⁴ The Famous Victories of Henry V, 8.56–9. Quoted from The Oldcastle Controversy: Sir John Oldcastle, Part I and The Famous Victories of Henry V, ed. Peter Corbin and Douglas Sedge (Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1991).

⁵ Contrast the remarks of Shakespeare’s Hal to his father, speaking of the crown, in the parallel scene in 2 Henry IV: ’You won it, wore, kept it, gave it me; | Then plain and right must my possession be’ (2 Henry IV, 4.5.221–2, emphasis added).