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- Scene V] Notes 187
which this bumpkin squire interlards his speech with illustrations
borrowed from the stud and the kennel, from country sports and
pursuits, is worth observing" (Clarke).
58. ^Od''s heartlings. See on ii. 3. 44 above.
67. Happy 7nan be his dole! Happiness be his lot! Cf. T. of S.
i. I. 144, I Hen. IV. ii. 2. 81, etc. For dole (literally = dealing,
distribution), cf. 2 Hen. IV. i. 169 : " in the dole of blows ; " and
A. W. ii. 3. 76 : " what dole of honour." The word is still a
familiar one in England for a charitable allowance of provision to
the poor.
74. hfipatient. Metrically a quadrisyllable. Cf. submission in
iv. 4. II.
84. Advance the colours of my love. For the metaphor, cf. R. and
J. V. 3. 96 : ** And death's pale flag is not advanced there."
89. Quick. Alive ; as in Ha7n. v. i. 137 : " 't is for the dead, and
not the quick," etc. See also Acts, x. 42, 2 Timothy, iv. i, Hebrews,
iv. 12, etc.
On the passage, Collins compares Jonson, Barthol. Fair : " Would
I had been set in the ground, all but the head of me, and had my
brains bowled at."
99. A fool and a physician ? Hanmer changes and to " or ; "
but, as Qarke notes, it is just in Mrs. Quickly's blundering way to
couple the two suitors by and instead of or.
102. Once to-night. Some time to-night. *
1 14. Slack. Neglect ; as in Lear, ii. 4. 248 and 0th. iv. 3. 88.
Scene V. — There is a strange confusion of time in this scene,
which Mr. P. A. Daniel states thus : " We find Falstaff calling for
sack to qualify the cold water he had swallowed when slighted into
the river from the buck-basket. One would naturally suppose that
the time of this scene must be the afternoon of the day of that
adventure, and, indeed, it can be but a little later than the time of
the preceding-scene ; but lo ! when Mrs. Quickly enters with the
invitation for * to-morrow, eight o'clock,' she gives his worship good
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