[It will be pastime excellent,
If it be husbanded with modesty]
By _modesty_ is meant _moderation_, without suffering our merriment to
break into an excess.
Induction.i.82 (352,1) [to accept our duty] It was in those times
the custom of players to travel in companies, and offer their service at
great houses.
Induction.i.101 (353,4) [property] in the language of a playhouse,
is every implement necessary to the exhibition.
Induction.i.125 (355,7) [To rain a shower of commanded toars,
An onion will do well for such a shift]
It is not unlikely that the _onion_ was an expedient used by the
actors of interludes.
Induction.ii.89 (359,8) [Leet] As the _Court leet_. or courts of the
manor.
I.i.9 (362,2) [ingenious studies] I rather think it was written
ingenuous studies, but of this and a thousand such observations
there is little certainty.
I.i.18 (363,4) [Virtue, and that part of philosophy Will I apply]
Sir Thomas Hammer, and after him Dr. Warburton, read to virtues
but formerly ply and apply were indifferently used, as to ply or
apply his studies.
I.i.78 (365,7) [A pretty peat!] Peat or pet is a word of endearment
from petit, little, as if it meant pretty little thing.
I.i.85 (365,8) [will you be so strange?] That is, so odd, so different
from others in your conduct.
I.i.97 (366,9) [cunning men] Cunning had not yet lost its original
signification of knowing, learned, as nay be observed in the
translations of the Bible.
I.i.167 (368,2) [Redime te captum quasi queas minimi] Our author had
this line from Lilly, which I mention, that it may not be brought
as an argument of his learning.
I.i.208 (369,3) [port] Pert, is figure, show, appearance.
I.ii.52 (372,5) [Where small experience grows. But, in a few]
Why this should seem nonsense, I cannot perceive. In few words
it means the same as in short.
I.ii.68 (373,6) [As wealth is burthen of my wooing dance] The burthen
of a dance is an expression which I have never heard; the burthen
of his wooing song had been more proper.
I.ii.72 (373,8) [Affection's edge in me] Surely the sense of the
present reading is too obvious to be missed or mistaken. Petruchio
says, that, if a girl has money enough, no bad qualities of mind
or body will remove affection's edge; i.e. hinder him from liking
her.
I.ii.112 (375,1) [an' he begin once, he'll rail--In his rope-tricks]
This is obscure. Sir Thomas Hammer reads, he'll rail in his
rhetorick; I'll tell you, &c. Rhetorick agrees very well with
figure in the succeeding part of the speech, yet I am inclined to
believe that rope-tricks is the true word.
I.ii.115 (375,2) [that she shall have no more eyes to see withal
than a cat] It may mean, that he shall swell up her eyes with
blows, till she shall seem to peep with a contracted pupil like
a cat in the light. (1773)
I.ii.276 (381,9) [Please ye, we may contrive this afternoon] The
word is used in the same sense of spending or wearing out in the
Palace of Pleasure.
II.1.17 (382,2) [You will have Gremio, to keep you fair] I wish to
read, To keep you fine. But either word may serve.
II.i.26 (388,3) [hilding] The word hildlng or hinderling--a low
wretch; it is applied to Catharine for the coarseness of her
behaviour.
II.i.209 (389,7) [Ay, for a turtle; as he takes a buzzard] Perhaps
we may read better, Ay, for a turtle, and he take a buzzard.
That is, he may take me for a turtle, and he shall find me a hawk.
II.i.310 (393,9) [kill on kiss She vy's so fast] I know not that the
word vie has any construction that will suit this place; we may
easily read,
--kiss on kiss
She ply'd so fast.