anonymous monk, who may be fully relied upon, the speaker was Sir Walter
Hungerford. Shakespeare puts the sentiment into the mouth of the Earl of
Westmorland.

Page 59, l. 9 [Stz. 183]. "_At the full Moone looke how th'vnweldy
Tide_" _etc._ --These lines are clearly a reminiscence of
Shakespeare's--

"Let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean."

_Henry V._, prologue to act iii.

Page 62, l. 21 [Stz. 196]. "_Dampeir._" --Chatillon, Admiral of France,
was also Lord of Dampierre. It must be by inadvertence that Sir Harris
Nicolas (p. 121) speaks of Cliquet de Brabant, whom Drayton calls Cluet,
as Admiral.

Page 63, l. 6 [Stz. 198]. "_Could._" --Must have been pronounced cold,
as it was sometimes written. See also p. 83, l. 26.

Page 63, l. 16 [Stz. 199]. "_Cantels._" --Corners (Germ. Kant); hence =
morsels, though Shakespeare speaks of "a monstrous cantle."

Page 66, ll. 11, 12 [Stz. 211]. "_Bespeaking them with honourable words
Themselues their prisoners freely and confesse._" --One of Drayton's
awkward inversions. The anonymous ecclesiastic says that some of the
French nobles surrendered themselves more than ten times, and were slain
after all.

Page 72, l. 15 [Stz. 235]. "_In comes the King his Brothers life to
saue._" --"The Duke of Gloucester, the King's brother, was sore wounded
about the hippes, and borne down to the ground, so that he fel
backwards, with his feete towards his enemies, whom the King bestridde,
and like a brother valiantly rescued him from his enimies, and so saving
his life, caused him to be conveyed out of the fight into a place of
more safetie" (Holinshed).

Page 72, ll. 25, 26 [Stz. 237]. "_Vpon the King Alanzon prest so sore,
That with a stroke,_" _etc._ --There seems no contemporary authority for
the single combat between Henry and Alencon of which Shakespeare has
made such ingenious use in his management of the incident of Henry's
glove. According to one account, Alencon struck at the King somewhat
unfairly as he was stooping to aid his brother, and smote off a piece of
his crown. According to another authority, the blow was given by one of
a band of eighteen knights who had sworn to strike the diadem from
Henry's head, or perish in the attempt, as they all did.

Page 82, l. 28 [Stz. 277]. "_Nock._" --Notch.

Page 83, l. 16 [Stz. 279]. "_Tue._" --Mu