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who received three hits. Malone quotes Bullokar, English Exposi-
tor,1616 : " Venie. A touch in the body at playing with weapons ; "
and Florio, Ital. Diet. 1 598 : " Tocco. A touch or feeling. Also a
venie at fence ; a hit." The word came also to mean a bout or
turn at fencing.
291. That 's meat and drink to me. A popular phrase that has
come down to our day. Cf. A. Y. L. \, i, 11 : "It is meat and
drink to me to see a clown."
292. Sackerson. A famous bear exhibited at Paris Garden
(see Hen. VIII. v. 4. 2) in Southwark. Malone quotes an old
epigram : —
" Publius, a student of the common law,
To Paris-garden doth himself withdraw;
Leaving old Ployden, Dyer, and Broke, alone,
To see old Harry Hunkes and Sacarson."
For the bear to get loose was a serious matter. Halliwell-Phillipps
quotes Machyn's Diary for 1554: "The sam day at after-non was '
a bere-beytyn on the Bankesyde, and ther the grette blynd here
broke, losse, and in ronnyng away he chakt a servyngman by the
calff of the lege, and bytt a gret pesse away, . . . that with-in iij
days after he ded."
295. Passed. That is, passed description. Cf. iv. 2. 123 below:
" This passes." See also 7'. and C. i. 2, 182 : " all the rest so
laughed that it passed." Boswell quotes The Maid of the Mill: —
" Come, follow me, you country lasses,
And you shall see such sport as passes."
300. By cock and pie, A petty oath of the time, occurring
again in 2 Hen. IF. \. i. i. Its origin is matter of dispute.
Scene II. — 13. Seese. The folios have " cheese ; " corrected by
Dyce. See on i. i. 28 above. Cf. v. 5. 145 below.
Scene III. — 2. Bully-rook ? A favourite epithet with mine
host, and, as used by him, equivalent to plain bully. It was some-
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