1. Richmond Noble, Shakespeare's Biblical Knowledge and Use of the Book of
Common Prayer as Exemplified in the Plays of the First Folio (London: Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1935), pp. 64-69.
2. The Geneva Bible: A Facsimile of the 1560 Edition, introduction by Lloyd E.
Berry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969), p. 12.
3. Noble, Shakespeare's Biblical Knowledge, p. 64.
4. Henry V. All textual references are to The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G.
Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974).
5. "Sell not the Bear's skin before you have caught him," in Morris Palmer Tilley, A
Dictionary of the Proverbs of England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950), pp. 32-33.
6. The dogs are kenneled in the OED.
7. The king is using Erpingham's cloak as a disguise as he wanders the camp in the
morning dark before the battle, but he is clad with the zeal of the knight. Also, for "jealous," see
the OED, 2nd ed., 3rd definition: "Zealous or solicitous for the preservation or well-being
of something possessed or esteemed; vigilant or careful in guarding; suspiciously careful or
watchful."
8. Quarto edition for Henry VI, Part 3 is dated 1595, for Henry V, 1600.
