beaten till lately. Follow me : I '11 tell you
strange things of this knave Ford, on whom 30
to-night I will be revenged, and I will deliver
his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange
things in hand. Master Brook ! Follow. \_Exeu/jt.
Scene II.
Windsor Park.
Enter Page, Shallow, and Slender.
Page. Come, come j we '11 couch i' the castle-ditch
till we see the light of our fairies. Remember,
son Slender, my daughter.
Slen. Ay, forsooth ; I have spoke with her, and we
have a nay-word how to know one another : I
come to her in white, and cry ' mum ; ' she cries
' budget ; ' and by that we know one another.
Shal. That 's good too : but what needs either your
' mum ' or her ' budget ? ' the white will decipher
her well enough. It hath struck ten o'clock. lo
Page. The night is dark ; light and spirits will become
it well. Heaven prosper our sport ! No man
means evil but the devil, and we shall know him
by his horns. Let 's away ; follow me. \_Exeunt.
Act V. Sc. iii. MERRY WIVES
Scene III.
A street leading to the Park.
Enter Mistress Page, Mistress Ford, ami Doctor Caius.
Mrs Page. Master Doctor, my daughter is in green :
when you see your time, take her by the hand,
away with her to the deanery, and dispatch it
quickly. Go before into the Park : we two
must go together.
Caius. I know vat I have to do. Adieu.
Mrs Page. Fare you well, sir, [Exit CaiusJ] My
husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse
of FalstafF as he will chafe at the doctor's marry-
ing my daughter : but 'tis no matter ; better a lo
little chiding than a great deal of heart-break.
Mrs Ford. Where is Nan now and her troop of
fairies, and the Welsh devil Hugh .''
Mrs Page. They are all couched in a pit hard by
Heme's oak, with obscured lights ; which, at
the very instant of FalstafF's and our meeting,
they will at once display to the night.
Mrs Ford. That cannot choose but amaze him.
Airs Page. If he be not amazed, he will be mocked ;
if he be amazed, he will every way be mocked. 20
Mrs Ford. We'll betray him finely.
Mrs Page. Against such lewdsters and their lechery
Those that betray them do no treachery.
Mrs Ford. The hour draws on. To the oak, to the
oak ! [Exeunt.
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Scene IV.
Windsor Park.
Enter Sir Hugh Evafis disguised, ivith others as Fairies.
Evans. Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your
parts : be pold, I pray you ; follow me into the
pit ; and when I give the watch-'ords, do as I
pid you : come, come ; trib, trib. [Exeunt.
Scene V.
Aywther part of the Park.
Enter Falstaff disguised as Heme.
Fal. The Windsor bell hath struck twelve ; the
minute draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods
assist me ! Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull
for thy Europa ; love set on thy horns. O
powerful love ! that, in some respects, makes a
beast a man; in some other, a man a beast. You
were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love of Leda.
O omnipotent Love ! how near the god drew to
the complexion of a goose ! A fault done first
in the form of a beast; — O Jove, a beastly fault! lo
And then another fault in the semblance of a
fowl ; — think on't, Jove ; a foul fault ! When
gods have hot backs, what shall poor men do ?
For me, I am here a Windsor stag ; and the
fattest, I think, i' the forest. Send me a cool
Act V. Sc. V. MERRY WIVES
rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to piss my
tallow ? — Who comes here ? my doe ?
Enter Mistress Ford and Mrs Page.
Mrs Ford. Sir John ! art thou there, my deer ? my
male deer ?
Fal. My doe with the black scut ! Let the sky rain 20
potatoes ; let it thunder to the tune of Green
Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits, and snow eringoes ;
let there come a tempest of provocation, I will
shelter me here.
Mrs Ford. Mistress Page is come with me, sweetheart.
Fal. Divide me like a bribed buck, each a haunch : I
will keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for
the fellow of this walk, and my horns I bequeath
your husbands. Am I a woodman, ha ? Speak
I like Heme the hunter ? Why, now is Cupid 30
a child of conscience ; he makes restitution.
As I am a true spirit, welcome ! [_Noise ivithin.
Mrs Page. Alas, what noise ?
Mrs Ford. Heaven forgive our sins !
Fal. What should this be ?
