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- 132 The Second Part of
Scorpio, and Pisces, they were in the watery Trigon,
etc.
II. iv. 363. dead elm. Shakespeare mentions elms
three times, — here and in The Comedy of Errors,
II. ii. 176, and in A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV.
i. 49. In both C. of E. and M. N. D. the reference
is to the practice of training ivy on elm trees, illus
trating the relation of woman to man. Poins is
therefore probably referring to the posture of Fal-
staff and Doll.
III. ii. 28, 29. Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John
Fastolfe, with both of whom Falstaff has been identi
fied (cf. 1 Henry IV, this edition, Appendix C 3),
were both pages to the Duke of Norfolk in their
youth.
III. ii. 33. Skogan. Shakespeare probably took
the name from a jest book published in 1565, called
Scogin's Jests. This Scogin was the court fool of
King Edward IV. It is possible, however, that the
reference is to Chaucer's friend, Henry Scogan, de
scribed by Ben Jonson in The Fortunate Isles as 'a
fine gentleman, and master of arts, of Henry the
Fourth's time/
III. ii. 73. accommodated. This is one of the
words which Ben Jonson (Discoveries) refers to as
one of 'the perfumed terms of the time.' Bardolph is
giving himself airs and imitating the affectations of
fashionable gallants.
III. ii. 239. Bullcalf means to say: 'Here, in
French crowns, is the equivalent of four English ten-
shilling pieces, or ten-shilling pieces with King
Henry's head on them/ As a matter of fact Henry
VII was the first English king whose head appeared
on ten shilling pieces.
III. ii. 264. three pound. Falstaff's followers
adopt his own methods. Bardolph has collected four
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