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- Scene I] Notes 165
5. Physician. The folios have " precisian." Cf. Sonn. 147. 5 :
" My reason, the physician to my love."
9. Sack. "The generic name of Spanish and Canary wines"
(Schmidt). We find " Sherris sack" in 2 Hen. iv. 3. 104.
19. Herod of Jewry. Herod was a common personage in the
old dramatic mysteries, where he generally appeared as a swagger-
ing tyrant. Cf. Ham. iii. 2. 16: "it out-Herods Herod."
21. Unweighed. Inconsiderate. Cf. «ww/^2^/z/«^ (= thoughtless)
in M.for M. iii. 2. 147.
22. Flemish drunkard. The Flemish were notorious for their
intemperance. The only other reference to them in S. is in ii. 2.
304 below.
2^,. Conversation. Behaviour; as in A. and C. ii. 6. 131 :
" Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation," etc. Cf.
Psabjis, xxxvii. 14, 1. 23.
27. Exhibit a bill, etc. Chalmers thought this to be " a sarcasm
on the many bills which were unadvisedly moved in the parliament
which began Nov. 5, 1605, and ended May 26, 1606."
28. Putting down of men. Many of the editors follow Theobald
in the insertion of " fat " before men ; but surely there is no suffi-
cient reason for the emendation. Cf. what Mrs. Page says in 78
below : " I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste
man." There is the same merry extravagance here as there.
30. Puddings. Entrails were often termed puddings, and "as
sure as his guts are puddings " is still heard in the North of Eng-
land (Halliwell-Phillipps). For guts, see on i. 3. 84 above.
49. Sir Alice Ford f This was not without actual precedent.
Queen Elizabeth knighted Mary, the lady of Sir Hugh Cholmonde-
ley, "the bold lady of Cheshire." The ceremony took place at
Tilbury in 1588.
50. These knights will hack. This probably means that they will
become hackneyed, or cheap and vulgar, as Blackstone explained it.
Cf. p. 10 above. Some make hack — do mischief. Johnson wanted
to read " we '11 hack," seeing a reference to the punishment of a
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