Chapter VII

From various parts of _King Henry V._ The play was written in 1598, and performed for the first time early in 1599. The first complete version was published in the First Folio (1623).

l. 23. _rivage._ The shore.

27. _sternage._ (To sternage of=astern of, so as to follow.)

40. _puissance._ Strength.

87. _battle._ An army, or division of an army.

90. _accomplishing._ Equipping.

144. _Crispian._ ‘The daie following,’ says Holinshed, ‘was the
five and twentieth of October in the year 1415, being then fridaie,
and the feast of Crispine and Crispinian, a daie faire and fortunate
to the English, but most sorrowfull and unluckie to the French.’

174. _Whiffler._ Herald or usher.

183. _ostent._ Clear, visible.