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- Scene I] Notes 177
" The quality and hair of our attempt
Brooks no division."
44. Bodykins. A form of swearing by God's body, or the sacra-
mental bread. Cf. Ham. ii. 2. 554 : " God's bodykins, man, much
better ! " Cf. also ^od^s heartlings in iii. 4. 58 below, ^od^s nouns in
iv. I. 24, etc.
46. Make one. That is, one of the combatants.
55. Churchman. Ecclesiastic ; as in T. N. iii. i. 4, Rich. III.
iii. 7. 48, etc.
60. Mock-water. Perhaps another hit at the urinary diagnosis.
89. Cried game ? A doubtful passage which has been variously
emended. " Cried I aim ? " (see on iii. 2. 42) is the most plausible
of these conjectures, and is adopted by several editors. Dr. Ingleby
(^Shakes. Hermeneutics, ^p. 75) remarks: "There can hardly be a
doubt that under the words Cried game, if authentic, there lurks
an allusion of the time which has now to be hunted out. If cried
game? be either Is ii cried game P or Cried I game P we apprehend
the allusion is not far to seek. In hare-hunting a person was em-
ployed and paid to find the hare, ' muzing on her meaze,' or, as we
say, in her form. He was called the hare-finder. When he had
found her, he first cried Soho ! to betray the fact to the pursuers ;
he then proceeded to put her up, and 'give her courser's law.'
What, then, can Cried I game ? mean but Did I cry game ? Did I
cry Soho ? In the play before us the pursuit was after Mistress
Anne Page. She was the hare, and the Host undertook to betray
ber whereabouts to Dr. Caius in order that he might urge his love-
suit."
93. Adversary. Advocate or accessory. The Host plays upon
the ignorance of Caius (Herford).
ACT III
Scene I. — 5. Pitty-ivard. In the direction of the pitty, prob-
ably alocal name in that day, though now lost. Capell reads " city-
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