+condition+._] _Condition_ is temper,
disposition of mind.]

[Footnote V.6: _----Doth fortune play the +huswife+_] That is, the
_jilt_.]

[Footnote V.7: The dresses of Queen Isabella, her ladies, and the
Princess Katharine, are taken from Montfaucon Monarchie
Francoise.]

[Footnote V.8: _----wherefore we are met!_] i.e., Peace, for which
we are here met, be to this meeting.]

[Footnote V.9: _The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:_] It was
anciently supposed that this serpent could destroy the object of
its vengeance by merely looking at it.]

[Footnote V.10:
_----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._"]

[Footnote V.11: _----look +greenly+,_] i.e., like a young lover,
awkwardly.]

[Footnote V.12: _----take a good fellow of plain and +uncoined+
constancy;_] _Uncoined_ constancy signifies _real_ and _true_
constancy, _unrefined_ and _unadorned_.]

[Footnote V.13: _----a good leg will fall,_] i.e., shrink--fall
away.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote V.15: _----my +condition+ is not smooth;_] i.e.,
manners, appearance.]

THE END.

HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIFTH.

(A) _Enter_ KING HENRY,] At this interview, which is described as taking
place in the Church of Notre Dame, at Troyes, King Henry was attired in
his armour, and accompanied by sixteen hundred warriors. Henry is
related to have placed a ring of "inestimable value" on the finger of
Katharine, "supposed to be the same worn by our English queen-consorts
at their coronation," at the moment when he received the promise of the
princess.

(B) _The PRINCESS KATHARINE_,] Katharine of Valois was the youngest
child of Charles VI., King of France, and his Queen, Isabella of
Bavaria. She was born in Paris, October 27th, 1401. Monstrelet relates,
that on Trinity Sunday, June 3rd, the King of England wedded the lady
Katharine in the church at Troyes, and that great pomp and magnificence
were displayed by him and his princess, as if he had been king of the
whole world. Katharine was crown