{"product_id":"henry-iv-part-one-isbn-9780553212938","title":"Henry IV, Part One","description":"A play alive with escapades and action, comedy and history, \u003cb\u003eHenry IV, Part One \u003c\/b\u003ebegins the transformation of the madcap Prince Hal into the splendid ruler King Henry. In it a rebellion against King and State is juxtaposed with another rebellion–the riotous misbehavior of Hal and his companions, principally Falstaff. A superbly funny liar, coward, lecher, and cheat, the larger-than-life character Falstaff turns this great historical drama into a masterpiece of counterpoint and design. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach Edition Includes:\u003cbr\u003e• Comprehensive explanatory notes \u003cbr\u003e• Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship \u003cbr\u003e• Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English\u003cbr\u003e• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories \u003cbr\u003e• An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmographyWilliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23.  The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse.  He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community.  William probably went to the King’s New School in Stratford, but he had no university education.  In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna.  She was born on May 26, 1583.  Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585.  By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright.  A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as “an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers.”  Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord  Chamberlain’s Men (later under James I, called the King’s Men).  In 1599 the Lord Chamberlain’s Men built and occupied the Globe Theater in Southwark near the Thames River.  Here many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed by the most famous actors of his time, including Richard Burbage, Will Kempe, and Robert Armin.  In addition to his 37 plays, Shakespeare had a hand in others, including \u003ci\u003eSir Thomas More\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Two Noble Kinsmen\u003c\/i\u003e, and he wrote poems, including \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of Lucrece\u003c\/i\u003e. His 154 sonnets were published, probably without his authorization, in 1609.  In 1611 or 1612 he gave up his lodgings in London and devoted more and more time to retirement in Stratford, though he continued writing such plays as \u003cb\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHenry VII\u003c\/b\u003e until about 1613.  He died on April 23 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.  No collected edition of his plays was published during his life-time, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, John Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio.\u003cp\u003eDramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking Henry the fourth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince Henry,  Prince of Wales,     sons of the King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince john of Lancaster,    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearl of Westmorland \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Walter blunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearl of Northumberland, Henry Percy, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Percy, (hotspur), his son,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearl of Worcester, Northumberland's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyounger brother, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elord Mortimer, Edmund Mortimer,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealso referred to as the Earl of March, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOwen Glendower,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearl of Douglas, Archibald Douglas,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Richard Vernon,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earchbishop of York, Richard Scroop,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir Michael, a member of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchbishop's household,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elady Percy, Hotspur's wife and Mortimer's sister\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elady Mortimer, Mortimer's wife and Glendower's daughter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir john Falstaff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNed Poins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBardolph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGadshill, arranger of the highway robbery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehostess of the tavern, Mistress Quickly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis, a drawer, or tapster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evintner, or tavern keeper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst carrier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecond carrier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehostler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echamberlain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst traveler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esheriff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eservant to Hotspur\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emessenger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecond messenger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoldiers, Travelers, Lords, Attendants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escene: England and Wales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1. Location: The royal court.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Find we let us find. frighted frightened\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 breathe short-winded accents speak, even though we are out of breath. accents words broils battles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 strands afar remote far-off shores, i.e., of the Holy Land (to which, at the end of Richard II, Henry has pledged himself to a crusade)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 thirsty entrance i.e., parched mouth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 daub coat, smear\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 trenching cutting, plowing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 paces horses' tread\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 intestine internal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 close hand-to-hand encounter. civil (as in \"civil war\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 his its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21 impressed conscripted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 power army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23 their mother's i.e., England's, but also suggesting their mothers'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1 A Enter the King, Lord John of Lancaster, [the] Earl of Westmorland, [Sir Walter Blunt,] with others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo shaken as we are, so wan with care,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFind we a time for frighted peace to pant, 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd breathe short-winded accents of new broils 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo be commenced in strands afar remote. 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo more the thirsty entrance of this soil 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShall daub her lips with her own children's blood; 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo more shall trenching war channel her fields 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf hostile paces. Those opposed eyes, 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll of one nature, of one substance bred,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid lately meet in the intestine shock 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd furious close of civil butchery, 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShall now in mutual well-beseeming ranks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarch all one way and be no more opposed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst acquaintance, kindred, and allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends, 18\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs far as to the sepulcher of Christ--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhose soldier now, under whose blessed cross\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are impressed and engaged to fight-- 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForthwith a power of English shall we levy, 22\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhose arms were molded in their mothers' womb 23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo chase these pagans in those holy fields\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver whose acres walked those blessed feet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich fourteen hundred years ago were nailed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor our advantage on the bitter cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this our purpose now is twelve month old,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29 bootless useless\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 Therefore . . . now That is not the reason for our present meeting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31 Of from. gentle cousin noble kinsman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e33 dear expedience urgent