Notes on the notes:

*. Excursions: sallies, sorties. (The fallen body of Blunt may be removed at some point or may be onstage still at 5.4.77 when Hal kills Hotspur.)

5. make up: go forward, advance.

6. retirement: retreat. amaze: alarm or dismay.

13. stain'd: (1) soiled with battle; (2) disgraced.

15. breathe: rest, pause for breath.

21. at the point: at sword's point.

22. lustier maintenance: more valiant endurance; more vigorous bearing.

25. Hydra: in Greek mythology, a many-headed monster that grew two new heads for each one struck off. Holinshed (Bullough, IV, 191) reports that Douglas "slue sir Walter Blunt, and three other, apparelled in the kings sute and clothing, saieng: I marvell to see so many kings thus suddenlie arise one in the necke of an other."

27. those colours: i.e., the colors of the King's insignia and coat of arms.

30. shadows: likenesses; i.e., having form without substance.

31. the very King: the King himself.

32. Seek: who seek.

34. assay thee: challenge you, put you to the test.

39. like: likely.

41, 45, 46. Shirley, Gawsey, Clifton: Holinshed (Bullough, IV, 191) mentions "sir Hugh Shorlie," "sir Nicholas Gausell," and "sir John Clifton" as notable casualties of the battle of Shrewsbury.

43. pay: (1) settle a debt; (2) kill.

**. They fight: Douglas flieth: Holinshed (Bullough, IV, 191) records the tradition that the King was struck down by Douglas but does not assign his rescue to the Prince, saying only that the King "was raised."

48. opinion: reputation.

49. mak'st some tender of: hast some regard or care for.

52. hearken'd: listened (as for welcome news).

54. insulting: exulting.

58. Make up: advance.

66. brook: endure.

73. crop: pluck.

74. vanities: empty boasts.

75. Well said: well done.

**. killeth: mortally wounds.

81. thoughts, the slave of life, and life, time's fool: i.e., our mental consciousness, which is dependent on physical existence, and our life itself, which is subject to time.

83. I could prophesy: Dying men were thought to have the gift of prophecy.

**. Dies: Holinshed (Bullough, IV, 191) does not credit the Prince with Hotspur's death, saying merely that those loyal to the King, "incouraged by his doings, fought valiantlie, and slue the lord Persie, called sir Henrie Hotspurre."

93. stout: valiant, brave.

94. sensible and courtesy: able to hear my praise.

95. make so dear a show of zeal: i.e., express my admiration so freely and in such a handsome, heartfelt manner.

96. favours: scarves, gloves, plumes, or the like (with which the Prince covers Hotspur's "mangled face").

105. heavy: (1) serious; (2) corpulent.

106. vanity: frivolity.

109. Embowell'd: disembowelled (for embalming and burial).

112. powder: salt.

113. termagant: violent and blustering, like the heathen god of the Saracens in medieval and Renaissance lore.

114.scot and lot: completely, in full. (Originally the phrase was the term for a parish tax).

119. part: constituent part, quality, role.

126-127. Nothing confutes me but eyes: i.e., Nothing can contradict me but an eyewitness.

130. flesh'd: initiated in battle (with the first taste of blood).

138. double man: (1) specter; (2) two men.

139. Jack: knave, rascal.

147. an instant: simultaneously.

151. take it upon my death: i.e., swear with my eternal soul at risk.

157. a lie: i.e., this lie of yours. grace: credit.

158. happiest: most felicitous.

***. retrait: retreat, trumpet signal to withdraw.

159. our: ours.

160. highest: highest vantage point.

164. purge: (1) reduce in weight, using laxatives; (2) purge my sins; i.e., repent.