal. How now! whose mare's dead? what's 48 
 the matter? 
 
 Fang. Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of 
 Mistress Quickly. 
 
 Fal. Away, varlets ! Draw, Bardolph: cut 52 
 
 26 vice : figuratively, grip 
 
 28 infinitive: infinite {Dame Quickly' s more obvious errors in speech 
 
 are not, hereafter, glossed) upon my score: in my debt 
 
 32, 33 Lubber's . . . Street: Libbard's, i.e., Leopard's, Head Inn, in 
 
 Lombard Street 34 exion: Dame Quickly 's error for 'action' 
 
 37 one; cf. n. 39 fubbed: fobbed, i.e., put off deceitfully 
 
 44, 45 malmsey-nose: red-nosed 
 
26 The Second Part of 
 
 me off the villain's head; throw the quean in 
 the channel. 
 
 Host. Throw me in the channel! I'll throw 
 thee in the channel. Wilt thou ? wilt thou ? thou 56 
 bastardly rogue ! Murder, murder ! Ah, thou 
 honey-suckle villain! wilt thou kill God's officers 
 and the king's ? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue ! 
 thou art a honey-seed, a man-queller, and a 60 
 woman-queller. 
 
 Fal. Keep them off, Bardolph. 
 
 Fang. A rescue ! a rescue ! 
 
 Host. Good people, bring a rescue or two ! 64 
 Thou wo't, wo't thou? thou wo't, wo't ta? do, 
 do, thou rogue! do, thou hemp-seed! 
 
 Fal. Away, you scullion ! you rampallian ! 
 you fustilarian ! I'll tickle your catastrophe. 68 
 
 Enter Chief Justice. 
 
 Ch. Just. What is the matter ? keep the peace 
 here, ho ! 
 
 Host. Good my lord, be good to me! I be- 
 seech you, stand to me! 72 
 Ch. Just. How now, Sir John ! what ! are you 
 brawling here ? 
 Doth this become your place, your time and business ? 
 You should have been well on your way to York. 
 Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang'st upon 
 him ? 76 
 Host. O, my most worshipful lord, an 't 
 please your grace, I am a poor widow of East- 
 cheap, and he is arrested at my suit. 
 
 Ch. Just. For what sum? 80 
 
 53 quean: hussy 54 channel: kennel, i.e., gutter 
 
 58 honey-suckle: Dame Quickly's error for 'homicidal' 
 
 59 honey -seed : homicide 60 man-queller: man-killer 
 65 wo't: wouldst ta: thou 67, 68 Cf. n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. i 2 ? 
 
 Host. It is more than for some, my lord; it 
 is for all I have. He hath eaten me out of 
 house and home; he hath put all my substance 
 into that fat belly of his : but I will have some of 84 
 it out again, or I will ride thee o' nights like the 
 mare. 
 
 Fal. I think I am as like to ride the mare if 
 I have any vantage of ground to get up. 88 
 
 Ch.Just. How comes this, Sir John? Fie! 
 what man of good temper would endure this 
 tempest of exclamation? Are you not ashamed 
 to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to 92 
 come by her own? 
 
 Fal. What is the gross sum that I owe thee? 
 
 Host. Marry, if thou wert an honest man, 
 thyself and the money too. Thou didst swear 96 
 to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my 
 Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea- 
 coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, 
 when the prince broke thy head for liking his 100 
 father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst 
 swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, 
 to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. 
 Canst thou deny it ? Did not goodwif e Keech, 104 
 the butcher's wife, come in then and call me 
 gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of 
 vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of 
 prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, 108 
 whereby I told thee they were ill for a green 
 wound? And didst thou not, when she was gone 
 down stairs, desire me to be no more so famili- 
 
 86 mare: nightmare 90 temper: character 
 
 97 parcel-gilt : partly gilded 
 
 98 sea-coal: mineral coal (brought by boat from Newcastle) 
 
 99 Wheeson: IVhitsun 104 Keech: literally 'a lump of fat' 
 109 green: fresh 
 
28 The Second Part of 
 
 arity with such poor people ; saying that ere 112 
 long they should call me madam? And didst 
 thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee thirty 
 shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath: 
 deny it if thou canst. 116 
 
 Fal. My lord, this is a poor mad soul; and 
 she says up and down the town that her eldest 
 son is like you. She hath been in good case, 
 and the truth is, poverty hath distracted her. 120 
 But for those foolish officers, I beseech you I 
 may have redress against them. 
 
 Ch. Just. Sir John, Sir John, I am well ac- 
 quainted with your manner of wrenching the 124 
 true cause the false way. It is not a confident 
 brow, nor the throng of words that come with 
 such more than impudent sauciness from you, 
 can thrust me from a level consideration ; you 128 
 have, as it appears to me, practised upon the 
 easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made 
 her serve your uses both in purse and in person. 
 
 Host. Yea, in troth, my lord. 132 
 
 Ch. Just. Prithee, peace. Pay her the debt 
 you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have 
 done her: the one you may do with sterling 
 money, and the other with current repentance. 136 
 
 Fal. My lord, I will not undergo this sneap 
 without reply. You call honourable boldness 
 impudent sauciness: if a man will make curtsy, 
 and say nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, 140 
 my humble duty remembered, I will not be your 
 suitor: I say to you, I do desire deliverance from 
 these officers, being upon hasty employment in 
 the king's affairs. 144 
 
 119 case: circumstances 128 level: steady 
 
 136 current: genuine, with pun upon 'sterling' 137 sneap: snub 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. i 
 
 29 
 
 Ch. Just. You speak as having power to do 
 wrong: but answer in the effect of your reputa- 
 tion, and satisfy the poor woman. 
 
 Fal. Come hither, hostess. 148 
 
 [Taking her aside.] 
 
 Enter Master Gower. 
 
 Ch.Just. Now, Master Gower! what news? 
 Gow. The king, my lord, and Harry Prince of 
 
 Wales 
 Are near at hand: the rest the paper tells. 
 
 [Gives a letter.] 
 
 Fal. As I am a gentleman. 152 
 
 Host. Faith, you said so before. 
 
 Fal. As I am a gentleman. Come, no more 
 words of it. 
 
 Host. By this heavenly ground I tread on, 156 
 I must be fain to pawn both my plate and the 
 tapestry of my dining-chambers. 
 
 Fal. Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking: 
 and for thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the 160 
 story of the Prodigal, or the German hunting in 
 water-work, is worth a thousand of these bed- 
 hangings and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it 
 be ten pound if thou canst. Come, an it were 164 
 not for thy humours, there's not a better wench 
 in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw the 
 action. Come, thou must not be in this humour 
 with me; dost not know me? Come, come, I 168 
 know thou wast set on to this. 
 
 Host. Prithee, Sir John, let it be but twenty 
 
 145 Cf. n. 146 in the effect of: in a manner suitable to 
 
 159 Cf. n. 160 drollery: humorou s painting 
 
 161 German hunting: German hunting-scene 
 
 162 water-work: water colors 165 humours: caprices 
 166 draw: withdraw 
 
30 The Second Part of 
 
 nobles: i' faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, 
 so God save me, la! 172 
 
 Fal. Let it alone; I'll make other shift: 
 you'll be a fool still. 
 
 Host. Well, you shall have it, though I pawn 
 my gown. I hope you'll come to supper. You'll 176 
 pay me all together? 
 
 Fal. Will I live? [To Bardolph.] Go, with 
 her, with her; hook on, hook on. 
 
 Host. Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet 180 
 you at supper? 
 
 Fal. No more words; let's have her. 
 
 Exeunt Hostess, [Bardolph, Page,] 
 and Sergeant[s]. 
 
 Ch. Just. I have heard better news. 
 
 Fal. What's the news, my lord? 1S4 
 
 Ch. Just. Where lay the king last night ? 
 
 Gow. At Basingstoke, my lord. 
 
 Fal. I hope, my lord, all's well: what is the 
 news, my lord? 188 
 
 Ch. Just. Come all his forces back? 
 Gow. No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse, 
 Are march'd up to my Lord of Lancaster, 
 Against Northumberland and the archbishop. 192 
 
 Fal. Comes the king back from Wales, my noble 
 
 lord? 
 Ch. Just. You shall have letters of me presently. 
 Come, go along with me, good Master Gower. 
 
 Fal. My lord! 196 
 
 Ch. Just. What's the matter ? 
 
 Fal. Master Gower, shall I entreat you with 
 me to dinner? 
 
 171 nobles: gold coins worth about six shillings 
 194 presently : immediately 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. ii 31 
 
 Gow. I must wait upon my good lord here ; 200 
 I thank you, good Sir John. 
 
 Ch. Just. Sir John, you loiter here too long, 
 being you are to take soldiers up in counties as 
 you go. 204 
 
 Fal. Will you sup with me, Master Gower? 
 
 Ch. Just. What foolish master taught you 
 these manners, Sir John? 
 
 Fal. Master Gower, if they become me not, 208 
 he was a fool that taught them me. This is the 
 right fencing grace, my lord; tap for tap, and 
 so part fair. 
 
 Ch. Just. Now the Lord lighten thee ! thou 212 
 art a great fool. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Two 
 
 [The Same] 
 
 Enter Prince Henry [and] Poins. 
 
 Prince. Before God, I am exceeding weary. 
 
 Poins. Is 't come to that? I had thought 
 weariness durst not have attached one of so 
 high blood. 4 
 
 Prince. Faith, it does me, though it dis- 
 colours the complexion of my greatness to ac- 
 knowledge it. Doth it not show vilely in me to 
 desire small beer? 8 
 
 Poins. Why, a prince should not be so loosely 
 studied as to remember so weak a composition. 
 
 Prince. Belike then my appetite was not 
 princely got ; for, by my troth, I do now re- 12 
 
 210 Cf.n. 212 lighten: enlighten, used quibblingly 
 
 3 attached: seised 
 
 5 discolours the complexion of my greatness: makes me blush 
 
 10 studied: inclined 
 
32 The Second Part of 
 
 member the poor creature, small beer. But, 
 indeed, these humble considerations make me out 
 of love with my greatness. What a disgrace is 
 it to me to remember thy name, or to know 16 
 thy face to-morrow ! or to take note how many 
 pair of silk stockings thou hast; viz. these, and 
 those that were thy peach-coloured ones ! or to 
 bear the inventory of thy shirts ; as, one for 20 
 superfluity, and another for use! But that the 
 tennis-court-keeper knows better than I, for it 
 is a low ebb of linen with thee when thou keepest 
 not racket there ; as thou hast not done a great 24 
 while, because the rest of thy low-countries have 
 made a shift to eat up thy holland: and God 
 knows whether those that bawl out the ruins 
 of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom ; but the 28 
 midwives say the children are not in the fault; 
 whereupon the world increases, and kindreds 
 are mightily strengthened. 
 
 Poins. How ill it follows, after you have 32 
 laboured so hard, you should talk so idly! Tell 
 me, how many good young princes would do 
 so, their fathers being so sick as yours at this 
 time is? 36 
 
 Prince. Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins? 
 
 Poins. Yes, faith, and let it be an excellent 
 good thing. 
 
 Prince. It shall serve among wits of no higher 40 
 breeding than thine. 
 
 Poins. Go to; I stand the push of your one 
 thing that you will tell. 
 
 Prince. Marry, I tell thee, it is not meet that 44 
 I should be sad, now my father is sick: albeit I 
 
 25-31 Cf.n. 42 push: thrust 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. ii 33 
 
 could tell to thee, — as to one it pleases me, for 
 fault of a better, to call my friend, — I could be 
 sad, and sad indeed too. 48 
 
 Poins. Very hardly upon such a subject. 
 
 Prince. By this hand, thou thinkest me as 
 far in the devil's book as thou and Falstaff for 
 obduracy and persistency : let the end try the 52 
 man. But I tell thee my heart bleeds inwardly 
 that my father is so sick; and keeping such vile 
 company as thou art hath in reason taken from 
 me all ostentation of sorrow. 56 
 
 Poins. The reason? 
 
 Prince. What wouldst thou think of me if I 
 should weep ? 
 
 Poins. I would think thee a most princely 60 
 hypocrite. 
 
 Prince. It would be every man's thought; 
 and thou art a blessed fellow to think as every 
 man thinks : never a man's thought in the world 64 
 keeps the road-way better than thine: every man 
 would think me an hypocrite indeed. And what 
 accites your most worshipful thought to think so ? 
 
 Poins. Why, because you have been so lewd 68 
 and so much engraffed to Falstaff. 
 
 Prince. And to thee. 
 
 Poins. By this light, I am well spoke on; I 
 can hear it with mine own ears : the worst that 72 
 they can say of me is that I am a second brother 
 and that I am a proper fellow of my hands ; and 
 those two things I confess I cannot help. By the 
 mass, here comes Bardolph. 76 
 
 Enter Bardolph and Page. 
 
 67 accites: invites 68 lewd: worthless 
 
 69 much engraffed : closely att ached 73 second brother: younger son 
 74 proper fellow of my hands: good fellow with my fists 
 
34 The Second Part of 
 
 Prince. And the boy that I gave Falstaff: a' 
 had him from me Christian; and look, if the fat 
 villain have not transformed him ape. 
 
 Bard. God save your Grace ! 80 
 
 Prince. And yours, most noble Bardolph. 
 
 Poins. [To the Page.] Come, you virtuous ass, 
 you bashful fool, must you be blushing? where- 
 fore blush you now ? What a maidenly man-at- 84 
 arms are you become ! Is 't such a matter to 
 get a pottle-pot's maidenhead? 
 
 Page. A' calls me even now, my lord, through 
 a red lattice, and I could discern no part of his 88 
 face from the window: at last, I spied his eyes, 
 and methought he had made two holes in the 
 ale-wife's new petticoat, and peeped through. 
 
 Prince. Hath not the boy profited? 92 
 
 Bard. Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, 
 away! 
 
 Page. Away, you rascally Althea's dream, 
 away ! 96 
 
 Prince. Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy? 
 
 Page. Marry, my lord, Althea dreamed she 
 was delivered of a firebrand; and therefore I call 
 him her dream. 100 
 
 Prince. A crown's worth of good interpreta- 
 tion. There 'tis, boy. [Gives him money.] 
 
 Poins. O ! that this good blossom could be 
 kept from cankers. Well, there is sixpence to 104 
 preserve thee. 
 
 Bard. An you do not make him be hanged 
 among you, the gallows shall have wrong. 
 
 Prince. And how doth thy master, Bardolph? 108 
 
 86 pottle-pot: izvo-quart tankard 88 red lattice: ale-house window 
 
 95-100 Cf. n. 104 cankers: canker-worms 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. ii 35 
 
 Bard. Well, my lord. He heard of your 
 Grace's coming to town: there's a letter for you. 
 
 Poins. Delivered with good respect. And how 
 doth the martleinas, your master? 112 
 
 Bard. In bodily health, sir. 
 
 Poins. Marry, the immortal part needs a 
 physician; but that moves not him: though 
 that be sick, it dies not. 116 
 
 Prince. I do allow this wen to be as familiar 
 with me as my dog; and he holds his place, for 
 look you how he writes. 
 
 Poins. [looking over the Prince's shoulder. ~\ 120 
 'John Falstaff, knight,' — every man must know 
 that, as oft as he has occasion to name himself: 
 even like those that are kin to the king, for they 
 never prick their finger but they say, 'There's 124 
 some of the king's blood spilt.' 'How comes 
 that?' says he that takes upon him not to con- 
 ceive. The answer is as ready as a borrower's 
 cap, 'I am the king's poor cousin, sir.' 128 
 
 Prince. Nay, they will be kin to us, or they 
 will fetch it from Japhet. But to the letter: 
 'Sir John Falstaff, knight, to the son of the 
 king nearest his father, Harry Prince of 132 
 Wales, greeting.' 
 
 Poins. Why, this is a certificate. 
 
 Prince. Peace! 'I will imitate the honourable 
 Romans in brevity:' 136 
 
 Poins. He sure means brevity in breath, short- 
 winded. 
 
 Prince. 'I commend me to thee, I commend 
 
 112 martlemas; cf. n. 117 wen: swelling, i.e., Falstaff 
 
 126 takes upon him: pretends conceive: understand 
 
 127, 128 borrower's cap; cf. n. 
 
 130 fetch it from Japhet: trace kinship through Japhet, the son of 
 
 Noah 
 130 ff. Cf.n. 
 
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 thee, and I leave thee. Be not too familiar with 140 
 Poins; for he misuses thy favours so much that 
 he swears thou art to marry his sister Nell. Re- 
 pent at idle times as thou mayest, and so farewell. 
 
 'Thine, by yea and no, — which is as 144 
 much as to say, as thou usest him, 
 Jack Falstaff, with my familiars; 
 John, with my brothers and sisters, 
 and Sir John with all Europe.' 148 
 
 Poins. My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack 
 and make him eat it. 
 
 Prince. That's to make him eat twenty of 
 his words. But do you use me thus, Ned? must 152 
 I marry your sister? 
 
 Poins. God send the wench no worse for- 
 tune! — but I never said so. 
 
 Prince. Well, thus we play the fools with the 
 time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds 156 
 and mock us. Is your master here in London? 
 
 Bard. Yea, my lord. 
 
 Prince. Where sups he? doth the old boar 
 feed in the old frank? 160 
 
 Bard. At the old place, my lord, in East- 
 cheap. 
 
 Prince. What company? 
 
 Page. Ephesians, my lord, of the old church. 164 
 
 Prince. Sup any women with him? 
 
 Page. None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly 
 and Mistress Doll Tearsheet. 
 
 Prince. What pagan may that be? 168 
 
 Page. A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kins- 
 woman of my master's. 
 
 Prince. Even such kin as the parish heifers 
 
 160 frank: sty 164 Ephesians: slang term for jolly fellows 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. Hi 37 
 
 are to the town bull. Shall we steal upon them, 172 
 Ned, at supper? 
 
 Poins. I am your shadow, my lord; I'll 
 follow you. 
 
 Prince. Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph ; no 176 
 word to your master that I am yet come to 
 town: there's for your silence. [Gives money.'] 
 
 Bard. I have no tongue, sir. 
 
 Page. And for mine, sir, I will govern it. 180 
 
 Prince. Fare ye well; go. [Exeunt Bardolph 
 and Page.] This Doll Tearsheet should be some 
 road. 
 
 Poins. I warrant you, as common as the way 
 between Saint Albans and London. 185 
 
 Prince. How might we see Falstaff bestow 
 himself to-night in his true colours, and not 
 ourselves be seen? 
 
 Poins. Put on two leathern jerkins and 
 aprons, and wait upon him at his table as 
 drawers. 191 
 
 Prince. From a god to a bull! a heavy 
 descension! it was Jove's case. From a prince 
 to a prentice! a low transformation! that shall 
 be mine; for in every thing the purpose must 
 weigh with the folly. Follow me, Ned. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Three 
 
 [Warhworth. Before Northumberland's Castle] 
 
 Enter Northumberland, his wife, and the wife to 
 Harry Percy. 
 
 North. I pray thee, loving wife, and gentle daugh- 
 ter, 
 
 186 bestow: behave 192, 193 Cf. n. 
 
38 The Second Part of 
 
 Give even way unto my rough affairs: 
 Put not you on the visage of the times, 
 And be like them to Percy troublesome. 4 
 
 Lady N. I have given over, I will speak no more : 
 Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide. 
 
 North. Alas ! sweet wife, my honour is at pawn ; 
 And, but my going, nothing can redeem it. 8 
 
 Lady P. O ! yet for God's sake, go not to these 
 wars. 
 The time was, father, that you broke your word 
 When you were more endear'd to it than now; 
 When your own Percy, when my heart's dear 
 Harry, 12 
 
 Threw many a northward look to see his father 
 Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain. 
 Who then persuaded you to stay at home? 
 There were two honours lost, yours and your son's: 16 
 For yours, the God of heaven brighten it! 
 For his, it stuck upon him as the sun 
 In the grey vault of heaven ; and by his light 
 Did all the chivalry of England move 20 
 
 To do brave acts : he was indeed the glass 
 Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves: 
 He had no legs, that practis'd not his gait; 
 And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish, 24 
 Became the accents of the valiant; 
 For those that could speak low and tardily, 
 Would turn their own perfection to abuse, 
 To seem like him: so that, in speech, in gait, 28 
 
 In diet, in affections of delight, 
 In military rules, humours of blood, 
 He was the mark and glass, copy and book, 
 That f ashion'd others. And him, O wondrous him ! 32 
 
 11 endear'd: bound 24 thick: fast 
 
 29 affections of delight: favorite pastimes 30 blood: disposition 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. Hi 39 
 
 O miracle of men! him did you leave, — 
 
 Second to none, unseconded by you, — 
 
 To look upon the hideous god of war 
 
 In disadvantage; to abide a field 36 
 
 Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name 
 
 Did seem defensible: so you left him. 
 
 Never, O! never, do his ghost the wrong 
 
 To hold your honour more precise and nice 40 
 
 With others than with him: let them alone. 
 
 The marshal and the archbishop are strong: 
 
 Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers, 
 
 To-day might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck, 44 
 
 Have talk'd of Monmouth's grave. 
 
 North. Beshrew your heart, 
 
 Fair daughter ! you do draw my spirits from me 
 With new lamenting ancient oversights. 
 But I must go and meet with danger there, 48 
 
 Or it will seek me in another place, 
 And find me worse provided. 
 
 Lady N. O ! fly to Scotland, 
 
 Till that the nobles and the armed commons 
 Have of their puissance made a little taste. 52 
 
 Lady P. If they get ground and vantage of the 
 king, 
 Then join you with them, like a rib of steel, 
 To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves, 
 First let them try themselves. So did your son ; 56 
 He was so suffer'd: so came I a widow; 
 And never shall have length of life enough 
 To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes, 
 That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven, 60 
 For recordation to my noble husband. 
 
 38 defensible: able to furnish defense 40 nice: scrupulous 
 
 61 For recordation to : in memory of 
 
40 The Second Part of 
 
 North. Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my 
 mind 
 As with the tide swell'd up unto his height, 
 That makes a still-stand, running neither way: 64 
 Fain would I go to meet the archbishop, 
 But many thousand reasons hold me back. 
 
 1 will resolve for Scotland: there am I, 
 
 Till time and vantage crave my company. 68 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Four 
 
 [London. A Room in the Boar's Head Tavern, in 
 Eastcheap] 
 
 Enter two Drawers [Francis and another]. 
 
 First Draw. What the devil hast thou brought 
 there? apple-johns? thou knowest Sir John can- 
 not endure an apple-john. 
 
 Sec. Draw. Mass, thou sayst true. The prince 4 
 once set a dish of apple-johns before him, and 
 told him there were five more Sir Johns; and, 
 putting off his hat, said, 'I will now take my 
 leave of these six dry, round, old withered 8 
 knights.' It angered him to the heart; but he 
 hath forgot that. 
 
 First Draw. Why then, cover, and set them 
 down: and see if thou canst find out Sneaks 12 
 noise; Mistress Tearsheet would fain hear some 
 music. Dispatch: the room where they supped 
 is too hot; they'll come in straight. 
 
 Sec. Draw. Sirrah, here will be the prince 16 
 and Master Poins anon; and they will put on 
 
 2 apple-johns: apples that keep well but become very much shriveled 
 11 cover: set the table 13 noise: band of musicians 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 41 
 
 two of our jerkins and aprons; and Sir John 
 must not know of it: Bardolph hath brought 
 word. 20 
 
 First Draw. By the mass, here will be old 
 utis : it will be an excellent stratagem. 
 
 Sec. Draw. I'll see if I can find out Sneak. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 Enter Hostess and Doll. 
 
 Host. T faith, sweetheart, methinks now you 24 
 are in an excellent good temperality: your pul- 
 sidge beats as extraordinarily as heart would 
 desire; and your colour, I warrant you, is as 
 red as any rose ; in good truth, la ! But, i' faith, 28 
 you have drunk too much canaries, and that's 
 a marvellous searching wine, and it perfumes 
 the blood ere one can say, What's this? How 
 do you now? 32 
 
 Dol. Better than I was: hem! 
 
 Host. Why, that's well said; a good heart's 
 worth gold. Lo! here comes Sir John. 
 
 Enter Falstaff [singing']. 
 
 Fal. 'When Arthur first in court' — Empty 36 
 the Jordan. — [Exit Drawer.] — 'And was a 
 worthy king.' How now, Mistress Doll! 
 
 Host. Sick of a calm: yea, good faith. 
 
 Fal. So is all her sect ; an they be once in a 40 
 calm they are sick. 
 
 Dol. A pox damn you, you muddy rascal, is 
 that all the comfort you give me? 
 
 Fal. You make fat ratals, Mistress Doll. 44 
 
 21, 22 old utis: rare sport 36 Cf. n. 
 
 37 Jordan: chamber-pot 39 calm: mistake for 'qualm 
 
 40 sect: sex 
 
42 The Second Part of 
 
 Dol. I make them! gluttony and diseases 
 make them; I make them not. 
 
 Fal. If the cook help to make the glut- 
 tony, you help to make the diseases, Doll: we 48 
 catch of you, Doll, we catch of you; grant that, 
 my poor virtue, grant that. 
 
 Dol. Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels. 
 
 Fal. 'Your brooches, pearls, and owches' : — 52 
 for to serve bravely is to come halting off, you 
 know: to come off the breach with his pike bent 
 bravely, and to surgery bravely ; to venture upon 
 the charged chambers bravely, — 56 
 
 Dol. Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang 
 yourself ! 
 
 Host. By my troth, this is the old fashion; 
 you two never meet but you fall to some discord: 60 
 you are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two 
 dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another's 
 confirmities. What the good-year ! one must 
 bear, and that must be you : you are the weaker 64 
 vessel, as they say, the emptier vessel. 
 
 Dol. Can a weak empty vessel bear such a 
 huge full hogshead? there's a whole merchant's 
 venture of Bordeaux stuff in him : you have not 68 
 seen a hulk better stuffed in the hold. Come, 
 I'll be friends with thee, Jack: thou art going 
 to the wars; and whether I shall ever see thee 
 again or no, there is nobody cares. 72 
 
 Ente?- Drawer [Francis], 
 Fran. Sir, Ancient Pistol's below, and would 
 speak with you. 
 
 52 Cf.n. owches: jewels 56 chambers: small can non 
 
 57 conger: eel 61 rheumatic: error for 'splenetic' (?) 
 
 63 good-year: corruption of French 'goujere,' 'the pox' 
 73 Ancient: ensign or second lieutenant, Peto being Captain Fal- 
 staff's first lieutenant 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 43 
 
 Dol. Hang him, swaggering rascal! let him 
 not come hither : it is the f oul-mouthedest rogue 76 
 in England. 
 
 Host. If he swagger, let him not come here: 
 no, by my faith; I must live among my neigh- 
 bours; I'll no swaggerers: I am in good name 80 
 and fame with the very best. Shut the door; 
 there comes no swaggerers here: I have not 
 lived all this while to have swaggering now: 
 shut the door, I pray you. 84 
 
 Fal. Dost thou hear, hostess? 
 
 Host. Pray ye, pacify yourself, Sir John: 
 there comes no swaggerers here. 
 
