FOOTNOTES
[1] There is apparently no real foundation for this; in fact there were serious commercial quarrels of some standing.
[2] One is much tempted to regard this epithet as inserted by some dull-pated player who did not see that in Hotspur’s eyes to be Hotspur’s friend would be desert enough without addition. The lines would then read, to the advantage of the metre:—
‘Glend. Come, you shall have Trent turn’d.
Hot. I do not care:
I’ll give thrice so much land to any friend.’
The metrical reason would be of little weight if it stood alone; still the irregularity of the verse as printed is particularly jarring, however one tries to arrange the lines.
[3] It is conspicuous in Drayton’s ‘The Battaile of Agincourt.’
[4] There were limits to Shakespeare’s carelessness, and I believe this enormous anachronism to be wilful.
[5] The insertion of ‘man’—actually made in the later folios—or ‘one’ is an obvious but not obviously necessary emendation.