282 affect desire
284 obedience i.e. kneeling posture 288 course current
292 have purposed intend
295 as having sense as though it were alive 296 on thee depending attached to you
299 fine in carat pure
300 med'cine potable i.e. aurum potabile, a liquid medicine supposed to contain gold 301 fine refined, pure
304 try dispute, engage in
310 affection tendency to
311 Give entertainment to receive, be hospitable to might power 313 vassal subject
317 join the more be further united to 320 latest last, final
322 by-paths obscure, indirect paths
323 met came by
327 soil grounds, foundation/stain, dishonor 329 boist'rous unruly, violent
330 many i.e. of the men who claimed to have assisted him 333 fears sources of fear
336 argument plot, theme/subject of contention 337 purchased bought, acquired not inherited 338 fairer sort just manner/favorable lot 339 garland i.e. crown successively by right of succession 341 griefs are green grievances remain fresh, unhealed 342 make work to maintain as
344 fell working fierce efforts
345 lodge harbor
350 near closely state kingship
351 giddy foolish, restless
352 action war hence borne out undertaken abroad 353 waste dispel
354 I I say wasted worn out
361 common pain ordinary effort
367 trunk body/tree trunk
368 a period an end
372 lodging room swoon faint
374 Laud praise
375 years i.e. years ago
376 but except
377 vainly foolishly/conceitedly
Davy one of Shallow's servants
1 By...pie a mild oath cock form of "God" pie Roman Catholic service book 11 precepts writs, summons
12 headland strip of unplowed land in a field; used for turning the plow it was sown later than the rest of the field 13 red wheat a dark-colored late variety 15 smith's note blacksmith's bill
16 plough-irons any iron parts of a plow 17 cast calculated (plays on the sense of "form metal into shape") 19 link...bucket rope or chain, most likely for the pail drawing water up from a well 21 Hinckley Fair well-known cattle fair held every August at Hinckley, a market town on the Warwickshire/Leicestershire border 22 answer repay
24 kickshaws fancy dishes
25 man of war soldier/large warship (i.e. Falstaf) 26 use treat A...purse i.e. it's useful to have friends in high places 28 arrant knaves absolute rogues backbite tell tales, slander 29 bitten...linen i.e. clothes full of lice 31 Well conceited very witty
32 countenance favor
41 bear out support
42 credit trust/reputation
45 Look about watch out/get busy
51 tall valiant, or perhaps ironically addressed to the Page 54 quantities little bits
55 staves i.e. long and thin
56 semblable coherence close correspondence 58 conversing associating
59 married in conjunction intimately connected 61 suit to lawsuit for/favor to beg
63 imputation...near suggestion that I am friendly with 64 curry curry favor, flatter
70 terms sessions of the law courts (four in a year) actions lawsuits 71 intervallums intervals between terms
72 sad brow straight face never...shoulders i.e. was young and carefree 74 ill laid up badly folded, i.e. creased up 8 service...injuries presumably the Lord Chief Justice is recalling the time he had Prince Henry arrested and is worried about repercussions now that Hal is king truly faithfully 1 whither away where are you going
14 fantasy imagination
15 heavy issue sorrowful offspring
16 temper disposition
18 hold their places retain their positions 19 strike sail lower their sails, i.e. submit vile base 24 argument subject for discussion
29 borrow not do not put on
30 sure certainly
31 grace favor (from Hal)
32 coldest expectation the least favorable situation.
