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- 1 82 Notes [Act III
with their mistresses, by carrying the bachelor's butlons (a plant of
the Lychnis kind, whose flowers resemble a coat button in form) in
their pockets." Steevens cites many contemporaneous references
to these bachelor's btittons.
71. Having. Possessions, property. Cf. A. Y. L. iii. 2. 396:
"Your having in beard; " T, A^. iii. 4. 379: "My having is not
much," etc.
He kept company with the wild prince, etc. This has been quoted
as evidence that Henry IV. was written before M. IV.
73. Knit a knot in his fortunes. His fortunes being now some-
what "at loose ends " on account of his loose ways.
88. Pipe-wine. There is a play upon//^^ in its double sense of
a cask and a musical instrument. It is suggested by canary, which
meant a lively dance as well as a kind of wine. Cf. A. W. ii. I.
77: — " make you dance canary
With spritely fire and motion."
Here Falstaff is to dance to Ford's piping.
Scene IH. — 2. Buck-basket. A basket for carrying clothes to
the bucking (132 below), or washing.
14. Whitsters. Whiteners or bleachers (Fr. blanchisseuses') of
linen. The reader will bear in mind that -ster was originally a
feminine ending, though it retains that force only in spinster.
22. Eyas-musket ! Young sparrow-hawk. Eyas is properly a
nestling hawk (see Ham. ii. 2. 355), and musket (not mentioned
elsewhere by S.) is the young male hawk. Cf Spenser, F. Q.'i. ii.
34:
— " Like Eyas hauke up mounts unto the skies,
His newly-budded pineons to assay ; "
and Hymne of Heavenly Love : " Ere flitting Time could wag his
eyas wings." Izaak Walton, in his enumeration of hawks, men-
tions "the sparhawk and the musket " as the old and young birds
of the same species.
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