Henry IV, Part 2

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by William Shakespeare

96 lifting up rising, breaking

  105 packet i.e. of letters, dispatch

  109 stomach appetite

  121 straight straightaway

  122 pangs attacks, spasms of pain

  126 fear me fill me with fear

  127 Unfathered heirs children supposed to be unnatural, conceived supernaturally loathly births deformed infants, regarded as ill omens

  128 change their manners alter their usual patterns as as if

  130 flowed flooded

  131 doting weak-minded/foolish/fond, attentive

  133 Edward Edward III sicked sickened

  135 apoplexy illness causing paralysis

  139 dull gentle favourable kindly

  146 heaviness sadness

  147 Rain i.e. tears abroad outside

  153 physic medicine

  161 perturbation cause of trouble care source of anxiety

  162 ports doors, gates (i.e. eyelids)

  163 watchful wakeful

  165 homely biggen plain nightcap

  166 watch portion of the night/watchful vigil

  168 armour…safety metal armor which gets hot and burns the wearer at the same time it protects him from attack

  169 gates of breath i.e. mouth and nose

  171 suspire breathe out

  174 rigol circle (i.e. crown)

  180 immediate direct successor

  181 Derives itself descends

  182 put…strength even if all the strength in the world were concentrated

  184 lineal inherited

  185 mine i.e. my heir

  200 Chide drive with rebukes

  201 part action conjoins unites

  203 falls into revolt betrays itself, is unnatural

  208 engrossed amassed

  209 cankered tarnished/corrupt strange-achievèd ill-gotten/brought from overseas

  210 thoughtful careful invest endow (plays on financial sense)

  211 arts scholarship

  214 thighs…wax beeswax is stored in sacs on the upper parts of bees’ legs

  215 bees…pains in fact it is not workers, but drones (bees whose sole purpose is to impregnate the queen) who die after mating or are cast out of the hive to die

  216 This…engrossments these accumulations give a bitter taste

  217 ending dying

  218 stay wait

  219 determined terminated

  221 kindly filial/gentle gentle noble/tender

  223 tyranny cruelty but anything butg

  232 chair position/throne

  236 cloud of dignity rank or honor, insubstantial as a cloud

  240 Were would have been

  241 sealed…expectation confirmed my fears

  242 manifest demonstrate

  245 whetted sharpened

  247 forbear endure, permit

  252 balm consecrated oil used in the coronation of the monarch sanctify consecrate, render holy

  253 compound mix

  256 form established order, custom

  260 apes of idleness fools prone to all unworthy vices

  261 confines states, countries

  266 gild cover with gold (puns on guilt)

  267 office official position

  270 flesh his tooth sink his tooth into the flesh

  272 care anxiety, concerned efforts (sense then shifts to “chief concern”)

  278 had would have dear heartfelt

  282 affect desire

  284 obedience i.e. kneeling posture

  288 course current

  292 have purposèd 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 Goodman 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 ri
ght”

  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

 

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