Note 36 — SHAKSPEARE PAPERS.—No. V.
Reading edition
Henry V. act i. sc. 2. Archbishop Chicheley's argument is
"The land Salique lies in Germany, Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe, Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons, There left behind and settled certain French, Who, holding in disdain the German women For some dishonest manners of their life, Established there this law, to wit, no female Should be inheritrix in Salique land."