[126] So Pistol, "A foutre for the world, and worldlings base!" "A foutre for thine office!" ii. _Henry IV_. v. 3. [127] Verjuice was made by pounding crab-apples. [128] Kite. [129] Dingy. "Russet" or "russeting" was the name of the coarse brown dress worn by shepherds. [130] In _Henry V_., iv. 1, Pistol accosts the king with "Che vous la?" according to the first folio. Modern editors correct the intentional blunder. [131] To "outface with a card of ten" was just what we mean by "browbeat." The expression (which is very common) was no doubt drawn from the game of primero. [132] Old spelling of "pumpkin." [133] The officer of lowest rank (now called "lance corporal"). [134] _Quart d'écu_. [135] Cf. Day's _Ile of Guls_, ii. 2:-- "But forresters, like images, set forth The tyrannie of greatness without pittie." Everybody remembers Jaques' moralising in _As You Like It_, ii. 1. [136] Cf. Day's _Humour out of Breath_, I. 2:--"Deceive the _watry subjects_." [137] To "kill with kindness" was a proverbial saying. [138] A falconer's term: to flap the wings when preparing for flight. [139] A giant who was conquered by Sir Bevis of Southampton. See notes of the commentators on _2 Henry VI_., ii. 3: "Therefore, Peter, have at thee with a downright blow, as Bevis of Southampton fell upon Ascapart." [140] i.e., a vain boaster. "Puckfist" is the fungus commonly known as "puff-ball." [141] "Carbonade. A carbonado, a _rasher on the coals_."--COTGRAVE. [142] Cf. _Antony and Cleopatra_, i. 3:-- "Upon your sword sit laurel victory." The form of expression is common. Cf. _Knight of Malta_, iv. 2 (Fletcher's portion):-- "Art thou a knight? did ever on that sword The Christian cause sit nobly?" I make this note because I find Mr. G.C. Macaulay, in his interesting "Study of Francis Beaumont," choosing the words, "Victory sits on his sword" (_Maid's Tragedy_, i. 1), as one of the "special passages which suggest imitation, conscious or unconscious," of Shakespeare. [143] 4to. honord. The correction (which would occur to most readers) is made by Dyce on the fly-leaf of his copy in the Dyce and Forster Library. [144] If we retain "unscorcht" we must suppose the construction to be proleptic. But quy. "sun-scorcht." [145] The stage-direction is my own. [146] Ink-stand (more commonly "standish"). [147] Plan, design. Cf. _Arden of Feversham_, ii. 1. "And I will lay the _platform_ of his death." [148] "Termagant" or "Trivigant" is often coupled with "Mahound." Cf. "Faery Queene," vi. 7. (47):-- "And oftentimes by Termagant and Mahound swore." Our ancestors were not accustomed to draw fine distinctions. They regarded Mohammedans as heathens, and Termagant and Mahound as false gods. [149] 4to. Ruthelesse and bloudy slaughters. [150] "Pickt-hatch" was a notorious brothel in or near Turnbull Street. [151] See Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes," p. 212 (ed. 1801). [152] Swaggered, crowed.