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- Scene III] Notes 185
141. / love thee. Malone adds (from the quarto) " and none
but thee," which he assumes to be spoken to Mrs, Page aside.
148. Co7vl-staff. A pole on which a tub or basket was borne
between two persons. Malone says that in Essex a large tub is
called a cowl^ and Halliwell-Phillipps {Archaic Diet.) gives coul
with that sense. Florio has **Bicollo, a cowle-staffe to carie behind
and before with, as they use in Italy to carie two buckets at
once ; " and Cotgrave defines courge as " stang, palestaffe, or cole-
staffe, carried on the shoulder, and notched (for the hanging of a
pale, &c.) at both ends." Drumble = move sluggishly, " dawdle ; "
still used in the West of England. S. has the word only here.
157. Vou were best meddle. Originally the pronoun was dative :
" it were best for you ; " but it came to be regarded as the
nominative. Cf. A. Y. L. i. I. 154 : "thou wert best look to it,"
etc.
159. Wash myself of the buck. That is, rid myself of the horns
of the cuckold.
161. Of the season. In season; a technical term. Cf.' unsea-
sonable in R. of L. 581.
163. To-night. Last night ; as often. Cf. M. of V. ii. 5. 18 :
" For I did dream of money-bags to-night," etc,
167. Uncape. Probably = " uncouple," which Hanmer sub-
stituted. Warburton explains it as = " unearth," and Steevens as
= " to turn the fox out of the bag." S. uses the word only here.
188. Strain. See on ii. i. 86 above.
195. Foolish carrion. The ist folio has " foolishion Carion ; "
apparently an example of that variety of " duplicative " misprints,
as Dr. Ingleby calls them {Shakes. Hermeneutics, p, 36), in which
the ending of the next word is anticipated in the one we are writ-
ing or putting in type.i
1 Like " excellence sense," for " excellent sense," a misprint in Dr.
Ingleby's S. the Man and the Book, Part II. (p. 31) which, on my point-
ing itout to him, he called " a capital example " of this class of mistakes.
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