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Notes
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58. To-pinch. The editors generally adopt Tyrwhitt's sugges-
tion that to here is the intensive particle often found prefixed to
verbs in old English, but nearly obsolete in the time of S. Stee-
vens quotes Holland's Pliny : " shee againe to be quit with them,
will all to-pinch and nip both the fox and her cubs." The all is
often thus associated with it, and in some cases the to is to be
joined to the all (= altogether), rather than to the verb. In
Judges^ ix. 53, we find "all to brake," which some make = " all
to-brake," and others = " all-to brake." In the present passage,
it is possible that the to is the ordinary infinitive prefix, used with
the second of two verbs, though omitted with the first.
71. Vizards. Visors, or masks. Cf. vizarded m iv. 6. 40 below.
74. Time. Changes have been made here ; but, time may refer
to the time of the masque with which Falstaff is to be entertained,
and which is the subject of this dialogue.
79. Properties. In the theatrical sense of stage requisites. Cf.
M. N. D. i. 2. 108 : "I will draw a bill of properties such as our
play wants." Tricking = dresses, ornaments.
84. Send quickly, Theobald suggested that this should be
"Send Quickly," and Daniel adopts that reading.
Scene V. — i . Thick-skin ? Cf. M. N. D. iii. 2. 13 : " The shal-
lowest thick-skin of that barren sort."
7. Standing-bed and truckle-bed. The truckle-bed or trundle-bed
(as fifty years ago it was called in New England) was a low bed
which could be put under the standing-bed, or ordinary bedstead.
The master lay in the latter, and the servant in the former. John-
son quotes Hall's Servile Tutor : —
" He lieth in the truckle-bed,
While his young master lieth o'er his head ; "
and Steevens adds The Return from Parnassus : " When I lay in
a trundle-bed under my tutor." The 1st quarto has " trundle bed "
here.
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