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- Scene II] Notes 191
unless you be hanged; for Hog is not Bacon till it be well
hang'd.' "
65. Hick. The dame evidently takes hie to be a verb, like
hack, but what meaning she ascribes to it is not clear. The only
hick given in the Neiv Eng. Diet, is = hiccup.
78. Preeches. That is, breeched, or flogged. Cf. T. of S. iii. I.
18: "I am no breeching scholar in the schools."
81. Sprag, Sprack ; that is, quick, ready. S. has the word
only here. Coles, in his Latin Diet., has " Sprack, vegetus, vivi-
dus, agilis." Steevens quotes Tony Aston's supplement to the Life
of Colley Gibber: "a little lively sprack man." Sprag is Sir
Hugh's mispronunciation.
Scene II. — i. Your sorrow, etc. My sufferings are dissipated
at the sight of your regret. For sufferance = suffering, cf. Much
Ado, v. I. 38, etc.
2. Obsequious. Zealous, devoted. Cf. M. for M. ii. 4. 28 : " in
obsequious fondness," etc.
21. Lunes. Lunatic freaks, mad fancies. Cf. W. T. ii. 2. 30:
" These dangerous unsafe' lunes i' the king, beshrew them ! " In
the present passage the folios have " lines," as in T. and C. ii. 3.
139 : " His pettish lunes."
24. Peer out, peer out! Henley remarks: " S. here refers to
the practice of children, when they call on a snail to push forth his
horns : —
' Peer out, peer out, peer out of your hole,
Or else I '11 beat you black as coal.' "
46. Bestow him. Put him. Cf. Temp. v. i. 299: "Hence,
and bestow your luggage where you found it," etc.
51. Pistols. Douce and others note the anachronism here.
Cf. I Hen, IV. ii. 4. 380, v. 3. 53, etc.
57. Creep into the kiln-hole. Malone suspected from Mrs.
Ford's next speech that these words belong to Mrs. Page ; but, as
he adds, " that may be a second thought, a correction of her former
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