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[Act IV
and to the fact that free post-horses were granted him through
a pass of Lord Howard's. See also on iv. 5. 70 below. -
II. Come off. " Come down with the cash," pay for it. Steevens
and Farmer quote many examples of the expression from Massinger,
Dekker, Heywood, Jonson, and other dramatists of the time. It
occurs also in Chaucer, C. T. 338.
Scene IV. — 7. With cold.. Of coldness. We still say "charge
with coldness," etc.
II. Extreme. S. accents the word on either syllable; on the
first chiefly when preceding the noun. Cf. R. of L. 230, T. G. of
V. ii. 7. 22, L. L. L. V. 2. 750, etc. Submission is a quadrisyllable.
32. Takes. Bewitches. Cf. Ham. i. i. 163: "No fairy takes,
nor witch hath power to harm; " Lear^ iii. 4. 61 : " star -blasting
and taking," etc.
35. Spirit. Monosyllabic; as often. See on i. 4. 23 above.
36. Eld. Here apparently = people of the olden time.
43. Disguised like Heme, etc. This line is not in the folios ;
supplied by Theobald from the ist quarto. He also inserted the
preceding line of the quarto, " We '11 send him word to meet us in
the field ; " but, as Malone notes, this is clearly unnecessary, and
indeed improper, as y?^/^ relates to what goes before in the quarto : —
" Now for that Yalstaffe hath bene so deceiued,
As that he dares not venture to the house,
Weele send him word to meet vs in the field,
Disguised like Home, with huge horns on his head."
The last line is required by in this shape in the next speech.
50. Urchins. Mischievous elves ; probably so called because
they sometimes took the form of urchins, or hedgehogs. Cf. Temp.
i. 2. 326 with Id. ii. 2. 10. Ouphes were a kind of elves ; men-
tioned again in v. 5. 54 below.
55. Diffused. Confused, wild, irregular. Cf. Hen. V. v. 2. 61 :
" diffus'd attire " (where the early eds. have " defused," as in Rich,
III. i. 2. 78 and Lear, i. 4. 2).
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