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- King Henry the Fourth m 1 8 1
printed in 1594, in which Muley Mahomet enters
with lion's flesh on his sword, which he offers to his
wife with the words,
'Feed then and faint not, my fair Calypolis.'
II. iv. 194. Most editors assume that Pistol is
speaking bad Italian. The Cambridge editors sug
gest that it is perhaps bad Spanish, and that he is
reading the motto on his Toledo blade. Douce gives
an illustration of a sword with a French version of
this motto inscribed upon it. Farmer says: 'Pistol
is only a copy of Hannibal Gonsaga who vaunted on
yielding himself a prisoner, as you may read in an
old collection of tales called Wits, Fits, Fancies:
Si Fortuna me tormenta
II speranza me contenta.'
Whatever the language, the meaning of Pistol's motto
is, If Fortune torments me, Hope contents me.
II. iv. 205. shove-groat shilling. Shove-groat
was a game which was a cross between shuffle-board
and 'pitching pennies.' It was played on a board
three feet long and a foot wide, and the object of the
players was to shove coins into numbered spaces at
the far end of the board.
II. iv. 267. drinks . . . flap dragons. Flapdragon
or snapdragon is a sport which consists in snapping
raisins or grapes from burning brandy and eating
them.
II. iv. 286. An impossible conjunction of planets.
II. iv. 288. fiery Trigon. Poins continues the
astrological figure by referring to the red-nosed Bar-
dolph as the fiery Trigon. When the three superior
planets were in that division of the zodiac which
consisted of the three so-called fiery signs, Aries,
Leo, and Sagittarius, they were said to be in the
fiery Trigon, or triangle; when they were in Cancer,
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