 Fal. Dost thou hear? it is mine ancient. 88 
 
 Host. Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me: 
 your ancient swaggerer comes not in my doors. 
 I was before Master Tisick, the debuty, t'other 
 day ; and, as he said to me, — 'twas no longer ago 92 
 than Wedesday last, — 'I' good faith, neighbor 
 Quickly,' says he ; — Master Dumbe, our minister, 
 was by then; — 'Neighbour Quickly,' says he, 're- 
 ceive those that are civil, for,' said he, 'you are in 96 
 an ill name'; now, a' said so, I can tell where- 
 upon; 'for,' says he, 'you are an honest woman, 
 and well thought on; therefore take heed what 
 guests you receive : receive,' says he, 'no swag- 100 
 gering companions.' There comes none here: — 
 you would bless you to hear what he said. No, 
 I'll no swaggerers. 
 
 Fal. He's no swaggerer, hostess ; a tame 104 
 cheater, i' faith; you may stroke him as gently 
 as a puppy greyhound: he'll not swagger with 
 
 80 swaggerers: bullies 91 debuty; cf. n. 
 
 104, 105 tame cheater; cf. n. 
 
44 The Second Part of 
 
 a Barbary hen if her feathers turn back in any 
 show of resistance. Call him up, drawer. 108 
 
 [Exit Francis.'] 
 
 Host. Cheater, call you him? I will bar no 
 honest man my house, nor no cheater; but I do 
 not love swaggering, by my troth; I am the 
 worse, when one says swagger. Feel, masters, 112 
 how I shake; look you, I warrant you. 
 
 Dol. So you do, hostess. 
 
 Host. Do I? yea, in very truth, do I, an 
 'twere an aspen leaf: I cannot abide swaggerers. 116 
 
 Enter Ancient Pistol, and Bardolph and his boy. 
 
 Pist. God save you, Sir John! 
 
 Fal. Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, 
 I charge you with a cup of sack: do you dis- 
 charge upon mine hostess. 120 
 
 Pist. I will discharge upon her, Sir John, 
 with two bullets. 
 
 Fal. She is pistol-proof, sir; you shall hardly 
 offend her. 124 
 
 Host. Come, I'll drink no proofs nor no 
 bullets: I'll drink no more than will do me 
 good, for no man's pleasure, I. 
 
 Pist. Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will 128 
 charge you. 
 
 Dol. Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy com- 
 panion. What! you poor, base, rascally, cheat- 
 ing, lack-linen mate ! Away, you mouldy rogue, 132 
 away ! I am meat for your master. 
 
 Pist. I know you, Mistress Dorothy. 
 
 Dol. Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy 
 
 107 Barbary hen: a hen whose feathers naturally turn back 
 
 130 companion: a term of contempt 132 mate: fellow, 'chap' 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 45 
 
 bung, away ! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife 136 
 in your mouldy chaps an you play the saucy 
 cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal ! 
 you basket-hilt stale juggler, you! Since when, 
 I pray you, sir? God's light! with two points 140 
 on your shoulder ? much ! 
 
 Pist. God let me not live but I will murder 
 your ruff for this ! 
 
 [Attacking her, and tearing her ruff.] 
 
 Fal. No more, Pistol : I would not have you 144 
 go off here. Discharge yourself of our company, 
 Pistol. 
 
 Host. No, good captain Pistol; not here, 
 sweet captain. 148 
 
 Dol. Captain ! thou abominable damned 
 cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called 
 captain? An captains were of my mind, they 
 would truncheon you out for taking their names 152 
 upon you before you have earned them. You 
 a captain, you slave ! for what ? for tearing a 
 poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a 
 captain ! Hang him, rogue ! He lives upon 156 
 mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes. A 
 captain! God's light, these villains will make 
 the word captain as odious as the word 'occupy,' 
 which was an excellent good word before it was 160 
 ill sorted: therefore captains had need look to 't. 
 
 Bard. Pray thee, go down, good ancient. 
 
 Fal. Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll. 
 
 Pist. Not I ; I tell thee what, Corporal Bar- 164 
 
 136 bung: slang for 'sharper' 137 chaps: jaws 
 
 138 cuttle: slang for 'cut purse' 
 
 139 basket-hilt: referring to the basket-shaped steel hand-guard on 
 the hilt of Pistol's sword 
 
 juggler: trickster Since when, etc.: a cant exclamation of scorn 
 
 140 two points: shoulder tags, mark of an army commission 
 159 occupy; cf. n. 
 
46 The Second Part of 
 
 dolph; I could tear her. I'll be revenged of 
 her. 
 
 Page. Pray thee, go down. 
 
 Pist. I'll see her damned first; to Pluto's 168 
 damned lake, by this hand, to the infernal deep, 
 with Erebus and tortures vile also. Hold hook 
 and line, say I. Down, down, dogs ! down fai- 
 tors. Have we not Hiren here? 172 
 
 Host. Good Captain Peesel, be quiet; 'tis 
 very late, i' faith. I beseek you now, aggravate 
 your choler. 
 
 Pist . These be good humours, indeed ! Shall pack- 
 horses, 176 
 And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia, 
 Which cannot go but thirty mile a day, 
 Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals, 
 And Trojan Greeks? nay, rather damn them with 180 
 King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar. 
 Shall we fall foul for toys? 
 
 Host. By my troth, captain, these are very 
 bitter words. 184 
 
 Bard. Be gone, good ancient: this will grow 
 to a brawl anon. 
 
 Pist. Die men like dogs ! give crowns like 
 pins ! Have we not Hiren here ? 188 
 
 Host. O' my word, captain, there's none 
 such here. What the good-year! do you think 
 I would deny her? for God's sake! be quiet. 
 Pist. Then feed, and be fat, my fair Calipolis. 192 
 Come, give's some sack. 
 
 Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento. 
 Fear we broadsides? no, let the fiend give fire: 
 
 171 f aitors : impost ers 172 Hiren; cf. n. 
 
 177, 178 Cf. n. 179 Cannibals: blunder fcr 'Hannibals' 
 
 182 toys: trifles 192 Cf. n. 194 Cf. ». 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. iv w 
 
 Give me some sack ; and, sweetheart, lie thou there. 19C 
 
 [Laying down his sword. ] 
 Come we to full points here, and are et ceteras noth- 
 ing? 
 
 Fal. Pistol, I would be quiet. 
 
 Pist. Sweet knight, I kiss thy neif. What! 
 we have seen the seven stars. 200 
 
 Dol. For God's sake, thrust him down stairs ! 
 I cannot endure such a fustian rascal. 
 
 Pist . 'Thrust him down stairs !' know we not 
 Galloway nags? 204 
 
 Fal. Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove- 
 groat shilling: nay, an a' do nothing but speak 
 nothing, a'^ shall be nothing here. 
 
 Bard. Come, get you down stairs. 208 
 
 Pist. What! shall we have incision? Shall we 
 
 imbrue? [Snatching up his sword.'] 
 
 Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days ! 
 Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds 
 Untwine the Sisters Three! Come, Atropos, I 
 
 say ! 212 
 
 Host. Here's goodly stuff toward! 
 
 Fal. Give me my rapier, boy. 
 
 Dol. I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not 
 draw. 216 
 
 Fal. Get you down stairs. [Drawing.] 
 
 Host. Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear 
 keeping house, afore I'll be in these tirrits and 
 frights. So; murder, I warrant now. Alas, alas ! 220 
 put up your naked weapons; put up your naked 
 weapons. [Exeunt Bardolph and Pistol."] 
 
 197 full points: a full stop 199 neif: fist 
 
 200 seven stars: the Pleiades 202 fustian: nonsensical 
 
 204 Galloway nags: small and inferior breed of horses 
 
 205 Quoit: pitch shove-groat; cf. n. 209 imbrue: draw blood 
 
 212 Sisters Three: the Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos 
 
 213 toward: at hand 219 tirrits: blunder for terrors (?) 
 
48 The Second Part of 
 
 Dol. I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's 
 gone. Ah ! you whoreson little valiant villain, 224 
 you! 
 
 Host. Are you not hurt i' the groin? me- 
 thought a' made a shrewd thrust at your belly. 
 
 [Enter Bardolph.] 
 
 Fal. Have you turned him out o' doors? 228 
 
 Bard. Yea, sir: the rascal's drunk. You 
 have hurt him, sir, i' the shoulder. 
 
 Fal. A rascal, to brave me! 
 
 Dol. Ah, you sweet little rogue, you ! Alas, 232 
 poor ape, how thou sweatest ! Come, let me wipe 
 thy face; come on, you whoreson chops. Ah, 
 rogue ! i' faith, I love thee. Thou art as valorous 
 as Hector of Troy, worth five of Agamemnon, 236 
 and ten times better than the Nine Worthies. 
 Ah, villain! 
 
 Fal. A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in 
 a blanket. 240 
 
 Dol. Do, an thou darest for thy heart: an 
 thou dost, I'll canvass thee between a pair of 
 sheets. 
 
 Enter Music. 
 
 Page. The music is come, sir. 244 
 
 Fal. Let them play. Play, sirs. Sit on my 
 
 knee, Doll. A rascal bragging slave! the rogue 
 
 fled from me like quicksilver. 
 
 Dol. V faith, and thou followedst him like a 248 
 
 church. Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew 
 
 boar-pig, when wilt thou leave fighting o' days, 
 
 234 chops: fat-face 
 
 249, 250 Bartholomew boar-pig: roast pig, a favorite dish at Bartholo- 
 mew Fair 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 49 
 
 and foining o' nights, and begin to patch up 
 thine old body for heaven? 252 
 
 Enter [behind] the Prince and Poins, disguised 
 [like Drawers]. 
 
 Fal. Peace, good Doll ! do not speak like a 
 death's head: do not bid me remember mine 
 end. 
 
 Dol. Sirrah, what humour's the prince of? 256 
 Fal. A good shallow young fellow: a' would 
 have made a good pantler, a' would have chipped 
 bread well. 
 
 Dol. They say, Poins has a good wit. 260 
 
 Fal. He a good wit! hang him, baboon! his 
 wit is as thick as Tewksbury mustard: there is 
 no more conceit in him than is in a mallet. 
 
 Dol. Why does the prince love him so, then ? 264 
 Fal. Because their legs are both of a bigness, 
 and a' plays at quoits well, and eats conger and 
 fennel, and drinks off candles' ends for flap- 
 dragons, and rides the wild mare with the boys, 268 
 and jumps upon joint-stools, and swears with a 
 good grace, and wears his boots very smooth, 
 like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate 
 with telling of discreet stories ; and such other 272 
 gambol faculties a' has, that show a weak mind 
 and an able body, for the which the prince 
 admits him: for the prince himself is such 
 another ; the weight of a hair will turn the 276 
 scales between their avoirdupois. 
 
 258 pantler: servant in charge of the pantry 
 
 263 conceit: imagination 267 drinks . . . flapdragons; cf. n. 
 
 268 rides . . . mare : plays see-saw 
 
 269 joint-stools: stools made by a joiner, as distinguished from those 
 of rough make 
 
 271 sign of the leg: a shoemaker's sign 
 
 breeds no bate: causes no strife 273 gambol: sportive 
 
so The Second Part of 
 
 Prince. Would not this nave of a wheel have 
 his ears cut off? 
 
 Poins. Let's beat him before his whore. 280 
 
 Prince. Look, whether the withered elder 
 hath not his poll clawed like a parrot. 
 
 Poins. Is it not strange that desire should so 
 many years outlive performance ? 284 
 
 Fal. Kiss me, Doll. 
 
 Prince, Saturn and Venus this year in con- 
 junction! what says the almanack to that? 
 
 Poins. And, look, whether the fiery Trigon, 288 
 his man, be not lisping to his master's old tables, 
 his note-book, his counsel-keeper. 
 
 Fal. Thou dost give me flattering busses. 
 
 Dol. By my troth, I kiss thee with a most 292 
 constant heart. 
 
 Fal. I am old, I am old. 
 
 Dol. I love thee better than I love e'er a 
 scurvy young boy of them all. 296 
 
 Fal. What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I 
 shall receive money o' Thursday; shalt have 
 a cap to-morrow. A merry song! come: it grows 
 late ; we'll to bed. Thou'lt forget me when I 300 
 am gone. 
 
 Dol. By my troth, thou'lt set me a-weeping 
 an thou sayst so: prove that ever I dress myself 
 handsome till thy return. Well, hearken at the 304 
 end. 
 
 Fal. Some sack, Francis ! 
 
 Prince. ) [Coming forward.] Anon, anon, 
 
 Poins. ) sir. 308 
 
 278 nave of a wheel : Falstaff's knavery and rotundity are both in- 
 cluded in this phrase 282 poll: head 286 Cf.n. 
 
 288 fiery Trigon: Bardolph; cf. n. 
 
 289 lisping: making love 
 
 old tables: old account book, i.e., the hostess 
 297 kirtle: waist or skirt or both 304 hearken at: watch 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 61 
 
 Fal. Ha! a bastard son of the king's? And 
 art not thou Poins his brother? 
 
 Prince. Why, thou globe of sinful continents, 
 what a life dost thou lead ! 312 
 
 Fal. A better than thou: I am a gentleman; 
 thou art a drawer. 
 
 Prince. Very true, sir; and I come to draw 
 you out by the ears. 316 
 
 Host. O! the Lord preserve thy good Grace; 
 by my troth, welcome to London. Now, the 
 Lord bless that sweet face of thine! O Jesu! 
 are you come from Wales? 320 
 
 Fal. Thou whoreson mad compound of 
 majesty, by this light flesh and corrupt blood 
 [pointing to Doll], thou art welcome. 
 
 Dol. How, you fat fool ! I scorn you. 324 
 
 Poins. My lord, he will drive you out of your 
 revenge and turn all to a merriment, if you take 
 not the heat. 
 
 Prince. You whoreson candle-mine, you, how 328 
 vilely did you speak of me even now before this 
 honest, virtuous, civil gentlewoman! 
 
 Host. God's blessing of your good heart! and 
 so she is, by my troth. 332 
 
 Fal. Didst thou hear me? 
 
 Prince. Yea; and you knew me, as you did 
 when you ran away by Gadshill: you knew I 
 was at your back, and spoke it on purpose to try 336 
 my patience. 
 
 Fal. No, no, no; not so; I did not think thou 
 wast within hearing. 
 
 Prince. I shall drive you then to confess the 340 
 
 326,327 take . . . the heat: strike while the iron's hot 
 328 candle-mine: mine of tallow 
 
52 The Second Part of 
 
 wilful abuse; and then I know how to handle 
 you. 
 
 Fal. No abuse, Hal, o' mine honour; no 
 abuse. 344 
 
 Prince. Not to dispraise me, and call me 
 pantler and bread-chipper and I know not what? 
 
 Fal. No abuse, Hal. 
 
 Poins. No abuse ! 348 
 
 Fal. No abuse, Ned, in the world; honest 
 Ned, none. I dispraised him before the wicked, 
 that the wicked might not fall in love with him; 
 in which doing I have done the part of a careful 352 
 friend and a true subject, and thy father is to 
 give me thanks for it. No abuse, Hal; none, 
 Ned, none: no, faith, boys, none. 
 
 Prince. See now, whether pure fear and 356 
 entire cowardice doth not make thee wrong this 
 virtuous gentlewoman to close with us? Is she 
 of the wicked? Is thine hostess here of the 
 wicked ? Or is thy boy of the wicked ? Or 360 
 honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his nose, of 
 the wicked? 
 
 Poins. Answer, thou dead elm, answer. 
 
 Fal. The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph 364 
 irrecoverable; and his face is Lucifer's privy- 
 kitchen, where he doth nothing but roast malt- 
 worms. For the boy, there is a good angel about 
 him; but the devil outbids him too. 368 
 
 Prince. For the women? 
 
 Fal. For one of them, she is in hell already, 
 and burns poor souls. For the other, I owe her 
 money ; and whether she be damned for that, I 372 
 know not. 
 
 358 close: make peace 363 dead elm; cf. n. 
 
 364 pricked down : marked down 366,367 malt-worms: ale-topers 
 
King Henry the Fourth, II. iv 53 
 
 Host. No, I warrant you. 
 
 Fal. No, I think thou art not; I think thou 
 art quit for that. Marry, there is another in- 376 
 dictment upon thee, for suffering flesh to be 
 eaten in thy house, contrary to the law; for the 
 which I think thou wilt howl. 
 
 Host. All victuallers do so: what's a joint of 380 
 mutton or two in a whole Lent? 
 
 Prince. You, gentlewoman, — 
 
 Dol. What says your Grace? 
 
 Fal. His Grace says that which his flesh 384 
 rebels against. 
 
 Veto knocks at door. 
 
 Host. Who knocks so loud at door? Look 
 to the door there, Francis. 
 
 Enter Peto. 
 
 Prince. Peto, how now ! what news ? 388 
 
 Peto. The king your father is at Westminster; 
 And there are twenty weak and wearied posts 
 Come from the north: and as I came along, 
 I met and overtook a dozen captains, 392 
 
 Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns, 
 And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff. 
 
 Prince. By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to 
 blame, 
 So idly to profane the precious time, 396 
 
 When tempest of commotion, like the south, 
 Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt 
 And drop upon our bare unarmed heads. 
 Give me my sword and cloak. Falstaff, good 
 night. 400 
 
 Exeunt Prince and Poins [Bardolph and Peto]. 
 
 376 quit: absolved 390 posts: couriers 397 south: south wind 
 
54 The Second Part of 
 
 Fal. Now comes in the sweetest morsel of 
 the night, and we must hence and leave it un- 
 picked. [Knocking within.'] More knocking at 
 the door! 404 
 
 [Enter Bardolph.] 
 
 How now ! what's the matter ? 
 
 Bard. You must away to court, sir, presently; 
 A dozen captains stay at door for you. 
 
 Fal. [To the Page]. Pay the musicians, sirrah. 408 
 Farewell, hostess, farewell, Doll. You see, my 
 good wenches, how men of merit are sought 
 after: the undeserver may sleep when the man 
 of action is called on. Farewell, good wenches. 412 
 If I be not sent away post, I will see you again 
 ere I go. 
 
 Dol. I cannot speak; if my heart be not 
 ready to burst, — well, sweet Jack, have a care 416 
 of thyself. 
 
 Fal. Farewell, farewell. 
 
 Exit [Falstaff, with Bardolph], 
 
 Host. Well, fare thee well: I have known 
 thee these twenty-nine years, come peascod- 420 
 time; but an honester, and truer-hearted man, 
 — well, fare thee well. 
 
 Bard. [Within.] Mistress Tearsheet! 
 
 Host. What's the matter? 424 
 
 Bard. [Within.] Bid Mistress Tearsheet come 
 to my master. 
 
 Host. O ! run, Doll, run ; run, good Doll. 
 Come ! She comes blubbered. 428 
 
 Yea, will you come, Doll? Exeunt. 
 
 413 post: in haste 428 S. d. blubbered: in tears 
 
King Henry the Fourth, III. i 55 
 
 ACT THIRD 
 
 Scene One 
 
 [Westminster. The Palace] 
 
 Enter the King in his night-gown, with a Page. 
 
 King. Go, call the Earls of Surrey and of War- 
 wick ; 
 But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters, 
 And well consider of them. Make good speed. 
 
 [Exit Page.] 
 How many thousand of my poorest subjects 4 
 
 Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep ! O gentle sleep ! 
 Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, 
 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down 
 And steep my senses in f orgetf ulness ? 8 
 
 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, 
 Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 
 And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, 
 Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, 12 
 Under the canopies of costly state, 
 And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody? 
 O thou dull god ! why liest thou with the vile 
 In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch 16 
 A watch-case or a common 'larum bell? 
 Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast 
 Seel up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains 
 In cradle of the rude imperious surge, 20 
 
 And in the visitation of the winds, 
 Who take the ruffian billows by the top, 
 Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them 
 With deaf'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, 24 
 
 S. d. night-gown: dressing gown 
 
 17 watch-case: sentry-box 19 Seel: sew together (a hawking term) 
 
56 The Second Part of 
 
 That with the hurly death itself awakes? 
 
 Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose 
 
 To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, 
 
 And in the calmest and most stillest night, 28 
 
 With all appliances and means to boot, 
 
 Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down! 
 
 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 
 
 Enter Warwick and Surrey. 
 
 War. Many good morrows to your majesty! 32 
 
 King. Is it good morrow, lords? 
 
 War. 'Tis one o'clock, and past. 
 
 King. Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords. 
 Have you read o'er the letters that I sent you? 36 
 
 War. We have, my liege. 
 
 King. Then you perceive the body of our kingdom, 
 How foul it is; what rank diseases grow, 
 And with what danger, near the heart of it. 40 
 
 War. It is but as a body, yet distemper'd, 
 Which to his former strength may be restor'd 
 With good advice and little medicine: 
 My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd. 44 
 
 King. O God! that one might read the book of 
 fate, 
 And see the revolution of the times 
 Make mountains level, and the continent, — 
 Weary of solid firmness, — melt itself 48 
 
 Into the sea ! and, other times, to see 
 The beachy girdle of the ocean 
 Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, 
 And changes fill the cup of alteration 52 
 
 With divers liquors ! O ! if this were seen, 
 The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, 
 What perils past, what crosses to ensue, 
 
 25 hurly: tumult 
 
King Henry the Fourth, III. i 57 
 
 Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. 56 
 'Tis not ten years gone 
 
 Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends, 
 Did feast together, and in two years after 
 Were they at wars: it is but eight years since 60 
 
 This Percy was the man nearest my soul, 
 Who like a brother toil'd in my affairs 
 And laid his love and life under my foot; 
 Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard 64 
 
 Gave him defiance. But which of you was by, — 
 [To Warwick.] You, cousin Nevil, as I may remem- 
 ber, — 
 When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears, 
 Then check'd and rated by Northumberland, 68 
 
 Did speak these words, now prov'd a prophecy? 
 'Northumberland, thou ladder, by the which 
 My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne'; 
 Though then, God knows, I had no such intent, 72 
 But that necessity so bow'd the state 
 That I and greatness were compelled to kiss : 
 'The time shall come,' thus did he follow it, 
 'The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head, 76 
 Shall break into corruption' : — so went on, 
 Foretelling this same time's condition 
 And the division of our amity. 
 
 War. There is a history in all men's lives, 80 
 
 Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd; 
 The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, 
 With a near aim, of the main chance of things 
 As yet not come to life, which in their seeds 84 
 
 And weak beginnings lie intreasured. 
 Such things become the hatch and brood of time; 
 And by the necessary form of this 
 
 68 check'd: rebuked 81 Figuring: symbolizing 
 
 87 necessary form: logical necessity 
 
58 The Second Part of 
 
 King Richard might create a perfect guess 88 
 
 That great Northumberland, then false to him, 
 Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness. 
 Which should not find a ground to root upon, 
 Unless on you. 
 
 King. Are these things then necessities? 92 
 
 Then let us meet them like necessities; 
 And that same word even now cries out on us. 
 They say the bishop and Northumberland 
 Are fifty thousand strong. 
 
 War. It cannot be, my lord ! 96 
 
 Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, 
 The numbers of the fear'd. Please it your Grace 
 To go to bed: upon my soul, my lord, 
 The powers that you already have sent forth 100 
 Shall bring this prize in very easily. 
 To comfort you the more, I have receiv'd 
 A certain instance that Glendower is dead. 
 Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill, 104 
 
 And these unseason'd hours perforce must add 
 Unto your sickness. 
 
 King. I will take your counsel: 
 
 And were these inward wars once out of hand, 
 We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land. 108 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Two 
 [Before Justice Shallow's House in Gloucestershire'] 
 
 Enter Shallow and Silence, with Mouldy, Shadow, 
 Wart, Feeble, Bullcalf [and Servants]. 
 
 Shal. Come on, come on, come on, sir; give 
 me your hand, sir, give me your hand, sir: an 
 
 103 instance : proof 105 unseason'd: unseasonable 
 
King Henry the Fourth, III. ii 59 
 
 early stirrer, by the rood! And how doth my 
 good cousin Silence? 4 
 
 Sil. Good morrow, good cousin Shallow. 
 
 Shal. And how doth my cousin, your bed- 
 fellow? and your fairest daughter and mine, my 
 god-daughter Ellen? 8 
 
 Sil. Alas ! a black ousel, cousin Shallow ! 
 
 Shal. By yea and nay, sir, I dare say my 
 cousin William is become a good scholar. He is 
 at Oxford still, is he not? 12 
 
 Sil. Indeed, sir, to my cost. 
 
 Shal. A' must, then, to the inns o' court 
 shortly. I was once of Clement's Inn; where I 
 think they will talk of mad Shallow yet. 16 
 
 Sil. You were called lusty Shallow' then, 
 cousin. 
 
 Shal. By the mass, I was called anything; 
 and I would have done anything indeed too, 20 
 and roundly too. There was I, and Little John 
 Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, 
 and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele a Cots- 
 wold man ; you had not four such swinge-buck- 24 
 lers in all the inns o' court again : and, I may say 
 to you, we knew where the bona-robas were, 
 and had the best of them all at commandment. 
 Then was Jack Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and 28 
 page to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 Sil. This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither 
 anon about soldiers? 
 
 Shal. The same Sir John, the very same. I 32 
 see him break Skogan's head at the court gate, 
 when a' was a crack not thus high: and the very 
 
 3 rood: cross 9 ousel: blackbird 
 
 14 inns o' court: colleges of law 21 roundly: thoroughly 
 
 24 swinge-bucklers : roisterer s 26 bona-robas: showy harlots 
 
 28,29 Cf.n. 33 Skogan; cf. n. 34 crack: lively youngster 
 
60 The Second Part of 
 
 same day did I fight with one Sampson Stock- 
 fish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's Inn. Jesu ! Jesu ! 36 
 the mad days that I have spent; and to see how 
 many of my old acquaintance are dead! 
 
 Sil. We shall all follow, cousin. 
 
 Shal. Certain, 'tis certain ; very sure, very 40 
 sure: death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to 
 all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks 
 at Stamford fair? 
 
 Sil. By my troth, I was not there. 44 
 
 Shal. Death is certain. Is old Double of your 
 town living yet? 
 
 Sil. Dead, sir. 
 
 Shal. Jesu! Jesu! dead! a' drew a good 48 
 bow; and dead! a' shot a fine shoot: John a 
 Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money 
 on his head. Dead ! a' would have clapped i' the 
 clout at twelve score ; and carried you a fore- 52 
 hand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, 
 that it would have done a man's heart good to 
 see. How a score of ewes now? 
 
 Sil. Thereafter as they be: a score of good 56 
 ewes may be worth ten pounds. 
 
 Shal. And is old Double dead? 
 
 Sil. Here come two of Sir John Falstaff's 
 men, as I think. 60 
 
 Enter Bardolph, and his Boy. 
 
 Shal. Good morrow, honest gentlemen. 
 Bard. I beseech you, which is Justice Shallow ? 
 Shal. I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor 
 esquire of this county, and one of the king's 64 
 
 42 How: what price 
 
 51 clapped i' the clout: hit the white mark in the target 
 
 52 at twelve score: at twelve score yards 
 
 52, 53 forehand shaft: arrow made for shooting straight forward 
 
 53 a fourteen, etc.: fourteen score yards 
 
King Henry the Fourth, III. it 61 
 
 justices of the peace: what is your good pleasure 
 with me? 
 
 Bard. My captain, sir, commends him to you; 
 my captain, Sir John Falstaff: a tall gentleman, 68 
 by heaven, and a most gallant leader. 
 
 Shal. He greets me well, sir. I knew him a 
 good backsword man. How doth the good 
 knight ? may I ask how my lady his wife doth ? 72 
 
 Bard. Sir, pardon; a soldier is better accom- 
 modated than with a wife. 
 
