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- 158 Notes [Act I
times a term of reproach (= " a hectoring, cheating sharper,"
as an old dictionary, quoted by Douce, defines it), and was often
spelt " bully-rock," as in some of the modern eds. of S.
7. / sit at ten pounds a week. My expenses are ten pounds
a week. Cf. The Man in the MooJie, etc., 1609: " they sit at an
unmerciful rent."
8. Keisar, Another form of Ccesar, added like Pheezar (a word
of the host's own coining, perhaps suggested by pheeze, for which
see T. of S. ind. i. i, and T. and C. ii. 3. 215) for the sake of the
rhyme.
9. Entertain. Take into service ; as in 53 below. Cf. Much
Ado, i. 3. 60 : " entettained for a perfumer," etc.
13. Froth and lime. Frothing beer and lifning sack, or putting
lime in it (see i Hen. IV. ii. 4. 137), were tapster's tricks in the
time of S. The frothing is said to have been done by putting soap
into the bottom of the tankard when the beer was drawn. Cot-
grave's Wits Interpreter says that the trick can be thwarted if the
customer will watch his opportunity and rub the inside of the
tankard with the skin of a red herring.
20. Hungarian. The reading of the folios. The quartos have
" Gongarian." Hungarian was a cant term for " a hungry, starved
fellow." So says Malone, who cites Hall, Satires, iv. 2 : —
" So sharp and meager that who should them see
Would sweare they lately came from Hungary."
Steevens quotes, among other illustrations of the word, Dekker,
News from Hell, 1606: "the lean-jawed Hungarian would not lay
out a penny pot of sack for himself."
22. Conceited. Fanciful, ingenious.
26. At a minimis rest. The folios have " minutes," but the pre-
ceding reference to music favours Langton's conjecture of minim^Sy
which is adopted by many of the editors. Cf. R. and J. ii. 4. 22 :
" rests me his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom."
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