Published in 1589.
[III]–[IV]
Both were published in Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall (1605?) and Poemes (1619). As to the first:—l. 6. Caux (‘commonlie called Kidcaux,’ says Holinshed) was the district north-east of the mouth of the Seine.
l. 83. bilbos. Swords, from Bilbao.
92. ding. To belabour with blows.
[V]–[VI]
The first is from John of Gaunt’s dying speech (King Richard II., Act ii. sc. 1). King Richard II. was probably written early in 1593. It was published anonymously in 1597. The second is from King John, Act v. sc. 7. 1594 is the date assigned to Shakespeare’s King John, which was first printed in the First Folio (1623). These and the two succeeding numbers follow the text of ‘The Globe Edition’ of Shakespeare’s Works. I am indebted to the publishers of that edition, Messrs. Macmillan & Co., and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford, for kindly extending to readers of this volume the benefits of the scientific labours of Dr. W. G. Clark and Mr. W. A. Wright.
[VII]
From various parts of King Henry V. The play was written in 1598, and performed for the first time early in 1599. The first complete version was published in the First Folio (1623).
l. 23. rivage. The shore.
27. sternage. (To sternage of=astern of, so as to follow.)
40. puissance. Strength.
87. battle. An army, or division of an army.
90. accomplishing. Equipping.
144. Crispian. ‘The daie following,’ says Holinshed, ‘was the five and twentieth of October in the year 1415, being then fridaie, and the feast of Crispine and Crispinian, a daie faire and fortunate to the English, but most sorrowfull and unluckie to the French.’
174. Whiffler. Herald or usher.
183. ostent. Clear, visible.