 Shal. It is well said, in faith, sir; and it is 
 well said indeed too. 'Better accommodated !' 76 
 it is good; yea indeed, is it: good phrases are 
 surely and ever were, very commendable. Ac- 
 commodated! it comes of accommodo: very 
 good; a good phrase. 80 
 
 Bard. Pardon me, sir; I have heard the 
 word. 'Phrase/ call you it? By this good day, 
 I know not the phrase; but I will maintain the 
 word with my sword to be a soldier-like word, 84 
 and a word of exceeding good command, by 
 heaven. Accommodated; that is, when a man 
 is, as they say, accommodated; or, when a man 
 is, being, whereby, a' may be thought to be 88 
 accommodated, which is an excellent thing. 
 
 Enter Falstaff. 
 
 Shal. It is very just. Look, here comes good 
 Sir John. Give me your good hand, give me 
 your worship's good hand. By my troth, you 92 
 look well and bear your years very well: wel- 
 come, good Sir John. 
 
 68 tall: doughty 71 backsword man: fighter at single-sticks 
 
 73 accommodated; cf. n. 
 
62 The Second Part of 
 
 Fal. I am glad to see you well, good Master 
 Robert Shallow. Master Surecard, as I think. 96 
 
 Shal. No, Sir John; it is my cousin, Silence, 
 in commission with me. 
 
 Fal. Good Master Silence, it well befits you 
 should be of the peace. 100 
 
 Sil. Your good worship is welcome. 
 
 Fal. Fie! this is hot weather, gentlemen. 
 Have you provided me here half a dozen 
 sufficient men? 104 
 
 Shal. Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit? 
 
 Fal. Let me see them, I beseech you. 
 
 Shal. Where's the roll? where's the roll? 
 where's the roll ? Let me see, let me see, 108 
 So, so, so, so, so, so, so: yea, marry, sir: Ralph 
 Mouldy ! let them appear as I call ; let them do so, 
 let them do so. Let me see; where is Mouldy? 
 
 Moul. Here, an 't please you. 112 
 
 Shal. What think you, Sir John? a good- 
 limbed fellow; young, strong, and of good 
 friends. 
 
 Fal. Is thy name Mouldy? 116 
 
 Moul. Yea, an 't please you. 
 
 Fal. 'Tis the more time thou wert used. 
 
 Shal. Ha, ha, ha! most excellent, i' faith! 
 things that are mouldy lack use : very singular 120 
 good. In faith, well said, Sir John; very well 
 said. 
 
 Fal. Prick him. 
 
 Moul. I was pricked well enough before, an 124 
 you could have let me alone: my old dame will 
 be undone now for one to do her husbandry and 
 
 96 Surecard: the name signifies 'boon companion' 
 
 98 commission: office 104 sufficient: /i£ 
 
 123 Prick: mark down 
 
King Henry the Fourth, III. ii 
 
 63 
 
 her drudgery: you need not to have pricked me; 
 there are other men fitter to go out than I. 128 
 
 Fal. Go to: peace, Mouldy! you shall go. 
 Mouldy, it is time you were spent. 
 Moul. Spent! 
 
 Shal. Peace, fellow, peace ! stand aside : know 132 
 you where you are? For the other, Sir John: 
 let me see. Simon Shadow! 
 
 Fal. Yea, marry, let me have him to sit 
 under: he's like to be a cold soldier. 136 
 
 Shal. Where's Shadow? 
 Shad. Here, sir. 
 
 Fal. Shadow, whose son art thou? 
 Shad. My mother's son, sir. 140 
 
 Fal. Thy mother's son! like enough, and thy 
 father's shadow: so the son of the female is the 
 shadow of the male: it is often so, indeed; but 
 not of the father's substance. 144 
 
 Shal Do you like him, Sir John? 
 Fal. Shadow will serve for summer; prick 
 him, for we have a number of shadows to fill up 
 the muster-book. 14 8 
 
 Shal. Thomas Wart? 
 Fal. Where's he? 
 Wart. Here, sir. 
 
 Fal. Is thy name Wart? 152 
 
 Wart. Yea, sir. 
 
 Fal. Thou art a very ragged wart. 
 Shal. Shall I prick him, Sir John? 
 Fal. It were superfluous ; for his apparel is 156 
 built upon his back, and the whole frame stands 
 upon pins: prick him no more. 
 
 147 shadows: names, for which we receive pay, though we have not 
 the men 
 
64 The Second Part of 
 
 Shal. Ha, ha, ha! you can do it, sir; you can 
 do it : I commend you well. Francis Feeble ! 160 
 
 Fee. Here, sir. 
 
 Fal. What trade art thou, Feeble? 
 
 Fee. A woman's tailor, sir. 
 
 Shal. Shall I prick him, sir ? 164 
 
 Fal. You may; but if he had been a man's 
 tailor he'd have pricked you. Wilt thou make 
 as many holes in an enemy's battle as thou hast 
 done in a woman's petticoat? 168 
 
 Fee. I will do my good will, sir: you can 
 have no more. 
 
 Fal. Well said, good woman's tailor! well 
 said, courageous Feeble ! Thou wilt be as valiant 172 
 as the wrathful dove or most magnanimous 
 mouse. Prick the woman's tailor; well, Master 
 Shallow; deep, Master Shallow. 
 
 Fee. I would Wart might have gone, sir. 176 
 
 Fal. I would thou wert a man's tailor, that 
 thou mightst mend him, and make him fit to 
 go. I cannot put him to a private soldier that is 
 the leader of so many thousands : let that 180 
 suffice, most forcible Feeble. 
 
 Fee. It shall suffice, sir. 
 
 Fal. I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. 
 Who is next? 184 
 
 Shal. Peter Bullcalf o' the green! 
 
 Fal. Yea, marry, let's see Bullcalf. 
 
 Bull. Here, sir. 
 
 Fal. 'Fore God, a likely fellow ! Come, prick 188 
 me Bullcalf till he roar again. 
 
 Bull. O Lord! good my lord captain, — 
 
 Fal. What! dost thou roar before thou art 
 pricked ? 192 
 
 167 battle: army 180 thousands: i.<?., vermin 
 
King Henry the Fourth, III. it 65 
 
 Bull. O Lord, sir! I am a diseased man. 
 
 Fal. What disease hast thou? 
 
 Bull. A whoreson cold, sir; a cough, sir, 
 which I caught with ringing in the king's affairs 196 
 upon his coronation day, sir. 
 
 Fal. Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a 
 gown; we will have away thy cold; and I will 
 take such order that thy friends shall ring for 200 
 thee. Is here all? 
 
 Shal. Here is two more called than your 
 number; you must have but four here, sir: and 
 so, I pray you, go in with me to dinner. 204 
 
 Fal. Come, I will go drink with you, but I 
 cannot tarry dinner. I am glad to see you, by 
 my troth, Master Shallow. 
 
 Shal. O, Sir John, do you remember since we 208 
 lay all night in the windmill in Saint George's 
 field? 
 
 Fal. No more of that, good Master Shallow, 
 no more of that. 212 
 
 Shal. Ha! 'twas a merry night. And is Jane 
 Nightwork alive? 
 
 Fal. She lives, Master Shallow. 
 
 Shal. She never could away with me. 216 
 
 Fal. Never, never; she would always say she 
 could not abide Master Shallow. 
 
 Shal. By the mass, I could anger her to the 
 heart. She was then a bona-roba. Doth she 220 
 hold her own well? 
 
 Fal. Old, old, Master ShaUow. 
 
 Shal. Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose 
 but be old ; certain she's old ; and had Robin 224 
 
 200 such order : such measures 216 away with : endure 
 
66 The Second Part of 
 
 Nightwork by old Nightwork before I came to 
 Clement's Inn. 
 
 Sil. That's fifty-five years ago. 
 
 Shal. Ha ! cousin Silence, that thou hadst 228 
 seen that that this knight and I have seen. Ha ! 
 Sir John, said I well? 
 
 Fal. We have heard the chimes at midnight, 
 Master Shallow. 232 
 
 Shal. That we have, that we have, that we 
 have; in faith, Sir John, we have. Our watch- 
 word was, 'Hem boys!' Come, let's to dinner; 
 come, let's to dinner. Jesus, the days that we 236 
 have seen ! Come, come. 
 
 Exeunt [Falstaff, Shallow, and Silence], 
 
 Bull. Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand 
 my friend, and here's four Harry ten shillings in 
 French crowns for you. In very truth, sir, I had 240 
 as lief be hanged, sir, as go: and yet, for mine 
 own part, sir, I do not care; but rather, because 
 I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a 
 desire to stay with my friends : else, sir, I did 244 
 not care, for mine own part, so much. 
 
 Bard. Go to; stand aside. 
 
 Moul. And, good Master corporal captain, for 
 my old dame's sake, stand my friend: she has 248 
 nobody to do anything about her, when I am 
 gone; and she is old, and cannot help herself. 
 You shall have forty, sir. 
 
 Bard. Go to; stand aside. 252 
 
 Fee. By my troth, I care not; a man can die 
 but once; we owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear 
 a base mind : an 't be my destiny, so ; an 't be 
 not, so. No man's too good to serve's prince ; 256 
 
 238 Corporate: blunder for 'Corpora? 
 
 239 Harry ten shillings; cf. n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, III. ii 67 
 
 and let it go which way it will, he that dies this 
 year is quit for the next. 
 
 Bard. Well said; thou'rt a good fellow. 
 
 Fee. Faith, I'll bear no base mind. 260 
 
 Enter Falstaff and the Justices. 
 
 Fal. Come, sir, which men shall I have? 
 
 Shal. Four, of which you please. 
 
 Bard. [To Falstaff.] Sir, a word with you. 
 I have three pound to free Mouldy and Bullcalf . 264 
 
 Fal. [Aside to Bardolph.] Go to; well. 
 
 Shal. Come, Sir John, which four will you 
 have ? 
 
 Fal. Do you choose for me. 268 
 
 Shal. Marry, then, Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, 
 and Shadow. 
 
 Fal. Mouldy, and Bullcalf: for you, Mouldy, 
 stay at home till you are past service : and for 272 
 your part, Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it: 
 I will none of you. 
 
 Shal. Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself 
 wrong: they are your likeliest men, and I would 276 
 have you served with the best. 
 
 Fal. Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how 
 to choose a man ? Care I for the limb, the thewes, 
 the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man ! 280 
 Give me the spirit, Master Shallow. Here's 
 Wart; you see what a ragged appearance it is: 
 a' shall charge you and discharge you with the 
 motion of a pewterer's hammer, come off and on 284 
 swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's 
 bucket. And this same half- faced fellow, Shadow, 
 give me this man: he presents no mark to the 
 
 264 three pound; cf. n. 280 assemblance: appearance 
 
 285 gibbets; cf. n. 
 
68 The Second Part of 
 
 enemy ; the f oeman may with as great aim level 288 
 at the edge of a penknife. And, for a retreat; 
 how swiftly will this Feeble the woman's tailor 
 run off ! O ! give me the spare men, and spare 
 me the great ones. Put me a caliver into Wart's 292 
 hand, Bardolph. 
 
 Bard. Hold, Wart, traverse; thus, thus, thus. 
 
 Fal. Come, manage me your caliver. So: 
 very well: go to: very good: exceeding good. 296 
 O, give me always a little, lean, old, chopp'd, 
 bald shot. Well said, i' faith, Wart; thou'rt a 
 good scab: hold, there's a tester for thee. 
 
 Shal. He is not his craft's master, he doth 300 
 not do it right. I remember at Mile-end Green, 
 when I lay at Clement's Inn, — I was then Sir 
 Dagonet in Arthur's show, — there was a little 
 quiver fellow, and a' would manage you his 304 
 piece thus: and a' would about and about, and 
 come you in, and come you in; 'rah, tah, tah,' 
 would a' say; 'bounce,' would a' say; and away 
 again would a' go, and again would a' come : I 308 
 shall never see such a fellow. 
 
 Fal. These fellows will do well, Master Shal- 
 low. God keep you, Master Silence: I will not 
 use many words with you. Fare you well, gentle- 312 
 men both: I thank you: I must a dozen mile 
 to-night. Bardolph, give the soldiers coats. 
 
 Shal. Sir John, the Lord bless you ! God pros- 
 per your affairs ! God send us peace ! At your 316 
 return visit our house; let our old acquaintance 
 be renewed: peradventure I will with ye to the 
 court. 
 
 292 caliver: light musket 294 traverse: march 
 
 297 chopp'd : chapped 299 tester : sixpence 
 
 301-303 Cf. n. 304 quiver: nimble 
 
 306 come you in: make a home thrust 307 bounce: bang 
 
King Henry the Fourth, III. ii 69 
 
 Fal. 'Fore God I would you would, Master 320 
 Shallow. 
 
 Shal. Go to; I have spoke at a word. God 
 keep you. 
 
 Fal. Fare you well, gentle gentlemen. 324 
 
 Exit [Shallow, with Silence]. 
 On, Bardolph ; lead the men away. 
 
 [Exit Bardolph, with recruits.] 
 As I return, I will fetch off these justices: 
 I do see the bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, 
 Lord! how subject we old men are to this 328 
 vice of lying. This same starved justice hath 
 done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of 
 his youth and the feats he hath done about 
 Turnbull Street ; and every third word a lie, duer 332 
 paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do 
 remember him at Clement's Inn like a man made 
 after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was 
 naked he was for all the world like a forked 336* 
 radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it 
 with a knife: a' was so forlorn that his dimen- 
 sions to any thick sight were invisible: a' was 
 the very genius of famine ; yet lecherous as a 340 
 monkey, and the whores called him mandrake: 
 a' came ever in the rearward of the fashion and 
 sung those tunes to the over-scutched huswives 
 that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware 344 
 they were his fancies or his good-nights. And 
 now is this Vice's dagger become a squire, and 
 talks as familiarly of John a Gaunt as if he had 
 
 322 at a word: briefly but sincerely 
 
 326 fetch off: get the better of, 'take in' 332 duer: more duly 
 
 343 over-scutched huswives: cant term for 'harlots' 
 
 344 carmen: teamsters 
 
 345 fancies . . . good-nights: common names for little poems 
 
 346 Vice's dagger; cf. n. 
 
70 The Second Part of 
 
 been sworn brother to him; and I'll be sworn a' 348 
 never saw him but once in the Tilt-yard, and 
 then he burst his head for crowding among the 
 marshal's men. I saw it and told John a Gaunt 
 he beat his own name ; for you might have thrust 352 
 him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the 
 case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, 
 a court; and now has he land and beefs. Well, 
 I'll be acquainted with him, if I return; and 356 
 it shall go hard but I'll make him a philoso- 
 pher's two stones to me. If the young dace be a 
 bait for the old pike, I see no reason in the law 
 of nature but I may snap at him. Let time 360 
 shape, and there an end. Exit. 
 
 ^maL* ACT FOURTH 
 
 CUM* -***•• 2- . &JJ^v \xAiikfl, 
 
 
 
 Scene One 
 
 Enter the Archbishop, Mowbray, [Lord] Bardolph, 
 Hastings, within the Forest of Gaultree. 
 
 Arch. What is this forest call'd? 
 
 Hast. 'Tis Gaultree Forest, an 't shall please your 
 Grace. 
 
 Arch. Here stand, my lords, and send discoverers 
 forth, 
 To know the numbers of our enemies. 4 
 
 Hast. We have sent forth already. 
 
 Arch. 'Tis well done. 
 
 My friends and brethren in these great affairs, 
 I must acquaint you that I have receiv'd 
 New-dated letters from Northumberland; 8 
 
 354 hautboy: slender reed instrument, oboe 
 357 philosopher's two stones; cf. n. 
 
King Henry the fourth, IV. i 71 
 
 Their cold intent, tenour and substance, thus: 
 Here doth he wish his person, with such powers 
 As might hold sortance with his quality; 
 The which he could not levy; whereupon 12 
 
 He is retir'd, to ripe his growing fortunes, 
 To Scotland; and concludes in hearty prayers 
 That your attempts may overlive the hazard 
 And fearful meeting of their opposite. 16 
 
 Mowb. Thus do the hopes we have in him touch 
 ground 
 And dash themselves to pieces. 
 
 Enter a Messenger. 
 
 Hast. Now, what news? 
 
 Mess. West of this forest, scarcely off a mile, 
 In goodly form comes on the enemy; 20 
 
 And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number 
 Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand. 
 
 Mowb. The just proportion that we gave them out. 
 Let us sway on and face them in the field. 24 
 
 Enter Westmoreland. 
 
 Arch. What well-appointed leader fronts us here? 
 
 Mowb. I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland. 
 
 West. Health and fair greeting from our general, 
 The Prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster. 28 
 
 Arch. Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace, 
 What doth concern your coming. 
 
 West. Then, my lord, 
 
 Unto your Grace do I in chief address 
 The substance of my speech. If that rebellion 32 
 Came like itself, in base and abject routs, 
 
 11 hold sortance: be in accord quality: rank 
 
 20 form : formation 
 
 23 just proportion: exact size gave them out: described them 
 
 33 routs: gangs 
 
72 The Second Part of 
 
 Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags, 
 And countenanc'd by boys and beggary; 
 I say, if damn'd commotion so appear'd, 36 
 
 In his true, native, and most proper shape, 
 You, reverend father, and these noble lords 
 Had not been here, to dress the ugly form 
 Of base and bloody insurrection 40 
 
 With your fair honours. You, lord archbishop, 
 Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd, 
 Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd, 
 Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd, 44 
 Whose white investments figure innocence, 
 The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, 
 Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself 
 Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace 48 
 Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war; 
 Turning your books to greaves, your ink to blood, 
 Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine 
 To a loud trumpet and a point of war? 52 
 
 Arch. Wherefore do I this ? so the question stands. 
 Briefly to this end: we are all diseas'd; 
 And, with our surfeiting and wanton hours 
 Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, 56 
 
 And we must bleed for it: of which disease 
 Our late king, Richard, being infected, died. 
 But, my most noble Lord of Westmoreland, 
 I take not on me here as a physician, 60 
 
 Nor do I as an enemy to peace 
 Troop in the throngs of military men ; 
 But rather show a while like fearful war, 
 To diet rank minds sick of happiness 64 
 
 And purge the obstructions which begin to stop 
 Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly: 
 
 34 guarded: decked 52 point: trumpet signal 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. i 73 
 
 I have in equal balance justly weigh'd 
 What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we 
 suffer, 68 
 
 And find our griefs heavier than our offences. 
 We see which way the stream of time doth run 
 And are enforc'd from our most quiet sphere 
 By the rough torrent of occasion; 72 
 
 And have the summary of all our griefs, 
 When time shall serve, to show in articles, 
 Which long ere this we offer'd to the king, 
 And might by no suit gain our audience. 76 
 
 When we are wrong' d and would unfold our griefs, 
 We are denied access unto his person 
 Even by those men that most have done us wrong. 
 The dangers of the days but newly gone, — 80 
 
 Whose memory is written on the earth 
 With yet appearing blood, — and the examples 
 Of every minute's instance, present now, 
 Have put us in these ill-beseeming arms ; 84 
 
 Not to break peace, or any branch of it, 
 But to establish here a peace indeed, 
 Concurring both in name and quality. 
 
 West. When ever yet was your appeal denied? 88 
 Wherein have you been galled by the king? 
 What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you, 
 That you should seal this lawless bloody book 
 Of forg'd rebellion with a seal divine, 92 
 
 And consecrate commotion's bitter edge? 
 
 Arch. My brother general, the commonwealth, 
 To brother born an household cruelty, 
 I make my quarrel in particular. 96 
 
 West. There is no need of any such redress; 
 Or if there were, it not belongs to you. 
 
 69 griefs: grievances 93 commotion's: in surrection's 
 
 94-96 Cf. n. 
 
74 The Second Part of 
 
 Mowb. Why not to him in part, and to us all 
 That feel the bruises of the days before, 100 
 
 And suffer the condition of these times 
 To lay a heavy and unequal hand 
 Upon our honours? 
 
 West. O ! my good Lord Mowbray, 
 
 Construe the times to their necessities, 104 
 
 And you shall say indeed, it is the time, 
 And not the king, that doth you injuries. 
 Yet, for your part, it not appears to me 
 Either from the king or in the present time 108 
 
 That you should have an inch of any ground 
 To build a grief on: were you not restor'd 
 To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories, 
 Your noble and right well-remember'd father's ? 112 
 
 Mowb. What thing, in honour, had my father lost, 
 That need to be reviv'd and breath'd in me? 
 The king that lov'd him as the state stood then, 
 Was force perforce compell'd to banish him: 116 
 
 And then that Harry Bolingbroke and he, 
 Being mounted and both roused in their seats, 
 Their neighing coursers daring of the spur, 
 Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down, 129 
 Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel, 
 And the loud trumpet blowing them together, 
 Then, then when there was nothing could have stay'd 
 My father from the breast of Bolingbroke, 124 
 
 O ! when the king did throw his warder down, 
 His own life hung upon the staff he threw; 
 Then threw he down himself and all their lives 
 That by indictment and by dint of sword 128 
 
 104 to: according to 114 breath'd: given breath of life 
 
 117 B. Cf.n. 
 
 120 armed staves: lances in charge: in rest for the charge 
 beavers: movable fronts of the helmets 
 
 121 sights: eyeholes of the helmet 125 warder: staff of command 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. i 75 
 
 Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke. 
 
 West. You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know 
 not what. 
 The Earl of Hereford was reputed then 
 In England the most valiant gentleman: 132 
 
 Who knows on whom Fortune would then have 
 
 smil'd ? 
 But if your father had been victor there, 
 He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry; 
 For all the country in a general voice 136 
 
 Cried hate upon him ; and all their prayers and love 
 Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on 
 And bless'd and grac'd indeed, more than the king. 
 But this is mere digression from my purpose. 140 
 Here come I from our princely general 
 To know your griefs ; to tell you from his Grace 
 That he will give you audience; and wherein 
 It shall appear that your demands are just, 144 
 
 You shall enjoy them; everything set off 
 That might so much as think you enemies. 
 
 Mowb. But he hath forc'd us to compel this offer, 
 And it proceeds from policy, not love. 148 
 
 West. Mowbray, you overween to take it so. 
 This offer comes from mercy, not from fear: 
 For, lo! within a ken our army lies 
 Upon mine honour, all too confident 152 
 
 To give admittance to a thought of fear. 
 Our battle is more full of names than yours, 
 Our men more perfect in the use of arms, 
 Our armour all as strong, our cause the best; 156 
 Then reason will our hearts should be as good: 
 
 129 miscarried: perished 
 
 131 Earl of Hereford: King Henry, actually Duke of Hereford at 
 
 the time of his banishment (cf. Richard II, I. in. 21) 
 145 set off: ignored 149 overween: are arrogant 
 
 151 within a ken: within seeing distance 
 154 names: noble and soldierly names 
 
76 The Second Part of 
 
 Say you not then our offer is compell'd. 
 
 Mowb. Well, by my will we shall admit no parley. 
 
 West. That argues but the shame of your 
 offence : 160 
 
 A rotten case abides no handling. 
 
 Hast. Hath the Prince John a full commission, 
 In very ample virtue of his father, 
 To hear and absolutely to determine 164 
 
 Of what conditions we shall stand upon? 
 
 West. That is intended in the general's name. 
 I muse you make so slight a question. 
 
 Arch. Then take, my Lord of Westmoreland, this 
 schedule, 168 
 
 For this contains our general grievances: 
 Each several article herein redress'd; 
 All members of our cause, both here and hence, 
 That are insinew'd to this action, 172 
 
 Acquitted by a true substantial form; 
 And present execution of our wills 
 To us and to our purposes consign'd ; 
 We come within our awf ill banks again 176 
 
 And knit our powers to the arm of peace. 
 
 West. This will I show the general. Please you, 
 lords, 
 In sight of both our battles we may meet; 
 And either end in peace, which God so frame ! 180 
 Or to the place of difference call the swords 
 Which must decide it. 
 
 Arch. My lord, we will do so. 
 
 Exit Westmoreland. 
 
 Mowb. There is a thing within my bosom tells me 
 That no conditions of our peace can stand. 184 
 
 163 In . . . virtue: by complete authority 166 intended : implied 
 
 167 muse: wonder slight: trivial 
 
 172 insinew'd: joined as by sinews 175 consign'd; cf. n. 
 
 176 awful: respectful, reverential 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. i 77 
 
 Hast. Fear you not that: if we can make our 
 peace 
 Upon such large terms, and so absolute 
 As our conditions shall consist upon, 
 Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. 188 
 
 Mowb. Yea, but our valuation shall be such 
 That every slight and false-derived cause, 
 Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason 
 Shall to the king taste of this action; 192 
 
 That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love, 
 We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind 
 That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff 
 And good from bad find no partition. 196 
 
 Arch. No, no, my lord. Note this; the king is 
 weary 
 Of dainty and such picking grievances : 
 For he hath found to end one doubt by death 
 Revives two greater in the heirs of life; 200 
 
 And therefore will he wipe his tables clean, 
 And keep no tell-tale to his memory 
 That may repeat and history his loss 
 To new remembrance; for full well he knows 204 
 He cannot so precisely weed this land 
 As his misdoubts present occasion: 
 His foes are so enrooted with his friends 
 That, plucking to unfix an enemy, 208 
 
 He doth unfasten so and shake a friend. 
 So that this land, like an offensive wife, 
 That hath enrag'd him on to offer strokes, 
 As he is striking, holds his infant up 212 
 
 And hangs resolv'd correction in the arm 
 That was uprear'd to execution. 
 
 189 our valuation: the king's estimation of us 191 nice: trivial 
 
 198 picking: fastidious 206 misdoubts: suspicions 
 
 213 hangs: suspends 
 
 resolv'd correction: chastisement which had been determined upon 
 
78 The Second Part of 
 
 Hast. Besides, the king hath wasted all his rods 
 On late offenders, that he now doth lack 216 
 
 The very instruments of chastisement; 
 So that his power, like to a fangless lion, 
 May offer, but not hold. 
 
 Arch. 'Tis very true: 
 
 And therefore be assur'd, my good lord marshal, 220 
 If we do now make our atonement well, 
 Our peace will, like a broken limb united, 
 Grow stronger for the breaking. 
 
 Mowb. Be it so. 
 
 Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland. 224 
 
 Enter Westmoreland. 
 
 West. The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your 
 
 lordship, 
 To meet his Grace just distance 'tween our armies? 
 Mowb. Your Grace of York, in God's name then, 
 
 set forward. 
 Arch. Before, and greet his Grace: my lord, we 
 
 come. 228 
 
 Scene Two 
 
 [The Same'} 
 
 Enter Prince John of Lancaster and his army. 
 
 Lane. You are well encounter'd here, my cousin 
 Mowbray : 
 Good day to you, gentle lord archbishop; 
 And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all. 
 My Lord of York, it better show'd with you. 4 
 
 When that your flock, assembled by the bell, 
 
 219 offer: attack 221 atonement: reconciliation 
 
 228 Before: go before me Scene Two; cf. n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. ii 79 
 
 Encircled you to hear with reverence 
 
 Your exposition on the holy text 
 
 Than now to see you here an iron man, 8 
 
 Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum, 
 
 Turning the word to sword and life to death. 
 
 That man that sits within a monarch's heart 
 
 And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, 12 
 
 Would he abuse the countenance of the king, 
 
 Alack! what mischiefs might he set abroach 
 
 In shadow of such greatness. With you, lord bishop, 
 
 It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken 16 
 
 How deep you were within the books of God ? 
 
