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- Scene I] Notes , 149
another family with one's own by placing them in one of the four
compartments of the shield. This, as Shallow intimates, was often
done by marriage.
26. Marring. There is an obvious play on marrying; as in
A. W. ii. 3. 315 : "A young man married is a man that 's marr'd."
28. Py'r lady. The folios print " per-lady." They do not make
Evans's " brogue " consistent throughout, and the modern editors
generally have not attempted to do it. Probably, as Capell says
of Fluellen in Hen. V., " the poet thought it sufficient to mark his
diction a little, and in some places only."
33. Compremises. Changed by Pope to "compromises," but the
blunder is probably intentional.
35. The council. That is, " the court of Star-chamber, composed
chiefly of the king's council sitting in Camera stellata, which took
cognizance of atrocious riots" (Blackstone). Cf. 2 above.
39. Vizaments. That is, advisements (= consideration), a com-
mon word then, though not used by S. Cf. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 5.
13 : " Tempring the passion with advizement slow," etc.
46. George. The folios have " Thomas " here, but George in ii.
I. 146, 154, and V. 5. 207. The correction is due to Theobald.
47. Mistress Anne Page. Mistress was the title of unmarried
women down to the beginning of the i8th century. A MS. dated
1 716 refers to " Mistress Elizabeth Seignoret, spinster." De Foe
uses the term in this way in The Fortunes of Moll Flanders, 1722.
48. Speaks small. Cf. M. N. D. i. 2. 52: "you may speak as
small as you will," etc.
54. Motion. Move, plan. Cf. 212 below.
55. Fribbles and prabbles. Fribbles is a word of the Welshman's
own coining. Y ox prabbles (= brabbles, quarrels, as in T. N. v. i.
68: "In private brabble," etc.), cf. Fluellen's "prawls and prab-
bles" mHen. V. iv. 8.69.
57. Did her grandsire, tic. The folios give this speech and the
next but one to Slender, but the context clearly favours Capell's
transfer of them to Shallow, and the emendation is generally
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