| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| The King, your Father, is at Westminster, | The King your father is at Westminster, | 2H4 II.iv.350 |
| And there are twentie weake and wearied Postes, | And there are twenty weak and wearied posts | 2H4 II.iv.351 |
| Come from the North: and as I came along, | Come from the north; and as I came along | 2H4 II.iv.352 |
| I met, and ouer-tooke a dozen Captaines, | I met and overtook a dozen captains, | 2H4 II.iv.353 |
| Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the Tauernes, | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns, | 2H4 II.iv.354 |
| And asking euery one for Sir Iohn Falstaffe. | And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff. | 2H4 II.iv.355 |