——we will, suddenly,
Pass our accept, and peremptory answer.]
i.e., our answer shall be such as to leave no room for further questioning in the matter. “We will peremptorily make answer.”
[V.11] ——look greenly,] i.e., like a young lover, awkwardly.
[V.12] ——take a good fellow of plain and uncoined constancy;] Uncoined constancy signifies real and true constancy, unrefined and unadorned.
[V.13] ——a good leg will fall,] i.e., shrink—fall away.
[V.14] ——shall go to Constantinople] Shakespeare has here committed an anachronism. The Turks were not possessed of Constantinople before the year 1463, when Henry the Fifth had been dead thirty-one years.
[V.15] ——my condition is not smooth;] i.e., manners, appearance.
[Scene Correspondences]
| Kean | Shakespeare |
|---|---|
| I.1 | I.1 |
| I.2 | II.3 with Boy’s speech from III.2 |
| II.1 | II.2 |
| II.2 | II.4 |
| III (unnumbered scene after Chorus) | III.1 |
| III.1 | III.5 |
| III.2 | III.6 |
| IV (unnumbered scene interrupting Chorus) | III.7 |
| IV.1 | IV.1 |
| IV.2 | IV.2 |
| IV.3 | IV.3 |
| IV.4 | IV.5 |
| IV.5 | IV.6 and IV.7 (intermingled) |
| IV.6 | IV.8 |
| Interlude | — |
| V.1 | V.1 |
| V.2 | V.2 |
| — | Epilogue (Chorus) |