expedition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34 hot in question being hotly debated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35 limits . . . charge particulars of military responsibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e36 athwart at cross purposes, contrarily\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37 post messenger. loaden laden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e43 corpse corpses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e44 transformation mutilation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e49 other other news\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50 uneven disconcerting, distressing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e52 Holy Rood Day September 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e54 approved proved by experience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e55 Holmedon Humbleton in Northumberland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e57 by judging from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e58 shape of likelihood likely outcome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e59 them the news\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd bootless 'tis to tell you we will go. 29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherefore we meet not now. Then let me hear 30\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf you, my gentle cousin Westmorland, 31\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat yesternight our council did decree\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn forwarding this dear expedience. 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestmorland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy liege, this haste was hot in question, 34\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd many limits of the charge set down 35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut yesternight, when all athwart there came 36\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA post from Wales loaden with heavy news, 37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhose worst was that the noble Mortimer,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeading the men of Herefordshire to fight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the irregular and wild Glendower,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thousand of his people butchered--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon whose dead corpse there was such misuse, 43\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch beastly shameless transformation, 44\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy those Welshwomen done as may not be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout much shame retold or spoken of.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seems then that the tidings of this broil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrake off our business for the Holy Land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestmorland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis matched with other did, my gracious lord; 49\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more uneven and unwelcome news 50\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCame from the north, and thus it did import:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Holy Rood Day, the gallant Hotspur there, 52\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Harry Percy, and brave Archibald,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat ever-valiant and approved Scot, 54\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Holmedon met, where they did spend 55\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sad and bloody hour,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs by discharge of their artillery 57\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd shape of likelihood the news was told; 58\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor he that brought them, in the very heat 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e60 pride height\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e62-3 Here . . . Blunt (Whether Blunt enters at the start of the scene, or now, or possibly not at all, is not certain in the original text.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e66 smooth pleasant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e67 discomfited defeated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e69 Balked heaped up in balks, or ridges\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e71 Mordake i.e., Murdoch, son of the Earl of Albany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e81 plant young tree\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e82 minion favorite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e84 riot debauchery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e86 night-tripping i.e., moving nimbly in the night\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e88 Plantagenet (Family name of English royalty since Henry II)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e90 let him let him go. coz cousin, i.e., kinsman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd pride of their contention did take horse, 60\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncertain of the issue any way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a dear, a true industrious friend, 62\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse, 63\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStained with the variation of each soil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd he hath brought us smooth and welcome news. 66\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Earl of Douglas is discomfited; 67\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen thousand bold Scots, two-and-twenty knights,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBalked in their own blood, did Sir Walter see 69\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMordake, Earl of Fife and eldest son 71\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo beaten Douglas, and the Earl of Atholl,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf Murray, Angus, and Menteith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd is not this an honorable spoil?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gallant prize? Ha, cousin, is it not?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestmorland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn faith, it is a conquest for a prince to boast of.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYea, there thou mak'st me sad, and mak'st me sin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn envy that my lord Northumberland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShould be the father to so blest a son--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA son who is the theme of honor's tongue,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmongst a grove the very straightest plant, 81\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride, 82\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst I, by looking on the praise of him,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee riot and dishonor stain the brow 84\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf my young Harry. Oh, that it could be proved\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat some night-tripping fairy had exchanged 86\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn cradle clothes our children where they lay,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd called mine Percy, his Plantagenet! 88\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen would I have his Harry, and he mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz, 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e92 surprised ambushed, captured\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e93 To . . . use i.e., to collect ransom for them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e94 none but Mordake (Since Mordake was of royal blood, being grandson to Robert II of Scotland, Hotspur could not claim him as his prisoner according to the law of arms.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e96 Malevolent . . . aspects (1) implacably hostile to you (2) in astrological terms, a planet in a disobedient orbit, ominous as seen from every angle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e97 Which . . . himself i.e., which teaching makes Hotspur preen himself (as a falcon preens its feathers)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2 Location: London, perhaps in an apartment of the Prince's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 sack a Spanish white wine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 forgotten forgotten how\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 a devil in the devil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 dials clocks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 leaping houses houses of prostitution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 taffeta (commonly worn by prostitutes)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 superfluous (1) unnecessarily concerned (2) self-indulgent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf this young Percy's pride? The prisoners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich he in this adventure hath surprised 92\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo his own use he keeps, and sends me word 93\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI shall have none but Mordake, Earl of Fife. