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- Scene II] Notes 171
spikes, to prevent thieves and marauders from " leaping the hatch "
{Lear, iii. 6. 76). Cf. Cupid'' s Whirligig, 1607: "Set some picks
upon your hatch, and, I pray, profess to keep a bawdy-house."
24. Lurch. Explained by Schmidt and others as = "lurk."
The only other instance of the vv^ord in S. is in Cor. ii. 2. 105 : " He
lurch'd all swords of the garland" (that is, robbed them of the
prize). Cotgrave has " Fortraire. To lurch, purloyne ; " and
Coles (Za/. Did.) renders lurch by " subduco, surripio."
25. Cat-a-mountain. The folio has " Cat-a-Mountaine-lookes."
Cf. Temp. iv. i. 262: "Than pard or cat o' mountain" ("Cat o'
Mountaine" in the folio); the only other mention of the beast
in S.
26. Red-lattice phrases. "Ale-house conversation" (Johnson).
Cf. 2 Hen. IV. ii. 2. 86: "through a red lattice." Steevens
quotes The Miseries of Inforc'd Marriage, 1607: " 't is treason
to the red lattice, enemy to the signpost." Malone cites Braith-
waite, Strapado for the Divell, 1615 : " Monsieur Bacchus, master-
gunner of the pottle-pot ordnance, prime founder of red lattices ; "
and Douce adds, from the Blacke Booke, 1604: "watched some-
times ten houres together in an ale-house, ever and anon peeping
forth, and sampling thy nose with the red Lattis."
Bold-beating. If this is not a misprint, it is = browbeating.
Hanmer's "bull-baiting" is a plausible conjecture. The Camb.
editors and many others retain bold-beating.
29. Would thou. The folio reading ; changed in most eds. to
" wouldst thou," but it is not necessary to correct Pistol's language.
48. Well, one Mistress Ford, you say, — . The folio reads
" Well, on ; Mistresse Ford, you say." The emendation is
favoured by the preceding speech.
53. God. The quarto reading ; changed to " Heaven " in the
folio, on account of the statute of 1606 against the abuse of the
name of God in plays, etc.
61. Canaries. Perhaps = quandary, though S. does not use
that word elsewhere.
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