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- i so The Second Part of
II. iv. 36. The ballad sung by Falstaff has been
preserved in Percy's Reliques.
II. iv. 52. Another scrap of an old ballad.
II. iv. 91. debuty. Mistress Quickly's pronun
ciation of deputy, and of Wednesday in line 93, both
of which are corrected in the Folio text, indicates that
she has a cold in her head.
II. iv. 104, 105. tame cheater. A cant term for a
low gamester, especially for a gamester's decoy.
Mistress Quickly understands the word in the sense of
escheator, or officer of the exchequer. The Cam
bridge editors suggest the emendation chetah, the
hunting leopard, known in Europe as early as the
fifteenth century. The sentence, you may stroke him
as gently as a puppy greyhound, would indicate at
least that Falstaff is playing on the two words
cheater and chetah. One would hardly speak of
stroking a gamester's decoy.
II. iv. 159. occupy. This word was used only in
an obscene sense in Shakespeare's day. From the
sixteenth to the nineteenth century it seldom appears
in literature.
II. iv. 172. Have we not Hiren here? This
phrase, which became proverbial in Elizabethan
drama, probably originated in a lost play by George
Peele, entitled, The Turkish Mahomet and Hyren
(Irene) the Fair Greek. Pistol applies the name to
his sword. Mistress Quickly (11. 189, 190) thinks
he is inquiring for some woman.
II. iv. 177, 178. Pistol misquotes from Marlowe's
Tamburlaine the Great, Pt. II, IV, iv:
'Holla, ye pamper'd jades of Asia!
What ! can ye draw but twenty miles a day ?'
II. iv. 192. Another burlesque of contemporary
drama. This time Shakespeare puts into Pistol's
mouth a reference to Peele's Battle of Alcazar,
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