Mrs Ford. \ , jj^^y ^^^^ ^j^
Mrs Page. )
Fal. I think the devil will not have me damned, lest
the oil that 's in me should set hell on fire ; he
would never else cross me thus.
Enter Sir Hugh Evans, disguised as before; Pistol, as
Hobgoblin; Mistress Quickly, Anne Page, and
others, as Fairies, with tapers.
Qtdck. Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, 40
You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
OF WINDSOR Act V. Sc. v.
You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
Attend your office and your quahty.
Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes.
Pist. Elves, list your names ; silence, you airy toyes.
Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap :
Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept,
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry :
Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery.
Fal. They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die: 50
I'll wink and couch : no man their works must eye.
[Lies doiun upon his face.
Evans. Where 's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid
That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said,
Raise up the organs of her fantasy ;
Sleep she as sound as careless infancy :
But those as sleep and think not on their sins,
Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and
shins.
Qjiick. About, about ;
Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out :
Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred room ; 60
That it may stand till the perpetual doom,
In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit,
Worthy the owner, and the owner it.
The several chairs of order look you scour
With juice of balm and every precious flower :
Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest.
With loyal blazon, evermore be blest !
And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing.
Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring :
Th' expressure that it bears, green let it be, "Jo
More fertile-fresh than all the field to see ;
Act V. Sc. V. MERRY WIVES
And Honi soit qui mal y pense write
In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white ;
Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee :
Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
Away ; disperse : but till 'tis one o'clock,
Our dance of custom round about the oak
Of Heme the hunter, let us not forget.
Evans. Pray you, lock hand in hand j yourselves in order
set ; 80
And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be.
To guide our measure round about the tree.
But, stay ; I smell a man of middle-earth.
Fnl. Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest
he transform me to a piece of cheese !
P'lst. Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.
Quick. With trial-fire touch me his finger-end :
If he be chaste, the flame will back descend,
And turn him to no pain ; but if he start,
It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. 90
Pist. A trial, come.
Evans. Come, will this wood take fire ?
\They burn him luith their tapers.
Fal. Oh, Oh, Oh !
Qiiicli. Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire !
About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme ;
And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.
Zong.
Fie on sinful fantasy !
Fie on lust and luxury !
Lust is but a bloody fire,
Kindled with unchaste desire, lOO
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Fed in heart, whose flames aspire,
As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
Pinch him, fairies, mutually ;
Pinch him for his villany ;
Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,
Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
During this song they pinch Falstaff. Doctor Cains comes
one IV ay, and steals away a boy ifi green ; Slender
another ivay, and take's off a boy i?i luhite ; and Fento?i
comes, and steals away Mrs Anne Page. A noise of
hunting is heard luithin. All the Fairies run aivay.
Falstaff pulls off his bucJis head, and rises.
Enter Page, Ford, Mistress Page, and Mistress Ford.
Page. Nay, do not fly ; I think we have vvatch'd you now :
Will none but Heme the Hunter serve your turn ?
Mrs Page. I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher.
Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives ?
See you these, husband ? do not these fair yokes 1 1 1
Become the forest better than the town ?
Ford. Now, sir, who 's a cuckold now ? Master
Brook, Falstaff 's a knave, a cuckoldly knave ;
here are his horns, Master Brook : and. Master
Brook, he hath enjoyed nothing of Ford's but
his buck-basket, his cudgel, and twenty pounds
of money, which must be paid to Master Brook;
his horses are arrested for it, Master Brook.
Mrs Ford. Sir John, we have had ill luck; we could I20
never meet. I will never take you for my love
again ; but I will always count you my deer.
Fal. I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.
Act V. Sc. V. MERRY WIVES
Ford. Ay, and an ox too : both the proofs are extant.
Fal. And these are not fairies ? I was three or four
times in the thought they were not fairies : and
yet the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden sur-
prise of my powers, drove the grossness of the
foppery into a received behef, in despite of the
teeth of all rhyme and reason, that they were 1 30
fairies. See now how wit may be made a Jack-
a-Lent, when 'tis upon ill employment !
Evans. Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your
desires, and fairies will not pinse you.
Ford. Well said, fairy Hugh.
Evans. And leave you your jealousies too, I pray you.
Ford. I will never mistrust my wife again, till thou
art able to woo her in good English.
