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- King
Henry
the
Fourth
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comb and the carrion.' The application is to the
Prince and his low company.
IV. v. 161. medicine potable. 'There has long
prevailed an opinion that a solution of gold has
great medicinal virtues, and that the incorruptibility
of gold might be communicated to the body impreg
nated with it.' Johnson.
IV. v. 198. mode. The key in which music is
written, used figuratively and associated with 'mood'in the sense of state of mind.
V. i. 1. cock and pie. The origin of this common
Elizabethan oath is obscure. Cock is probably a
corruption of God, as in the oath Cock's wounds;
and pie is perhaps the Roman service book which
was sometimes so called, though the word pie applies
more properly to the index of the service book. By
Shakespeare's time the meaning of the oath was for
gotten, and Justice Shallow doubtless thinks he is
swearing by a cock and a magpie.
V. ii. 34. 'Which goes against the grain with one
in your position.'
V. ii. 48. This allusion helps to fix the date of the
play. Amurath the Fourth succeeded his father on
the Turkish throne in 1596. Upon his accession he
invited his brothers to dinner and had them all
strangled.
V. ii. 123, 124. This strange remark of the Prince
seems to mean that inasmuch as his own wild affec
tions and desires died at the moment of his father's
death, they are now, as it were, buried with his
father. Hence his father may be said to be buried
with wild affections, or to have 'gone wild into his
grave.'V. iii. 76. dub me knight. The reference is to the
Elizabethan custom of giving the title of knight for
the evening to a man who, kneeling to his mistress,
drained a mighty bumper to her health.
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