 To us the speaker in his parliament; 
 
 To us the imagin'd voice of God himself; 
 
 The very opener and intelligencer 20 
 
 Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven, 
 
 And our dull workings. O! who shall believe 
 
 But you misuse the reverence of your place, 
 
 Employ the countenance and grace of heaven, 24 
 
 As a false favourite doth his prince's name, 
 
 In deeds dishonourable? You have taken up, 
 
 Under the counterfeited zeal of God, 
 
 The subjects of his substitute, my father; 28 
 
 And both against the peace of heaven and him 
 
 Have here upswarm'd them. 
 
 Arch. Good my Lord of Lancaster, 
 
 I am not here against your father's peace ; 
 But, as I told my Lord of Westmoreland, 32 
 
 The time misorder'd doth, in common sense, 
 Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form, 
 To hold our safety up. I sent your Grace 
 The parcels and particulars of our grief, — 36 
 
 20 intelligencer: interpreter 22 workings: actions 
 
 26 taken up : levied 
 
so The Second Part of 
 
 The which hath been with scorn shov'd from the 
 
 court, — 
 Whereon this Hydra son of war is born; 
 Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep 
 With grant of our most just and right desires, 40 
 And true obedience, of this madness cur'd, 
 Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty. 
 
 Mowb. If not, we ready are to try our fortunes 
 To the last man. 
 
 Hast. And though we here fall down, 44 
 
 We have supplies to second our attempt: 
 If they miscarry, theirs shall second them; 
 And so success of mischief shall be born, 
 And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up 48 
 Whiles England shall have generation. 
 
 Lane. You are too shallow, Hastings, much too 
 shallow, 
 To sound the bottom of the after-times. 
 
 West. Pleaseth your Grace, to answer them 
 directly 52 
 
 How far forth you do like their articles. 
 
 Lane. I like them all, and do allow them well; 
 And swear here, by the honour of my blood, 
 My father's purposes have been mistook, 56 
 
 And some about him have too lavishly 
 Wrested his meaning and authority. 
 My lord, these griefs shall be with speed redress'd; 
 Upon my soul, they shall. If this may please you, 60 
 Discharge your powers unto their several counties, 
 As we will ours: and here between the armies 
 Let's drink together friendly and embrace, 
 That all their eyes may bear those tokens home 64 
 Of our restored love and amity. 
 
 47 success: succession 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. ii si 
 
 Arch. I take your princely word for these re- 
 dresses. 
 Lane. I give it you, and will maintain my word: 
 And thereupon I drink unto your Grace. 68 
 
 Hast. [To an Officer.] Go, captain, and deliver to 
 the army 
 This news of peace: let them have pay, and part: 
 I know it will well please them: hie thee, captain. 
 
 Exit [Officer]. 
 Arch. To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland. 72 
 West. I pledge your Grace: and, if you knew what 
 pains 
 I have bestow'd to breed this present peace, 
 You would drink freely; but my love to you 
 Shall show itself more openly hereafter. 76 
 
 Arch. I do not doubt you. 
 West. I am glad of it. 
 
 Health to my lord and gentle cousin, Mowbray. 
 
 Mowb. You wish me health in very happy season; 
 For I am, on the sudden, something ill. 80 
 
 Arch. Against ill chances men are ever merry, 
 But heaviness foreruns the good event. 
 
 West. Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sor- 
 row 
 Serves to say thus, Some good thing comes to-mor- 
 row. 84 
 Arch. Believe me, I am passing light in spirit. 
 Mowb. So much the worse if your own rule be 
 true. Shout [within]. 
 Lane. The word of peace is render'd: hark, how 
 
 they shout! 
 Mowb. This had been cheerful, after victory. 88 
 
 70 part: depart 81 Against: when about to face 
 
 82 heaviness: depression 85 passing: exceedingly 
 
 87 render'd: reported 
 
82 The Second Part of 
 
 Arch. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; 
 For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, 
 And neither party loser. 
 
 Lane. Go, my lord, 
 
 And let our army be discharged too. 92 
 
 Exit [Westmoreland], 
 And, good my lord, so please you, let our trains 
 March by us, that we may peruse the men 
 We should have cop'd withal. 
 
 Arch. Go, good Lord Hastings, 96 
 
 And, ere they be dismiss'd, let them march by. 
 
 Exit [Hastings]. 
 
 Lane. I trust, lords, we shall lie to-night together. 
 
 Enter Westmoreland. 
 
 Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still? 
 
 West. The leaders, having charge from you to 
 stand, 100 
 
 Will not go off until they hear you speak. 
 
 Lane. They know their duties. 
 
 Enter Hastings. 
 
 Hast. My lord, our army is dispers'd already: 
 Like youthful steers unyok'd, they take their 
 courses 104 
 
 East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up, 
 Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place. 
 
 West. Good tidings, my Lord Hastings; for the 
 which 
 I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason: 108 
 
 And you, lord archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray, 
 Of capital treason I attach you both. 
 
 Mowb. Is this proceeding just and honourable? 
 
 West. Is your assembly so? 112 
 
 94 peruse : inspect 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. Hi 83 
 
 Arch. Will you thus break your faith? 
 
 Lane. I pawn'd thee none. 
 
 I promis'd you redress of these same grievances 
 Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour, 
 I will perform with a most Christian care. 116 
 
 But for you, rebels, look to taste the due 
 Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours. 
 Most shallowly did you these arms commence, 
 Fondly brought here and foolishly sent hence. 120 
 Strike up our drums ! pursue the scatter'd stray : 
 God, and not we, hath safely fought to-day. 
 Some guard these traitors to the block of death; 
 Treason's true bed, and yielder up of breath. 124 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Three 
 
 [Another Part of the Forest] 
 
 Alarums. Excursions. Enter F alstaff and Colevile. 
 
 Fal. What's your name, sir? of what con- 
 dition are you, and of what place, I pray? 
 
 Cole. I am a knight, sir; and my name is 
 Colevile of the dale. 4 
 
 Fal. Well then, Colevile is your name, a 
 knight is your degree, and your place the dale: 
 Colevile shall be still your name, a traitor your 
 degree, and the dungeon your place, a place 8 
 deep enough; so shall you be still Colevile of 
 the dale. 
 
 Cole. Are not you Sir John Falstaff? 
 
 Fal. As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. 12 
 Do ye yield, sir, or shall I sweat for you? If 
 
 113 pawn'd : pledged 119 shallowly : thoughtlessly 
 
 120 Fondly: foolishly 1 condition: rank 
 
84 The Second Part of 
 
 I do sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers, 
 and they weep for thy death: therefore rouse 
 up fear and trembling, and do observance to 16 
 my mercy. 
 
 Cole. I think you are Sir John Falstaff, and 
 in that thought yield me. 
 
 Fal. I have a whole school of tongues in this 20 
 belly of mine, and not a tongue of them all 
 speaks any other word but my name. An I had 
 but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the 
 most active fellow in Europe: my womb, my 24 
 womb, my womb undoes me. Here comes our 
 general. 
 
 Enter Prince John, Westmoreland and the rest. 
 
 Lane. The heat is past, follow no further now. 
 Call in the powers, good cousin Westmoreland. 28 
 
 [Exit Westmoreland.] 
 Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while? 
 When everything is ended, then you come: 
 These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, 
 One time or other break some gallows' back. 32 
 
 Fal. I would be sorry, my lord, but it should 
 be thus: I never knew yet but rebuke and check 
 was the reward of valour. Do you think me a 
 swallow, an arrow, or a bullet ? have I, in my 36 
 poor and old motion, the expedition of thought? 
 I have speeded hither with the very extremest 
 inch of possibility; I have foundered nine score 
 and odd posts ; and here, travel-tainted as I am, 40 
 have, in my pure and immaculate valour, taken 
 Sir John Colevile of the dale, a most furious 
 
 16 observance : homage 23 indifferency : moderate size 
 
 27 heat: race, pursuit 34 check: reproof 
 
 37 expedition: speed 40 posts : post-horses 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. Hi 85 
 
 knight and valorous enemy. But what of that? 
 he saw me, and yielded; that I may justly say 44 
 with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, 'I came, 
 saw, and overcame.' 
 
 Lane. It was more of his courtesy than your 
 deserving. 48 
 
 Fal. I know not: here he is, and here I yield 
 him; and I beseech your Grace, let it be booked 
 with the rest of this day's deeds ; or, by the Lord, 
 I will have it in a particular ballad else, with 52 
 mine own picture on the top on 't, Colevile 
 kissing my foot. To the which course if I be 
 enforced, if you do not all show like gilt two- 
 pences to me, and I in the clear sky of fame 56 
 o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth 
 the cinders of the element, which show like pins' 
 heads to her, believe not the word of the noble. 
 Therefore let me have right, and let desert 60 
 mount. 
 
 Lane. Thine's too heavy to mount. 
 
 Fal. Let it shine then. 
 
 Lane. Thine's too thick to shine. 64 
 
 Fal. Let it do something, my good lord, that 
 may do me good, and call it what you will. 
 
 Lane. Is thy name Colevile? 
 
 Cole. It is, my lord. 68 
 
 Lane. A famous rebel art thou, Colevile. 
 
 Fal. And a famous true subject took him. 
 Cole. I am, my lord, but as my betters are 
 That led me hither: had they been rul'd by me 72 
 You should have won them dearer than you have. 
 
 Fal. I know not how they sold themselves: 
 
 58 cinders: glowing coals, stars element: sky 
 
86 The Second Part of 
 
 but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away 
 gratis, and I thank thee for thee. 76 
 
 Enter Westmoreland. 
 
 Lane. Now, have you left pursuit? 
 West. Retreat is made and execution stay'd. 
 Lane. Send Colevile with his confederates 
 To York, to present execution. 80 
 
 Blunt, lead him hence, and see you guard him sure. 
 
 Exit [Blunt] with Colevile. 
 And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords: 
 I hear, the king my father is sore sick: 
 Our news shall go before us to his majesty, 84 
 
 Which, cousin [addressing Westmoreland], you shall 
 
 bear, to comfort him; 
 And we with sober speed will follow you. 
 
 Fat. My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go, 
 Through Gloucestershire, and when you come to 
 court 88 
 
 Stand my good lord, pray, in your good report. 
 
 Lane. Fare you well, Falstaff: I, in my condition, 
 Shall better speak of you than you deserve. 
 
 [Exeunt all but Falstaff.] 
 Fal. I would you had but the wit : 'twere 92 
 better than your dukedom. Good faith, this 
 same young sober-blooded boy doth not love 
 me; nor a man cannot make him laugh; but 
 that's no marvel, he drinks no wine. There's 96 
 never none of these demure boys come to any 
 proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their 
 blood, and making many fish-meals, that they 
 fall into a kind of male green-sickness ; and then, 100 
 
 80 present: immediate 82 dispatch we: let us hasten 
 
 89 Stand my good lord: be my kind patron 
 
 90 condition : official capacity 
 
 97, 98 come to any proof: turn out well 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. Hi 87 
 
 when they marry, they get wenches. They 
 are generally fools and cowards, which some of 
 us should be too but for inflammation. A good 
 sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it. 104 
 It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all 
 the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which 
 environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forget- 
 ive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes ; 108 
 which, deliver'd o'er to the voice, the tongue, 
 which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The 
 second property of your excellent sherris is, the 
 warming of the blood ; which, before cold and 112 
 settled, left the liver white and pale, which is 
 the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice: but 
 the sherris warms it and makes it course from 
 the inwards to the parts extreme. It illumineth 116 
 the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning to 
 all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm; 
 and then the vital commoners and inland petty 
 spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart, 120 
 who, great and puffed up with this retinue, doth 
 any deed of courage; and this valour comes of 
 sherris. So that skill in the weapon is nothing 
 without sack, for that sets it a-work ; and learn- 124 
 ing, a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil till 
 sack commences it and sets it in act and use. 
 Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; 
 for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of 128 
 his father, he hath, like lean, sterile, and bare 
 land, manured, husbanded, and tilled, with ex- 
 cellent endeavour of drinking good and good 
 store of fertile sherris, that he is become very 132 
 hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the 
 
 101 get wenches: beget girls 104 sherris-sack : sherry 
 
 106 crudy: crude, raw 107 forgetive: inventive 125 Cf.n. 
 
88 The Second Part of 
 
 first human principle I would teach them should 
 be, to forswear thin potations and to addict 
 themselves to sack. 136 
 
 Enter Bardolph. 
 
 How now, Bardolph? 
 
 Bard. The army is discharged all and gone. 
 Fal. Let them go. I'll through Gloucester- 
 shire ; and there will I visit Master Robert 140 
 -'Xua'ulq & Shallow, esquire: I have him already tempering 
 between my finger and my thumb, and shortly 
 will I seal with him. Come away. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Four 
 [Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber] 
 
 Enter the King, Warwick, Thomas Duke of Clarence, 
 Humphrey of Gloucester [and others']. 
 
 King. Now, lords, if God doth give successful end 
 To this debate that bleedeth at our doors, 
 We will our youth lead on to higher fields 
 And draw no swords, but what are sanctified. 4 
 
 Our navy is address'd, our power collected, 
 Our substitutes in absence well invested, 
 And everything lies level to our wish: 
 Only, we want a little personal strength; 8 
 
 And pause us, till these rebels, now afoot, 
 Come underneath the yoke of government. 
 
 War. Both which we doubt not but your majesty 
 Shall soon enjoy. 
 
 King. Humphrey, my son of Gloucester, 12 
 
 141-143 tempering . . . seal: the allusion is to sealing-wax 
 
 Scene Four S. d. Jerusalem Chamber; cf. n. 
 
 5 address'd : prepared 6 invested: invested with authority 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. iv 
 
 89 
 
 Where is the prince your brother? 
 
 Glo. I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor. 
 
 King. And how accompanied? 
 
 Ql , I do not know, my lord. 
 
 King. Is not his brother Thomas of Clarence with 
 him? 16 
 
 Glo. No, my good lord; he is in presence here. 
 
 Cla. What would my lord and father ? 
 
 King. Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of 
 Clarence. 
 How chance thou art not with the prince thy 
 brother? 20 
 
 He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas ; 
 Thou hast a better place in his affection 
 Than all thy brothers : cherish it, my boy, 
 And noble offices thou mayst effect 24 
 
 Of mediation, after I am dead, 
 Between his greatness and thy other brethren: 
 Therefore omit him not ; blunt not his love, 
 Nor lose the good advantage of his grace 28 
 
 By seeming cold or careless of his will ; 
 For he is gracious, if he be observ'd: 
 He hath a tear for pity and a hand 
 Open as day for melting charity; 32 
 
 Yet, notwithstanding, being incens'd, he's flint; 
 As humorous as winter, and as sudden 
 As flaws congealed in the spring of day. 
 His temper therefore must be well observ'd: 36 
 
 Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, 
 When you perceive his blood inclin'd to mirth ; 
 But, being moody, give him line and scope, 
 Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, 40 
 
 27 omit: neglect 30 observ'd: humored 
 
 33-35 Cf.n. 
 
90 The Second Part of 
 
 Confound themselves with working. Learn this, 
 
 Thomas, 
 And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends, 
 A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in, 
 That the united vessel of their blood, 44 
 
 Mingled with venom of suggestion — 
 As, force perforce, the age will pour it in — 
 Shall never leak, though it do work as strong 
 As aconitum or rash gunpowder. 48 
 
 Cla. I shall observe him with all care and love. 
 
 King. Why art thou not at Windsor with him, 
 Thomas ? 
 
 Cla. He is not there to-day; he dines in London. 
 
 King. And how accompanied? canst thou tell 
 that? 52 
 
 Cla. With Poins and other his continual followers. 
 
 King. Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds; 
 And he, the noble image of my youth, 
 Is overspread with them: therefore my grief 56 
 
 Stretches itself beyond the hour of death: 
 The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape 
 In forms imaginary the unguided days 
 And rotten times that you shall look upon 60 
 
 When I am sleeping with my ancestors. 
 For when his headstrong riot hath no curb, 
 When rage and hot blood are his counsellors, 
 When means and lavish manners meet together, 64 
 O ! with what wings shall his affections fly 
 Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay. 
 
 War. My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite : 
 The prince but studies his companions 68 
 
 Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language, 
 'Tis needful that the most immodest word 
 
 41 Confound: exhaust 44-48 Cf. n. 
 
 65 affections: inclinations 67 look beyond: misjudge 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. iv 91 
 
 Be look'd upon, and learn'd; which once attain'd, 
 Your highness knows, comes to no further use 72 
 But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms, 
 The prince will in the perfectness of time 
 Cast off his followers; and their memory- 
 Shall as a pattern or a measure live, 76 
 By which his Grace must mete the lives of others, 
 Turning past evils to advantages. 
 
 King. 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her 
 comb 
 In the dead carrion. 
 
 Enter Westmoreland. 
 
 Who's here? Westmoreland! 80 
 West. Health to my sovereign, and new happiness 
 Added to that that I am to deliver ! 
 Prince John your son doth kiss your Grace's hand: 
 Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings and all 84 
 Are brought to the correction of your law. 
 There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd, 
 But Peace puts forth her olive everywhere. 
 The manner how this action hath been borne 88 
 
 Here at more leisure may your highness read, 
 With every course in his particular. 
 
 King. O Westmoreland! thou art a summer bird, 
 Which ever in the haunch of winter sings 92 
 
 The lifting up of day. 
 
 Enter Harcourt. 
 
 Look! here's more news. 
 Har. From enemies heaven keep your majesty; 
 And, when they stand against you, may they fall 
 As those that I am come to tell you of! 96 
 
 77 mete: measure 79, 80 Cf. n. 
 
 90 particular: detail 92 haunch: end 
 
92 The Second Part of 
 
 The Earl Northumberland, and the Lord Bardolph, 
 
 With a great power of English and of Scots, 
 
 Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown. 
 
 The manner and true order of the fight 100 
 
 This packet, please it you, contains at large. 
 
 King. And wherefore should these good news make 
 me sick? 
 Will Fortune never come with both hands full 
 But write her fair words still in foulest letters? 104 
 She either gives a stomach and no food ; 
 Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast 
 And takes away the stomach; such are the rich, 
 That have abundance and enjoy it not. 108 
 
 I should rejoice now at this happy news, 
 And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy. 
 O me! come near me, now I am much ill. 
 
 Glo. Comfort, your majesty! 
 
 Cla. O my royal father! 112 
 
 West. My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself: look 
 up! 
 
 War. Be patient, princes: you do know these fits 
 Are with his highness very ordinary: 
 Stand from him, give him air; hell straight be 
 well. 116 
 
 Cla. No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs: 
 The incessant care and labour of his mind 
 Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in 
 So thin, that life looks through and will break out. 120 
 
 Glo. The people fear me; for they do observe 
 Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature: 
 The seasons change their manners, as the year 
 
 105 stomach: appetite 119 wrought the mure: worn the wall 
 
 121 fear: frighten 
 
 122 (Such portents as) creatures born without parents and other 
 monstrosities 123 as: as if 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV, v 93 
 
 Had found some months asleep and leap'd them 
 over. 124 
 
 Cla. The river hath thrice flow'd, no ebb between; 
 And the old folk, time's doting chronicles, 
 Say it did so a little time before 
 
 That our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died. 128 
 
 War. Speak lower, princes, for the king recovers. 
 
 Glo. This apoplexy will certain be his end. 
 
 King. I pray you take me up, and bear me hence 
 
 Into some other chamber: softly, pray. 132 
 
 [Attendants and Lords take the King up, convey 
 
 him into an inner room, and lay him upon 
 
 it.d^u*^. 7^ a e •-• xew«~^ 
 
 Scene Five 
 &*»A , [Another Chamber 
 
 King Henry lying on a bed: Clarence, Gloucester, 
 Warwick, and Others in attendance.] 
 
 King. Let there be no noise made, my gentle 
 friends ; 
 Unless some dull and favourable hand 
 Will whisper music to my weary spirit. 
 
 War. Call for the music in the other room. 4 
 
 King. Set me the crown upon my pillow here. 
 
 Cla. His eye is hollow, and he changes much. 
 
 War. Less noise, less noise! 
 
 Enter Prince Henry. 
 
 Prince. Who saw the Duke of Clarence? 
 
 Cla. I am here, brother, full of heaviness. 8 
 
 Prince. How now! rain within doors, and none 
 abroad ! 
 
 2 dull: soothing, drowsy 
 
94 The Second Part of 
 
 How doth the king? 
 
 Glo. Exceeding ill. 
 
 Prince. Heard he the good news yet? 
 
 Tell it him. 
 
 Glo. He alter'd much upon the hearing it. 12 
 
 Prince. If he be sick with joy, he'll recover 
 
 without physic. 
 
 War. Not so much noise, my lords. Sweet prince, 
 speak low; 
 The king your father is dispos'd to sleep. 16 
 
 Cla. Let us withdraw into the other room. 
 
 War. Will 't please your Grace to go along with 
 us? 
 
 Prince. No; I will sit and watch here by the king. 
 [Exeunt all but the Prince.] 
 Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow, 20 
 Being so troublesome a bedfellow? 
 O polish'd perturbation! golden care! 
 That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide 
 To many a watchful night! Sleep with it now! 24 
 Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet 
 As he whose brow with homely biggin bound 
 Snores out the watch of night. O maj esty ! 
 When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit 28 
 Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, 
 That scalds with safety. By his gates of breath 
 There lies a downy feather which stirs not: 
 Did he suspire, that light and weightless down 32 
 Perforce must move. My gracious lord! my father! 
 This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep 
 That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd 
 So many English kings. Thy due from me 36 
 
 23 ports: gates 26 biggin: nightcap 
 
 30 with safety : while it gives safety 32 suspire: breathe 
 
 35 rigol: circle, crown 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. v 95 
 
 Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood, 
 
 Which nature, love, and filial tenderness 
 
 Shall, O dear father! pay thee plenteously: 
 
 My due from thee is this imperial crown, 40 
 
 Which, as immediate from thy place and blood, 
 
 Derives itself to me. Lo! here it sits, 
 
 [Putting it on his head.'] 
 Which God shall guard; and put the world's whole 
 
 strength 
 Into one giant arm, it shall not force 44 
 
 This lineal honour from me. This from thee 
 Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me. Exit. 
 
 King. [Waking.'] Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence! 
 
 Enter Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence [and the rest]. 
 
 Cla. Doth the king call? 
 
 War. What would your majesty? How fares your 
 
 Grace ? 48 
 
 King. Why did you leave me here alone, my lords ? 
 Cla. We left the prince my brother here, my liege, 
 Who undertook to sit and watch by you. 
 
 King. The Prince of Wales ! Where is he ? let me 
 
 see him: 52 
 
 He is not here. 
 
 War. This door is open; he is gone this way. 
 Glo. He came not through the chamber where we 
 
 stay'd. 
 King. Where is the crown? who took it from my 
 
 pillow ? 56 
 
 War. When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here. 
 King. The prince hath ta'en it hence: go, seek him 
 
 out. 
 Is he so hasty that he doth suppose 
 
 41 immediate: next in line 
 
96 The Second Part of 
 
 My sleep my death? 60 
 
 Find him, my Lord of Warwick; chide him hither. 
 
 [Exit Warwick. ] 
 This part of his conjoins with my disease, 
 And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are ! 
 How quickly nature falls into revolt 64 
 
 When gold becomes her object! 
 For this the foolish over-careful fathers 
 Have broke their sleep with thoughts, 
 Their brains with care, their bones with industry; 68 
 For this they have engrossed and pil'd up 
 The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold; 
 For this they have been thoughtful to invest 
 Their sons with arts and martial exercises: 72 
 
 When, like the bee, culling from every flower 
 The virtuous sweets, 
 
 Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, 
 We bring it to the hive, and like the bees, 76 
 
 Are murder'd for our pains. This bitter taste 
 Yield his engrossments to the ending father. 
 
 Enter Warwick. 
 
 Now, where is he that will not stay so long 
 
 Till his friend sickness hath determin'd me? 80 
 
 War. My lord, I found the prince in the next 
 room, 
 Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, 
 With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow 
 That tyranny, which never quaff d but blood, 84 
 
 Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife 
 With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither. 
 
 King. But wherefore did he take away the crown? 
 
 62 part: act t 69 engrossed: amassed 
 
 70 canker d: tarnished strange-achieved: gained in foreign lands 
 
 74 virtuous: beneficial 80 determin'd: ended 
 82 kindly: natural 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IF. v 97 
 
 Enter Prince Henry. 
 
 Lo, where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry. 88 
 Depart the chamber, leave us here alone. 
 
 Exeunt [Warwick, and the rest]. 
 Prince. I never thought to hear you speak again. 
 King. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that 
 
 thought : 
 I stay too long by thee, I weary thee. 92 
 
 Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair 
 That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours 
 Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth! 
 Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm 
 
 thee. 96 
 
 Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity 
 Is held from falling with so weak a wind 
 That it will quickly drop: my day is dim. 
 Thou hast stol'n that which after some few hours 100 
 Were thine without offence; and at my death 
 Thou hast seal'd up my expectation: 
 Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not, 
 And thou wilt have me die assur'd of it. 104 
 
 Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts, 
 Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart, 
 To stab at half an hour of my life. 
 What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour? 108 
 Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, 
 And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear 
 That thou art crowned, not that I am dead. 
 Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse 112 
 Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head: 
 Only compound me with forgotten dust; 
 Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. 
 Pluck down my officers, break my decrees; 116 
 
 102 seal'd up: confirmed fully 
 
98 The Second Part of 
 
 For now a time is come to mock at form. 
 
 Harry the Fifth is crown'd! Up, vanity! 
 
 Down, royal state ! all you sage counsellors, hence ! 
 
 And to the English court assemble now, 120 
 
 From every region, apes of idleness ! 
 
 Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum: 
 
 Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, 
 
 Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit 124 
 
 The oldest sins the newest kind of ways? 
 
 Be happy, he will trouble you no more: 
 
 England shall double gild his treble guilt. 
 
 England shall give him office, honour, might; 128 
 
 For the fifth Harry from curb'd licence plucks 
 
 The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog 
 
 Shall flesh his tooth in every innocent. 
 
 my poor kingdom ! sick with civil blows, 132 
 When that my care could not withhold thy riots, 
 What wilt thou do when riot is thy care? 
 
 O ! thou wilt be a wilderness again, 
 Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants. 136 
 
 Prince. O ! pardon me, my liege ; but for my tears, 
 The moist impediments unto my speech, 
 
 1 had forestalTd this dear and deep rebuke 
 
 Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard 140 
 The course of it so far. There is your crown; 
 And he that wears the crown immortally 
 Long guard it yours ! If I affect it more 
 Than as your honour and as your renown, 144 
 
 Let me no more from this obedience rise, — 
 Which my most inward, true, and duteous spirit 
 Teacheth, — this prostrate and exterior bending. 
 God witness with me, when I here came in, 148 
 
 And found no course of breath within your majesty, 
 
 117 form: order 118 vanity: folly 134 care: special study 
 
 139 dear: earnest 143 affect: aspire to 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IF. v 99 
 
 How cold it struck my heart! if I do feign, 
 
 O! let me in my present wildness die 
 
 And never live to show the incredulous world 152 
 
 The noble change that I have purposed. 
 
 Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, 
 
 And dead almost, my liege, to think you were, 
 
 I spake unto the crown as having sense, 156 
 
 And thus upbraided it: 'The care on thee depending 
 
 Hath fed upon the body of my father; 
 
 Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold: 
 
 Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, 160 
 
 Preserving life in medicine potable: 
 
 But thou most fine, most honour' d, most renown'd, 
 
 Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my most royal liege, 
 
 Accusing it, I put it on my head, 164 
 
 To try with it, as with an enemy 
 
 That had before my face murder'd my father, 
 
 The quarrel of a true inheritor. 
 