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestmorland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is his uncle's teaching. This is Worcester,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalevolent to you in all aspects, 96\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich makes him prune himself and bristle up 97\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crest of youth against your dignity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut I have sent for him to answer this;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd for this cause awhile we must neglect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur holy purpose to Jerusalem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCousin, on Wednesday next our council we\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill hold at Windsor. So inform the lords.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut come yourself with speed to us again,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more is to be said and to be done\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThan out of anger can be uttered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestmorland I will, my liege. Exeunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2 A Enter Prince of Wales and Sir John Falstaff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalstaff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince  Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebenches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to de-  4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emand that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea devil hast though to do with the time of the day? Un- 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of   8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot   9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why  10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time  11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 you . . . now i.e., you've scored a point on me\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 go by (1) travel by the light of (2) tell time by. the seven stars the Pleiades\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15-16 Phoebus . . . fair (Phoebus, god of the sun, is here equated with the wandering knight of a ballad or popular romance.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 Grace royal highness (with pun on spiritual grace and also on the grace or blessing before a meal)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20 troth faith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21 prologue . . . butter i.e., grace before a brief meal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 roundly i.e., out with it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23 Marry Indeed. (Literally, \"by the Virgin Mary.\") wag joker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24-5 let . . . beauty i.e., let not us who are attendants on the goddess of night, members of her household, be blamed for stealing daylight by sleeping in the daytime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25-6 Diana's foresters (An elegant name for thieves by night; Diana is goddess of the moon and the hunt.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e26 minions favorites\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27 government (1) conduct (2) commonwealth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29 countenance (1) face (2) patronage, approval. steal (1) move stealthily (2) rob\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 it holds well the comparison is apt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e36 Lay by (a cry of highwaymen, like \"Hands up!\") Bring in (an order given to a waiter in a tavern)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37 ladder (1) pier ladder (2) gallows ladder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e38 ridge crossbar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e41 Hybla (a town, famed for its honey, in Sicily near Syracuse) old . . . castle (1) a roisterer (2) the name Sir John Oldcastle, borne by Falstaff in an earlier version of this play\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42 buff jerkin a leather jacket worn by officers of the law. durance (1) imprisonment (2) durability, durable cloth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e44 quiddities subtleties of speech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalstaff  Indeed, you come near me now, Hal, for we  13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat take purses go by the moon and the seven stars,  14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand not by Phoebus, \"he, that wandering knight so  15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efair.\" And I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king,  16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas, God save Thy Grace--Majesty I should say, for  17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egrace thou wilt have none--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince  What, none?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalstaff  No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to  20\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebe prologue to an egg and butter. 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince  Well, how then? Come, roundly, roundly. 22\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalstaff  Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art  23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking, let not us that are squires of the night's body be  24\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecalled thieves of the day's beauty. Let us be Diana's  25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eforesters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon;  26\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand let men say we be men of good government,  27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeing governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. 29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince  Thou sayest well, and it holds well too, for the  30\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eflow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emoon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresolutely snatched on Monday night and most dis-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esolutely spent on Tuesday morning, got with swearing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lay by\" and spent with crying \"Bring in,\" now in as  36\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elow an ebb as the foot of the ladder and by and by in  37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas high a flow as the ridge of the gallows. 38\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalstaff  By the Lord, thou say'st true, lad. And is not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emy hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince  As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle.  41\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?  42\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalstaff  How now, how now, mad wag, what, in thy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equips and thy quiddities? What a plague have I to do  44\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith a buff jerkin?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46 pox syphilis (Here, what a pox is used as an expletive, like \"what the devil.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e48 reckoning settlement of the bill (with bawdy suggestion that is continued in pay thy part and my coin would stretch)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e58 resolution courage (of a highwayman). fubbed cheated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e59 Antic Buffoon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e62 rare splendid. brave excellent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e65 have . . . thieves (1) be in charge of hanging thieves (or protecting them from hanging) (2) hang like other thieves. rare (1) rarely used (2) excellent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e67-8 jumps . . . humor suits my temperament\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e68 waiting in the court being in attendance at the royal court\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e70 suits petitions. (But Falstaff uses the word to mean suits of clothes; clothes belonging to an executed man were given to the executioner.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e72 'Sblood By his (Christ's) blood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e73 gib cat tomcat. lugged bear bear led by a chain and baited by dogs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e76 hare (a proverbially melancholy animal)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e77 Moorditch (a foul ditch draining Moorfields, outside London walls)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince  Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess  46\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the tavern?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efalstaff  Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning  48\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emany a time and oft. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince  Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efalstaff  No, I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprince  Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estretch, and where it would not I have used my credit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efalstaff  Yea, and so used it that, were it not here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapparent that thou art heir apparent--But I prithee,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhen thou art king? 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