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- Scene I] Notes 151
and T. of S. v. I. 102: "Take heed lest you be cony-catched in
this business." Robert Greene published a pamphlet exposing the
" Frauds and Tricks of Coney-catchers and Couzeners."
125. They carried me . . . my pockets. This is not found in the
folio, but was suppUed by Malone from the ist quarto. That it
belongs here is evident from 151 below.
128. You Banbury cheese! A hit at the thinness of Slender,
Banbury cheese being proverbially thin. Steevens quotes Jack
Drum's Entertairwient, 1601 : "Put off your cloathes, and you are
like a Banbury cheese — nothing but paring ; " and Heywood,
Epigrams : —
" I never saw Banbury cheese thick enough,
But I have oft seen Essex cheese quick enough."
Camden, in his Britannia, speaks of Banbury as " nunc autem con-
ficiendo caseo notissimum." Holland, in his translation, 1610,
renders this : " Now the fame of this towne is for zeale, cheese, and
cakes." There is a story that Holland wrote "ale" instead of
" zeale," and that Camden, happening to see it as the sheet was
going through the press, and thinking the expression too light,
made the change ; but Camden himself contradicted this and said
that " zeale " was inserted by the compositor or printer.
130. Mephostophilus. The Mephistopheles of the legend of
Faust, to which there is another allusion in iv. 5. 70 below. There
are contemporaneous examples of the use of the word as a term
of abuse.
132. Pauca,pauca! That \s, pauca verba (few words), as in
no above. Cf. Hen. V. ii. i. 83 (Pistol's speech) : "and, pauca ;
there 's enough." Slice is probably a slang verb = cut (either in
the sense of " cut and run," be off, as Clarke explains, or of cutting
with a sword, as others make it) ; but Schmidt takes it to be a
noun, and another hit at the thin Slender.
That 's my humour. The word humour was worn threadbare in
the fashionable talk of the time, as is evident from many allusions
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