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Notes
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165. Leman. Lover, paramour. In the other instances of the
word in S. ( T. N. ii. 3. 26 and 2 Hen. IV. v. 3. 49) it is feminine.
178. Daubery. Imposture, trickery; literally daubing with
false colours. Cf. the use of daub in Rich. III. iii. 5. 29 and Lear^
iv. I. 53. By the figure apparently refers to some form of fortune-
telling in which diagrams were used.
187. Ronyon ! A scabby or mangy woman. The word occurs
again in Macb. i. 3. 6 : " rump-fed ronyon."
199. Cry out thus upon no trail. "The expression is taken
from the hunters. Trail is the scent left by the passage of the
game ; to cry out is to open or bark^^ (Johnson). Cf. Ham. iv. 5.
109: — " Hov/ cheerfully on the false trail they cry !
O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs ! "
212. In fee-simple, with fine and recovery. Ritson remarks:
" Our author had been long enough in an attorney's office to learn
ihdX fee-simple is the largest estate, zxi^fine and recovery the strong-
est assurance, known to English law." For fee-simple, cf. A. W.
iv. 3. 312: " Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee simple of
his salvation," etc. For fine and recovery, cf. Haiti, v. i . 114:
*' his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries," etc.
213. He will never, I think, etc. "He will not make further
attempts to ruin us, by corrupting our virtue, and destroying our
reputation" (Steevens).
218. Figures. Fancies. Schmidt compares/. C. ii. i. 231 : —
" Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,
Which busy care draws in the brains of mfen."
223. No period. "No due conclusion" (Clarke). White puts
a period Siher jest, making what follows a question.
Scene III. — i. The Germans. Some of the commentators see
here an allusion to the visit of Count Frederick of Mompelgard
(afterwards Duke of Wiirtemberg and Teck) to Windsor in 1592,
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