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- Scene I] Notes 147
Shakespeare the Boy (1896 ; treating of the home and school hfe,
the games and sports, the manners, customs, and folk-lore of the
poet's time) ; Guerber's Myths of Greece and Rome (for young stu-
dents who may need information on mythological allusions not
explained in the notes).
H. Snowden Ward's Shakespeare's Town and Times (2d ed.
1902) and John Leyland's Shakespeare Country (2d ed. 1903) are
copiously illustrated books (yet inexpensive) which may be par-
ticularly commended for school libraries.
Abbreviations in the Notes. — The abbreviations of the names
of Shakespeare's plays will be readily understood ; as T. N. for
Twelfth Nighty Cor. for Coriolanus, 3 Hen. VI. for The Third
Part of King Henry the Sixth, etc. P. P. refers to The Passionate
Pilgrim ; V. and A. to Venus and Adonis ; L. C. to Lover'' s Com-
plaint; and Sonn. to the Sonnets.
Other abbreviations that hardly need explanation are Cf. {confer,
compare), Fol. (following). Id. {idem, the same), and Prol. (pro-
logue). The numbers of the Unes in the references (except for the
present play) are those of the " Globe " edition (the cheapest and
best edition of Shakespeare in one compact volume), which is now
generally accepted as the standard for line-numbers in works of ref-
erence (Schmidt's Lexicon, Abbott's Grammar, Dowden's Primer,
the publications of the New Shakspere Society, etc.).
ACT I
Scene I. — i. Sir Hugh. The title Sir was formerly applied to
priests and curates in general. " Dominus, the academical title of *
a bachelor of arts, was usually rendered by Sir in English at the
universities ; therefore, as most clerical persons had taken that first ;
degree, it became usual to style them Sir'''' (Nares). Cf. "Sir
Topas " in T. N. iv. 2. 2, etc. Halliwell-Phillipps quotes the Reg-
ister ofBurials at Cheltenham : " 1574, August xxxi, Sir John Evans,
curate of Cheltenham, buried."
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