Henry IV, Part 2
by William Shakespeare
Occult PhilosophyHermeticismModern
Chapters
92
Total Words
43,486
Reading Time
174 min
Published
1600
Table of Contents
1.Preface
4 min2.L. Bard. Who keeps the gate here ? ho !
1 min3.L. Bard. Tell thou the earl
1 min4.L. Bard. Here comes the earl.
1 min5.L. Bard. As good as heart can wish.
1 min6.L. Bard. I spake with one, my lord, that came
1 min7.L. Bard. My lord, I’ll tell you what:
5 min8.L. Bard. Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your
1 min9.L. Bard. We all that are engaged to this loss 180
13 min10.L. Bard. The question, then. Lord Hastings, stand-
1 min11.L. Bard . Ay, marry, there’s the point:
2 min12.L. Bard. What ! is the king but five-and-twenty
1 min13.L. Bard. Who is it like should lead his forces
107 min14.I. i. 116-118. ‘By his spirit was his party inspired,
1 min15.I. i. 128. In 1 Henry IV, V. iii., Douglas kills
1 min16.I. i. 166-179. These lines are the first of a series
1 min17.II. iv. 14, 15 (Dispatch . . . straight); II. iv. 144-
1 min18.I. i. 204, 205. According to Shakespeare, King
1 min19.I. ii. 18. manned with an agate. Attended by a
1 min20.I. ii. 25. face-royal. A royal was a gold coin
1 min21.I. ii. 38. glutton. The parable of Dives and
1 min22.I. ii. 39. Achitophel. The counsellor of Absalom
1 min23.I. ii. 40. yea-forsooth Icnave. The reference is to
1 min24.I. ii. 51-54. Falstaff is here playing with the
1 min25.I. ii. 57. Paul’s. The nave of St. Paul’s Cathedral
1 min26.I. ii. 61, 62. This episode from The Famous Vic¬
1 min27.I. ii. 102. hunt counter. A hunting term mean¬
1 min28.I. ii. 182. wax. ‘A poor quibble on the word wax,
1 min29.I. ii. 189-192. An angel was a gold coin, worth
1 min30.I. ii. 241. spit white. Furnivall quotes Batman
1 min31.I. ii. 259. A three-man beetle is a mallet so heavy
1 min32.I. iii. 36-41. Many emendations have been sug¬
1 min33.I. iii. 53-55. ‘Know how well able our estate is to
1 min34.II. i. 36, 37. When Dame Quickly says, ‘A hun¬
1 min35.II. i. 67, 68. rampallian. Elizabethan slang, ras¬
1 min36.II. i. 145. Falstaff has the legal right to demand
1 min37.II. i. 159. Falstaff tries to comfort Mistress
1 min38.II. i. 210. ‘This is the proper behaviour in fenc¬
1 min39.II. ii. 25-31. Shirts were made of holland linen
1 min40.II. ii. 95-100. Either Shakespeare or the Pagt
1 min41.II. ii. 112. martlemas. Corrupted form of Mar¬
1 min42.II. ii. 127, 128. borrower’s cap. A man asking
1 min43.II. ii. 130 ff. Most modern editors have rear¬
1 min44.II. ii. 192, 193. The parallel is not striking. Jove
1 min45.II. iv. 91. debuty. Mistress Quickly’s pronun¬
1 min46.II. iv. 104, 105. tame cheater. A cant term for a
1 min47.II. iv. 159. occupy. This word was used only in
1 min48.II. iv. 172. Have we not Hiren here? This
1 min49.II. iv. 177, 178. Pistol misquotes from Marlowe’s
1 min50.II. iv. 192. Another burlesque of contemporary
1 min51.II. iv. 194. Most editors assume that Pistol is
1 min52.II. iv. 205. shove-groat shilling. Shove-groat
1 min53.II. iv. 267. drinks . . . flapdragons. Flapdragon
1 min54.II. iv. 288. fiery Trigon. Poins continues the
1 min55.II. iv„ 363. dead elm. Shakespeare mentions elms
1 min56.II. ii. 176, and in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, IV.
1 min57.III. ii. 28, 29. Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John
1 min58.III. ii. 33. Skogan. Shakespeare probably took
1 min59.III. ii. 73. accommodated. This is one of the
1 min60.III. ii. 239. Bullcalf means to say: ‘Here, in
1 min61.III. ii. 264. three pound. Falstaff’s followers
1 min62.III. iL 285. gibbets. A brewer’s gibbet was the
1 min63.III. ii. 301-303. Sir Dagonet was King Arthur’s
1 min64.III. ii. 346. Vice’s dagger. The Vice, a character
1 min65.III. ii. 357. philosopher’s two stones. The phi¬
1 min66.IV. i, 94-96. This passage is obviously corrupt.
1 min67.IV. i. 175. consign’d. The Quarto and Folio read
1 min68.IV. ii. Shakespeare evidently had no thought of
1 min69.IV. iii. 125. a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil.
1 min70.IV. iv. S. d. The J erusalem Chamber. An apart¬
1 min71.IV. iv. 33-35. ‘Nevertheless when he is incensed
1 min72.IV. iv. 44-48. ‘That the vessel of their united
1 min73.IV. iv. 79, 80. ‘It seldom happens that the bee,
1 min74.IV. V. 161. medicine potable. ‘There has long
1 min75.IV. v. 198. mode. The key in which music is
1 min76.V. i. 1. cock and pie. The origin of this common
1 min77.V. ii. 48. This allusion helps to fix the date of the
1 min78.V. ii. 123, 124. This strange remark of the Prince
1 min79.V. iii. 76. dub me knight. The reference is to the
1 min80.V. ill. 105. Helicon was the abode of the Muses.
1 min81.V. v. 31, 32. Pistol quotes two Latin phrases
12 min82.V. ii. 48, occurred in 1596; and in Ben Jonson’s
1 min83.Part II, there are even fewer records than there are
4 min84.Part II, he himself playing the double role of the
1 min85.Part I in America in the eighteenth century, but
2 min86.I. i. 33
1 min87.II. i. 2
1 min88.III. ii. 210
1 min89.IV. ii. 14
1 min90.V. iii. 141
1 min91.Part I, in this edition.
10 min92.V. 70)
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