 But if it did infect my blood with joy, 168 
 
 Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride; 
 
 If any rebel or vain spirit of mine 
 
 Did with the least affection of a welcome 
 
 Give entertainment to the might of it, 172 
 
 Let God for ever keep it from my head, 
 
 And make me as the poorest vassal is 
 
 That doth with awe and terror kneel to it ! 
 
 King. O my son! 176 
 
 God put it in thy mind to take it hence, 
 That thou mightst win the more thy father's love, 
 Pleading so wisely in excuse of it. 
 Come hither, Harry: sit thou by my bed; 180 
 
 And hear, I think, the very latest counsel 
 That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son, 
 
 161 medicine potable; cf. n. 
 
ioo The Second Part of 
 
 By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways 
 
 I met this crown; and I myself know well 184 
 
 How troublesome it sat upon my head: 
 
 To thee it shall descend with better quiet, 
 
 Better opinion, better confirmation; 
 
 For all the soil of the achievement goes 188 
 
 With me into the earth. It seem'd in me 
 
 But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand, 
 
 And I had many living to upbraid 
 
 My gain of it by their assistances; 192 
 
 Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed, 
 
 Wounding supposed peace. All these bold fears 
 
 Thou seest with peril I have answered; 
 
 For all my reign hath been but as a scene 196 
 
 Acting that argument; and now my death 
 
 Changes the mode: for what in me was purchas'd, 
 
 Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort; 
 
 So thou the garment wear'st successively. 200 
 
 Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do, 
 
 Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green; 
 
 And all my friends, which thou must make thy 
 
 friends, 
 Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out ; 204 
 By whose fell working I was first advanc'd, 
 And by whose power I well might lodge a fear 
 To be again displac'd: which to avoid, 
 I cut them off; and had a purpose now 208 
 
 To lead out many to the Holy Land, 
 Lest rest and lying still might make them look 
 Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry, 
 Be it thy course to busy giddy minds 212 
 
 With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, 
 
 188 soil: pollution 197 argument: story 
 
 198 mode; cf. n. purchas'd: acquired by my own act, not inherited 
 
 200 successively : by right of succession 
 213 hence: in other lands 
 
King Henry the Fourth, IV. v 101 
 
 May waste the memory of the former days. 
 
 More would I, but my lungs are wasted so 
 
 That strength of speech is utterly denied me. 216 
 
 How I came by the crown, O God, forgive! 
 
 And grant it may with thee in true peace live. 
 
 Prince. My gracious liege, 
 You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me; 220 
 
 Then plain and right must my possession be: 
 Which I with more than with a common pain 
 'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain. 
 Enter Lord John of Lancaster, and Warwick. 
 
 King. Look, look, here comes my John of Lan- 
 caster. 224 
 
 Lane. Health, peace, and happiness to my royal 
 father ! 
 
 King. Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son 
 John; 
 But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown 
 From this bare wither'd trunk: upon thy sight 228 
 My worldly business makes a period. 
 Where is my Lord of Warwick? 
 
 Prince. My Lord of Warwick! 
 
 [Warwick comes forward.] 
 
 King. Doth any name particular belong 
 Unto the lodging where I first did swound? 232 
 
 War. 'Tis call'd Jerusalem, my noble lord. 
 
 King. Laud be to God! even there my life must 
 end. 
 It hath been prophesied to me many years 
 I should not die but in Jerusalem, 236 
 
 Which vainly I suppos'd the Holy Land. 
 But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie: 
 In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. Exeunt. 
 
 214 waste: consume 
 
102 The Second Part of 
 
 ACT FIFTH 
 
 Scene One 
 [Justice Shallow's House in Gloucestershire'] 
 
 Enter Shallow, Falstaff, Bardolph [and Bardolph's 
 boy]. 
 
 Shal. By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away 
 to-night. What! Davy, I say. 
 
 Fal. You must excuse me, Master Robert 
 Shallow. 4 
 
 Shal. I will not excuse you; you shall not be 
 excused; excuses shall not be admitted; there 
 is no excuse shall serve; you shall not be ex- 
 cused. Why, Davy! 8 
 
 Enter Davy. 
 
 Davy. Here, sir. 
 
 Shal. Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, 
 Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook, bid 
 him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be 12 
 excused. 
 
 Davy. Marry, sir, thus; those precepts can- 
 not be served: and again, sir, shall we sow the 
 headland with wheat? 16 
 
 Shal. With red wheat, Davy. But for William 
 cook: are there no young pigeons? 
 
 Davy. Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note 
 for shoeing and plough-irons. 20 
 
 Shal. Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you 
 shall not be excused. 
 
 Davy. Now, sir, a new link to the bucket 
 
 1 cock and pie; cf. n. 14 precepts: summonses 
 
 21 cast: reckoned 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V. i ios 
 
 must needs be had : and, sir, do you mean to 24 
 stop any of William's wages, about the sack he 
 lost the other day at Hinckley fair? 
 
 Shal. A' shall answer it. Some pigeons, 
 Davy, a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of 28 
 mutton, and any petty little tiny kickshaws, 
 tell William cook. 
 
 Davy. Doth the man of war stay all night, 
 sir ? 32 
 
 Shal. Yea, Davy. I will use him well. A 
 friend i' the court is better than a penny in 
 purse. Use his men well, Davy, for they are 
 arrant knaves, and will backbite. 36 
 
 Davy. No worse than they are back-bitten, 
 sir; for they have marvellous foul linen. 
 
 Shal. Well conceited, Davy: about thy busi- 
 ness, Davy. 40 
 
 Davy. I beseech you, sir, to countenance 
 William Visor of Wincot against Clement Perkes 
 o' the hill. 
 
 Shal. There is many complaints, Davy, 44 
 against that Visor: that Visor is an arrant 
 knave, on my knowledge. 
 
 Davy. I grant your worship that he is a 
 knave, sir ; but yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave 48 
 should have some countenance at his friend's 
 request. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for 
 himself, when a knave is not. I have served 
 your worship truly, sir, this eight years ; and if 52 
 I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a 
 knave against an honest man, I have but a very 
 little credit with your worship. The knave is 
 
 29 kickshaws: fancy dishes 39 Well conceited: cleverly put 
 
 41 countenance: favor 
 
104 The Second Part of 
 
 mine honest friend, sir ; therefore, I beseech your 56 
 worship, let him be countenanced. 
 
 Shal. Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. 
 Look about, Davy. [Exit Davy.] Where are you, 
 Sir John ? Come, come, come ; off with your 60 
 boots. Give me your hand, Master Bardolph. 
 
 Bard. I am glad to see your worship. 
 
 Shal. I thank thee with all my heart, kind 
 Master Bardolph: — [To the Page.] and wel- 64 
 come, my tall fellow. Come, Sir John. 
 
 Fal. I'll follow you, good Master Robert 
 Shallow. [Exit Shallow.] Bardolph, look to 
 our horses. [Exeunt Bardolph and Page.] If I 68 
 were sawed into quantities, I should make four 
 dozen of such bearded hermit's staves as Master 
 Shallow. It is a wonderful thing to see the 
 semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his : 72 
 they, by observing him, do bear themselves like 
 foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is 
 turned into a justice-like serving-man. Their 
 spirits are so married in conjunction with the 76 
 participation of society that they flock together 
 in consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had a 
 suit to Master Shallow, I would humour his men 
 with the imputation of being near their master: 80 
 if to his men, I would curry with Master Shallow 
 that no man could better command his servants. 
 It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant 
 carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of 84 
 another: therefore let men take heed of their 
 company. I will devise matter enough out of 
 this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual 
 
 69 quantities: small pieces 
 
 72 semblable coherence: approach to likeness 
 
 78 consent: agreement 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V. ii !05 
 
 laughter the wearing out of six fashions, — which 88 
 is four terms, or two actions, — and a' shall laugh 
 without intervallums. O ! it is much that a lie 
 with a slight oath and a jest with a sad brow 
 will do with a fellow that never had the ache in 92 
 his shoulders. O ! you shall see him laugh till 
 his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up ! 
 
 Shal. [Within.] Sir John! 
 
 Fat. I come, Master Shallow : I come, Master 96 
 Shallow. [Exit.] 
 
 Scene Two 
 [Westminster. The Palace] 
 
 Enter the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Chief 
 Justice. 
 
 War. How now, my Lord Chief Justice! whither 
 away? 
 
 Ch. Just. How doth the king? 
 
 War. Exceeding well: his cares are now all ended. 
 
 Ch. Just. I hope not dead. 
 
 War. He's walk'd the way of nature; 4 
 
 And to our purposes he lives no more. 
 
 Ch. Just. I would his maj esty had call'd me with 
 him: 
 The service that I truly did his life 
 Hath left me open to all injuries. 8 
 
 War. Indeed I think the young king loves you not. 
 
 Ch. Just. I know he doth not, and do arm myself 
 To welcome the condition of the time, 
 Which cannot look more hideously upon me 12 
 
 89 terms: i.e., of court actions: legal actions for debt 
 
 90 intervallums: in tervals 91 sad: sober 
 94 ill laid up: carelessly put away 
 
106 The Second Part of 
 
 Than I have drawn it in my fantasy. 
 
 Enter John of Lancaster, Gloucester, Clarence 
 [Westmoreland, and others]. 
 
 War. Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry: 
 O! that the living Harry had the temper 
 Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen. 16 
 
 How many nobles then should hold their places, 
 That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort! 
 
 Ch. Just. O God ! I fear all will be overturn'd. 
 
 Lane. Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good mor- 
 row. 20 
 
 Glo. 
 
 :} 
 
 , Good morrow, cousin. 
 Cla. 
 
 Lane. We meet like men that had forgot to speak. 
 
 War. We do remember; but our argument 
 
 Is all too heavy to admit much talk. 24 
 
 Lane. Well, peace be with him that hath made us 
 
 heavy ! 
 
 Ch. Just. Peace be with us, lest we be heavier ! 
 
 Glo. O ! good my lord, you have lost a friend 
 
 indeed; 
 
 And I dare swear you borrow not that face 28 
 
 Of seeming sorrow; it is sure your own. 
 
 Lane. Though no man be assur'd what grace to 
 
 find, 
 
 You stand in coldest expectation. 
 
 I am the sorrier ; would 'twere otherwise. 32 
 
 Cla. Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff 
 
 fair, 
 
 Which swims against your stream of quality. 
 
 Ch. Just. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in 
 
 honour, 
 
 14 heavy: sorrowful 23 argument: subject of conversation 
 
 31 coldest: most hopeless 34 Cf.n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V. ii 107 
 
 Led by the impartial conduct of my soul; 36 
 
 And never shall you see that I will beg 
 A ragged and forestall'd remission. 
 If truth and upright innocency fail me, 
 I'll to the king my master that is dead, 40 
 
 And tell him who hath sent me after him. 
 War. Here comes the prince. 
 
 Enter the Prince and Blunt. 
 
 Ch. Just. Good morrow, and God save your 
 maj esty ! 
 
 Prince. This new and gorgeous garment, maj- 
 esty, 44 
 Sits not so easy an me as you think. 
 Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear: 
 This is the English, not the Turkish court; 
 Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds, 48 
 But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers, 
 For, by my faith, it very well becomes you: 
 Sorrow so royally in you appears 
 That I will deeply put the fashion on 52 
 And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad; 
 But entertain no more of it, good brothers, 
 Than a joint burden laid upon us all. 
 For me, by heaven, I bid you be assur'd, 56 
 I'll be your father and your brother too; 
 Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares: 
 Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I ; 
 But Harry lives that shall convert those tears 60 
 By number into hours of happiness. 
 
 Brothers. We hope no other from your majesty. 
 
 Prince. You all look strangely on me: [To the 
 Chief Justice.'] and you most; 
 
 38 ragged: beggarly 
 
 forestall'd remission : pardon that is sure not to be granted 
 48 Cf. n. 
 
108 The Second Part of 
 
 You are, I think, assur'd I love you not. 64 
 
 Ch. Just. I am assur'd, if I be measur'd rightly, 
 Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me. 
 
 Prince. No? 
 How might a prince of my great hopes forget 68 
 So great indignities you laid upon me? 
 What ! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison 
 The immediate heir of England! Was this easy? 
 May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten? 72 
 
 Ch. Just. I then did use the person of your 
 father ; 
 The image of his power lay then in me: 
 And, in the administration of his law, 
 Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth, 76 
 
 Your highness pleased to forget my place, 
 The majesty and power of law and justice, 
 The image of the king whom I presented, 
 And struck me in my very seat of judgment; 80 
 
 Whereon, as an offender to your father, 
 I gave bold way to my authority, 
 And did commit you. If the deed were ill, 
 Be you contented, wearing now the garland, 84 
 
 To have a son set your decrees at nought, 
 To pluck down justice from your awful bench, 
 To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword 
 That guards the peace and safety of your person : 88 
 Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image 
 And mock your workings in a second body. 
 Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours; 
 Be now the father and propose a son, 92 
 
 Hear your own dignity so much profan'd, 
 See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted, 
 
 71 easy: trivial 72 Lethe: the river of oblivion 
 
 73 use the person: make use of my position as personal representative 
 79 presented: represented 84 garland: crown 
 
 90 second body: deputy 92 propose: imagine 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V. ii 109 
 
 Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd; 
 
 And then imagine me taking your part, 96 
 
 And in your power soft silencing your son: 
 
 After this cold considerance, sentence me; 
 
 And, as you are a king, speak in your state 
 
 What I have done that misbecame my place, 100 
 
 My person, or my liege's sovereignty. 
 
 Prince. You are right, justice; and you weigh this 
 well; 
 Therefore still bear the balance and the sword: 
 And I do wish your honours may increase 104 
 
 Till you do live to see a son of mine 
 Offend you and obey you, as I did. 
 So shall I live to speak my father's words: 
 'Happy am I, that have a man so bold 108 
 
 That dares do justice on my proper son; 
 And not less happy, having such a son, 
 That would deliver up his greatness so 
 Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me: 112 
 For which, I do commit into your hand 
 The unstained sword that you have us'd to bear; 
 With this remembrance, that you use the same 
 With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit 116 
 
 As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand: 
 You shall be as a father to my youth; 
 My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear, 
 And I will stoop and humble my intents 120 
 
 To your well-practis'd wise directions. 
 And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you; 
 My father is gone wild into his grave, 
 For in his tomb lie my affections; 124 
 
 And with his spirit sadly I survive, 
 
 98 considerance : consideration 
 
 103 balance and the sword: emblems of Justice 
 
 109 proper: own 115 remembrance: admonition 
 
 123, 124 Cf. n. 125 sadly: soberly 
 
no The Second Part of 
 
 To mock the expectation of the world, 
 
 To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out 
 
 Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down 128 
 
 After my seeming. The tide of blood in me 
 
 Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now: 
 
 Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea, 
 
 Where it shall mingle with the state of floods 132 
 
 And flow henceforth in formal majesty. 
 
 Now call we our high court of parliament; 
 
 And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel, 
 
 That the great body of our state may go 136 
 
 In equal rank with the best govern'd nation; 
 
 That war or peace, or both at once, may be 
 
 As things acquainted and familiar to us; 
 
 In which you, father, shall have foremost hand. 140 
 
 Our coronation done, we will accite, 
 
 As I before remember'd, all our state: 
 
 And, God consigning to my good intents, 
 
 No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say, 144 
 
 God shorten Harry's happy life one day. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Three 
 
 [The Garden of Justice Shallow's House in 
 Gloucestershire] 
 
 Enter Sir John, Shallow, Silence, Davy, Bardolph, 
 Page. 
 
 Shal. Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, 
 in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of 
 
 129 After my seeming: according to appearances 
 
 132 state of floods: majesty of the ocean 
 
 137 In equal rank: step by step 141 accite: summon 
 
 142 remember'd: mentioned 143 consigning to : confirming 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V. Hi 1 * 1 
 
 mine own grafting, with a dish of caraways, and 
 so forth; come, cousin Silence; and then to bed. 4 
 
 Fal. 'Fore God, you have here a goodly 
 dwelling, and a rich. 
 
 Shal. Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, 
 beggars all, Sir John: marry, good air. Spread, 8 
 Davy; spread: well said, Davy. 
 
 Fal. This Davy serves you for good uses; he 
 is your serving-man and your husband. 
 
 Shal. A good varlet, a good varlet, a very 12 
 good varlet, Sir John: by the mass, I have 
 drunk too much sack at supper: a good varlet. 
 Now sit down, now sit down. Come, cousin. 
 
 Sil. Ah, sirrah! quoth a', we shall 16 
 
 'Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer, 
 And praise God for the merry year; 
 When flesh is cheap and females dear, 
 And lusty lads roam here and there, 20 
 
 So merrily. 
 And ever among so merrily.' 
 
 Fal. There's a merry heart! Good Master 
 Silence, I'll give you a health for that anon. 24 
 
 Shal. Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy. 
 
 Davy. Sweet sir, sit; I'll be with you anon: 
 most sweet sir, sit. Master page, good master 
 page, sit. Proface ! What you want in meat 28 
 we'll have in drink: but you must bear: the 
 heart's all. [Exit.] 
 
 Shal. Be merry, Master Bardolph; and my 
 little soldier there, be merry. 32 
 
 3 grafting : grafting caraways: confection made with caraway seeds 
 
 9 said: done 11 husband: husbandman 
 
 22 ever among: all the while 
 
 28 Proface: may; it do you good (Italian 'pro vi faccia') 
 
 30 heart: intention 
 
112 The Second Part of 
 
 Sil. 'Be merry, be merry, my wife has all; 
 
 For women are shrews, both short and tall: 
 'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all, 
 
 And welcome merry Shrove-tide. 36 
 
 Be merry, be merry.' 
 
 Fal. I did not think Master Silence had been 
 a man of this mettle. 
 
 Sil. Who, I? I have been merry twice and 40 
 once ere now. 
 
 [Enter Davy.] 
 
 Davy. There's a dish of leather-coats for you. 
 
 [Setting them before Bardolph.~\ 
 Shal. Davy! 
 
 Davy. Your worship ! I'll be with you straight. 44 
 A cup of wine, sir? 
 
 Sil. 'A cup of wine that's brisk and fine 
 And drink unto the leman mine; 
 
 And a merry heart lives long-a.' 48 
 
 Fal. Well said, Master Silence. 
 
 Sil. And we shall be merry, now comes in the 
 sweet o' the night. 
 
 Fal. Health and long life to you, Master 52 
 Silence. 
 
 Sil. 'Fill the cup, and let it come; 
 
 I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom.' 
 
 Shal. Honest Bardolph, welcome: if thou want- 56 
 est anything and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. 
 [To the Page.] Welcome, my little tiny thief; 
 and welcome indeed too. I'll drink to Master 
 Bardolph and to all the cavaleros about London. 60 
 
 36 Shrove-tide: a time of special merriment at the close of the 
 
 carnival 42 leather-coats : russet apples 
 
 47 leman: sweetheart 60 cavaleros: cavaliers 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V. Hi 113 
 
 Davy. I hope to see London once ere I die. 
 
 Bard. An I might see you there, Davy, — 
 
 Shal. By the mass, you'll crack a quart to- 
 gether: ha! will you not, Master Bardolph? 64 
 
 Bard. Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot. 
 
 Shal. By God's liggens, I thank thee. The 
 knave will stick by thee, I can assure thee that: 
 a' will not out; he is true bred. 68 
 
 Bard. And I'll stick by him, sir. 
 
 Shal. Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: 
 be merry. [One knocks at the door.~\ 
 
 Look who's at door there. Ho ! who knocks ? 72 
 
 [Exit Davy.] 
 
 Fal. [To Silence, who drinks a bumper.] 
 Why, now you have done me right. 
 
 Sil. 'Do me right, 
 
 And dub me knight: 76 
 
 Samingo/ 
 Is 't not so? 
 Fal. Tis so. 
 
 Sil. Is 't so ? Why, then, say an old man can 80 
 do somewhat. 
 
 [Enter Davy.] 
 
 Davy. An 't please your worship, there's one 
 Pistol come from the court with news. 
 
 Fal. From the court ! let him come in. 84 
 
 Enter Pistol. 
 
 How now, Pistol! 
 
 Pist. Sir John, God save you, sir ! 
 
 66 liggens: an original oath of Shallow's 
 
 68 will not out: will not fail (sporting term) 
 
 74 done me right: a common expression in drinking healths 
 
 76 dub me knight; cf. n. 
 
 77 Samingo: San Domingo, a common refrain in drinking songs 
 
ii^ The Second Part of 
 
 Fal. What wind blew you hither, Pistol? 
 Pist. Not the ill wind which blows no man to 
 good. 88 
 
 Sweet knight, thou art now one of the greatest 
 men in this realm. 
 
 Sil. By 'r lady, I think a' be, but goodman 
 Puff of Barson. 92 
 
 Pist. Puff! 
 Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base ! 
 Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend, 
 And helter-skelter have I rode to thee, 96 
 
 And tidings do I bring and lucky joys 
 And golden times and happy news of price. 
 
 Fal. I prithee now, deliver them like a man of this 
 
 world. 
 Pist. A foutra for the world and worldlings 
 base ! 100 
 
 I speak of Africa and golden joys. 
 
 Fal. O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news ? 
 Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof. 
 
 Sil. 'And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John/ 104 
 
 Pist. Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons? 
 And shall good news be baffled? 
 Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap. 
 
 Shal. Honest gentleman, I know not your 108 
 breeding. 
 
 Pist. Why then, lament therefore. 
 
 Shal. Give me pardon, sir: if, sir, you come 
 with news from the court, I take it there's but 112 
 two ways: either to utter them, or to conceal 
 them. I am sir, under the king, in some authority. 
 
 91 but: except 92 Barson: Barston in Warwickshire 
 
 98 price: value 100 foutra: exclamation of contempt 
 
 103, 104 These lines refer to popular ballads 105 Cf. n. 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V, in us 
 
 Pist. Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or 
 
 die. 116 
 
 Shal. Under King Harry. 
 
 Pist. Harry the Fourth? or Fifth? 
 
 Shal. Harry the Fourth. 
 
 Pist. A foutra for thine office! 
 
 Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king; 
 Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth: 120 
 When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like 
 The bragging Spaniard. 
 
 Fal. What! is the old king dead? 
 
 Pist. As nail in door: the things I speak are 
 
 just. 124 
 
 Fal. Away, Bardolph! saddle my horse. 
 Master Robert Shallow, choose what office thou 
 wilt in the land, 'tis thine. Pistol, I will double 
 charge thee with dignities. 128 
 
 Bard. O joyful day! 
 I would not take a knighthood for my fortune. 
 
 Pist. What! I do bring good news. 
 
 Fal. Carry Master Silence to bed. Master 132 
 Shallow, my Lord Shallow, be what thou wilt, I 
 am Fortune's steward. Get on thy boots: we'll 
 ride all night. O sweet Pistol ! Away, Bardolph ! 
 [Exit Bardolph.] Come, Pistol, utter more to 136 
 me; and withal devise something to do thyself 
 good. Boot, boot, Master Shallow: I know the 
 young king is sick for me. Let us take any 
 man's horses; the laws of England are at my 140 
 commandment. Blessed are they which have 
 been my friends, and woe to my lord chief 
 justice! 
 
 115 Bezonian: base beggar 
 
 121 fig: to thrust the thumb between two closed fingers, or into the 
 
 mouth, a vulgar insult, imported from Spain 
 124 just: correct 
 
116 The Second Part of 
 
 Pist. Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also ! 144 
 'Where is the life that late I led?' say they: 
 Why, here it is : welcome these pleasant days ! 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Four 
 
 [London. A Street] 
 
 Enter Hostess Quickly, Doll Tearsheet, and Beadles. 
 
 Host. No, thou arrant knave: I would to God 
 that I might die that I might have thee hanged; 
 thou hast drawn my shoulder out of joint. 
 
 First Bead. The constables have delivered 4 
 her over to me, and she shall have whipping- 
 cheer enough, I warrant her: there hath been a 
 man or two lately killed about her. 
 
 Dol. Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; 8 
 I'll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged 
 rascal, an the child I now go with do miscarry, 
 thou wert better thou hadst struck thy mother, 
 thou paper-faced villain. 12 
 
 Host. O the Lord! that Sir John were come; 
 he would make this a bloody day to somebody. 
 But I pray God the fruit of her womb miscarry ! 
 
 First Bead. If it do, you shall have a dozen 16 
 of cushions again; you have but eleven now. 
 Come, I charge you both go with me ; for the man 
 is dead that you and Pistol beat amongst you. 
 
 Dol. I'll tell you what, you thin man in a 20 
 censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for 
 
 145 Quotation from another ballad 
 
 8 nut-hook: slang for beadle; cf. catchpole 
 
 20, 21 in a censer: i.e., a figure embossed on a censer 
 
 21 swinged: whipped 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V.v 117 
 
 this, you blue-bottle rogue! you filthy famished 
 correctioner ! if you be not swinged, I'll for- 
 swear half-kirtles. 24 
 First Bead. Come, come, you she knight-errant, 
 
 come. 
 
 Host. O God, that right should thus overcome 
 might! Well, of sufferance comes ease. 
 
 Dol. Come, you rogue, come: bring me to 28 
 a justice. 
 
 Host. Ay; come, you starved blood-hound. 
 
 Dol. Goodman death ! goodman bones ! 
 
 Host. Thou atomy, thou ! 32 
 
 Dol. Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal! 
 
 First Bead. Very well. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Five 
 
 [A public Place near Westminster Abbey] 
 
 Enter two Grooms, strewers of rushes. 
 
 First Groom. More rushes, more rushes. 
 
 Sec. Groom. The trumpets have sounded 
 twice. 
 
 First Groom. 'Twill be two o'clock ere they 4 
 come from the coronation. Dispatch, dispatch. 
 
 Exeunt Grooms. 
 
 Trumpets sound, and the King and his train pass 
 over the stage. After them, enter Falstaff, 
 Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph, and the Boy. 
 
 Fal. Stand here by me, Master Robert Shal- 
 low; I will make the king do you grace. I will 
 
 22 blue-bottle: the reference is to the beadle's blue livery 
 24 half-kirtles: waists or skirts 27 of sufferance: out of suffering 
 
 32 atomy: Dame Quickly' s confusion of 'atom' with 'anatomy' = 
 skeleton 
 
118 The Second Part of 
 
 leer upon him, as a' comes by; and do but mark 8 
 the countenance that he will give me. 
 
 Pist. God bless thy lungs, good knight. 
 
 Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. 
 O ! if I had had time to have made new liveries, 12 
 I would have bestowed the thousand pound I 
 borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter; this poor 
 show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had 
 to see him. 16 
 
 Shal. It doth so. 
 
 Fal. It shows my earnestness of affection. 
 
 Shal. It doth so. 
 
 Fal. My devotion. 20 
 
 Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth. 
 
 Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and 
 not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have 
 patience to shift me. 24 
 
 Shal. It is best, certain. 
 
 Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and 
 sweating with desire to see him; thinking of 
 nothing else ; putting all affairs else in oblivion, 28 
 as if there were nothing else to be done but to 
 see him. 
 
 Pist. 'Tis semper idem, for absque hoc nihil est: 
 'Tis all in every part. 32 
 
 Shal. 'Tis so, indeed. 
 Pist. My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver, 
 And make thee rage. 
 
