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- 198 Notes [Act V
41. Quaint. Fine, elegant. Cf. its use of feminine dress in
T. of S. iv. 3. 102 and Much Ado, iii. 4. 22.
52. Husband your device. That is, carry it out. Cf. T, of S.
ind. I. 68 : —
" It will be pastime passing excellent,
If it be husbanded with modesty."
ACT V
Scene I. — i. / V/ hold. I '11 keep the engagement. Palsgrave
has: " I holde it, as we say when we make a bargen,y> le tiensP
3. There 's divinity in odd numbers. Steevens quotes Virgil,
Eel. viii. 75 : " numero deus impare gaudet " (the god delights in
an odd number).
9. Mince. Here = be off, go ; literally = to walk with small
steps or affectedly. Cf. M. of V. iii. 4. 67 : —
" and turn two mincing steps
Into a manly stride."
14. Went you not, etc. Daniel remarks: "The plot, as we have
seen [see on iii. 5. i above] is hopelessly entangled already, but
Ford now puts the finishing touch to it. Referring to the second
meeting, which took place on the morning of the very day on which
he is speaking, he asks Falstaff, 'Went you not, to her yesterday,
sir, as you told me you had appointed ? ' and Falstaff is not sur-
prised, but gives him an account of the cudgelling he had received,
as Mother Prat, on the morning of the day on which the question
is asked."
24. Life is a shuttle. Falstaff has in mind fob, vii. 6.
26. Plucked geese. Pulling the feathers from a live goose was
then a boyish piece of mischief. See my Shakespeare the Boy,
p. 132.
Scene II. — i. Couch. Hide. Cf. Much Ado, iii. i. 30, etc.
5. Nay-word. See on ii. 2. 126 above.
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