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- Scene II] Notes l8l
A. and C. v. 2. 21 5 : "scald rhymers," etc. CV»^"«^ = cheating.
Cf. iii. 3. 49, 72 below.
Scene II. — 17. The dickens. The one instance of the expres-
sion in S. It is rare in writers of the time. Heywood, in his
Edw. IV. 1600, has " What, the dickens ! "
32. Twelve score. That is, yards ; as in i Hen. IV. ii. 4. 598
and 2 Hen. IV. iii. 2. 52. As this is a short distance for a cannon,
it has been suggested that rods may be understood ; but Ford
means to make it a very easy shot, which for the guns of that day
might not be more than 720 feet. At any rate, 5J times that dis-
tance, or nearly a mile, would be too much for a point-blank shot.
40. So-seeming. Referring to modesty; not = "so specious," as
Steevens makes it.
41. Actceon. Here = cuckold ; alluding to the proverbial /^crwj.
Cf. ii. I. 117 and iii. 2. 41.
42. Cry aim. Encourage ; " an expression borrowed from
archery = to encourage the archers by crying out aitn when they
were about to shoot, and then in a general sense to applaud, to
encourage with cheers" (Schmidt). Qi. K. John, ii. i. 196; and
see also on ii. 3. 89 above.
55. Lingered. Been waiting.
67. Speaks holiday. That is, his best, his choicest language.
Warburton thought it to be = " in a high-flown, fustian style ; "
but the host means simply holiday style as distinguished from
everyday style, or that of common people. Cf. i Hen. IV. i. 3.
46: " With many holiday and lady terms; " also "high-day wit"
in M. of V. ii. 9. 98, and " festival terms " in Much Ado, v. 2. 41.
68. *Tis in his buttons. A free-and-easy expression = 't is in
him to do it, he can do it if he will. The late President Garfield
said that he never met a ragged boy without feeling that he owed
him a salute for the possibilities "buttoned up under his coat."
Some of the editors of the last century see an allusion to " a custom
among the country fellows, of trying whether they should succeed
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