 Thy Doll, and Helen»of thy noble thoughts, 36 
 
 Is in base durance and contagious prison; 
 Hal'd thither 
 By most mechanical and dirty hand: 
 
 31, 32 Cf. n. 39 mechanical: common, vulgar 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V.v 119 
 
 Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's 
 snake, 40 
 
 For Doll is in: Pistol speaks nought but truth. 
 Fal. I will deliver her. 
 
 [Shouts within and trumpets sound.] 
 Pist. There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangour 
 sounds. 
 
 The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry the Fifth, 
 Brothers, Lord Chief Justice. 
 
 Fal. God save thy grace, King Hal ! my royal 44 
 Hal! 
 
 Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most 
 royal imp of fame! 
 
 Fal. God save thee, my sweet boy! 48 
 
 K. Hen. V. My lord chief justice, speak to that 
 
 vain man. 
 Ch. Just. Have you your wits ? know you what 'tis 
 
 you speak? 
 Fal. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my 
 
 heart ! 
 K. Hen. V. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy 
 prayers ; 52 
 
 How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! 
 I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, 
 So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; 
 But, being awak'd, I do despise my dream. 56 
 
 Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; 
 Leave gormandising; know the grave doth gape 
 For thee thrice wider than for other men. 
 Reply not to me with a fool-born jest: 60 
 
 Presume not that I am the thing I was; 
 For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, 
 
 40 ebon : black Alecto : one of tlie Furies 
 
 47 imp: child 49 vain: foolish 
 
120 The Second Part of 
 
 That I have turn'd away my former self; 
 
 So will I those that kept me company. 64 
 
 When thou dost hear I am as I have been, 
 
 Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast, 
 
 The tutor and the feeder of my riots: 
 
 Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death, 68 
 
 As I have done the rest of my misleaders, 
 
 Not to come near our person by ten mile. 
 
 For competence of life I will allow you, 
 
 That lack of means enforce you not to evil: 72 
 
 And, as we hear you do reform yourselves, 
 
 We will, according to your strength and qualities, 
 
 Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord, 
 
 To see perform'd the tenour of our word. 76 
 
 Set on. Exit the King [with his Train], 
 
 Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound. 
 Shal. Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech 
 
 you to let me have home with me. 80 
 
 Fal. That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do 
 
 not you grieve at this: I shall be sent for in 
 
 private to him. Look you, he must seem thus 
 
 to the world. Fear not your advancements ; I 84 
 
 will be the man yet that shall make you great. 
 Shal. I cannot perceive how, unless you give 
 
 me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. 
 
 I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five 88 
 
 hundred of my thousand. 
 
 Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this 
 
 that you heard was but a colour. 
 
 Shal. A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir 92 
 
 John. 
 
 Fal. Fear no colours: go with me to dinner. 
 
 92 colour: pun on collar, halter 
 
 94 Fear no colours: have no fear; originally, fear no enemy 
 
King Henry the Fourth, V.v 121 
 
 Come, Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I 
 shall be sent for soon at night. 96 
 
 Enter Justice and Prince John. 
 
 Ch.Just. Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet; 
 Take all his company along with him. 
 
 Fal. My lord, my lord ! 
 
 Ch.Just. I cannot now speak: I will hear you 
 soon. 100 
 
 Take them away. 
 
 Pist. Si fortuna me tormenta, spero contenta. 
 Exeunt. Mane\n\t [Prince John of] Lancaster 
 
 and Chief Justice. 
 
 Lane. I like this fair proceeding of the king's. 
 He hath intent his wonted followers 104 
 
 Shall all be very well provided for; 
 But all are banish'd till their conversations 
 Appear more wise and modest to the world. 
 
 Ch. Just. And so they are. 108 
 
 Lane. The king hath call'd his parliament, my 
 lord. 
 
 Ch. Just. He hath. 
 
 Lane. I will lay odds, that, ere this year expire, 
 We bear our civil swords and native fire 112 
 
 As far as France. I heard a bird so sing, 
 Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the king. 
 Come, will you hence? Exeunt. 
 
 97 the Fleet: a London prison 106 conversations: habits 
 
122 The Second Part of 
 
 EPILOGUE 
 
 [Spoken by a Dancer.] 
 
 First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my 
 speech. My fear is, your displeasure, my 
 curtsy, my duty, and my speech, to beg your 
 pardon. If you look for a good speech now, you 4 
 undo me; for what I have to say is of mine 
 own making; and what indeed I should say 
 will, I doubt, prove mine own marring. But to 
 the purpose, and so to the venture. Be it known 8 
 to you, — as it is very well, — I was lately here in 
 the end of a displeasing play, to pray your 
 patience for it and to promise you a better. I 
 did mean indeed to pay you with this ; which, 12 
 if like an ill venture it come unluckily home, I 
 break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here, 
 I promised you I would be, and here I commit 
 my body to your mercies: bate me some and I 16 
 will pay you some; and, as most debtors do, 
 promise you infinitely. 
 
 If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, 
 will you command me to use my legs ? and yet 20 
 that were but light payment, to dance out of your 
 debt. But a good conscience will make any 
 possible satisfaction, and so will I. All the 
 gentlewomen here have forgiven me: if the 24 
 gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do not 
 agree with the gentlewomen, which was never 
 seen before in such an assembly. 
 
 One word more, I beseech you. If you be not 28 
 too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble 
 
 Epilogue ; cf. n. 7 doubt : fear 
 
 14 break: become bankrupt 16 bate: remit 
 
King Henry the Fourth, Epil. 123 
 
 author will continue the story, with Sir John in 
 it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of 
 France : where, for anything I know, Falstaff 32 
 shall die of a sweat, unless already a' be killed 
 with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a 
 martyr, and this is not the man. My tongue is 
 weary ; when my legs are too, I will bid you 36 
 good night: and so kneel down before you; but, 
 indeed, to pray for the queen. 
 
 38 to pray for the queen; cf. n. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 Ind. S. d. Rumour, painted full of tongues. Vergil 
 (Mneid iv. 174) describes Fame, or Rumour, as cov- 
 ered with ears, eyes, and tongues. Cf. also Chaucer, 
 Hous of Fame, 1389-90. 
 
 Ind. 24. Shrewsbury. The last act of Shake- 
 speare's Henry IV, Part I, is devoted to the battle of 
 Shrewsbury, in which the King and his armies over- 
 come the rebel forces under young Harry Percy 
 (Hotspur) ; his uncle, the Earl of Worcester; and the 
 Scottish Earl of Douglas. 
 
 Ind. 29. Harry Monmouth. Henry, Prince of 
 Wales, who, according to Shakespeare, killed Hot- 
 spur in single combat at the battle of Shrewsbury. 
 Monmouth was the place of his birth. 
 
 Ind. 35. hole. Shakespeare is obviously playing 
 on the words hole and hold. Most modern editors have 
 spoiled the rather poor pun by substituting the word 
 hold for hole. 
 
 I. i. 116-118. 'By his spirit was his party inspired, 
 i.e., made keen and sharp as steel; but, when once 
 his spirit was brought down (technically, reduced to 
 a lower temper) all his followers became dull and 
 heavy as lead.' 
 
 I. i. 128. In 1 Henry IV, V. iii., Douglas kills 
 Sir Walter Blunt, who was dressed to resemble the 
 King, and tells us that he has already killed the Lord 
 of Stafford in the king's 'likeness.' When, later, 
 Prince Hal challenges Douglas to single combat, he 
 says: 
 
 'the spirits 
 Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms.' 
 
 I. i. 166-179. These lines are the first of a series 
 of passages omitted in the Quarto texts of the play 
 
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 and added by the Folio. The other important Folio 
 additions are the following: I. i. 189-209; I. iii. 21- 
 24; I. iii. 36-55; I. iii. 85-108; II. iii. 23-45; IV. i. 
 55-79; Epilogue 37, 38 (and so kneel . . . queen). 
 Furthermore, the whole of III. i., containing the 
 King's famous soliloquy on sleep, is omitted in cer- 
 tain Quarto copies, though added in others. On the 
 other hand, certain passages, usually shorter and 
 belonging to the prose scenes, are omitted in the 
 Folio version; viz., I. ii. 244-251 (But it was . . . 
 motion) ; II. ii. 26-31 (and God . . . strengthened) ; 
 II. iv. 14, 15 (Dispatch . . . straight); II. iv. 144- 
 146; II. iv. 428 f. (Come! . . . come, Doll?); III. 
 i. 53-56 (O! . . . die); III. ii. 340, 341 (yet lech- 
 erous . . . mandrake) ; III. ii. 342-345 (and sung 
 . . . good-nights); IV. i. 93; IV. i. 95. 
 
 I. i. 204, 205. According to Shakespeare, King 
 Richard II, predecessor and cousin of Henry IV, 
 was murdered in Pomfret castle at Henry's hint, 
 after the latter had forced Richard's abdication. Cf. 
 Shakespeare's Richard II. Richard Scroop, Arch- 
 bishop of York, belonged to a family which was 
 firmly attached to the cause of Richard. 
 
 I. i. 208. Bolingbrohe. King Henry, born in 
 Bolingbroke castle, Lincolnshire. 
 
 I. ii. 18. manned with an agate. Attended by a 
 servant as small as a figure cut in an agate. 
 
 I. ii. 25. face-royal. A royal was a gold coin 
 worth ten shillings. Falstaff is here playing on the 
 double sense of a 'royal face' and the face stamped 
 on the coin. 
 
 I. ii. 38. glutton. The parable of Dives and 
 Lazarus (St. Luke 16. 19-31) is frequently referred 
 to by Falstaff, possibly because Dives, 'the glutton/ 
 who 'fared sumptuously every day/ but who went to 
 hell and called out for the poor man Lazarus to 'dip 
 the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,' 
 
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 reminds Falstaff of his own manner of life and prob- 
 able fate. 
 
 I. ii. 39. Achitophel. The counsellor of Absalom 
 (II Samuel 15-17) who was cursed by David, and 
 who 'gat him home to his house and hanged himself 
 after Absalom rejected his counsel. 
 
 I. ii. 40. yea-forsooth knave. The reference is to 
 the mild oaths employed by the Puritanical middle- 
 class tradespeople of Shakespeare's own day. Cf. Hot- 
 spur's ridicule of this same trait in 1 Henry IV, III. 
 i. 251 ff. 
 
 I. ii. 51-54. Falstaff is here playing with the 
 ancient jest that deceived husbands wear invisible 
 horns. Lightness is obviously used in a double sense, 
 and the old spelling of lanthorn, which emphasizes 
 the horn sides of an Elizabethan lantern, carries out 
 the jest. 
 
 I. ii. 57. Paul's. The nave of St. Paul's Cathedral 
 was in Shakespeare's day the business center of Lon- 
 don. From eleven to twelve, and three to six, daily, 
 men of all professions and trades congregated there. 
 Men out of work, and masters looking for servants, 
 posted their advertisements on the pillars of the nave. 
 Falstaff is probably referring here to a popular say- 
 ing, quoted in The Choice of Change, 1598: 'A man 
 must not make choice of three things in three places: 
 of a wife in Westminster, of a servant in Paul's, of a 
 horse in Smithfield; lest he choose a quean, a knave, 
 or a jade.' Smithfield is the great cattle market of 
 London. 
 
 I. ii. 61, 62. This episode from The Famous Vic- 
 tories of Henry V is reprinted in Appendix A, see 
 pp. 142, 143. 
 
 I. ii. 102. hunt counter. A hunting term mean- 
 ing to follow the trail in a direction opposite to that 
 which the game has taken. There is also perhaps 
 
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 here a pun on the two Compters, or debtors', prisons 
 in London. 
 
 I. ii. 166-168. Blind beggars often had dogs to 
 lead them through the streets. 
 
 I. ii. 182. wax. 'A poor quibble on the word wax, 
 which signifies increase as well as the matter of the 
 honey-comb.' Johnson. 
 
 I. ii. 189-192. An angel was a gold coin, worth 
 upwards of six shillings, which took its name from 
 its device, the archangel Michael. Falstaff is here 
 punning on the word, and in the phrases cannot go 
 and cannot tell, he is perhaps using terms which re- 
 fer to the circulation of money, meaning 'I cannot 
 pass current. I cannot count as good coin.' 
 
 I. ii. 241. spit white. Furnivall quotes Batman 
 uppon Bartholome (1582): 'If the spettle be white 
 viscus, the sicknesse cometh of fleame; if black, of 
 melancholy; — the white spettle not knottie, signifieth 
 health.' 
 
 I. ii. 257. bear crosses. Another quibble on coins, 
 many of which were marked with crosses. 
 
 I. ii. 259. A three-man beetle is a mallet so heavy 
 that it requires three men to swing it. Filliping the 
 toad, according to Steevens, is a Warwickshire game, 
 in which a toad is placed on the end of a short board 
 placed across a log; the other end of the board is 
 then struck with a mallet, and the toad thrown into 
 the air. If Falstaff took the part of the toad in this 
 game, it would, he implies, require a three-man beetle 
 to fillip one of his size. 
 
 I. iii. 36-41. Many emendations have been sug- 
 gested for this apparently corrupt passage. It is 
 probable that a line has been lost here, but it is pos- 
 sible to understand Lord Bardolph's speech without 
 changing the text. Lord Hastings has just been 
 remonstrating with Lord Bardolph for his pessimism, 
 saying that hope never injured any cause. Lord 
 
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 Bardolph replies : 'Yes, it does, — if, for example, this 
 present business of war (indeed this very action now 
 contemplated, this cause that is now on foot), lives 
 merely on such desperate hopes as buds which ap- 
 pear too early in the spring; for hope gives less 
 warrant that these buds will become fruit than de- 
 spair gives that the frosts will destroy them.' 
 
 I. iii. 53-55. 'Know how well able our estate is to 
 undergo such a work, and how well able it is to bal- 
 ance the power of our opponent/ 
 
 II. i. 36, 37. When Dame Quickly says, 'A hun- 
 dred mark is a long one/ i.e., a long mark, score, or 
 reckoning, she puns on a hundred marks as a debt 
 and a hundred yard mark at archery. 
 
 II. i. 67, 68. rampallian. Elizabethan slang, ras- 
 cal, rapscallion; used also by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Fustilarian, a word coined by Falstaff, suggested 
 by the word fustilugs, a fat, frowsy woman. Catas- 
 trophe, in the sense of conclusion, end ; used j ocularly 
 here for the posteriors. 
 
 II. i. 145. Falstaff has the legal right to demand 
 protection against the just claims of Mistress 
 Quickly, as he is about to set forth for the north on 
 the King's business. The Chief Justice admits his 
 'power to do wrong' in this matter, but urges him to 
 answer the poor woman's suit in a manner suitable 
 to his reputation as a gentleman and soldier. 
 
 II. i. 159. Falstaff tries to comfort Mistress 
 Quickly for the loss of her plate by assuring her that 
 glasses are much more fashionable and pleasanter to 
 drink from than silver goblets. 
 
 II. i. 210. 'This is the proper behaviour in fenc- 
 ing.' Falstaff refers to his inattention to the Justice's 
 remarks as a retaliation for the Justice's inattention 
 to his questions in 11. 184 ff. 
 
 II. ii. 25-31. Shirts were made of holland linen 
 
King Henry the Fourth 129 
 
 (worth 'eight shillings an ell/ cf. 1 Henry IV, III. 
 iii. 83). The play on the words holland and low- 
 countries is apparent. The Prince proceeds to as- 
 sume that Poins's shortage in shirts is due to the fact 
 that his old shirts are serving as garments for his 
 illegitimate children, who 'bawl out' from 'the ruins 
 of his linen.' 
 
 II. ii. 95-100. Either Shakespeare or the Page 
 confuses the dream of Hecuba with that of Althea. 
 Althea dreamed that the Fates told her that her new- 
 born son would live only so long as a burning brand 
 on the hearth remained unconsumed. Althea snatched 
 the brand from the hearth, extinguished the fire, and 
 prolonged her son's life. 
 
 II. ii. 112. martlemas. Corrupted form of Mar- 
 tinmas, or the Feast of St. Martin, November 11. 
 This day was considered the last day of autumn, 
 and was also the day for salting and hanging the 
 winter's supply of beef. The reference is obviously 
 to Falstaff's hearty old age (cf. All-hallown sum- 
 mer, 1 Henry IV, I. ii. 177, note), or to Falstaff as a 
 'martlemas beef.' 
 
 II. ii. 127, 128. borrower's cap. A man asking 
 for a loan is always very ready to take off his cap. 
 
 II. ii. 130 ff. Most modern editors have rear- 
 ranged the following speeches, giving to Poins the 
 reading of Falstaff's letter to Hal. The Quarto and 
 Folio arrangement, followed with one exception (cf. 
 Appendix C) in this text, seems more natural. In 
 lines 109, 110 Bardolph evidently gives the letter to 
 the Prince, not to Poins. In line 119 the Prince shows 
 the letter to Poins, but does not necessarily give it to 
 him. 
 
 II. ii. 192, 193. The parallel is not striking. Jove 
 took the form of a bull to woo Europa. Hal dis- 
 guises himself as a waiter to spy upon Falstaff. The 
 leather jerkins are the only connecting link. 
 
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 II. iv. 36. The ballad sung by Falstaff has been 
 preserved in Percy's Reliques. 
 
 II. iv. 52. Another scrap of an old ballad. 
 
 II. iv. 91. debuty. Mistress Quickly's pronun- 
 ciation of deputy, and of Wednesday in line 93, both 
 of which are corrected in the Folio text, indicates that 
 she has a cold in her head. 
 
 II. iv. 104, 105. tame cheater. A cant term for a 
 low gamester, especially for a gamester's decoy. 
 Mistress Quickly understands the word in the sense of 
 escheator, or officer of the exchequer. The Cam- 
 bridge editors suggest the emendation chetah, the 
 hunting leopard, known in Europe as early as the 
 fifteenth century. The sentence, you may stroke him 
 as gently as a puppy greyhound, would indicate at 
 least that Falstaff is playing on the two words 
 cheater and chetah. One would hardly speak of 
 stroking a gamester's decoy. 
 
 II. iv. 159. occupy. This word was used only in 
 an obscene sense in Shakespeare's day. From the 
 sixteenth to the nineteenth century it seldom appears 
 in literature. 
 
 II. iv. 172. Have we not Hiren here? This 
 phrase, which became proverbial in Elizabethan 
 drama, probably originated in a lost play by George 
 Peele, entitled, The Turkish Mahomet and Hyren 
 (Irene) the Fair Greek. Pistol applies the name to 
 his sword. Mistress Quickly (11. 189, 190) thinks 
 he is inquiring for some woman. 
 
 II. iv. 177, 178. Pistol misquotes from Marlowe's 
 Tamburlaine the Great, Pt. II, IV, iv: 
 
 'Holla, ye pamper'd jades of Asia! 
 What ! can ye draw but twenty miles a day ?' 
 
 II. iv. 192. Another burlesque of contemporary 
 drama. This time Shakespeare puts into Pistol's 
 mouth a reference to Peele's Battle of Alcazar, 
 
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 printed in 1594, in which Muley Mahomet enters 
 with lion's flesh on his sword, which he offers to his 
 wife with the words, 
 
 Teed then and faint not, my fair Calypolis.' 
 
 II. iv. 194. Most editors assume that Pistol is 
 speaking bad Italian. The Cambridge editors sug- 
 gest that it is perhaps bad Spanish, and that he is 
 reading the motto on his Toledo blade. Douce gives 
 an illustration of a sword with a French version of 
 this motto inscribed upon it. Farmer says: 'Pistol 
 is only a copy of Hannibal Gonsaga who vaunted on 
 yielding himself a prisoner, as you may read in an 
 old collection of tales called Wits, Fits, Fancies: 
 
 Si Fortuna me tormenta 
 II speranza me contenta.' 
 
 Whatever the language, the meaning of Pistol's motto 
 is, If Fortune torments me, Hope contents me. 
 
 II. iv. 205. shove-groat shilling. Shove-groat 
 was a game which was a cross between shuffle-board 
 and 'pitching pennies.' It was played on a board 
 three feet long and a foot wide, and the object of the 
 players was to shove coins into numbered spaces at 
 the far end of the board. 
 
 II. iv. 267. drinks . . . flapdragons. Flapdragon 
 or snapdragon is a sport which consists in snapping 
 raisins or grapes from burning brandy and eating 
 them. 
 
 II. iv. 286. An impossible conjunction of planets. 
 
 II. iv. 288. fiery Trigon. Poins continues the 
 astrological figure by referring to the red-nosed Bar- 
 dolph as the fiery Trigon. When the three superior 
 planets were in that division of the zodiac which 
 consisted of the three so-called fiery signs, Aries, 
 Leo, and Sagittarius, they were said to be in the 
 fiery Trigon, or triangle; when they were in Cancer, 
 
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 Scorpio, and Pisces, they were in the watery Trigon, 
 etc. 
 
 II. iv. 363. dead elm. Shakespeare mentions elms 
 three times, — here and in The Comedy of Errors, 
 II. ii. 176, and in A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV. 
 i. 49. In both C. of E. and M. N. D. the reference 
 is to the practice of training ivy on elm trees, illus- 
 trating the relation of woman to man. Poins is 
 therefore probably referring to the posture of Fal- 
 staff and Doll. 
 
 III. ii. 28, 29. Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John 
 Fastolfe, with both of whom Falstaff has been identi- 
 fied (cf. 1 Henry IV, this edition, Appendix C 3), 
 were both pages to the Duke of Norfolk in their 
 youth. 
 
 III. ii. 33. Skogan. Shakespeare probably took 
 the name from a jest book published in 1565, called 
 Scogin's Jests. This Scogin was the court fool of 
 King Edward IV. It is possible, however, that the 
 reference is to Chaucer's friend, Henry Scogan, de- 
 scribed by Ben Jonson in The Fortunate Isles as 'a 
 fine gentleman, and master of arts, of Henry the 
 Fourth's time.' 
 
 III. ii. 73. accommodated. This is one of the 
 words which Ben Jonson (Discoveries) refers to as 
 one of 'the perfumed terms of the time.' Bardolph is 
 giving himself airs and imitating the affectations of 
 fashionable gallants. 
 
 III. ii. 239. Bullcalf means to say: 'Here, in 
 French crowns, is the equivalent of four English ten- 
 shilling pieces, or ten-shilling pieces with King 
 Henry's head on them.' As a matter of fact Henry 
 VII was the first English king whose head appeared 
 on ten shilling pieces. 
 
 III. ii. 264. three pound. Falstaffs followers 
 adopt his own methods. Bardolph has collected four 
 
King Henry the Fourth 133 
 
 pounds, forty shillings from each of the two men, but 
 decides to keep a commission of twenty-five per cent. 
 
 III. ii. 285. gibbets. A brewer's gibbet was the 
 yoke worn across the shoulders for carrying buckets 
 of beer from the vat to the barrels. Falstaff refers 
 to the dexterity with which brewers' men swing the 
 buckets on to the gibbet. 
 
 III. ii. 301-303. Sir Dagonet was King Arthur's 
 fool. Arthur's show was an exhibition of archery 
 held annually at Mile-end Green by a society called 
 The Auncient Order, Societie, and Unitie laudable 
 of Prince Arthur and his Knightly Armoury of the 
 Round Table. There were fifty-eight members and 
 each took the name of one of the knights in the old 
 romances. 
 
 III. ii. 346. Vice's dagger. The Vice, a character 
 in the old Morality plays, carried a thin wooden 
 dagger. ^ 
 
 III. ii. 357. philosopher's two stones. The phi- 
 losophers' stone is the reputed stone of the alchemists 
 which transmutes base metals into gold. Falstaff 
 decides that Justice Shallow will be as valuable to 
 him as two philosophers' stones! 
 
 IV. i. 94-96. This passage is obviously corrupt. 
 The archbishop means in general: 'I make this my 
 quarrel on both public and private grounds, that is, 
 because of the sufferings of the commonwealth and 
 of my own family at the hands of King Henry.' The 
 Archbishop's brother, an adherent of King Richard, 
 had been executed by King Henry's order; cf. 1 
 Henry IV, I. iii. 270. 
 
 IV. i. 117 ff. This contest is described in the first 
 act of Shakespeare's Richard II. 
 
 IV. i. 175. consigned. The Quarto and Folio read 
 confin'd; consign'd is Johnson's emendation. The 
 meaning seems to be that the terms of surrender in- 
 
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 elude the stipulation that the execution of the wishes 
 of the rebels shall be consigned to their own hands. 
 
 IV. ii. Shakespeare evidently had no thought of 
 a change of scene, or of pause in action, here. Even 
 the first Folio has no stage direction of exeunt at 
 the end of Scene i., and no indication of scene divi- 
 sion. I have kept the conventional modern arrange- 
 ment for convenience of reference; but the reader 
 should remember that the Archbishop and his party 
 do not leave the stage, — they merely step forward 
 to greet Prince John as he enters. 
 
 IV. iii. 125. a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil. 
 Falstaff refers to the old superstition that gold mines 
 were guarded by devils. 
 
 IV. iv. S. d. The Jerusalem Chamber. An apart- 
 ment adjoining the southwest tower of Westminster 
 Abbey, built in the fourteenth century as a guest- 
 chamber, and deriving its name from the tapestries 
 depicting the history of Jerusalem with which it was 
 hung. Since the seventeenth century it has been 
 used as a council chamber. 
 
 IV. iv. 33-35. 'Nevertheless when he is incensed 
 he breaks out in fiery fashion like flint; he abounds 
 in caprices as winter abounds in moisture; and he 
 changes his moods as suddenly as water freezes and 
 melts at the edge of a pond at daybreak/ Flaws 
 are the blades of ice seen on the edges of water on 
 winter mornings. 
 
 IV. iv. 44-48. 'That the vessel of their united 
 blood may never leak, even though that blood should 
 be mingled with the venom caused by hints and sug- 
 gestions tending toward discord, which in this age 
 will be sure to be poured in; and even though this 
 venom should work with the strength of aconite or 
 gunpowder.' 
 
 IV. iv. 79, 80. 'It seldom happens that the bee, 
 having deposited her comb in dead carrion, leaves the 
 
King Henry the Fourth 135 
 
 comb and the carrion.' The application is to the 
 Prince and his low company. 
 
 IV. v. 161. medicine potable. 'There has long 
 prevailed an opinion that a solution of gold has 
 great medicinal virtues, and that the incorruptibility 
 of gold might be communicated to the body impreg- 
 nated with it.' Johnson. 
 
 IV. v. 198. mode. The key in which music is 
 written, used figuratively and associated with 'mood' 
 in the sense of state of mind. 
 
 V. i. 1. cock and pie. The origin of this common 
 Elizabethan oath is obscure. Cock is probably a 
 corruption of God, as in the oath Cock's wounds; 
 and pie is perhaps the Roman service book which 
 was sometimes so called, though the word pie applies 
 more properly to the index of the service book. By 
 Shakespeare's time the meaning of the oath was for- 
 gotten, and Justice Shallow doubtless thinks he is 
 swearing by a cock and a magpie. 
 
 V. ii. 34. 'Which goes against the grain with one 
 in your position.' 
 
 V. ii. 48. This allusion helps to fix the date of the 
 play. Amurath the Fourth succeeded his father on 
 the Turkish throne in 1596. Upon his accession he 
 invited his brothers to dinner and had them all 
 strangled. 
 
 V. ii. 123, 124. This strange remark of the Prince 
 seems to mean that inasmuch as his own wild affec- 
 tions and desires died at the moment of his father's 
 death, they are now, as it were, buried with his 
 father. Hence his father may be said to be buried 
 with wild affections, or to have 'gone wild into his 
 grave.' 
 
