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y aspect, my looks,

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ould leave batter- 35 an you use these

Dro. S. Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season,
When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme

nor reason?

Well, sir, I thank you.

Ant. S. Thank me, sir! for what?

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Dro. S. Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing.

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47-49. Was . . . you] As in Rowe (ed. 2); prose in Ff. 53. next, to] next time, Capell conj. to] and Collier. 59. none] F 1; not Ff 2, 3, 4. passage, and also Taming of the Shrew, IV. i. 173:

48. neither rhyme nor reason] Compare Love's Labour's Lost, 1. i. 99: "In reason nothing. Something then in rhyme"; 1. ii. 112: "A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason"; Two Gentlemen of Verona, II. i. 149: "Nay I was rhyming, 'tis you that have the reason"; Merry Wives of Windsor, v. v. 133: "In despite of the teeth of all rhyme and reason"; As You Like It, I. ii. 418: "Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much"; and Henry V. v. ii. 164, etc. The phrase was very common.

56. In good time] (in ironical acquiescence) Herford.

61. choleric] There must have been some kind of belief in Shakespeare's time that overcooked meat caused choler or anger. Nares quotes this

"I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away;

And I expressly am forbid to touch it,

For it engenders choler, planteth

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Ant. S. Well, sir, learn to jest in good time for all things.

Dro. S. I durst have denied that, befo choleric.

Ant. S. By what rule, sir?

Dro. S. Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as pate of father Time himself.

Ant. S. Let's hear it.

Dro. S. There's no time for a man to that grows bald by nature.

Ant. S. May he not do it by fine and r

(Blackston Edward I. nostra leva ponere, et

vocantur.

fine meant tious or co sion of la

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one). See the Statute 27 I. cap. i. Quia fines in Curia evati finem litibus debent imet imponunt, et ideo fines . In the more special sense, unt the compromise of a ficticollusive suit for the posses lands; and was formerly in mode of conveyance or assurcases where the ordinary were not available or equally us. Similarly the word “Rein old English law meant cedure of gaining possession property or right by a verdict ment of Court; and hence was ngest assurance known to the n the more special sense, a meant the procedure based Flegal fiction" by which an destate was commonly transIt was also termed "a comcovery." The New Eng. Dict. West, Symbolaography, 1594, 5: "The end and effect of such ies is to discontinue and destates tailes, remainders, and ons, and barre the former thereof." Compare the wellpassages Hamlet, v. i. 114: is the fine of his fines and the y of his recoveries "; Merry

Dro. S. Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts: and what he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

Ant. S. Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit.

Dro. S. Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose

his hair.

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Ant. S. Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain 85 dealers without wit.

75. hair] hair to men Capell. Wives of Windsor, IV. ii. 225: "If the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery."

79. men] Pope ed. 2 (Theobald); them Ff.
undoubtedly sound.
"The same
error," says Malone, "is found in the
Induction to K. Henry IV. Part II.
edit. 1623; 'Stuffing the ears of them
with false reports.

121:

77. excrement] hair, or other things growing out of the body. Compare Love's Labour's Lost, v. i. 109: "Dally with my excrement, with my mustachio"; Merchant of Venice, III. ii. 87: "These assume but valour's excrement"; Hamlet, III. iv. "Your bedded hair, like life in excrements"; Winter's Tale, IV. iv. 734: "Let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement" (where Autolycus refers to his false beard). In Timon of Athens, IV. iii. 445, "a composture stolen from general excrement," the meaning more nearly approaches the modern acceptation of the word. Compare, in the other dramatists, Kyd's Soliman and Perseda, 1. iii. 136:

"No impression of manhood, Not an hayre, not an excrement"; and Dekker's Guls Horn-booke (Grosart, ii. 228): Why should the chinnes and lippes of old men lick up that excrement," etc.

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81, 82. more hair than wit] A proverbial phrase found in Two Gentlemen of Verona, III. i. 361, 367, 368, and not uncommon in the dramatists. Compare Marston, The Insatiate Countess, ÏÏÏ. iv. 170 (Bullen): "Ushers should have much wit, but little hair"; and Dekker, Satiromastix, 1602 (Pearson, i. 239):"Haire! It's the basest stubble; in scorn of it,

This proverb sprung,-He has more hair than wit." 83, 84. he hath the wit to lose his hair] Johnson explains: "Those who have more hair than wit are easily entrapped by loose women, and suffer the consequences of lewdness, one of which, in the first appearance of the disease in Europe, was the loss of hair." Steevens quotes The Roaring Girl, 1611 [Dodsley, vi. 82]: "Your women are so hot, I must lose my hair in their company, I see."

