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- Scene VI] Notes 197
capital, as including " a local allusion as well as a pun " {Slough is
the name of a town near Windsor) ; but this is doubtful.
70. Doctor Faustuses. Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus, on the
subject had already made the name familiar.
79. Cozen-germans. The blundering play on cousin-german is
obvious. The ist quarto reads: —
" For there is three sorts of cosen garmombles,
Ij cosen all the Host of Maidenhead & Readings."
The " garmombles " seems to be an intentional inversion of Mb'm-
pelgard. See on iv. 3. i above. This reference to the visit of the
Germans has led some critics to date the first draft of the play in
1592; but, as Dowden remarks, the inference is unwarrantable,
" for such an event would be remembered, and the more so because
of the Duke's subsequent unavailing attempt [in 1595] to obtain
the honour of the Garter."
100. Liquor fishermen'' s boots. Cf. i Hen. IV. ii. i. 94. Halli-
well-Phillipps quotes Walk Knaves Walk, 1659: "They are people
who will not put on a boot which is not as well liquored as them-
selves."
102. As a dried pear. " Pears, when they are dried, become
flat, and lose the erect and oblong form that distinguishes them
from apples" (Steevens).
103. Primero. The fashionable game at cards in the poet's
time. Cf. Hen. VIII. v. I. 7, the only other mention of it in S.
108. His dam. See on i. i. 149 above.
Scene VI. — 14. Larded. Garnished, or mingled. Cf. Ham.
iv. 5. 37 : " Larded with sweet flowers."
20. Present. Represent, play the part of. See M. N. D. iii. i.
62, 69, iii. 2. 14, V. I. 132, etc.
21. Is here. That is, in the letter.
22. While other jests, etc. " While they are hotly pursuing other
merriment of their own" (Steevens).
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