35 your...quality the current of your nature and position 39 ragged wretched forestalled remission pardon so certain to be refused it is not worth asking 40 troth good faith, honesty
49 Amurah a Turkish sultan who, upon gaining the throne, had all his brothers killed; his successor did the same thing 62 number...happiness i.e. for each tear there shall be an hour of happiness 64 strangely in a distant, unfamiliar manner 65 assured convinced
69 hopes expectations
71 Rate berate
72 easy insignificant/lenient
73 Lethe in Greek mythology, the river in the underworld; immersion in its waters induced forgetfulness 74 use the person represent
80 presented represented
84 commit imprison
85 Be you would you be garland crown
87 awful awe-inspiring, majestic bench judge's seat, i.e. judicial system 90 spurn strike/disdain
91 second body deputy, substitute
92 make...yours put yourself in that situation 93 propose imagine
94 profaned abused, treated with contempt 95 dreadful formidable, awe-inspiring loosely carelessly, casually 98 soft gently
99 cold considerance calm consideration
100 state role as king
101 misbecame was not appropriate to
103 weigh consider, reason
104 still...sword i.e. retain your position; balance (scales) and sword are the emblems of justice 110 proper own
114 commit sense shifts from "imprison" to "entrust"
115 used been accustomed
116 remembrance reminder
120 sound speak out
121 intents intentions
122 well-practised experienced
125 affections wild inclinations, self-indulgent behavior 126 sadly solemnly, seriously
127 mock defy
128 raze out erase, obliterate
129 Rotten opinion poor, corrupt reputation 130 After my seeming in accordance with the way I appeared to be 131 vanity worthlessness, folly
133 state of floods majesty of the sea 136 limbs...counsel i.e. advisers 142 accite summon
143 remembered mentioned (pronounced remembred
144 consigning to approving, setting its seal to 1 orchard garden
2 pippin variety of apple graffingx grafting, cultivation 3 caraways sweets or cakes made with caraway seeds 5 rich fertile/well-off one
7 Spread lay the cloth for eating
8 said done
10 husband steward
11 varlet servant/rogue
14 quoth a said he
17 flesh meat/whores dear beloved/expensive 18 lusty lively/lustful
21 health toast
24 Proface! a toast or welcoming cry: "May it do you good!" (from old French or Italian) 25 want in meat lack in flesh, i.e. size bear put up with it 26 all i.e. the most important thing 30 shrews nags and scolds
31 in...all at dinner when men's beards move up and down in lively conversation 32 Shrovetide the three feast days before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent 35 mettle character/liveliness
36 twice and once comic inversion of "once or twice 37 leather-coats russet apples which have tough skins 41 brisk dry/sparkling
42 leman sweetheart
48 let it come pass it round
49 pledge toast a...bottom the whole cup, even if it were a mile deep 51 beshrew a curse on
53 cavalieros fashionable young men
56 crack a quart empty a quart pot, i.e. two pints of ale 58 pottle-pot tankard containing two quarts (four pints), twice what Shallow proposed 59 stick by thee keep up with you (in drinking) 60 out drop out
64 done me right i.e. by matching me in drinking 65 Do...Samingo popular drinking song
67 Samingo Sir Mingo (mingo is Latin for "I urinate") 69 somewhat something
77 greatest most influential (Silence takes the sense of "fattest") 78 but except for G
oodman title for those below the rank of gentleman Puff name suggestive of swelling (Pistol shifts the sense to "brag, boast") 79 recreant cowardly
83 price great value
84 man...world an ordinary mortal, i.e. in plain language 85 A foutre i.e. "I don't give a fuck" (from the French) 87 Assyrian native of Assyria, ancient Middle Eastern country renowned in the Bible for robbery and pillage, later associated with luxury 88 King Cophetua African king who fell in love with a beggar girl; a popular topic for ballads 89 Robin...John fragment from the ballad Robin Hood and the Pinder of Wakefield 90 curs dogs
Helicons i.e. the Muses who lived on Mount Helicon in Greece-- hence "true poets"
91 baffled frustrated/treated with contempt 92 lay...lap appeal to the Furies, mythological goddesses of revenge 93 breeding social status
99 Besonian beggar, knave (from Italian besogno) 106 do...me make the indecent gesture known as the "fig of Spain," which consisted of thrusting the thumb between the index and middle fingers 109 just true
110 Away let's go
112 double-charge...dignities load you, like a firearm, twice over with honors 113 take exchange
116 Carry...bed presumably Silence has passed out from too much drink 120 withal moreover
121 Boot get your boots on
122 sick i.e. longing, pining for (unconscious play on sense of "sick of") 126 vultures...also refers to the punishment inflicted on Prometheus by the Greek gods; for stealing fire from heaven, he had his liver pecked out by vultures each day (it regrew at night) 127 'Where...led?' line from a lost poem or ballad Beadles parish officers with the power to punish petty offenders, perhaps synonymous with Fang and Snare 2 that so that hanged i.e. as her murderer 4 over up (for punishment)
5 whipping-cheer feast of whipping, a common punishment for whores 6 killed about her murdered on her account; may play on "brought to orgasm" in her company 7 Nut-hook beadle or constable; literally a long pole with a hook at the end for gathering nuts 8 tripe-visaged with a face like tripe (i.e. sallow, pockmarked).