 V. iii. 76. dub me knight. The reference is to the 
 Elizabethan custom of giving the title of knight for 
 the evening to a man who, kneeling to his mistress, 
 drained a mighty bumper to her health. 
 
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 V. iii. 105. Helicon was the abode of the Muses. 
 Pistol resents having such low fellows as Robin Hood 
 and his men brought into this very grandiloquent 
 literary conversation. 
 
 V. v. 31, 32. Pistol quotes two Latin phrases 
 which have no significance here, and then proceeds 
 to mistranslate them. The Latin means literally: it 
 is always the same, for without this there is nothing. 
 
 Epil. Shakespeare's authorship of this epilogue 
 has been questioned. The dancer says it is of his 
 own making, but he speaks for the author in promis- 
 ing a continuation of the play and in assuring the 
 audience that Falstaff is not Sir John Oldcastle (cf. 
 note on III. ii. 28, 29, and Appendix C 3 to 1 Henry 
 IV , in the present edition). It is interesting to note 
 that Shakespeare's original intention was to continue 
 the Falstaff plot through the play of Henry V ; but, 
 as Coleridge remarks, 'Agincourt is not the place for 
 the splendid mendacity of Falstaff. With the coro- 
 nation of Henry V opens a new period of glorious 
 enthusiasm and patriotic fervor. There is no longer 
 any place for Falstaff on earth; he must find refuge 
 in "Arthur's bosom." ' 
 
 Epil. 38. fray for the queen. It was the custom 
 to end plays with a prayer for the sovereign. This 
 custom originated in the interludes. 
 
APPENDIX A 
 Sources of the Play 
 
 The principal source of the main plot of this play 
 is the 1587 edition of The Chronicles of England, 
 Scotland, and Ireland, by Raphael Holinshed. Sam- 
 uel Daniel's poem, The Civill Wars of England 
 (1595), or its source, may well have had some influ- 
 ence. Several incidents in the comic plot are taken, 
 apparently, from the play The Famous Victories of 
 Henry V, first acted in 1588, licensed in 1594, and 
 published in 1598. 
 
 Holinshed' s Chronicle 
 
 According to Holinshed, the Earl of Northumber- 
 land was pardoned by the king after the battle of 
 Shrewsbury in 1403. But in 1405 when 'the king 
 was minded to haue gone into Wales against the 
 rebels that vnder their cheeftane Owen Glendower 
 ceassed not to doo much mischeef against the Eng- 
 lish subiects,' he was 'further disquieted' by a 'con- 
 spiracie put in practise against him at home by the 
 Earle of Northumberland who had conspired with 
 Richard Scroope, Archbishop of Yorke, Thomas 
 Mowbraie earle marshall,' and others. 'The King 
 aduertised of these matters left his iournie into Wales 
 and marched with all speed toward the north parts. 
 Also Rafe Neuill earl of Westmerland, that was not 
 farre off, together with the lord Iohn of Lancaster, 
 the king's sonne, being informed of this rebellious 
 attempt, assembled togither such power as they might 
 make . . . made forward against the rebels, and 
 coming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree 
 caused their standards to be pitched downe in the 
 like sort as the Archbishop had pitched his ouer 
 
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 against them, being farre stronger in number of peo- 
 ple than the other, for as some write there were of 
 the rebels at least twentie thousand men.' 
 
 Shakespeare follows Holinshed closely in describ- 
 ing the 'subtill policie' whereby the rebels are dis- 
 posed of; but he transfers the odium attaching to this 
 action from the earl of Westmoreland to Lord John 
 of Lancaster. 
 
 The events of the next eight years, as related by 
 Holinshed, are unnoticed in the play. Shakespeare 
 proceeds immediately to the death of the king, and 
 again follows the Chronicle closely. '1413. The 
 morrow after Candlemas daie began a parlement 
 which the king had called at London, but he departed 
 this life before the same parlement was ended; for 
 now that his prouisions were readie and that he was 
 furnished with sufficient treasure, soldiers, capteins, 
 vittels, munitions, tall ships, strong gallies, and all 
 things necessarie for such a roiall iournie as he pre- 
 tended to take into the holie land, he was eftsoones 
 taken with a sore sicknesse, which was not a leprosie 
 striken by the hand of God, as foolish friars imag- 
 ined, but a verie apoplexie. . . . During this sick- 
 nesse he caused his crowne to be set on a pillow at 
 his bed's head, and suddenlie his pangs so sore trou- 
 bled him that he laie as though all his vitall spirits 
 had beene from him departed. Such as were about 
 him couered his face with a linen cloth. The prince, 
 his sonne, being hereof aduertised, entered into the 
 chamber, tooke awaie the crowne, and departed. The 
 father being suddenlie reuiued out of that trance 
 quicklie perceiued the lacke of his crowne ; and hauing 
 knowledge that the prince his sonne had taken it 
 awaie caused him to come before his presence requir- 
 ing of him what he meant so to misuse himself. The 
 prince with a good audacitie answered, Sir, to mine 
 and all mens iudgements you seemed dead in this 
 world, wherefore I as youre next heire apparent tooke 
 
139 
 
 King Henry the F ourth 
 
 that as mine owne, and not as yours. Well, faire 
 sonne, said the king with a great sigh, what right I 
 had to it God knoweth. Well, said the prince, if you 
 die king, I will haue the garland and trust to keepe 
 it with the sword against all mine enemies as you 
 haue done. Then said the king, I commit all to God, 
 and remember you to doo well. With that he turned 
 himself in his bed and shortlie after departed to 
 God in a chamber of the abbats of Westminster called 
 Ierusalem, . . . when he had reigned thirteene yeares 
 in great perplexitie and little pleasure.' 
 
 Holinshed then tells us that 'king Henrie the fift 
 was crowned the ninth of Aprill, being Passion Sun- 
 daie, which was a sore, ruggie, and tempestuous daie, 
 with wind, snow, and sleet, that men greatlie mar- 
 uelled thereat, making diuerse interpretations what 
 that might signifie. But this king, to show that in 
 his person princelie honors should change publike 
 manners, he determined to put on him the shape of a 
 new man. For whereas aforetime he had made him- 
 self a companion vnto misrulie mates of dissolute 
 order and life, he now banished them all from his 
 presence, but not vnrewarded or else vnpreferred, 
 inhibiting them vpon a great paine not once to ap- 
 proach, lodge, or soiourne within ten miles of his 
 court or presence: and in their places he chose men 
 of grauitie, wit, and high policie, by whose wise 
 councel he might at all times rule to his honor and 
 dignity; calling to mind how once to hie offence of 
 the king his father he had with his fist striken the 
 cheefe iustice for sending one of his minions, vpon 
 desert, to prison, when the iustice stoutlie commanded 
 himself also streict to ward, and the prince obeied.' 
 
 Daniel's Civill Wars 
 
 In the fourth book of his Civill Wars, Daniel con- 
 denses history even more radically than Shakespeare. 
 
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 The king falls sick immediately after his victory at 
 Shrewsbury, and is afflicted by spectres of Conscience 
 and Death. He commands 
 
 'some that attending were 
 To fetch the crowne and set it in his sight; 
 On which with fixed eye and heauie cheere 
 Casting a looke, O God, sayeth he, what right 
 I had to thee my soule doth now conceiue, — 
 Thee which with blood I got, with horror leave.' 
 
 Horror so overwhelms the king that he swoons — 
 
 'When loe his Sonne comes in and takes away 
 The fatall crowne from thence and out he goes 
 As if unwilling longer time to lose.' 
 
 The king revives, summons the prince, and says: 
 
 'O sonne, what needes thee make such speed 
 Vnto that care where feare exceedes thy right, 
 And when his sinne whom thou shalt now succeed 
 Shall still upbraide thy inheritance of might? 
 And if thou canst liue, and liue great, from woe, 
 Without this carefull trauaille, let it goe.' 
 
 The prince replies : 
 
 'What wrong hath not continuance quite outworne? 
 Yeeres make that right which neuer was so borne.' 
 
 The king dies praying that virtuous deeds and the 
 holy wars of his son may atone for his own sins. 
 
 The Famous Victories of Henry V 
 
 In this crude play Prince Hal is twice committed 
 to prison, once by the Lord Mayor for rioting in 
 the streets after a merry evening at the tavern in 
 Eastcheap, and once by the Lord Chief Justice for 
 giving him 'a box on the ear' upon his refusal to 
 pardon one of the prince's companions who has been 
 convicted of highway robbery. 
 
King Henry the Fourth 141 
 
 The following are characteristic selections: 
 
 Enter Henry the fourth, with the earle of Exeter and 
 the earle of Oxford. 
 
 Oxf. Please your maiestie, heere is my Lord maior 
 and the sheriffe of London. 
 
 King Hen. Jf.. Admit them to our presence. 
 
 Enter the Maior and the Sheriffe. 
 
 Now, my good Lord Maior of London, 
 the cause of my sending to you at this time is to tel 
 you of a matter which I have learned of my councell: 
 Herein I understand that you haue committed my 
 sonne to prison without our leaue and license. What 
 although he be a rude youth and likely to give occa- 
 sion, yet you might haue considered that he is a 
 Prince and my sonne, and not to be hailed to prison 
 by euery subiect. 
 
 Maior. May it please your maiestie to give us 
 leaue to tell our tale. 
 
 King Hen. Jf. Or else God forbid, otherwise you 
 might think me an vnequall Iudge, hauing more affec- 
 tion to my sonne then to any rightfull iudgement. 
 
 Maior. Then if it please your Maiestie, this night 
 betwixt two and three of the clocke of the morning, 
 my Lord the young Prince with a very disordered 
 companie, came to the olde Tauerne in Eastcheape, 
 and whether it was that their Musicke liked them not, 
 or whether they were ouercome with wine, I know 
 not, but they drew their swords and into the street 
 they went, and some toke my Lord the yong Princes 
 part, and some tooke the other, but betwixt them 
 there was such a bloodie fray for the space of half 
 an houre, that neither watchmen nor any other could 
 stay them, till my brother the Sheriffe of London 
 and I were sent for, and at the laste with much adoo 
 we staied them, but it was long first, which was a 
 great disquieting to all your louing subiects there- 
 
142 The Second Part of 
 
 abouts : and then my good Lord, we knew not whether 
 your grace had sent them to trie vs, whether we would 
 doe iustice, or whether it were of their owne volun- 
 tarie will or not, we cannot tell, and therefore for 
 our owne safegard we sent him to ward where he 
 wanteth nothing that is fit for his grace. 
 
 King Hen. Jf. Stand aside vntill we haue further 
 deliberated on your answere. 
 
 Exit Maior. 
 
 Hen. If.. Ah Harry, Harry, now thrice accursed 
 
 Harry, 
 That hath gotten a sonne which with greefe 
 Will end his fathers dayes. 
 Oh my sonne, a Prince thou art, I a Prince 
 
 indeed, 
 And to deserue punishment 
 And well haue they done, and like faithfull sub- 
 
 iects : 
 Discharge them and let them go. 
 
 Exit omnes. 
 
 A little later the Lord Chief Justice is conducting 
 the trial of one Cuthbert Cutter, a follower of Prince 
 Hal's, for having robbed 'a poore Carrier vpon Gads 
 hill in Kent.' The Prince enters, with 'Ned and Tom/ 
 and demands the release of his man who has but 
 robbed 'in iest.' The Chief Justice is courteous but 
 resolute. 
 
 Hen. 5. Tell me, my lord, shall I haue my man ? 
 
 Iudge. I cannot, my lord. 
 
 Hen. 5. But will you not let him go ? 
 
 Iudge. I am sorrie his case is so ill. 
 
 Hen. 5. Tush, case me no casings, shall I haue my 
 man? 
 
 Judge. I cannot, nor I may not, my lord. 
 
King Henry the Fourth 14 3 
 
 Hen. 5. No: then I will haue him. 
 
 He giueth him a box on the eare. 
 Ned. Gogs wounds, my lord, shal I cut off his head? 
 Hen. 5. No, I charge you draw not your swords, 
 But get you hence, prouyde a noyse of Musitians, 
 Away, be gone. 
 
 Exeunt the Theefe. 
 Iudge. Well, my Lord, I am content to take it at 
 
 your hands. 
 Hen. 5. Nay, and you be not you shall haue more. 
 Iudge. Why, I pray you, my Lord, who am I? 
 Hen. 5. You, who knowes not you ? 
 
 Why man, you are the Lord chiefe Justice of 
 England. 
 Iudge. Your grace hath said truth, therefore in 
 striking me in this place, you greatly abuse me, and 
 not me onely but also your father: whose liuely per- 
 son here in this place I doo represent. And there- 
 fore to teach you what prerogatiues meane, I commit 
 you to the Fleete, Vntill we haue spoken to your 
 father. 
 
 Hen. 5. Why then belike you meane to send me to 
 the Fleete? 
 
 Iudge. I, indeed, and therefore carry him away. 
 
 Exeunt Hen. 5. with the Officers. 
 
 The scene of the Prince's repentance and reconcilia- 
 tion with his father, which Shakespeare uses in 
 1 Henry IV, in The Famous Victories immediately 
 precedes the following scene in the King's death- 
 chamber. The King is sleeping. 
 
 Enter Lord of Exeter and Oxford. 
 
 Exe. Come easily, my Lord, for waking of the 
 
 King. 
 Hen. J/.. Now, my Lords. 
 
 Oxf. How doth your Grace feele yourself e? 
 Hen. J^.. Somewhat better after my sleepe, 
 
144 The Second Part of 
 
 But good my lords take off my crowne, 
 Remove my chair a little backe, and set me right. 
 Ambo. And please your grace, the crowne is taken 
 
 away. 
 Hen. Jf. The Crowne taken away, 
 
 Good my lord of Oxford, go see who hath done 
 
 this deed: 
 No doubt tis some vilde traitor that hath done it, 
 To depriue my sonne. They that would do it 
 
 now 
 Would seeke to scrape and scrawle for it after 
 
 my death. 
 
 Enter Lord of Oxford with the Prince. 
 
 Oxf. Here and please your Grace, 
 
 Is my Lord the yong Prince with the Crowne. 
 Hen. Jf.. Why how now my sonne ? 
 
 I had thought the last time I had you in school- 
 ing, 
 
 And do you now begin againe? 
 
 Doest thou thinke the time so long 
 
 That thou wouldest haue it before the 
 
 Breath be out of my mouth? 
 Hen. 5. Most soueraign Lord, and welbeloued 
 father, 
 
 I came into your Chamber to comfort the melan- 
 choly 
 
 Soule of your bodie, and finding you at that 
 time 
 
 Past all recouerie, and dead to my thinking, 
 
 God is my witness: and what should I doo 
 
 But with weeping tears lament the death of you 
 my father, 
 
 And after that seeing the Crowne I tooke it: 
 
 And tell me my father, who might better take 
 it then I, 
 
 After your death? But seeing you liue 
 
King Henry the Fourth 145 
 
 I most humbly render it into your Maiesties 
 
 hands 
 And the happiest man aliue, that my father liue: 
 And liue my Lord and Father for euer. 
 Hen. Jf. Stand vp my sonne, 
 
 Thine answere hath sounded wel in mine eares, 
 For I must nedes confesse that I was in a very 
 
 sound sleepe. 
 But come neare my sonne, 
 
 And let me put thee in possession whilst I liue. 
 Hen. 5. Well may I take it at your maiesties hands, 
 But it shall neuer touch my head so long as my 
 father liues. 
 
 He taketh the crowne. 
 
 The King blesses his son, prophesies a glorious 
 reign, calls for music, draws the curtains of his bed, 
 and dies. After the coronation of the new King 
 there is a conversation between the King and three of 
 his old followers, Ned, Tom, and Iockey, who accost 
 him as he appears in state with the Archbishop of 
 Canterbury, and remind him of his promise to make 
 Ned Lord Chief Justice. 
 
 Hen. 5. I prethee Ned, mend thy manners, 
 And be more modester in thy tearmes, 
 For my vnfeigned greefe is not to be ruled by 
 
 thy flattering 
 And dissembling talke. Thou saiest I am 
 
 chaunged, 
 So I am indeed, and so must thou be and that 
 
 quickly, 
 Or else I must cause thee to be chaunged. 
 Tom. I trust we haue not offended your grace no 
 
 way. 
 Hen. 5. Ah, Tom, your former life greeves me, 
 And makes me to abandon and abolish your 
 company for euer. 
 
146 The Second Part of 
 
 And therefore not vpon paine of deeth to ap- 
 
 proch my presence 
 By ten miles space. Then if I heare wel of you, 
 It may be I will do somewhat for you, 
 Otherwise looke for no more fauour at my hands 
 Then at any other mans. And therefore be gone, 
 We haue other matters to talke on. 
 
 Exeunt Knights. 
 
 APPENDIX B 
 The History of the Play 
 
 The success of Henry IV, Part I, led Shakespeare, 
 apparently, to write the second part as a sequel. 
 The date of its composition may be definitely stated 
 as lying somewhere between 1596 and 1599. The 
 death of Amurath III, to which reference is made in 
 V. ii. 48, occurred in 1596; and in Ben Jonson's 
 Every Man out of his Humour (Act V. sc. ii.), writ- 
 ten in 1599, reference is made to Justice Silence. 
 That Henry IV, Part II, was written before Henry V 
 is evidenced by the unfulfilled promise in the Epi- 
 logue of the present play (see the note on that pas- 
 
 An acting version of the play, the only known 
 contemporary Quarto edition, was printed in 1600 
 and entered on the Stationers' Register on August 
 23 of that year. The full text of the play appeared 
 for the first time in the First Folio in 1623. Of the 
 many contemporary allusions to the play of Henry 
 IV and the characters of the play, the following 
 refer unquestionably to Part II. 
 
 (1) Sir Charles Percy, third son of the twentieth 
 Earl of Northumberland, Lord of Dumbleton in 
 Gloucestershire, a follower of the Earl of Essex, and 
 
King Henry the Fourth 1*7 
 
 an admirer, perhaps a friend, of Shakespeare's, 
 writes in a letter dated December 27, 1G00 (?): "I 
 am here so pestered with country business that I shall 
 not be able as yet to come to London. If I stay 
 here long in this fashion, at my return you will find 
 me so dull that I shall be taken for Justice Shallow 
 or Justice Silence." 
 
 (2) Dekker in Satiromastix (1602), Ad Lectorem, 
 refers to Master Justice Shallow. 
 
 (3) Ben Jonson in Epiccene (1609), II. v., re- 
 fers to Doll Tearsheet. 
 
 Of early performances and players of Henry IV, 
 Part II, there are even fewer records than there are 
 of Part I. James Wright in his Historia Histrionica 
 (1699) says that 'before the wars' Lowin acted Fal- 
 staff 'with mighty applause.' Pepys, who attended 
 at least three revivals of the first part of the play be- 
 tween 1660 and 1668, makes no mention of any Res- 
 toration revival of the second part. In 1700 Better- 
 ton, after a triumphant revival of Part I, undertook 
 a revision and revival of Part II. His version held 
 the stage for many years, and is reprinted in Lacy's 
 Acting Edition of Old Plays. Chetwood tells an 
 amusing anecdote concerning Betterton's interpreta- 
 tion of the part of Falstaff in Part II. Johnson, an 
 actor, while playing in Dublin, had seen Baker, a 
 master-pavior, play Falstaff. Upon his return to 
 England he gave Mr. Betterton the manner of Baker's 
 playing, which the great actor not only approved of, 
 but imitated, and allowed that it was better than his 
 own. 
 
 Betterton's arrangement of the play was as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Act I begins with I. ii. ; then follow the scene at 
 the Archbishop's, and the arrest of Falstaff from 
 Act II. 
 
148 The Second Part of 
 
 Act II contains the rest of Shakespeare's Act II, 
 with the Warkworth Castle scenes omitted. 
 
 Act III begins with the scene at Shallow's house, 
 but the rest of the act follows Shakespeare. 
 
 Act IV begins with the King's soliloquy on sleep, 
 taken from Act III; then comes the scene of the 
 King's death, followed by the scene in which Silence 
 sings; and the act closes with the interview between 
 the Lord Chief Justice and King Henry V. 
 
 In Act V, Betterton omits the comic scenes (i. and 
 iv.), and opens the act with the King's progress to 
 Westminster Abbey. Falstaff is rebuked, but is not 
 sent to the Fleet, and the play concludes with an 
 abridgment of the first Act of Henry V. 
 
 Betterton had the good taste not to tamper with 
 Shakespeare's wording to any great extent. 
 
 On December 17, 1720, at Drury Lane, the play 
 was revived again. It was acted five nights succes- 
 sively and once afterwards. It was in this revival 
 that Cibber first appeared as Justice Shallow and 
 made 'one of the great successes of the day.' Mills 
 was Falstaff, and Wilks the Prince. Eleven years 
 later (1731) came another Drury Lane revival, with 
 Mills as the Prince, Harper as Falstaff, and Cibber 
 still playing Shallow. Five years later (1736) the 
 same company, with the exception of Harper, pro- 
 duced the play again at Drury Lane for the benefit 
 of the great Quin, who played Falstaff. In 1744 
 and 1749 there were revivals at the Covent Garden 
 Theatre, Quin again playing Falstaff. 
 
 A performance at Drury Lane in 1758 was made 
 notable by Garrick's first appearance in the role of 
 the King. He had appeared as Hotspur in Part I 
 twelve years before, but had not achieved great suc- 
 cess in that role. As the King in Part II 'his figure 
 did not assist him, but the forcible expression of his 
 countenance, and his energy of utterance, made ample 
 amends for the defect of person.' 
 
King Henry the Fourth 149 
 
 On December 11, 1761, and for twenty-two con- 
 secutive days, King Henry IV, Part II, was presented 
 at Covent Garden in honor of the coronation of King 
 George III. For this performance an elaborate 
 coronation pageant was devised which was used again 
 in 1821 by Macready at the time of the coronation 
 of William IV. Other revivals occurred at Drury 
 Lane in 1764 and 1777, and at Covent Garden in 
 1773, 1784, and 1804. A sensational feature of 
 the 1773 performance was the appearance of an 
 anonymous 'Gentleman' as the King, 'his first per- 
 formance on any stage,' and of Mrs. Lessingham, for 
 whose benefit the play was given, as Prince Hal. 
 In the 1804 production John Philip Kemble played 
 the King, and Charles Kemble the Prince. Charles 
 Kemble again appeared as the Prince in Macready's 
 production in June, July, and August, 1821. 
 
 Of Macready's performance he himself writes in 
 his Reminiscences; 'Kemble had revived the play in 
 1804, but produced little effect. Garrick had not 
 given the prominence he had expected to the part 
 of the King, and for these reasons I begged to be 
 excused from appearing in it. But my objections 
 were set aside. . . . To every line of it I gave the 
 most deliberate attention, and felt the full power 
 of its pathos. The audience hung intently on every 
 word. The admission of the perfect success of the 
 performance was without dissent. The revival re- 
 warded the managers with houses crowded to the 
 ceiling for many nights, nor was this attributable to 
 the pageant only, for the acting was of the highest 
 order. Fawcett was the best Falstaff then upon the 
 stage, but he more excelled in other parts.' The per- 
 fection of Macready's success was not, however, 
 'without dissent.' 'An old playgoer,' in a letter to 
 Tallis's Dramatic Magazine for April, 1851, says of 
 Macready's Henry IV: "In this role he approached 
 nearest to an elocutionist, but generally the effect of 
 
150 Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 
 
 his declamation was unpleasant, harsh, and grating. 
 Kemble's poses were studied but graceful, not like 
 the stiff upright poses of Macready wherein I have 
 often wondered how he could preserve his equilib- 
 rium." 
 
 On March 17, 1853, in his ninth season at Sadler's 
 Wells, Samuel Phelps produced King Henry IV, 
 Part II, he himself playing the double role of the 
 King and Justice Shallow. Contemporary reviews 
 speak of his complete triumph, and say that sceptical 
 critics are now converted to this as a stage play. 
 Phelps used Betterton's version, and revived the play 
 again in London in 1864 and in 1874. In the 1874 
 production Forbes-Robertson, aged 21, appeared as 
 Prince Hal. William Winter records an interesting 
 anecdote of the first rehearsal. Phelps, after watch- 
 ing Forbes-Robertson for a time, said: 'Young man, 
 I see that you know nothing about this. Come to my 
 room tonight.' 
 
 The play has been practically unknown on the 
 American stage. There were twenty-six revivals of 
 Part I in America in the eighteenth century, but 
 apparently none of Part II. In the nineteenth cen- 
 tury the American comedian, James H. Hackett, 
 played the part of Falstaff almost annually from 
 1830 to 1870, in both England and America, but it 
 was the Falstaff of Part I and of The Merry Wives. 
 In 1895-1896 Miss Julia Marlowe played the part 
 of Prince Hal in an abridged version of the two parts 
 of the play; and in 1896-1897 Daly planned a revival 
 which never got beyond rehearsal. Miss Ada Rehan 
 was to play Prince Hal, and James Lewis, Falstaff. 
 The Delta Psi Dramatic Club of Harvard University 
 gave a creditable amateur performance of Part II in 
 the winter of 1915-1916. 
 
APPENDIX C 
 The Text of the Present Edition 
 
 The text of the present edition is, in the main, by 
 permission of the Oxford University Press, that of 
 the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. 
 Craig. Stage directions, when not bracketed, are 
 from either the First Quarto or the First Folio or 
 both; bracketed stage directions are modern. The 
 title of the play is from the First Quarto. The 
 Dramatis Persona? are as given in the First Folio 
 under the caption 'The Actors' Names.' 
 
 In II. ii. 131-149 the present editor has substituted 
 the original assignment of speeches, in 11. 131, 135, as 
 found in both Quarto and Folio, for Craig's assign- 
 ment, as there seems to be no sufficient reason for 
 emendations. He has also assigned 11. 139-148 to the 
 Prince. Craig divides as follows: 
 
 131-133 Poins. Sir John . . . certificate. 
 
 134 Prince. Peace. 
 
 135-149 Poins. I will ... eat it. 
 
 Many minor departures from the Oxford text have 
 been made in this edition in an attempt to arrive at a 
 consistent text. The Oxford editor has in the major- 
 ity of cases followed the readings of the First 
 Quarto, but in about fifty instances he has adopted 
 the slightly different expressions used in the more 
 formal and less colloquial Folio text. For example, 
 in the scenes of low comedy, he in the Folio is almost 
 invariably a' in the Quarto ; is it is is 't; it is is 'tis; 
 etc. The Oxford editor has used sometimes the 
 formal, sometimes the informal expression. He 
 sometimes follows the Folio in correcting the gram- 
 mar and the mispronunciations of Mistress Quickly 
 and Justice Shallow, and sometimes does not; he 
 
152 The Second Part of 
 
 frequently omits the oaths found in the Quarto and 
 expurgated in the Folio, but more frequently includes 
 them. The present editor has not thought it wise 
 to burden his pages with a long list of the minor 
 changes he has made in the Oxford text. His policy 
 has been to follow, in general, the more colloquial 
 Quarto text. 
 