Fal. Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it,
that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'er- 140
reaching as this ? Am I ridden with a Welsh
goat too ? shall I have a coxcomb of frize ? 'Tis
time I were choked with a piece of toasted cheese.
Evans. Seese is not good to give putter ; your pelly
is all putter.
Fal. 'Seese' and 'putter'? Have I lived to stand
at the taunt of one that makes fritters of English ?
This is enough to be the decay of lust and late-
walking through the realm.
Mrs Page. Why, Sir John, do }ou think, though 1 50
we would have thrust virtue out of our hearts
by the head and shoulders, and have given
ourselves without scruple to hell, that ever the
devil could have made you our delight ?
Ford. What, a hodge-pudding ? a bag of flax .''
OF WINDSOR Act V. Sc. v.
Mrs Page. A puffed man ?
Page. Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails?
Ford. And one that is as slanderous as Satan ?
Page. And as poor as Job ?
Ford. And as wicked as his wife ? 1 60
Evans. And given to fornications, and to taverns,
and sack, and wine, and metheglins, and to
drinkings, and swearings, and starings, pribbles
and prabbles !
Fal. Well, I am your theme : you have the start of
me ; I am dejected •, I am not able to answer
the Welsh flannel : ignorance itself is a plummet
o'er me : use me as you will.
Ford. Marry, sir, we '11 bring you to Windsor, to
one Master Brook, that you have cozened of 1 70
money, to whom you should have been a pandar :
over and above that you have suffered, I think
to repay that money will be a biting aflliction.
Page. Yet be cheerful, knight : thou shalt eat a
posset to-night at my house ; where I will desire
thee to laugh at my wife, that now laughs at
thee : tell her Master Slender hath married her
daughter.
Mrs Page. [Aside.] Doctors doubt that : if Anne Page
be my daughter, she is, by this. Doctor Caius' 180
wife.
Etiter Slender.
Slen. Whoa, ho ! ho, father Page.
Page. Son, how now ! how now, son ! have you dis-
patched .''
Slen. Dispatched! I'll make the best in Gloucester-
shire know on 't ; would I were hanged, la, else !
Act V. Sc. V. MERRY WIVES
Page. Of what, son ?
Slen. I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne
Page, and she 's a great lubberly boy. If it had
not been i' the church, I would have swinged him, 1 90
or he should have swinged me. If I did not think.
it had been Anne Page, would I might never stir !
— and 'tis a postmaster's boy.
Page, Upon my life, then, you took the wrong.
Slen. What need you tell me that ? I think so, when
I took a boy for a girl. If I had been 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 200
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 postmaster's boy.
Airs Page. Good George, be not angry : I 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.
Cams. Vere is Mistress Page ? By gar, I am cozened :
I ha' married un garden, a boy; un paysan, by 210
gar, a boy ; it is not Anne Page : by gar, I am
cozened.
Mrs Page. Why, did you take her in green ?
Caius. Ay, by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise
all Windsor. {Exit.
Eord. This is strange. Who hath got the right Anne ?
OF WINDSOR Act V. Sc. v.
Page. My heart misgives me : — here comes Master
Fenton.
Enter Fenton and Anne Page.
How now, Master Fenton !
Antie. Pardon, good father ! good my mother, pardon! 22o
Page. Now, mistress, how chance you went not with
Master Slender ?
Mrs Page. Why went you not with master doctor, maid ?
Pent. You do amaze her : hear the truth of it.
You would have married her most shamefully.
Where there was no proportion held in love.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted.
Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us.
The offence is holy that she hath committed ;
And this deceit loses the name of craft, 230
Of disobedience, or unduteous title ;
Since therein she doth evitate and shun
A thousand irreligious cursed hours.
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 ;
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. 240
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.
Mrs Page. Well, I will muse no further. Master Fenton,
Heaven give you many, many merry days !
Good husband, let us every one go home,
Act V. Sc. V. MERRY WIVES
And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire ;
Sir John and all.
Ford. Let it be so. Sir John,
To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word ; 250
For he to-night shall lie with Mistress Ford.
\Exeunt.
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Glossary
A-birding, bird-catching ; III. iii.
-3 -
Abstract, inventory ; IV. ii. 60.
Address, make ready ; III. v. 133.
Admittance, " of Venetian ad." =
"admitted from Venice"; III.
iii. 58; " of great a." = admitted
into the best company; II. ii.
