Henry iv part 2, p.29
Henry IV, Part 2,
p.29
117 creditors plays on both financial sense and “people who believe my promise
118 bate me let me off
128 continue…it i.e. in Henry V, although in the end Falstaff did not feature in that play
131 sweat a fit of sweating due to either physical exertion, the plague, or a type of cure for venereal disease hard unfavorable
132 Oldcastle…martyr Sir John Oldcastle, the name originally given to Falstaff, was an early fifteenth-century Lollard leader, subsequently regarded as a martyr by the Puritans; Shakespeare had to drop the name from the play due to objections from Oldcastle’s descendants
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