 In the following list of other variants the readings 
 of the present edition precede the colon, Craig's read- 
 ings follow it, and the Quarto or Folio authority is 
 given wherever involved: 
 
 Ind.35 hole QF: hold 
 
 I. i. 33 comes QF: come 
 ii. 5 moe Q: more F 
 
 44 through QF: thorough 
 132 it QF: its 
 
 II. i. 2 action QF: exion 
 
 6 Sirrah!—: Sirrah, QF 
 
 82 all I have Q: all, all I have F 
 
 184 my lord Q: my good lord F 
 
 ii. 21 another Q: one other F 
 
 66 an QF: a 
 
 75 those QF: these 
 
 82 Poins QF: Bard. 
 
 123 kin QF: akin 
 
 137 he sure Q: sure he F 
 
 iii. 63 his QF: its 
 
 iv. 42 a pox damn you Q : omit F 
 
 51 Yea, joy Q: Ay, marry F 
 
 91 debuty Q: deputy F 
 
 93 Wedesday Q: Wednesday F 
 
 142 but I will Q: I will (passage omitted in F) 
 
 171 faitors (faters Q): fates F 
 
 194 fortune Q: fortuna F 
 
 298 shalt have Q: thou shalt have F 
 
 428-9 Come! (She comes blubbered.) Yea, will you 
 come, Doll? Q: omit F 
 
 III. ii. 210 field QF: fields 
 
 339 invisible: invincible QF 
 
 IV. ii. 14 mischiefs QF: mischief 
 
 v. 146 inward, true, and Q: true and inward F 
 
 V. iii. 141 Blessed Q: Happy F 
 
 142 to Q: unto F 
 
King Henry the Fourth 158 
 
 i v. 2 that I might die Q : I might die F 
 
 11 wert Q: hadst F 
 v. 25 best, Q: most F 
 
 APPENDIX D 
 Suggestions for Collateral Reading 
 
 A. C. Bradley: The Rejection of Falstaff in Oxford 
 Lectures on Poetry. London, 1909. 
 
 George Brandes: William Shakespeare, a Critical 
 Study. London, 1880. 
 
 Stopford Brooke: Ten More Plays of Shakespeare. 
 London, 1913. 
 
 Beverley E. Warner: English History in Shake- 
 speare's Plays. New York, 1894. 
 
 See also the corresponding appendix to Henry IV, 
 Part I, in this edition. 
 
INDEX OF WORDS GLOSSED 
 
 (Figures in full-faced type refer to page-numbers) 
 
 a': 12 (I. ii. 48) 
 able: 4 (I. i. 43) 
 accite: 110 (V. ii. 141) 
 accites: 33 (II. ii. 67) 
 accommodated: 61 (III. ii. 
 
 73) 
 Achitophel: 12 (I. ii. 39) 
 actions: 105 (V. i. 89) 
 address'd: 88 (IV. iv. 5) 
 advis'd: 9 (I. i. 172) 
 affect: 98 (IV. v. 143) 
 affections: 90 (IV. iv. 65) 
 affections of delight: 38 (II. 
 
 iii. 29) 
 a fourteen: 60 (III. ii. 53) 
 after my seeming: 110 (V. 
 
 ii. 129) 
 against: 81 (IV. ii. 81) 
 Alecto: 119 (V. v. 40) 
 an: 3 (I. i. 13) 
 ancient: 42 (II. iv. 73) 
 apple-johns: 40 (II. iv. 2) 
 approve: 16 (I. ii. 182) 
 apter: 5 (I. i. 69) 
 argument: 100 (IV. v. 197) ; 
 
 106 (V. ii. 23) 
 armed staves: 74 (IV. i. 
 
 120) 
 as: 92 (IV. iv. 123) 
 assemblance: 67 (III. ii. 
 
 280) 
 at a word: 69 (III. ii. 322) 
 atomy: 117 (V. iv. 32) 
 atonement: 78 (IV. i. 221) 
 attached: 31 (II. ii. 3) 
 attend: 3 (I. i. 3) 
 at twelve score: 60 (III. ii. 
 52) 
 
 away with: 65 (III. ii. 216) 
 awful: 76 (IV. i. 176) 
 
 backsword man: 61 (III. ii. 
 
 71) 
 balance and sword: 109 
 
 (V. ii. 103) 
 Barbary hen: 44 (II. iv. 
 
 107) 
 Barson: 114 (V. iii. 92) 
 Bartholomew boar-pig: 48 
 
 (II. iv. 249, 250) 
 basket-hilt: 45 (II. iv. 139) 
 bate (n.): 49 (II. iv. 271) 
 bate (vb.): 122 (Epil. 16) 
 battle: 64 (III. ii. 167) 
 bear-herd: 17 (I. ii. 194) 
 bear in hand: 12 (I. ii. 40) 
 beavers: 74 (IV. i. 120) 
 before: 78 (IV. i. 228) 
 bestow: 37 (II. ii. 186) 
 Bezonian: 115 (V. iii. 115) 
 biggin: 94 (IV. v. 26) 
 blood: 38 (II. iii. 30) 
 blubbered: 54 (II. iv. 428 
 
 S. d.) 
 blue-bottle: 117 (V. iv. 22) 
 Bolingbroke: 10 (I. i. 208) 
 bona-robas: 59 (III. ii. 26) 
 borrower's cap: 35 (II. ii. 
 
 127, 128) 
 bounce: 68 (III. ii. 307) 
 brawl: 22 (I. iii. 70) 
 brawn: 3 (I. i. 19) 
 break: 122 (Epil. 14) 
 breath'd: 74 (IV. i. 114) 
 breeds no bate: 49 (II. iv. 
 
 271) 
 bruited: 7 (I. i. 114) 
 
Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 155 
 
 buckle: 8 (Li 141) 
 bung: 45 (II. iv. 136) 
 but: 114 (V. iii. 91) 
 
 caliver: 68 (III. ii. 
 calm: 41 (II. iv. 39) 
 candle-mine: 51 (II. iv. 
 
 328) 
 canker'd: 96 (IV. v. 70) 
 cankers: 34 (II. ii. 104) 
 cannibals: 46 (II. iv. 179) 
 caraways: 111 (V. iii. 3) 
 care: 98 (IV. v. 134) 
 carmen: 69 (III. ii. 344) 
 case: 28 (II. i. 119) 
 cast: 9 (I. i. 166); 102 (V. 
 
 i. 21) 
 cavaleros: 112 (V. iii. 60) 
 chambers: 42 (II. iv. 56) 
 chanced: 6 (I. i. 87) 
 channel: 26 (II. i. 54) 
 chaps: 45 (II. iv. 137) 
 charge: 13 (I. ii. 71) 
 cheater: 43 (II. iv. 104) 
 check: 84 (IV. iii. 34) 
 check'd: 57 (III. i. 68) 
 chopp'd: 68 (III. ii. 297) 
 chops: 48 (II. iv. 234) 
 churlish: 22 (I. iii. 62) 
 cinders: 85 (IV. iii. 58) 
 clapped i' the clout: 60 (III. 
 
 ii. 51) 
 close: 52 (II. iv. 358) 
 cock and pie: 102 (V. i. 1) 
 coldest: 106 (V. ii. 31) 
 colour: 19 (I. ii. 280); 120 
 
 (V. v. 92) 
 colours: 120 (V. v. 94) 
 come to any proof: 86 (IV. 
 
 iii. 97, 98) 
 come you in: 68 (III. ii. 
 
 306) 
 commission: 62 (III. ii. 98) 
 commodity: 19 (I. ii. 282) 
 commotion's: 73 (IV. i. 93) 
 companion: 44 (II. iv. 130) 
 
 complices: 8 (Li. 163) 
 conceit: 49 (II. iv. 263) 
 conceive: 35 (II. ii. 126) 
 condition: 83 (IV. iii. 1); 86 
 
 (IV. iii. 90) 
 confound: 90 (IV. iv. 41) 
 conger: 42 (II. iv. 57) 
 consent: 104 (V. i. 78) 
 considerance: 109 (V. ii. 
 
 98) 
 consign'd: 76 (IV. i. 175) 
 consigning to: 110 (V. ii. 
 
 143) 
 conversations: 121 (V. v. 
 
 106) 
 corporate: 66 (III. ii. 238) 
 costermonger: 17 (I. ii. 
 
 193) 
 countenance: 103 (V. i. 41) 
 counter: 14 (I. ii. 102) 
 cover: 40 (II. iv. 11) 
 crack: 59 (III. ii. 34) 
 crafty-sick: 2 (Ind. 37) 
 crudv: 87 (IV. iii. 106) 
 current: 28 (II. i. 136) 
 cuttle: 45 (II. iv. 138) 
 
 dead elm: 52 (II. iv. 363) 
 dear: 98 (IV. v. 139) 
 debuty: 43 (II. iv. 91) 
 defensible: 39 (II. iii. 38) 
 determin'd: 96 (IV. v. 80) 
 did grace: 7 (I. i. 129) 
 discolours the complexion : 
 
 31 (II. ii. 5) 
 dispatch: 86 (IV. iii. 82) 
 dole: 9 (I. i. 169) 
 done me right: 113 (V. iii. 
 
 74) 
 doubt: 121 (Epil. 7) 
 draw: 23 (I. iii. 109); 29 
 
 (II. i. 166) 
 drawer: viii (Dramatis Per- 
 sons) 
 drollery: 29 (II. i. 160) 
 
156 
 
 The Second Part of 
 
 dub me knight: 113 (V. iii. 
 
 76) 
 duer: 69 (III. ii. 332) 
 dull: 93 (IV. v. 2) 
 
 Earl of Hereford: 75 (IV. 
 
 i. 131) 
 easy: 108 (V. ii. 71) 
 ebon: 119 (V. v. 40) 
 edge: 9 (Li. 170) 
 effect: 29 (II. i. 146) 
 element: 85 (IV. iii. 58) 
 endear'd: 38 (II. iii. 11) 
 engaged to: 9 (I. i. 180) 
 engraffed: 33 (II. ii. 69) 
 engrossed: 96 (IV. v. 69) 
 enlarge: 10 (I. i. 204) 
 Ephesians: 36 (II. ii. 164) 
 event: 9 (I. i. 166) 
 ever among: 111 (V. iii. 22) 
 exion: 25 (II. i. 34) 
 expedition: 84 (IV. iii. 37) 
 
 face-royal: 11 (I. ii. 25) 
 faitors: 46 (II. iv. 171) 
 fancies: 69 (III. ii. 345) 
 fear: 92 (IV. iv. 121) 
 fetch it from Japhet: 35 
 
 (II. ii. 130) 
 fetch off: 69 (III. ii. 326) 
 few: 7 (I. i. 112) 
 fig: 115 (V. iii. 121) 
 figure: 21 (I. iii. 43) 
 figuring: 57 (III. i. 81) 
 file: 20 (I. iii. 10) 
 fiapdragons: 49 (II. iv. 267) 
 Fleet: 121 (V. v. 97) 
 flesh'd: 8 (I. i. 149) 
 foin: 24 (II. i. 19) 
 follow'd: 3 (I. i. 21) 
 fondly: 83 (IV. ii. 120) 
 fond many: 23 (I. iii. 91) 
 forehand shaft: 60 (III. ii. 
 
 52, 53) 
 forestall'd remission: 107 
 
 (V. ii. 38) 
 
 forgetive: 87 (IV. iii. 107) 
 form: 57 (III. i. 87); 71 
 
 (IV. i. 20); 98 (IV. v. 
 
 117) 
 forspent: 4 (I. i. 37) 
 foutra: 114 (V. iii. 100) 
 frank: 36 (II. ii. 160) 
 fubbed: 25 (II. i. 39) 
 full points: 47 (II. iv. 197) 
 fustian: 47 (II. iv. 202) 
 
 Galloway nags: 47 (II. iv. 
 
 204) 
 gambol: 49 (II. iv. 273) 
 'gan: 7 (Li. 129) 
 garland: 108 (V. ii. 84) 
 gave them out: 71 (IV. i. 
 
 23) 
 German hunting: 29 (II. i. 
 
 161) 
 get wenches: 87 (IV. iii. 
 
 101) 
 gibbets: 67 (III. ii. 285) 
 gird: 11 (I. ii. 6) 
 glutton: 12 (I. ii. 38) 
 good-nights: 69 (III. ii. 
 
 345) 
 good-year: 42 (II. iv. 63) 
 grace: 7 (Li. 129) 
 grafting: 111 (V. iii. 3) 
 green: 27 (II. i. 109) 
 grief: 8 (I. i. 144) 
 griefs: 73 (IV. i. 69) 
 groat: 19 (I. ii. 267) 
 guarded: 72 (IV. i. 34) 
 
 half-kirtles: 117 (V. iv. 24) 
 halt: 19 (I. ii. 279) 
 hangs: 77 (IV. i. 213) 
 Harry ten shillings: 66 
 
 (III. ii. 239) 
 haunch: 91 (IV. iv. 92) 
 hautboy: 70 (III. ii. 354) 
 head: 9 (I. i. 168) 
 hearken at: 50 (II. iv. 304) 
 heart: 111 (V. iii. 30) 
 
King Henry the Fourth 
 
 157 
 
 heat: 84 (IV. iii. 27) 
 heaviness: 81 (IV. ii. 82) 
 heavy: 106 (V. ii. 14) 
 heels: 15 (I. ii. 142) 
 hence: 100 (IV. v. 213) 
 hilding: 5 (I. i. 57) 
 Hiren: 46 (II. iv. 172) 
 his: 15 (I. ii. 134) 
 hold sortance: 71 (IV. i. 
 
 11) 
 hole: 2 (Ind. 35) 
 honey-seed: 26 (II. i. 59) 
 honey-suckle: 26 (II. i. 58) 
 how: 60 (III. ii. 42) 
 humours: 29 (II. i. 165) 
 hunt counter: 14 (I. ii. 102) 
 hurly: 56 (III. i. 25) 
 husband: 111 (V. iii. 11) 
 
 ill: 16 (I. ii. 188) 
 
 ill laid up: 105 (V. i. 94) 
 
 imbrue: 47 (II. iv. 209) 
 
 immediate: 95 (IV. v. 41) 
 
 imp: 119 (V. v. 47) 
 
 in charge: 74 (IV. i. 120) 
 
 indifferency: 84 (IV. iii. 23) 
 
 in equal rank: 110 (V. ii. 
 
 137) 
 in few: 7 (I. i. 112) 
 infinitive: 25 (II. i. 28) 
 inns o' court: 59 (III. ii. 
 
 14) 
 in respect of: 15 (I. ii. 147) 
 insinew'd: 76 (IV. i. 172) 
 instance: 58 (III. i. 103) 
 intelligencer: 79 (IV. ii. 20) 
 intended: 76 (IV. i. 166) 
 intervallums: 105 (V. i. 90) 
 invested: 88 (IV. iv. 6) 
 in virtue: 76 (IV. i. 163) 
 irregular: viii (Dramatis 
 
 Personae) 
 is chanced: 6 (I. i. 87) 
 it: 15 (I. ii. 132) 
 
 Japhet: 35 (II. ii. 130) 
 
 Jerusalem Chamber: 88 
 
 (IV. iv. S. d.) 
 joint-stools: 49 (II. iv. 269) 
 Jordan: 41 (II. iv. 37) 
 juggler: 45 (II. iv. 139) 
 just: 115 (V. iii. 124) 
 just proportion: 71 (IV. i. 
 
 23) 
 juvenal: 11 (I. ii. 21) 
 
 Keech: 27 (II. i. 104) 
 ken: 75 (IV. i. 151) 
 kickshaws: 103 (V. i. 29) 
 kindly: 96 (IV. v. 82) 
 kirtle: 50 (II. iv. 297) 
 
 land service: 15 (I. ii. 155) 
 leather-coats: 112 (V. iii. 
 
 42) 
 leman: 112 (V. iii. 47) 
 less: 10 (I. i. 209) 
 Lethe: 108 (V. ii. 72) 
 level: 28 (II. i. 128) 
 lewd: 33 (II. ii. 68) 
 liggens: 113 (V. iii. 66) 
 lighten: 31 (II. i. 212) 
 like: 22 (I. iii. 81) 
 lin'd: 21 (I. iii. 27) 
 lisping: 50 (II. iv. 289) 
 look beyond: 90 (IV. iv. 67) 
 Lubber's Head: 25 (II. i. 32, 
 
 33) 
 Lumbert Street: 25 (II. i. 
 
 33) 
 
 make: 10 (I. i. 214) 
 make head: 9 (I. i. 168) 
 malmsey-nose: 25 (II. i. 44, 
 
 45) 
 malt-worms: 52 (II. iv. 
 
 366, 367) 
 mandrake: 11 (I. ii. 16) 
 manned with an agate: 11 
 
 (I. ii. 18) 
 man-queller: 26 (II. i. 60) 
 mare: 27 (II. i. 86) 
 
158 
 
 The Second Part of 
 
 marks: 17 (I. ii. 
 martlemas: 35 (II. ii. 112) 
 mate: 44 (II. iv. 132) 
 mechanical: 118 (V. v. 39) 
 medicine potable: 99 (IV. 
 
 V. 161) 
 mete: 91 (IV. iv. 77) 
 miscarried: 75 (IV. i. 129) 
 misdoubts: 77 (IV. i. 206) 
 mode: 100 (IV. v. 198) 
 Monmouth: 2 (Ind. 29) 
 more: 10 (I. i. 209) 
 mure: 92 (IV. iv. 119) 
 muse: 76 (IV. i. 167) 
 
 names: 75 (IV. i. 154) 
 nave of a wheel: 50 (II. iv. 
 
 278) 
 necessary form: 57 (III. i. 
 
 87) 
 neif: 47 (II. iv. 199) 
 nice: 8 (I. i. 145); 39 (II. 
 
 iii. 40); 77 (IV. i. 191) 
 night-gown: 55 (III. i. S. d.) 
 nobles: 30 (II. i. 171) 
 noise: 40 (II. iv. 13) 
 nut-hook: 116 (V. iv. 8) 
 
 observance: 84 (IV. iii. 
 
 16) 
 observ'd: 89 (IV. iv. 30) 
 occupy: 45 (II. iv. 159) 
 o'er-posting: 16 (I. ii. 173) 
 offer: 78 (IV. i. 219) 
 offices: 21 (I. iii. 47) 
 of sufferance: 117 (V. iv. 
 
 27) 
 old utis: 41 (II. iv. 21, 22) 
 omit: 89 (IV. iv. 27) 
 one: 25 (II. i. 37) 
 opposites: viii (Dramatis 
 
 Personae) 
 orchard: 3 (I. i. 4) 
 order: 65 (III. ii. 200) 
 ousel: 59 (III. ii. 9) 
 
 over-rode: 4 (I. i. 30) 
 over-scutched huswives : 69 
 
 (III. ii. 343) 
 overween: 75 (IV. i. 149) 
 owches: 42 (II. iv. 52) 
 owed: 10 (I. ii. 4) 
 
 pantler: 49 (II. iv. 258) 
 parcel-gilt: 27 (II. i. 97) 
 part (n.): 96 (IV. v. 62) 
 part (vb.): 81 (IV. ii. 70) 
 part-created cost: 22 (I. iii. 
 
 60) 
 particular: 91 (IV. iv. 90) 
 passing: 81 (IV. ii. 85) 
 passion: 8 (I. i. 161) 
 Paul's: 12 (I. ii. 57) 
 pawn'd: 83 (IV. ii. 113) 
 peasant: 2 (Ind. 33) 
 person: 108 (V. ii. 73) 
 peruse: 82 (IV. ii. 94) 
 philosopher's stones : 70 
 
 (III. ii. 357) 
 picking: 77 (IV. i. 198) 
 point: 5 (I. i. 53); 72 (IV. 
 
 i. 52) 
 poll: 50 (II. iv. 282) 
 ports: 94 (IV. v. 23) 
 post: 54 (II. iv. 413) 
 posts: 53 (II. iv. 390); 84 
 
 (IV. iii. 40) 
 pottle-pot: 34 (II. ii. 86) 
 precepts: 102 (V. i. 14) 
 pregnancy: 17 (I. ii. 196) 
 present: 86 (IV. iii. 80) 
 presented: 108 (V. ii. 79) 
 presently: 30 (II. i. 194) 
 prevent: 19 (I. ii. 263) 
 price: 114 (V. iii. 98) 
 prick: 62 (III. ii. 123) 
 pricked down: 52 (II. iv. 
 
 364) 
 prof ace: 111 (V. iii. 28) 
 project of a power: 21 (I. 
 
 iii. 29) 
 
King Henry the Fourth 
 
 159 
 
 proper: 109 (V. ii. 109) 
 proper fellow of my hands: 
 
 33 (II. ii. 74) 
 propose: 108 (V. ii. 92) 
 punish by the heels: 15 (I. 
 
 ii. 142) 
 purchas'd: 100 (IV. v. 198) 
 push: 32 (II. ii. 42) 
 
 quality: 71 (IV. i. 11) 
 quantities: 104 (V. i. 69) 
 quean: 26 (II. i. 53) 
 queasiness: 10 (I. i. 196) 
 question: 4 (I. i. 48) 
 quit: 53 (II. iv. 376) 
 quittance: 6 (Li. 108) 
 quiver: 68 (III. ii. 304) 
 quoif: 8 (Li. 147) 
 quoit: 47 (II. iv. 205) 
 
 ragged: 107 (V. ii. 38) 
 ragged'st: 8 (Li. 151) 
 reckonings: 17 (I. ii. 196) 
 recordation: 39 (II. iii. 61) 
 red lattice: 34 (II. ii. 88) 
 remember'd: 110 (V. ii. 143) 
 remembrance: 109 (V. ii. 
 
 115) 
 render'd: 81 (IV. ii. 87) 
 resolv'd correction: 77 (IV. 
 
 i. 213) 
 respect: 9 (I. i. 184); 15 (I. 
 
 ii. 147) 
 rheumatic: 42 (II. iv. 61) 
 rides the wild mare: 49 (II. 
 
 iv. 268) 
 rigol: 94 (IV. v. 35) 
 rood: 59 (III. ii. 3) 
 roundly: 59 (III. ii. 21) 
 routs: 71 (IV. i. 33) 
 
 sack: 18 (I. ii. 
 sad: 105 (V. i. 91) 
 sadly: 109 (V. ii. 125) 
 said: 111 (V. iii. 9) 
 
 Samingo: 113 (V. iii. 77) 
 score: 25 (II. i. 28) 
 sea-coal: 27 (II. i. 98) 
 seal'd up: 97 (IV. v. 102) 
 second body: 108 (V. ii. 
 
 90) 
 second brother: 33 (II. ii. 
 
 73) 
 sect: 41 (II. iv. 40) 
 seel: 55 (III. i. 19) 
 semblable coherence : 104 
 
 (V. i. 72) 
 set off: 75 (IV. i. 145) 
 seven stars: 47 (II. iv. 200) 
 shadows: 63 (III. ii. 147) 
 shallowly: 83 (IV. ii. 119) 
 sherris-sack: 87 (IV. iii. 
 
 104) 
 shove-groat: 47 (II. iv. 205) 
 Shrewsbury: 2 (Ind. 24) 
 shrove-tide: 112 (V. iii. 36) 
 sickly quoif: 8 (Li. 147) 
 sights: 74 (IV. i. 121) 
 sign of the leg: 49 (II. iv. 
 
 271) 
 since when: 45 (II. iv. 139) 
 single: 17 (I. ii. 210) 
 Sisters Three: 47 (II. iv. 
 
 212) 
 Skogan: 59 (III. ii. 33) 
 slight: 76 (IV. i. 167) 
 slops: 11 (I. ii. 33) 
 smooth-pates: 12 (I. ii. 42) 
 sneap: 28 (II. i. 137) 
 soil: 100 (IV. v. 188) 
 sortance: 71 (IV. i. 11) 
 south: 53 (II. iv. 397) 
 spit white: 18 (I. ii. 241) 
 stand my good lord: 86 (IV. 
 
 iii. 89) 
 state of floods: 110 (V. ii. 
 
 132) 
 staying: 4 (I. i. 48) 
 stiff-borne: 9 (I. i. 177) 
 still: 1 (Ind. 4) 
 
160 Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 
 
 stomach: 7 (Li. 129); 92 
 
 (IV. iv. 105) 
 stop: 1 (Ind. 17) 
 strained passion: 8 (I. i. 
 
 161) 
 strange-achieved: 96 (IV. 
 
 v. 70) 
 strond: 5 (I. i. 62) 
 studied: 31 (II. ii. 10) 
 success: 80 (IV. ii. 47) 
 successively: 100 (IV. v. 
 
 200) 
 sufficient: 62 (III. ii. 104) 
 supplies: 20 (I. iii. 12) 
 Surecard: 62 (III. ii. 96) 
 suspire: 94 (IV. v. 32) 
 swaggerers: 43 (II. iv. 80) 
 swinge-bucklers : 59 (III. ii. 
 
 24) 
 swinged: 116 (V. iv. 21) 
 
 ta: 26 (II. i. 65) 
 tables: 50 (II. iv. 289) 
 taken up: 79 (IV. ii. 26) 
 takes upon him: 35 (II. ii* 
 
 126) 
 take the heat: 51 (II. iv. 
 
 326, 327) 
 taking up: 12 (I. ii. 45) 
 tall: 61 (III. ii. 68) 
 tame cheater: 43 (II. iv. 
 
 104, 105) 
 temper: 27 (II. i. 90) 
 tempering: 88 (IV. iii. 141) 
 terms: 105 (V. i. 89) 
 tester: 68 (III. ii. 299) 
 thick: 38 (II. iii. 24) 
 thousands: 64 (III. ii. 180) 
 through: 12 (I. ii. 44) 
 tiring: 2 (Ind. 37) 
 tirrits: 47 (II. iv. 219) 
 to: 74 (IV. i. 104) 
 toward: 47 (II. iv. 213) 
 toys: 46 (II. iv. 182) 
 traverse: 68 (III. ii. 294) 
 Trigon: 50 (II. iv. 288) 
 
 trimm'd: 23 (I. iii. 94) 
 two points: 45 (II. iv. 140) 
 
 unseason'd: 58 (III. i. 105) 
 utis: 41 (II. iv. 22) 
 
 vail: 7 (Li. 129) 
 vain: 119 (V. v. 49) 
 valuation: 77 (IV. i. 189) 
 vanity: 98 (IV. v. 118) 
 vaward: 17 (I. ii. 202) 
 vent: 1 (Ind. 2) 
 vice: 25 (II. i. 26) 
 Vice's dagger: 69 (III. ii. 
 
 346) 
 virtuous: 96 (IV. v. 74) 
 
 wanton: 8 (I. i. 148) 
 warder: 74 (IV. i. 125) 
 wassail candle: 16 (I. ii. 
 
 181) 
 waste: 101 (IV. v. 214) 
 watch-case: 55 (III. i. 17) 
 water- work: 29 (II. i. 162) 
 wax: 16 (I. ii. 182) 
 well-appointed: 9 (I. i. 190) 
 well conceited: 103 (V. i. 
 
 39) 
 wen: 35 (II. ii. 117) 
 what: 2 (I. i. 2); 15 (I. ii. 
 
 130) 
 Wheeson: 27 (II. i. 99) 
 whoreson: 11 (I. ii. 15) 
 will not out: 113 (V. iii. 68) 
 winking: 21 (I. iii. 33) 
 with: 94 (IV. v. 30) 
 witness'd usurpation: 5 (I. 
 
 i. 63) 
 workings: 79 (IV. ii. 22) 
 wo't: 26 (II. i. 65) 
 writ man: 11 (I. ii. 29) 
 wrought: 92 (IV. iv. 119) 
 
 yea-forsooth knave: 12 (I. 
 
 ii. 40) 
 yeoman: 24 (II. i. 4) 
 
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