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- 176 Notes [Act II
3CX). Additions. Titles. Cf. Macb. i. 3. 106, iii. i. 100, Ham, i.
4. 20, ii. I. 47, etc.
301. W itiol-cuckold. The folios have " WittoU, Cuckold," and
some modern editors follow them. See on 274 above.
305. Aqua-vitcB. Ardent spirits ; here probably = whiskey. Reed
says that Dericke, in The Image of Ireland, 1581, mentions uske-
beaghe (or usquebaugh, the same word as the modern whiskey), and
in a note explains it to mean aqua-vita.
311. Eleven o'clock the hour. " It was necessary for the plot that
he should mistake the hour, and come too late " (Mason).
Scene III. — 24. Fain. Thrust; a fencing term. Cf. Much
Ado, V. I. 84, 2 Hen. IV. ii. i. 17, etc. Traverse elsewhere is =
march ; and here it may mean " baffle by shifting place." Schmidt
thinks it is —foin. Punto (Italian = point), stock (see on ii. i. 221
above), reverse, and montant (Italian montanto, for which see Much
Ado, i. I. 30) were all technicalities of the fencing-school.
29. Heart of elder ? " In contradistinction to * heart of oak,'
elder-wood having nothing but soft pith at heart" (Clarke).
30. Bully stale. The word stale = urine ; as in A. and C. i. 4.
62 : " the stale of horses." This, like Urinal just below, is a hit
at the practice of examining the patient's water then in vogue. Cf.
2 Hen. IV. i. 2. I : " What says the doctor to my water ? "
33. Castilian. The folios have " Castalion," and the quartos
" Castallian." It may be, as Farmer suggests, " a slur upon the
Spaniards, who were held in great contempt after the business of
the Armada." There is perhaps also " an allusion to his profession,
as a viditex- caster '^ (Malone). To cast the water was the technical
term for inspecting it. Cf. Macb. v. 3. 50 : —
" If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease," etc.
40. The hair. The grain, the nature. Cf. i Hen. IV. iv. I.
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