Henry IV, Part 2

by William Shakespeare

  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