[414] Omitted in ed. 2.--"A maquerela, in plain English a bawd,"
says Overbury in his _Characters_, "is an old charcoal that hath
been burnt herself, and therefore is able to kindle a whole green
coppice."
[415] Ed. 2. "dooth."
[416] Stockado--a thrust in fencing.
[417] Ed. 1. "Jason."
[418] So in the _Scourge of Villainy_:
"A crab's baked guts and lobster's butter'd thigh,
I hear them swear is blood for venery."
[419] Ox-pith is mentioned among other provocatives in John
Taylor's _The Sculler_, ep. 32:--
"Look how yon lecher's legs are worn away,
With haunting of the whore-house every day!
He knows more greasy panders, bawds and drabs,
And eats more lobsters, artichokes and crabs,
Blue roasted eggs, potatoes, muscadine,
Oysters, and _pith that grows i' the ox's chine_,
With many drugs, compounds, and simples store,
Which makes him have a stomach to a whore."
[420] Omitted in ed. 2.
[421] Omitted in ed. 2.
[422] This speech is given to Bianca in ed. 2.
[423] This speech was added in ed. 2.
[424] Ed. 2. "be with thee."
[425] The first line of an old ballad (printed in Percy's
_Reliques_). Falstaff is introduced humming a snatch of it
in _2 Henry IV._, ii. 4.
[426] Drunken.
[427] The line is corrupt. Old eds. "slaues I fauour, I marry
shall he rise."--Dyce reads "The slave's in favour: ay, marry,
shall he rise."
[428] Ed. 1. "mount."
[429] "Why, when? ... cuckold" (ll. 57-71).--This passage was
added in ed. 2.
[430] A common exclamation of impatience.
[431] The passage is very corrupt. Old eds. read:--
"'Tis requisite, the parts [ed. 2. _partes_] with piety,
And soft [ed. 2. and some copies of ed. 1. _loft_]
respect forbeares, be closely dogg'd," &c.
Dyce's emendation is:--
"'Tis requisite the parties with piety
And soft respect ever be closely dogg'd."
W. N. Lettsom proposed:--
"It must be so, for where
Great states revenge, 'tis requisite the parties
With spy of close respect be closely dogg'd."
[432] Ed. 1. "disseuer."
[433] Ed. 1. "discouered."
[434] Old eds. "_Mend._"
[435] Wrinkles.
[436] Ed. 2. "noble."
[437] Ironical exclamation.
[438] Uncover.--"Descouvrir. To discover, uncover, _unhill_,
denude, &c."--_Cotgrave._
SCENE III.
_A chamber in the Duke's Palace._
_Enter_ MAQUERELLE, EMILIA, _and_ BIANCA, _with a posset_.
_Maq._ Even here it is, three curds in three regions
individually distinct, most methodically[439] according to
art compos'd, without any drink.
_Bian._ Without any drink!
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