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- 148 Notes [Act I
2. A Star-chamber matter. Steevens quotes Jonson, Magnetic
Lady^ iii. 4 : —
" There is a court above, of the Star-chamber,
To punish routs and riots."
See also Sir John Harrington's Epigrams^ 161 8: —
" No marvel men of such a sumptuous dyet
Were brought into the Star-Chamber for a ryot."
6. Coram. This word and armigero (the ablative case of armi-
ger, bearer of arms, or esquire) occur in the form for attestations
which Slender had seen ; wherein his cousin's name would thus
appear : " Coram me Roberto Shallow armigero," etc. Slender also
confuses the word with Quorum (Clarke).
7. Custalorum. Probably a corruption of custos rotulorum^
keeper of the rolls. Ratolorum seems also to have been suggested
by roiulorum. Farmer conjectured that Slender says "and cus-
tos^' and that Shallow adds " Ay, and rotulorum too ; " but the
old reading, with its muddling of the Latin terms, is in keeping
with the characters.
12. That I do ^ etc. Farmer conjectured "we" for // but Shal-
low speaks for " his successors gone before him " as well as himself.
16. Luces. Pikes. The fish figured in the coat-of-arms of the
Lucy family, and there is quite certainly a hit here at Sir Thomas
Lucy of Charlecote, associated with the tradition of the poet's
youthful poaching exploits. Evans takes the word to refer to an-
other animal, which " signifies love," Boswell tells us, " because it
does not desert man in distress, but rather sticks more close to
him in his adversity."
22. The luce is the fresh fish, etc. An inexplicable passage.
Farmer transfers " the salt fish," etc., to Evans, and says : " Shal-
low had said just before that the coat is an old one ; and now that
it is the luce, the fresh fish. No, replies the parson, it cannot be
old and fresh too — the salt fish is an old coat."
24. Quarter. A term in heraldry for combining the arms of
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