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- King
Henry
the
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pounds, forty shillings from each of the two men, but
decides to keep a commission of twenty-five per cent.
III. ii. 285. gibbets. A brewer's gibbet was the
yoke worn across the shoulders for carrying buckets
of beer from the vat to the barrels. Falstaff refers
to the dexterity with which brewers' men swing the
buckets on to the gibbet.
III. ii. 301-303. Sir Dagonet was King Arthur's
fool. Arthur's show was an exhibition of archery
held annually at Mile-end Green by a society called
The Auncient Order, Societie, and Unitie laudable
of Prince Arthur and his Knightly Armoury of the
Round Table. There were fifty-eight members and
each took the name of one of the knights in the old
romances.
III. ii. 346. Vice's dagger. The Vice, a character
in the old Morality plays, carried a thin wooden
dagger.
III. ii. 357. philosopher's two stones. The phi
losophers' stone is the reputed stone of the alchemists
which transmutes base metals into gold. Falstaff
decides that Justice Shallow will be as valuable to
him as two philosophers' stones!
IV. i. 94-96. This passage is obviously corrupt.
The archbishop means in general: 'I make this my
quarrel on both public and private grounds, that is,
because of the sufferings of the commonwealth and
of my own family at the hands of King Henry.' The
Archbishop's brother, an adherent of King Richard,
had been executed by King Henry's order; cf. 1
Henry IV, I. iii. 270.
IV. i. 117 ff. This contest is described in the first
act of Shakespeare's Richard II.
IV. i. 175. consign' d. The Quarto and Folio read
confin'd; consign'd is Johnson's emendation. The
meaning seems to be that the terms of surrender in-
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