Note 2 — WAR AND DIPLOMACY IN SHAKESPEARE.
Reading edition
One is much tempted to regard this epithet as inserted by some dull-pated player who did not see that in Hotspur’s eyes to be Hotspur’s friend would be desert enough without addition. The lines would then read, to the advantage of the metre:—
‘Glend. Come, you shall have Trent turn’d. Hot. I do not care: I’ll give thrice so much land to any friend.’
The metrical reason would be of little weight if it stood alone; still the irregularity of the verse as printed is particularly jarring, however one tries to arrange the lines.