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Notes
159
28. Convey. A cant term for steal. Cf. J^ich. II. iv. I. 317,
Cymb. i. i. 63, etc.
A fico for the phrase ! That is, a fig for it. Cf. Hen. V. iii. 6.
60 : " and figo for thy friendship ! " Fico is the Italian, as jigo is
the Spanish, for fig.
31. Kibes. Chaps or sores in the heel. Cf. Temp. ii. i. 276,
Ham. V. I. 153, and Lear, i. 5. 9. For cony-catch, see on i. i. 124
above.
34. Young ravens must have food. A proverb in Ray's col-
lection.
42. Waste. Steevens remarks that the same play upon waste
and waist is found in Heywood's Epigrams, 1562 : —
" Where am I least, husband ? quoth he, in the waist ;
Which Cometh of this, thou art vengeance strait lac'd.
Where am I biggest, wife ? in the waste, quote she,
For all is waste in you, as far as I see."
He might have added that we find it again in FalstafPs own mouth,
in 2 Hen. IV. i. 2. 160 : —
" Chief-justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
Falstaff. I would it were otherwise ; I would my means were greater,
and my waist slender."
44. Carves. To carve for a person was considered a mark of
favour or affection, as is evident from C. of E. ii. 2. 120, etc. ; but
other allusions to carving in writers of the time show that the word
also meant certain gestures expressing recognition and favour.
Dyce quotes Day's lie of Gulls, 1606: "Her amorous glances are
her accusers ; . . . she carves thee at boord, and cannot sleepe for
dreaming on thee in bedde." White adds, from Overbury, A Very
Woman : " Her lightnesse gets her to swim at the top of the table,
where her wrie little finger bewraies carving ; her neighbours at the
latter end know they are welcome," etc. See also Littleton's Latin-
English Lexicon, 1675 • " -^ carver : chironomus ; " " Chironomus :
one that useth apish motions with his hands ; " " Chironomia : a
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