3.
Sutton Co'fil': Sutton Coldfield, a town in Warwickshire near Coventry.
5.
Lay out: i.e., pay for it yourself.
6.
makes an angel: i.e., brings your debt to ten shillings. (But Falstaff answers as though makes means "produces," implying that Bardolph can profit from the transaction.) An angel was a gold coin stamped with the figure of the archangel Michael.
8.
I'll answer the coinage: i.e., I'll be responsible for whatever money the purchases "make."
11-12.
sous'd gurnet: pickled fish. press: warrant for conscripting.
12.
King's press: royal warrant for the impressment of troops.
14.
press: draft, conscript.
15.
good: i.e., wealthy. yeoman's: small freeholders'.
16.
contracted: engaged to be married.
17-18.
banns: i.e., public announcements, repeated on three successive Sundays, of an intent to marry. commodity of warm slaves: lot of comfort-loving fellows.
18.
lieve: lief; i.e., willingly.
19.
caliver: musket.
20.
struck: wounded.
21.
toasts-and-butter: weaklings.
22-23.
bought out their services: i.e., bribed me to release them from military duty.
23.
charge: company, troop.
24.
ancients: ensigns; i.e., standard-bearers. (By appointing a disproportionate number of junior officers, Falstaff had made it possible to collect for himself their more substantial pay.) gentlemen of companies: a kind of junior officer; gentlemen -- but not officers -- who had volunteered for military service.
25.
painted cloth: cheap wall-hangings. (For the story of Lazarus the beggar and Dives the rich man, see Luke 16:19-31.)
27.
unjust: dishonest.
28.
younger sons to younger brothers: i.e., with no possibility of inheritance. revolted: runaway.
29.
trade-fall'n: whose business has fallen away; unemployed. cankers: cankerworms that destroy leaves and buds. (Used figuratively.)
31.
feaz'd ancient: tattered and frayed flag.
34.
totter'd: tattered. prodigals: spendthrifts. (See Luke 15:15-16.)
35.
draff: swill, hogwash. mad: madcap.
37.
gibbets: gallows.
39.
that's flat: that's for sure.
40.
gyves: fetters, leg-irons.
45.
my host: the innkeeper.
46.
Saint Albons: St. Albans, town north of London on the road to Coventry. Daventry: town in Northamptonshire, west of London on the road to Coventry.
47.
that's all one: i.e., no matter.
48.
hedge: Where wet linen was spread out to dry and could be easily stolen.
49.
blown: swollen, inflated; also, short of wind. quilt: thickly padded.
52.
cry you mercy: beg your pardon.
55.
powers: soldiers, troops.
56.
must away: must march.
58.
fear: worry about.
60-61.
thy theft hath already made thee butter: i.e., all the cream (rich things) you have stolen has been churned into butter-fat in your barrel-like belly.
65.
toss: i.e., on a pike. food for powder: cannon fodder.
69.
poor and bare: inferior and threadbare. (But Falstaff puns on the sense of "financially strapped and lean.")
70.
for: as for.
73-74.
three fingers on the ribs: i.e., Falstaff's fat-covered ribs. (A finger was a measure of three-fourths of an inch.)
79-80.
To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast / Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest: i.e., Better to be late to a battle and early to a feast. (Keen means "with keen appetite.")