Notes on the notes:

*. power: army. Alarm: trumpet signal to advance.

7-8. dear: dearly. bought / Thy likeness: paid for his resemblance to you.

10. yield thee: surrender yourself.

13. Lord Stafford's death: According to Holinshed (Bullough, IV, 190-91), Hotspur and Douglas, intent on killing the King, "gave such a violent onset upon them that stood about the kings standard, that slaieng his standard-bearer sir Walter Blunt, and overthrowing the standard, they made slaughter of all those that stood about it, as the earle of Stafford, that daie made by the king constable of the realme, and diverse other."

16. breathless: i.e., dead.

21. Semblably furnish'd: similarly armed and dressed (to serve as a decoy).

22. A fool go with thy soul: i.e., May the stigma of "fool" accompany your soul (for having dressed as a decoy of King Henry).

25. The King hath many marching in his coats: A common stratagem. Coats = vests worn over armor embroidered with a coat of arms.

27. wardrop: wardrobe.

29. stand full fairly for the day: i.e., seem in an auspicious position, likely to win the victory.

30. shot-free: i.e., without paying the shot, or tavern bill.

31. scoring: (1) cutting; (2) marking up of charges, by notches on a stick or on the inn door.

33. Here's no vanity: i.e., (ironically) If this doesn't show what I was saying about honor, then nothing does. Vanity = trifling.

38. town's end: i.e., the city gate (where beggars congregated).

45. Turk Gregory: Turk is an abusive term signifying a tyrant, and Gregory refers probably to Pope Gregory XIII, who was assumed to have encouraged the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew [1572], in which many French Protestants were slain.

46-47. paid: settled with; i.e., killed. made him sure: made sure of him. (But Prince Hal takes sure in a different sense, meaning "safe.")

48. He is: i.e., he is sure (to be alive and dangerous).

53. hot: Falstaff implies he has been firing at the enemy.

56. pierce: Pronounced perse. Elizabethan pronunciation rendered the pun more obvious than it is now.

57. so: well and good.

58. carbonado: meat slashed across for broiling.

61. there's an end: (1) that concludes the subject of my catechism (see 5.1.129-140); (2) thus life ends.