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Second Part of King Henry the Fourth and added by the Folio. The other important Folio additions are the following: I. i. 189-209; I. iii. 21- 24; I. iii. 36-55; I. iii. 85-108; II. iii. 23-45; IV. i. 55-79; Epilogue 37, 38 (and so kneel queen). Furthermore, the whole of III. i., containing the King's famous soliloquy on sleep, is omitted in certain Quarto copies, though added in others. On the other hand, certain passages, usually shorter and belonging to the prose scenes, are omitted in the Folio version; viz., I. ii. 244-251 (But it was motion); II. ii. 26-31 (and God strengthened); II. iv. 14, 15 (Dispatch straight); II. iv. 144-146; II. iv. 428 f. (Come! come, Doll?); III. i. 53-56 (O! die); III. ii. 340, 341 (yet lecherous mandrake); III. ii. 342-345 (and sung good-nights); IV. i. 93; IV. i. 95.

 According to Shakespeare, King Richard II, predecessor and cousin of Henry IV, was murdered in Pomfret castle at Henry's hint, after the latter had forced Richard's abdication. Cf. Shakespeare's Richard II. Richard Scroop, Archbishop of York, belonged to a family which was firmly attached to the cause of Richard.

 Bolingbroke. King Henry, born in Bolingbroke castle, Lincolnshire.

 manned with an agate. Attended by a servant as small as a figure cut in an agate.

 face-royal. A royal was a gold coin worth ten shillings. Falstaff is here playing on the double sense of a 'royal face' and the face stamped on the coin.

 glutton. The parable of Dives and Lazarus (St. Luke 16. 19-31) is frequently referred to by Falstaff, possibly because Dives, 'the glutton' who 'fared sumptuously every day' but who went to hell and called out for the poor man Lazarus to 'dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,'