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- 196 Notes [Act IV
Painted about^ etc. The hangings of beds, as of rooms, were
often painted or embroidered with Scripture stories. Cf. i Hen.
IV. iv. 2. 28 : " ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth ; " and
Randolph, Muse's Looking- Glass, iii. i : —
" Then for the painting, I bethink myself
That I have seen in Mother Redcap's hall,
In painted cloth, the story of the Prodigal."
9. Anthropophaginian. Man-eater, cannibal. "The Host en-
larges even his usual style of grandiloquence to astound and over-
awe Simple" (Clarke). "We find Anthropophagi in 0th. i. 3. 144.
18. Ephesian, A cant term of the time = "jolly companion."
It occurs again in 2 Hen. IV. ii. 2. 164. Cf. Corinthian in i Hen.
IV. ii. 4. 13: "a Corinthian, a lad of mettle."
26. Wise woman. Fortune-teller, or witch. Cf. 103 below.
Hey wood's Wise Woman of Hogsden has such a character for its
heroine. Cf. T. N. iii. 4. 1 14 : " Carry his water to the wise woman."
Steevens refers to Judges, v. 29.
28. Mussel-shell. " He calls poor Simple mussel-shell because
he stands with his mouth open" (Johnson).
31. Thorough. Used interchangeably with through, even in
prose. See on throughly, i. 4. 90 above.
44,45. Conceal. Farmer would "correct" this into "reveal."
The Host repeats the blunder for the joke of the thing.
54. Like who more bold. That is, like the boldest. Daniel and
some other editors adopt Farmer's conjecture of "Ay, Sir Tike,
who," etc. Tike (= cur) was often used as a term of contempt ;
as in Hen. F. ii. i. 31 : " Base tike, callest thou me host ? "
57. Clerkly. Scholarly, learned ; the only instance of the word
in S. Cf. clerklike in W. T. i. 2. 392.
61. But was paid, etc. For the play on paid (= punished), cf.
Cymb. V. 4. 166 : " sorry you have paid too much, and sorry that you
are paid too much."
69. Slough. Stokes thinks the word should be printed with a
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