soeke m.]	NOTES.	203
63. This day shall gentle, etc., "i.e.," says Singer, "shall
advance him to the rank of a genthman. King Henry V. inhibited
any person but such as had a right by inheritance or grant, from
bearing coats of arms, except those who fought with him at
the battle of Agincourt; and these last were allowed the chief
seats at all feasts and public meetings. Vide Anstis's Order of
the Garter, vol. ii. p. 108." Cp. Peile's Mtcard I., p. 378, e<l.
Dyce, where the king, speaking of his common soldiers who had
returned with Mm from Palestine, says—
" Embrace them, barons : these have got the name
Of English gentlemen and knights-at-arms ;
Not one of these but in the champaign-field
Hath won his crown, his collar and his spurs.'*
66. hold their manhoods cheap, be ashamed of themselves.
 68.	"bestow yourself, take up your position.
 69.	bravely, in gallant trim; but also with the idea of their
ostentatious defiance: battles =• battalia, battle array.
 70.	expedience, expedition, haste: so, also, in R. II., ii. 1.
287, K, /.,iL 1. 60, and expediently, A.   F., iii  1. 18.     In
1 H. IV., i 1. 33, expedience is generally explained expedition,
undertaking, but the word haste, in 1. 34, seems to show that
despatch was meant here also.    See Abbott, p. 13.   We now say
' make' or ' deliver' a charge * on' or * upon.'
76. hast unwiBh'd, wished them away. "The poet," says
Singer, ** inattentive to numbers, puts_t/5re thousand, but in the
last scene " [Singer means the earlier 'part of this same scene]
"the French are said to be full three-score, thousand, which
Exeter declared to he five to one ": the English, therefore, at
that computation would be twelve thousand, wliich is not far from
Holinshed's statement, vfc., fifteen thousand.
80. compound, enter into negotiations for: cp. above, ii. 1.
101, and below, iv. 6. 33.
84. mind, remind, put them in mind of, as above, L 13: see
Abbott, § 348 and 414.
86. retire, retreat. Though, says the herald, if you persist in
fighting and will not compound for your ransom, they must die
and their bodies fester on the ground, yet there is no reason that
their souls should quit their bodies in an unrepentant state.
89. the constable, he being in command of the army.
91. achieve me, capture me. Achieve, Fr. chef, Lat. caput,
head, and hence the extremity or end of anything : achever, to
bring to a head, accomplish.
93. The man that once, etc., the man who took the price of
the lion's skin, like you anticipating an easy victory, was killed
in the combat, and a like fate may be yours.