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- Scene III] Notes 183
27. Jack-a-Lent. A small puppet thrown at during Lent.
Steevens quotes Greeners Tu Quoque : " if a boy, that is throwing
at his Jack o' Lent, chance to hit me on the shins," etc.
42. Pumpion. Pumpkin ; the modern name being a corruption
of the old one. S. mentions it nowhere else.
43. Turtles. Turtle-doves. See on ii. i. 79 above. Jay was a
metaphor for a harlot. Cf. Cymb. iii. 4. 51 : —
" Some jay of Italy,
Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him."
Warburton notes that the Italian putta ( = jay) is used in the same
figurative sense.
44. Have I caught thee, etc. The beginning of the second song
in Sidney's Astrophel and Stella is
" Have I caught my heav'nly jewel!,
Teaching sleepe most faire to be ?
Now will I teach her that she
When she wakes, is too-too cruell."
49. Cog. Cheat, dissemble. See on iii. i. 118 above.
57. Beauty. The Variorum of 1821 has "bent," the quarto
reading. Malone quotes A. and C. i. 3. 36 : " Bliss in our brows'
bent."
58. Ship-tire and tire-valiant are forms of the tire, or head-dress,
of the time. Cf. Much Ado, iii. 4. 13. Venetian admittance = ad-
mitted or approved as the fashion in Venice. Cf. T. of S. ii. i. 308,
where Petruchio says he is going to Venice " To buy apparel 'gainst
the wedding-day." Halliwell-Phillipps quotes Merchant Royall,
1607: "if wee weare any thing, it must be pure Venetian, Roman,
or barbarian ; but the fashion of all must be French."
62. Traitor. "That is, to thy own merit" (Steevens). The
reading is that of the quartos ; the folios have " tyrant," and omit
By the Lord. See on ii. 2. 56 above.
63. Absolute. Perfect. Cf. Ham. v. 2. 1 1 1 : " an absolute gen-
tleman," etc.
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