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- Scene III] Notes 1 6 1
62. Then did the sun on dunghill shine. Holt White quotes
Lyly, Euphues : " The sun shineth upon the dunghill."
65. Intention. Probably here — intentness, or intensity.
68. Guiana. The only allusion to the country in S. Sir Walter
Raleigh had returned in 1596 from his expedition to South America
and had published glowing accounts of the great wealth of Guiana
in his book entitled " The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewti-
ful Empyre of Guiana, \\ith a relation of the great and golden Citie
of Manoa, which the Spanyards call El Dorado," etc. But long
before this, in 1569, John Hawkins had published the account of
his voyage to " the Parties of Guynea and the West Indies."
69. Cheater. Escheator ; an officer of the exchequer, whose duty
it was to collect forfeitures to the crown. Cheater was the vulgar
corruption of the name. Cf. 2 Hen. IV. ii. 4. iii.
74. Sir Pandarus of Troy. The archetype of pandars and
pimps. Cf. T. and C. i. I. 48, etc.
77. Haviour. Equivalent to behaviour, but not a contraction
of that word.
78. Tightly. " Cleverly, adroitly " (Malone) ; as in ii 3. 65
below. Cf. the adjective in A. and C. iv. 4. 15.
79. Pinnace. A small vessel, chiefly used, according to Rolfs
Diet, of Com7nerce, " as a scout for intelligence, and for landing of
men" (Malone).
83. French thrift, etc. " Falstaff says he shall imitate an economy
then practised in France of making a single page serve in lieu of a
train of attendants " (Clarke).
84. Guts ! Not so offensive a word in olden times as now. Cf.
ii. I. 30 below, Ham. iii. 4. 112, etc.
Gourds were a kind of false dice, probably with a secret cav-
ity in them, and fullams such as had been loaded. High men
and low men were cant terms for high and low numbers on dice
(Malone). Steevens quotes Dekker's Belman of London, where
among the false dice are mentioned " a bale of fullams " and " a
bale of gordes, with as many high-men as low-men for passage."
MERRY WIVES — II
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