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- Scene I] Notes 169
212. Brook. The reading of the quartos; the folios have, as
elsewhere, "Broome." That the former is right is evident from
ii. 2. 151 below.
216. Mynheers. The early eds. have "An-heires" or "An-
hcirs ; " corrected by Theobald. Other emendations are " on,
here," " on, hearts," " on, heroes," " cavaleires," etc. " On, hearts "
is favoured, perhaps, by iii. 2. 86 below.
217. Have with you. I am with you, or I'll go with you; a
common idiom. Cf. 227 and iii. 2. 91 below.
221. You stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, etc. In the
time of S. duelling had been reduced to a science, and its laws laid
down with great precision. Cf. R. and J. ii. 4. 20 : " He fights as
you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion ; rests
me his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom : the
very butcher of a silk button, a duellist, a duellist ; a gentleman
of the very first house, of the first and second cause," etc. Cf.
Touchstone's ridicule of the causes of quarrel, etc., in A. Y. L. v. 4.
63 fol. The stoccado was a thrust in fencing. It is the same as
the stoccata of R. and J. iii. i. 77, the stock of ii. 3. 26 below, and
the stuck of T. N. iii. 4. 303 and Ham. iv. 7. 162.
224. Made you. The you is doubtless the colloquial expletive
pronoun ; as in i. 3. 57 above. For tall (= stout), see on i. 4. 24.
Johnson remarks here : " Before the introduction of rapiers the
swords in use were of an enormous length, and sometimes raised
with both hands. Shallow, with an old man's vanity, censures the
innovation by which lighter weapons were introduced, tells what
he could once have done with the long sword, and ridicules the
terms and rules of the rapier." The first quarto reads here : —
"I
Have
scene
the day, with
my
two
hand sword
I
would
a
made
you
foure
tall
Fencers
Scipped
like
Rattes."229. Stands so firmly on his wife's frailty. Some would change
frailty to " fealty " or " fidelity ; " but Ford uses frailty because
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