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- King
Henry
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here a pun on the two Compters, or debtors', prisonsin London.
I. ii. 166-168. Blind beggars often had dogs to
lead them through the streets.
I. ii. 182. wax. 'A poor quibble on the word wax,
which signifies increase as well as the matter of the
honey-comb/ Johnson.
I. ii. 189-192. An angel was a gold coin, worth
upwards of six shillings, which took its name from
its device, the archangel Michael. Falstaff is here
punning on the word, and in the phrases cannot go
and cannot tell, he is perhaps using terms which re
fer to the circulation of money, meaning 'I cannot
pass current. I cannot count as good coin.'
I. ii. 241. spit white. Furnivall quotes Batman
uppon Bartholome (1582): 'If the spettle be whiteviscus, the sicknesse cometh of fleame; if black, of
melancholy; — the white spettle not knottie, signifieth
health.'
I. ii. 257. bear crosses. Another quibble on coins,
many of which were marked with crosses.
I. ii. 259. A three-man beetle is a mallet so heavy
that it requires three men to swing it. Filliping the
toad, according to Steevens, is a Warwickshire game,
in which a toad is placed on the end of a short board
placed across a log; the other end of the board is
then struck with a mallet, and the toad thrown into
the air. If Falstaff took the part of the toad in this
game, it would, he implies, require a three-man beetle
to fillip one of his size.
I. iii. 36-41. Many emendations have been sug
gested for this apparently corrupt passage. It is
probable that a line has been lost here, but it is pos
sible to understand Lord Bardolph's speech without
changing the text. Lord Hastings has just been
remonstrating with Lord Bardolph for his pessimism,
saying that hope never injured any cause. Lord
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