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- 136 Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
V. iii. 105. Helicon was the abode of the Muses.
Pistol resents having such low fellows as Robin Hood
and his men brought into this very grandiloquent
literary conversation.
V. v. 31, 32. Pistol quotes two Latin phrases
which have no significance here, and then proceeds
to mistranslate them. The Latin means literally: it
is always the same, for without this there is nothing.
Epil. Shakespeare's authorship of this epilogue
has been questioned. The dancer says it is of his
own making, but he speaks for the author in promis
ing a continuation of the play and in assuring the
audience that Falstaff is not Sir John Oldcastle (cf.
note on III. ii. 28, 29, and Appendix C 3 to 1 Henry
IV, in the present edition). It is interesting to note
that Shakespeare's original intention was to continue
the Falstaff plot through the play of Henry V ; but,
as Coleridge remarks, 'Agincourt is not the place for
the splendid mendacity of Falstaff. With the coro
nation of Henry V opens a new period of glorious
enthusiasm and patriotic fervor. There is no longer
any place for Falstaff on earth; he must find refuge
in "Arthur's bosom." '
Epil. 38. pray for the queen. It was the custom
to end plays with a prayer for the sovereign. This
custom originated in the interludes.
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