III. i. 57:

Unraked, “fires unr.” = fires not | Wide of, far from, indifferent to;

raked together, not covered with fuel so that they might be found with, by; III. v. 108. alight in the morning; V. v. 47. Wittolly, cuckoldly; II. ii. 278. Unweighed, inconsiderate ; II. i. 23. Woodman, a hunter of forbidden Urchins, imps, goblins; IV. iv. 50.

game, and also

a pursuer of

women; V. v. 29. Veney, a bout at fencing ; I. i. 285. Worts, roots, (used quibblingly with Vizements = advisements or consider- reference to Sir Hugh's pronunations; I. i. 39.

ciation of “ words "); I. i. 121. Vlouting-stog, i.e. laughing-stock; Wrong, "you do yourself mighty III, i, 116.

wrong"=you are much mistaken;

III, iii. 209. Wag, pack off ; II. i. 234.

Wrongs, “this wrongs you,” this Ward, posture of defence ; II. il. 253. is unworthy of you; IV. ii. Watched, tamed as a hawk is broken 154.

in by being kept awake; V. v.107. Whiting-time, bleaching time; III. iii. read, an old abbreviation of - Ed133.

ward”; I. i. 153. Whitsters, bleachers of linen ; III. Yellowness, the colour of jealousy;

iii. 13:

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I. i. 22. •The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat.' No satisfactory explanation of this passage has as yet been offered; various suggestions have been made, e.g. salt-fish'=the hake borne by the stock fishmongers ; 'same' for salt'; o'tis ott fish in'(assigned to Evans), &c. May not, however, the whole point of the matter lie in Shallow's use of salt’in the sense of saltant,' the heraldic term, used especially for vermin? If 6 salt-fish'='the leaping louse,' with quibble on osalt' as opposed to • fresh fish.' There is further allusion to the proverbial predilection of vermin for old coats,' used quibblingly in the sense of coat-of-arms.' The following passage from Holinshed's continuation of the chronicles of Ireland (quoted by Rushton), seems to bear out this explanation ;-" Having lent the king his signet to seal a letter, who having powdered erinuts ingrailed in the seal; why how now Wise (quoth

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I. i. 46. "George Page.' Ff, Qz. • Thomas Page,' retained by Camb. Ed. though Master Page is elsewhere called “George'; “the mistake may have been Shakespeare's own,” or “Geo.' may have been misread as • Tho.' I. i.

91. • Outrun on Cotsall,' i.e. on the Cotswold hills in Gloucestershire); probably an allusion to the famous Cotswold Games, which were revived by Captain Robert Dover at the beginning of the seventeenth century, though evidently instituted earlier ; the allusion does not occur in the first and second Quartos.

• Scarlet and John'; Robin Hood's boon-companions; an allusion to Bardolph's red face.

1. iii. 28. “A minute's rest'; “ a minim's rest is the ingenious suggestion of Bennet Langton; cp. Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 22, “ rests me his minim rest.

I. iii. 46. • Carves'; probably used here in the sense of to show favour by expressive gestures ;' cp.“ A carver: chironomus one that useth apish motions with his hands.”—Littleton's Latin-English Dictionary (1675).

I. iii. 51. Studied her will’; so Q91-2: Ff, 'will’retained by Camb. Ed.

I. iii. 73. • Region of Guiana.' Sir Walter Raleigh returned from his expedition to So. America in 1596, and published his book • The Discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana' in the same year.

I. iii. 99. • By welkin and her star.' This is no doubt the correct reading of the line, and there is no need to read stars, as has been suggested ; • star' is obviously used here for the sun'; the Quartos read · fairies.'

1. iii. 109. •The revolt of mine,' i.e. my revolt: Camb. Ed. suggest in Note mine anger,' but no change seems necessary.

II. i. 5. Though Love use Reason for his physician.' The folios read precisian’; the emendation adopted in the text was first suggested by Theobald, and has been generally accepted ; op. Sonnet cxLvII: “My reason the physician to my love."

II. i. 220, 223. In the folios the name · Broome' is given instead of • Brooke'; but Falstaff's pun, - Such Brooks are welcome to me, that overflow with liquor," removes all doubt as to the correct reading, which is actually found in the Quartos.

II. i. 224. "Will you go, min-heers?' The Folios and Quartos, · An-heires,' retained by Camb. Ed. ; Theobald, mynheers.' Other suggestions are "on, here ;” “on, hearts ; " " on, heroes ; " " cavaleires ;" &c. In support of change, cp. mine host’in reply.

II. ii. 155. O'erflows,' so F,F2; Camb. Ed., o'erflow.'

II. iii. 34. Castalion, King Urinal': Ff. castalion-king-Vrinall,' retained by Camb. Ed. but the first hyphen is prob. an error for comma

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