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- 150 Notes [Act I
adopted. Verplanck, however, remarks : " though they suit Shal-
low very well, yet it seems a more natural touch of humour to make
Slender, so negatively indifferent to all other matters, struck with
admiration at the legacy."
63. Possibilities. Halliwell-PhilHpps takes this to be = " pos-
sessions." AMS. in Dulwich College (of about the year 1610)
reads : " if we geete the fathers good will first, then may we bolder
spake to the datter, for my possebeletis is abel to manteyne her."
In the present passage, however, the word may refer to what she is
likely to receive from her father.
88. Fallow. Pale yellow ; the only instance of this sense in S.
He uses the adjective ( = untilled) again in Hen. V. v. 2. 44.
89. On Cotsall. That is, on the Cotswold downs in Gloucester-
shire, celebrated for coursing, for which their fine turf fitted them,
and also for other rural sports. The allusion is not in the first
sketch of the play, and is one of the little points indicating that
it was not revised until after the accession of James, in the begin-
ning of whose reign the Cotswold games were revived. Cf.
Rich. II. ii. 3. 9 and 2 Hen. IV. iii. 2. 23.
92. Fault. Explained by Malone and Schmidt as = misfortune,
bad luck ; as perhaps in iii. 3. 220 below. Schmidt compares Per.
iv. 2. 79.
113. But not kissed your keeper''s daughter ? Some of the critics
suppose this to be a quotation from an old ballad. Sir Walter
Scott, in Kenihvorth, suggests that it was part of the charge made
against S. by Sir Thomas Lucy.
119. In counsel. Kept secret ; with possibly a play on ft?/^;W(?/ =
secrecy. Malone quotes Howel's Proverbial Sentences : " Mum is
counsell, viz. silence."
121. Worts? "The ancient name of all the cabbage kind"
(Steevens). Cf. the modern colewort. Baret, in his Alvearie,
1580, defines worts as "all kind of hearbes that serve for the
potte."124. Cony-catching. Thieving, cheating. Cf. i. 3. 32 below,
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