Anne Page, and she's a great lubberly boy. Page. Upon my life, then, you took the wrong. when I took a boy for a girl. If I had been 210 married to him, for all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have had him. Page. Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how you should know my daughter by her garments? Slen. I went to her in white, and cried 'mum,' and she cried 'budget,' as Anne and I had appointed; and yet it was not Anne, but a post-master's boy. Mrs. Page. Good George, be not angry: I 220 knew of your purpose; turned my daughter into green; and, indeed, she is now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married. Enter Caius. Caius. Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened: I ha' married un garçon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy; it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened. 218. "not Anne, but a postman's boy"; here, again, we commonly have the following thrust in from the quartos: "Eva. Jeshu! master Slender, cannot you see but marry boys? Page. O, I am vex'd at heart! What shall I do?"-H. N. H. Mrs. Page. Why, did you take her in green? raise all Windsor. [Exit. 230 Ford. This is strange. Who hath got the right Page. My heart misgives me:-here comes Enter Fenton and Anne Page. How now, Master Fenton! Anne. Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon! Page. Now, mistress, how chance you went not with Master Slender? Mrs. Page. Why went you not with master doctor, maid? 240 Fent. You do amaze her: hear the truth of it. A thousand irreligious cursed hours, 250 Which forced marriage would have brought upon her. Ford. Stand not amazed; here is no remedy: In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; 249. “evitate”; avoid.-H. N. H. Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. Fal. I am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced. Page. Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee joy! What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced. Fal. When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased. 260 Mrs. Page. Well, I will muse no further. Master Fenton, Heaven give you many, many merry days! Ford. Let it be so. Sir John, [Exeunt. 260. "deer are chased"; here, too, we commonly have a line added from the quartos. "Eva. I will dance and eat plums at your wedding." It is questionable whether these passages, evidently either not written by the Poet, or else thrown out in the revisal, ought to have a place even in the notes.-H. N. H. GLOSSARY By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A. A-BIRDING, bird-catching; III. iii. 258. ABSTRACT, inventory; IV. ii. 66. ADDRESS, make ready; III. v. 143. ADMITTANCE, "of Venetian ad." ="admitted from Venice"; III. iii. 64; "of great a."= admitted into the best company; II. ii. 252. ADVERSARY, Used jestingly for "advocate" by the host; II. iii. 100. AFFECTING, full of affectation; II. i. 154. AGGRAVATE HIS STYLE, i. e. in crease his title; II. ii. 316. AIM, "to cry aim," an expression borrowed from archery = to encourage the archers by crying out "aim," hence to encourage, applaud; III. ii. 48. ALL-HALLOWMAS, November 1; i. e. about five weeks after Michaelmas; Simple blunders in putting it "a fortnight afore Michaelmas"; I. i. 221. ALLICHOLY, Mistress Quickly's corruption of melancholy; I. iv. 168. ALLIGANT, Mistress Quickly's error for elegant; II. ii. 75. ALLOWED, approved; II. ii. 253. AMAIMON, name of a devil whose dominion is on the north part of the infernal gulph; II. ii. 330. BOLD-BEATING, apparently= brow-beating; II. ii. 32. BOLT, V. shaft. BOOK OF RIDDLES, a popular book of the day, referred to as early as 1575; the earliest extant edition bears date 1629:-"The Booke of Merry Riddles, together with proper Questions and Witty Proverbs to make pleasant pastime; no less useful than behovefull for any young man or child to know if he be quick-witted or no”; I. i. 218. BOOK OF SONGS AND SONNETS; Slender is perhaps alluding to "Songs and Sonnets written by the Right Honourable Lord Henry Howard, late Earle of Surrey and others" (pub. 1557); I. i. 215. BREED-BATE, one who stirs up "bate," or contention; I. iv. 13. BREWAGE, drink brewed; III. v. 34. BUCK, used quibblingly with reference to the buck and its horns; III. iii. 173. BUCK-BASKET, a basket for clothes which were to be bucked or washed; III. iii. 2. BUCKING, washing; III. iii. 144. BUCKLERSBURY, Cheapside, where the druggists and grocers lived; III. iii. 82. BUCK-WASHING, laundry; III. iii. 171. BULLY-ROOK, dashing fellow; I. iii. 2. BULLY-STALE; v. stale. BUTTONS; "'tis in his buttons" ='tis within his compass; he will succeed; perhaps an allusion to the flower called "bach elor's buttons," by means of which the success of love was divined; III. ii. 76. CAIN-COLORED BEARD; Cain was represented in old tapestries with a yellowish beard; I. iv. 24. CANARIES, probably Mistress Quickly's version of "quandary" (pronounced candary); II. ii. 66. CANARY, wine from the Canary Islands, sweet sack; III. ii. 95; [with a quibble on "canary" in the sense of a quick lively dance; III. ii. 97.] CAREIRES, the curvetting of a horse; "to passe a careire is but to runne with strength and courage such a convenient course as is meete for his ability"; I. i. 193. CARRION, used as a term of contempt; III. iii. 212. CARVES, makes a sign of favor; I. iii. 50. CASHIERED, in Bardolph's slang it seems to mean "eased of his cash"; I. i. 192. CASTALION-King-Urinal; a nonsensical title which the host gives to Caius; "Castalion," used probably as a quibble with reference to the medical practice of "casting the water" of the patient; II. iii. 34. CATAIAN, an inhabitant of Cataia or "Cathay" (China); a thief; used as term of reproach; II. i. 157. CAT-A-MOUNTAIN, wild-cat, leopard, (used adjectivally); II. ii. 30. CHARACTERY, characters, writing; V. v. 79. |