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- 1 26 The Second Part of
reminds Falstaff of his own manner of life and prob
able fate.
I. ii. 39. Achitophel. The counsellor of Absalom
(II Samuel 15-17) who was cursed by David, and
who 'gat him home to his house and hanged himself
after Absalom rejected his counsel.
I. ii. 40. yea-forsooth knave. The reference is to
the mild oaths employed by the Puritanical middle-
class tradespeople of Shakespeare's own day. Cf. Hot
spur's ridicule of this same trait in 1 Henry IF, III.i. 251 ff.
I. ii. 51-54. Falstaff is here playing with the
ancient jest that deceived husbands wear invisible
horns. Lightness is obviously used in a double sense,
and the old spelling of lanthorn, which emphasizes
the horn sides of an Elizabethan lantern, carries out
the jest.
I. ii. 57. Paul's. The nave of St. Paul's Cathedral
was in Shakespeare's day the business center of Lon
don. From eleven to twelve, and three to six, daily,
men of all professions and trades congregated there.
Men out of work, and masters looking for servants,
posted their advertisements on the pillars of the nave.
Falstaff is probably referring here to a popular say
ing, quoted in The Choice of Change, 1598: 'A man
must not make choice of three things in three places:
of a wife in Westminster, of a servant in Paul's, of a
horse in Smithfield; lest he choose a quean, a knave,
or a jade.' Smithfield is the great cattle market ofLondon.
I. ii. 61, 62. This episode from The Famous Vic
tories of Henry V is reprinted in Appendix A, see
pp. 142, 143.
I. ii. 102. hunt counter. A hunting term mean
ing to follow the trail in a direction opposite to that
which the game has taken. There is also perhaps
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