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Dro. S. The plainer dealer, the sooner loseth it in a kind of policy.

Ant. S. For what reason?

Dro. S. For two; and sound ones too.
Ant. S. Nay, not sound, I pray you.

Dro. S. Sure ones then.

Ant. S. Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing

Dro. S. Certain ones, then.

Ant. S. Name them.

Dro. S. The one, to save the money th

tiring; the other, that at dinner t

drop in his porridge.

88. policy] Staunton conj.; jollity F1.

90. so

"false" in

93. falsing] falling Grant White (Heath o 97. tiring] tyring Pope; trying Ff; trimming Row 88. policy] Staunton's conjecture, meaning "purpose," "design," must, beyond all question, be adopted. He says: "There is a kind of policy in a man's losing his hair to save his money, and to prevent an uncleanly addition to his porridge; but where is the jollity?" And the corruption of "pollitie" into the Folio "iollitie "was quite easy. The phrase "in policy" Occurs in Troilus and Cressida, v. iv. 14: "They set me up, in policy, that mongrel cur"; and Othello, II. iii. 274: "A punishment more in policy than in malice"; but the word is quite common in Shakespeare.

93. falsing] delusive, deceptive.
Chaucer has falsen, to falsify, e.g. in
Miller's Prol. 66: "I mote reherse Hir
tales alle... Or elles falsen som of
my matere"; and Spenser, Faerie
Queene, ii. 30, uses "falsed" in the
sense of "deceived" :-

"And in his falsed fancy he her
takes

To be the fairest wight, that lived

yit."
Shakespeare however uses the verb

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sound ones] Ff 2, 3, 4; sound
■conj.); false Ingleby conj.
we; 'tiring Collier (ed. 1).
in Cymbeline, . iii. 74:
dwhich... makes Diana's
False themselves ": unless,
we take it here as an ad-
Out I agree with Dowden-
ote ad loc.-in thinking that
verb, meaning falsify, as in
tions from Heywood's Cap-
.: "That false their faythes."
also the verb occurs in Romeo
et, III. i. 182: "Affection
m false," i.e. speak false.
also Greene's Looking-Glass
on and England (Dyce, 1831,

112): "My faith unto my
Il not be fals'd"; and Daniel's
osamond, xxi.: "The adulter-
y of a falsed cheek." Grant
dopting falling, says: "That
word, however, is shown by
s' expression 'not sure' (for
as of old opposed not to
ut to 'uncertain,' 'insecure")
nio's 'they should not drop';
des, in what possible sense
Walsing?"

ing] i.e. attiring. Pope's
on is certain. The expres-

Ant. S. You would all this time have proved, there is no time for all things.

Dro. S. Marry, and did, sir; namely, no time to recover hair lost by nature.

Ant. S. But your reason was not substantial, why there

is no time to recover.

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Dro. S. Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald, and 105 therefore, to the world's end, will have bald followers.

Ant. S. I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion.

But soft! who wafts us yonder ?

Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA.

Adr. Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown:
Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects;

I am not Adriana nor thy wife.

The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow
That never words were music to thine ear,

That never object pleasing in thine eye,

That never touch well welcome to thy hand, That never meat sweet-savour'd in thy taste,

FIO

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IOI. no time] Ff 2, 3, 4; in no time F 1; e'en no time Boswell (Capell conj.); is no time Grant White. III. thy] F 1; some Ff 2, 3, 4; your Collier. 112. not. . . nor] but. and Capell conj. 113. unurg'd] unurg'dst Pope. 116. well] were Gould conj. sion, I think, may fairly be used of men, who frequently wore the hair long in Elizabethan times.

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ivory hand wafts to her." In Hamlet, i. iv., the Folio reads wafts in line 61, waves in line 68, and wafts again in line 88.

114. That never. ear] Malone says this was imitated by Pope in his Sappho to Phaon [53, 4]:

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My musick, then, you could for ever hear,

And all my words were musick to your ear."

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