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- NOTES.
Ind. S. d. Rumour, painted full of tongues. Vergil
(Mneid iv. 174) describes Fame, or Rumour, as cov
ered with ears, eyes, and tongues. Cf. also Chaucer,
Hous of Fame, 1389-90.
Ind. 24. Shrewsbury. The last act of Shake
speare's Henry IV, Part I, is devoted to the battle of
Shrewsbury, in which the King and his armies over
come the rebel forces under young Harry Percy
(Hotspur) ; his uncle, the Earl of Worcester; and the
Scottish Earl of Douglas.
Ind. 29. Harry Monmouth. Henry, Prince of
Wales, who, according to Shakespeare, killed Hot
spur in single combat at the battle of Shrewsbury.
Monmouth was the place of his birth.
Ind. 35. hole. Shakespeare is obviously playing
on the words hole and hold. Most modern editors have
spoiled the rather poor pun by substituting the word
hold for hole.
I. i. 116-118. 'By his spirit was his. party inspired,
i.e., made keen and sharp as steel; but, when once
his spirit was brought down (technically, reduced to
a lower temper) all his followers became dull and
heavy as lead/
^ I. i. 128. In 1 Henry IV, V. iii., Douglas kills
Sir Walter Blunt, who was dressed to resemble the
King, and tells us that he has already killed the Lord
of Stafford in the king's 'likeness.' When, later,
Prince Hal challenges Douglas to single combat, he
says: 'the spirits
Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in
my arms/
I. i. 166-179. These lines are the first of a series
of passages omitted in the Quarto texts of the play
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