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- Scene VJ Notes 205
94. After this speech Theobald inserts from the quarto : " Evans.
It is right, indeed, he is full of lecheries and iniquity."
96. Luxury. Lasciviousness ; the only sense in S. Cf. Hen. V.
iii. 5. 6, Rich. III. iii. 5. 80, Ham. i. 5. 83, etc. So luxurious =
lustful ; as in Much Ado, iv. I. 42, etc.
97. A bloody fire. "The fire i' the blood" {Teinp.'w. 1.53).
105. Watch' d you. Caught you by lying in wait for you. Cf.
2 Hen. VI. i. 4. 45 : " Beldam, I think we watch'd you at an
inch " (cf. 58 just below).
107. Hold up the jest. Cf. M. N. D. iii. 2. 239 : " hold the
sweet jest up," etc.
109. These fair yokes. The 1st folio has "yoakes," the 2d
" okes ; " and some modern eds. read " oaks." Yokes, if it be
what S. wrote, may allude to the branching antlers on Falstaflf's
head, which bore some resemblance to the projections on the top
of ox-yokes. Halliwell-Phillipps says that the allusion is " unques-
tionably "to the horns " fastened with a substantial bandage, pass-
ing over the head and tied under the chin." According to the
other reading, the antlers are compared to the branches of oaks.
131. Jack-a-Lent. See on iii. 3. 27 above.
143. A coxcomb of frize. A fool's cap of frize, a woollen fabric
for which Wales was famous. For frize, cf. Olh. ii. i. 127 ; and
for the coxcomb, see Lear, i. 4. 105, 109, 114, etc.
156. Hodge-pudding. Probably a pudding somewhat like a
hodge-podge, or hotch-potch. The word has not been found
elsewhere.
158. Intolerable entrails. Monstrous bowels.
167. Flannel. "The very word is derived from a Welch one,
so that it is almost unnecessary to add that flannel was originally
the manufacture of Wales " (Steevens).
Ignorance itself is a plummet over me. " I am so enfeebled that
ignorance itself weighs me down and oppresses me " (Johnson) ;
" ignorance itself is not so low as I am, by the length of a plummet
line " (Tyrwhitt) ; " ignorance itself points out my deviations from
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