9 go am pregnant thou...struck you'd have been better off if you'd struck 10 paper-faced i.e. thin, pale
12 bloody...somebody he'd fight and make somebody pay for this 12 I...miscarry either she hopes Doll will miscarry and the Beadle be punished or she's confused and means the opposite 14 cushions implying that Doll is feigning pregnancy by stuffing a cushion under her gown 15 but only
17 man in a censer vessels in which incense was burned were embossed with figures 18 swinged thrashed blue-bottled beadles wore dark-blue uniforms 19 correctioner one who administers punishment; or more specifically, officer at the Bridewell House of Correction for prostitutes 20 forswear half-kirtles give up wearing skirts; a kirtle consisted of a bodice and a skirt 21 she knight-errant female knight/prostitute (who commits her misdeeds, or errs by night) 22 right...might inversion of the proverb "might overcomes right"
23 sufferance...ease undergoing suffering/patient forbearance produces relief/comfort 26 Goodman...bones insults referring to the Beadle's thinness!
27 anatomy skeleton
28 thing perhaps with phallic connotations rascal rogue/underweight young deer Grooms man servants
1 rushes with which Elizabethan floors were commonly strewn 6 leer upon look sideways at, catch his eye 7 countenance look/patronage
10 liveries servants' uniforms bestowed laid out, used 12 infer imply, demonstrate
20 shift me change my shirt
27 semper idem "ever the same" (Latin)
obsque...est "apart from this there is nothing" (Latin; obsque is a mistake for absque) 'Tis...part Pistol's rough translation of the Latin
30 liver regarded as the seat of the passions 32 Helen i.e. Helen of Troy, supposedly the most beautiful woman in the world 33 durance imprisonment
34 Haled hauled, dragged
35 mechanical vulgar, common
36 ebon ebony, black fell fierce den with fell 37 Alecto one of the Furies, described by Virgil as being crowned with snakes 38 in in prison; possibly plays on "pregnant" (hence Falstaff's "deliver") 42 imp scion or offspring of a noble house 44 vain foolish, worthless
46 Jove supreme Roman god
50 surfeit-swelled swollen from overindulgence 52 hence henceforth
53 gormandizing excessive eating
62 riots debauched behavior, revelry, disorderly deeds 65 our Hal uses the royal plural pronoun 66 competence of life a sufficient allowance 67 That...evil so that poverty will not make you turn to crime 70 advancement promotion, favor charge responsibility, orders 71 tenor substance
80 doublet close-fitting jacket
83 colour pretense (of Henry's)
84 colour puns on "collar" (hangman's noose), die puns on "dye"
85 colours enemy flags
86 soon at night this very evening/early in the evening 88 Fleet prison in the City of London.
93 Si...contento "If fortune torments me, hope contents me" (Italian; the same motto Pistol uttered in Act 2 Scene 4, with the Italian differently garbled) 94 fair proceeding kindly/just course of action 95 hath intent intends wonted customary 97 conversations behavior
103 civil swords used in civil wars
107 curtsy bow
your addressed to the audience
111 doubt fear marring ruin
112 venture attempt/risk
115 ill venture unsuccessful commercial voyage 116 break break my promise/am bankrupt 117 creditors plays on both financial sense and "people who believe my promise 118 bate me let me off
128 continue...it i.e. in Henry V, although in the end Falstaff did not feature in that play 131 sweat a fit of sweating due to either physical exertion, the plague, or a type of cure for venereal disease hard unfavorable 132 Oldcastle...martyr Sir John Oldcastle, the name originally given to Falstaff, was an early fifteenth-century Lollard leader, subsequently regarded as a martyr by the Puritans; Shakespeare had to drop the name from the play due to objections from Oldcastle's descendants
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