Notes on the notes:

1. give us leave: leave us.

6. doom: judgment.

8. passages: course, conduct, actions.

12. inordinate: unsuitable (for one of your rank).

13. lewd: base, vulgar.

15. withal: with.

17. hold their level: i.e., maintain their appeal and force.

19. Quit: clear myself of.

20. doubtless: certain.

23. reproof: disproof.

25. pick-thanks: busybodies, flatterers. newsmongers: talebearers.

28. submission: confession.

30. affections: inclinations. hold a wing: pursue a course.

32-33. Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost. / Which by thy younger brother is supplied: An allusion to the apocryphal story—apparently first told by Sir Thomas Elyot in The Governor (1531)—of one of the Prince's most flamboyant escapades. In Holinshed's account , "to hie offense of the king his father, he had with his fist striken the cheefe justice [Sir William Gascoigne] for sending one of his minions (upon desert) to prison, when the justice stoutlie commanded himselfe also streict to ward, & he (then prince) obeied. The king after expelled him out of his privie councell, banisht him the court, and made the duke of Clarence (his younger brother) president of councell in his steed." rudely: by violence.

36. time: time of life; i.e., youth.

40. common-hackney'd cheapened, vulgarized. A hackney is a horse kept for hire.

42. Opinion: i.e., public opinion.

43. Had: would have. to possession: to the possessor; i.e., to Richard II's sovereignty.

50. stole all courtesy from heaven: He assumed a bearing of the utmost graciousness.

57. state: i.e., appearance on state occasions.

60. skipping: flighty.

61. bavin: brushwood, kindling soon burnt out.

62. carded: mixed, debased (and so adulterated), a term applied to the adulteration of wool. state: royal status.

65. gave his countenance, against his name: lent his authority, to the jeopardy of his kingly title (name = dignity).

66-67. stand the push / Of every beardless vain comparative: tolerate the impertinent witticisms of every beardless youth (comparative = rival in wit).

69. Enfeoff'd: sold, surrendered, gave himself up to.

70. That: so that.

77. community: familiarity, commonness.

82. aspect: look.

83. cloudy: sullen (also referring back to the image of the sun).

87. participation: base association or companionship; fellowship.

90. that: that which.

91. foolish tenderness: i.e., tears.

98. more worthy interest to the state: a better claim to the throne.

99. shadow: i.e., because your intrinsic merits are so slight. Hal's claim is a shadow compared to the real services toward gaining the crown which Hotspur has rendered.

100. color: pretext.

101. harness: (men in) armor.

102. Turns head: leads an army.

103. being no more in debt to years than thou: See note to 1.1.53.

109. majority: supremacy, preeminence.

110. capital: pre-eminent, chief.

112. swathling: swaddling.

115. Enlarged: freed.

120. Capitulate: combine, form a league. up: i.e., in arms,

123. dearest: (1) best beloved; (2) direst.

124. like: likely. vassal: slavish.

125.Base inclination: inclination for baseness. start of spleen: perversity; fit of caprice and ill temper.

136. favors: features.

138. lights: dawns.

147. factor: agent.

148. engross: gather, amass.

151. worship: honor. time: time of life; i.e., youth.

156. intemperance: dissolute behavior.

157. bands: bonds, debts.

159. parcel: part

161. charge: command of troops; i.e., a commission.

164. Mortimer of Scotland: i.e., George Dunbar, the Scottish Earl of the "March," or border, whom Shakespeare confuses with Edmund, Earl of March.

167. head: army.

171. John of Lancaster: Prince John, third son of Henry IV.

172. advertisement: tidings, news, information.

174. meeting: meeting place, rendezvous.

175. Bridgenorth: town on the Severn River southeast of Shrewsbury.

177. Our business valued: the time necessary for our business being considered.

180. Advantage feeds him fat: i.e., opportunity grows lazy. him: himself.