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II] Notes
175
248. Instance. Example. Cf. C. of E. iv. 3. ?>?> : " this present
instance of his rage," etc.
249. Ward, A technical term in fencing for posture of defence.
Cf. Temp. i. 2. 471 : "Come from your ward ; " i Hen. IV. ii. 4.
215 : "my old ward," etc.
251. Other her defences. Cf. Lear, i. 4. 259: "other your new
pranks," etc. For too-too, cf. M. of V. ii. 6. 42 : " too-too light,"
etc. See also quotation in note on iii. 3, 43 below.
274. Wittolly. Equivalent to cuckoldly just above. Cf. 301
below, where wittol- cuckold — " one who knows his wife's false-
hood, and is contented with it " (Malone).
280. Mechanical. Vulgar ; like a mere labourer. Cf. 2 Hen. VI.
i. 3. 196: "Base dunghill villain and mechanical! " See also/. C.
i. I. 3. It may be a question whether salt-butter is = dealing in
salt butter, or a mere huckster (as Schmidt makes it), or = too
poor to indulge in the luxury of fresh butter ; but it is probably
the latter. English people nowadays consider that only unsalted
butter is fit for the table, and wonder that Yankees often find it
insipid.
284. Predominate. An astrological term ; like predominant, for
which see W. T. i. 2. 196, A. IV. i. i. 211, etc.
286. Aggravate his style. Add to his titles (by making him a
cuckold). Style is used in the heraldic sense. Steevens quotes
Heywood, Golden Age, 161 1: "I will create lords of a greater
style."
288. Soon at night. See on i. 4. 8 above.
298. Amaimon and Barbason were devils, as the context shows.
Reginald Scot, Harsnet, and other writers of the time give us as
long lists of these "several devils' names" as Glendower bored
Hotspur with (i Hen. IV. iii. I. 154). Randle Holme, in his
Academy of Armourie (quoted by Steevens), says that " Amaymon
is the chief whose dominion is on the north part of the infernal
gulph," and that *^ Barbatos is like a Sagittarius, and hath 30
legions under him."
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