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- 170 Notes [Act II
he has no confidence in Mistress Page's fidelity. The meaning, as
Malone puts it, is " has such perfect confidence in his unchaste
wife."
232. Made there. Did there. Cf. iv. 2. 53 below : " But what
make you here ? " The idiom was a common one, and is played
upon in L. L. L. iv. 3. 190 and Rick. III. i. 3. 164 fol.
Scene II. — 6. Grated upon. Worried, vexed ; as in 2 Hen.
IV. iv. I. 90: "suborn'd to grate on you." For the transitive ^ra/^
in the same sense, see Ham. iii. i. 3 and A. and C.\. i. 18.
7. Coach- fellow. Companion ; commonly explained as = "a
horse drawing in the same carriage with another" (Schmidt).
8. Geminy. Couple, pair (Latin gemint) ; used by S. only
here.
11. The handle of her fan. As Steevens notes, fans were then
more costly than now, being made of ostrich feathers, set into
handles of gold, silver, ivory, etc. He quotes, among other refer-
ences to these, Marston, Satires, 1578 : —
" And buy a hoode and silver-handled fan
With fortie pound."
12. / took V upon mine konour. I protested by mine honour.
Qi.K.Jokny i. I. no: — " And took it on his death
That this my mother's son was none of his."
\^. A skort knife and a throng! That is, for cutting purses in
a crowd. Purses, it will be remembered, were usually hung to the
girdle. Malone quotes Overbury, Characters : "The eye of this
wolf is as quick in his head as a cutpurse in a throng."
17. Pickt-hatch! A cant name for a district of bad repute in
London. Steevens quotes several references to it from Jonson and
other writers of the time. He suggests also a plausible origin for
the term. A hatch (see K. fohn, i. i. 171) was a half-door (that
is, with the lower half arranged to shut, leaving the upper half
open like a window), and this was sometimes protected by picks, ot
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