230.
Adversary, used jestingly for " advo-
cate " by the host ; II. iii. 94.
Affecting, full of affectation ; II. i.
145-
Aggra-uate his style, i.e. increase his
title ; II. ii. 291.
Aim, " to cry aim," an expression
borrowed from archery = to en-
courage the archers by crying
out " aim," hence to encourage, j
applaud ; III. ii. 42.
All-halloivmas , November i ; i.e.
about five weeks after Michael-
mas ; Simple blunders in putting \
it "a fortnight afore Michael- j
mas " ; I. i. 203. j
AlUcholt/, Mistress Quickly's corrup-
tion of melancholy ; I. iv. 158.
Alligant, Mistress Quickly's error 1
for ' elegant ' ; II. ii. 69. |
Amaze, confuse; V. v. 224.
Angel, a gold coin valued at ten
shillings (used quihblingly) ; I.
iii. 57, 61.
Anthropophaginiaii , cannibal ; IV. v.
10.
Armigero; Slender's error for " ar-
miger"; his knowledge of Latin
is derived from attestations, e.g.
" Coram me, Roberto Shallow,
armigero, &c."; I. i. 9.
Authentic, of acknowledged autlio-
rity; II. ii. 231.
A-vised, advised, informed; "are
you a. of that "=" have you
found it out? " I. iv. 103.
Bailie, deliver, bring (the Folios
read "hallow"); I. iv. 90.
Banbury cheese, in allusion to Slander's
thinness, B. cheese being pro-
verbially thin; I. i. 127.
Barbason, name of a demon ; II. ii.
305-
Bede, the name of a fairy ; V. v. 52.
Bestotu, stow away, lodge ; IV. ii. 46.
Bilbo, V. Latten bilbo.
Birding piece, a gun to shoot birds
with ; IV. ii. 56.
Birdingplece ;
From a specimen {ietnp. James I.) preserved at Goodrich Court.
Alloived, approved; II. ii. 232.
Amaimon, name of a devil whose do-
minion is on the north part of the
infernal gulp h ; II. ii. 305.
Bloody Jire, fire in the blood ; V. v. 99.
Boitier, " a surgeon's case of oynt-
ment" ("the Quarto reads "my
oyntment ") ; I. iv. 47.
Glossary
MERRY WIVES
Bold - beating, apparently = brow-
beating ; II. ii. 29.
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 ivith proper
Questions and Witty Proverbs to make
pleasant pastime ; no less useful than
beliovefull for any yong man or child
to knoiv if he be quick-ivitted or no ;
I. i. 201.
Book of Songs and Sonnets ; Slender is
perhaps alluding to " Songs and
Sonnets ivritlen by the Right Honour-
able Lord Henry Hoiuard, late Rarle
of Surrey and others^'' (pub. 1557);
I. i. 197.
Breed-bate, one who stirs up " bate,"
or contention ; I. iv. 12.
Breiuage, drink brewed ; III. v.
Buck, used quibblingly with refer-
ence to the buck and its horns;
III. iii. 160.
Buck-basket, a basket for clothes
which were to be bucked or
washed ; III. iii. 2.
Bucking, washing; III. iii. 133.
Bucklershury, Cheapside, where the
druggists and grocers lived ; III.
iii. 74.
Buck - -washing, laundry; III. iii.
158.
Bully-rook, dashing fellow ; I. iii.
2.
Bully-stale ; v. Stale.
Buttons; "'tis in his buttons " = 'tis
within his compass; he will suc-
ceed ; perhaps an allusion to tlie
flower called "bachelor's but-
tons," by means of which the
success of love was divined ; III.
ii. 68.
Cain-coloured beard ; Cain was repre-
sented in old tapestries with a
yellowish beard; 1. iv. 23.
Cfzwrtr/Vj, probably Mistress Quickly's
version of "quandary" (pro-
nounced candary) ; II. ii. 61.
Canary, wine from the Canary
Islands, sweet sack ; III. ii. 86 ;
[with a quibble on "canary"
in the sense of a quick lively
dance; III. ii. 88.]
Careires, the curvetting of a liorse ;
" to passe a careire is but to
runne with strength and courage
such a convenient course as is
meete for his ability"; I. i.
177.
Carrion, used as a term of contempt ;
III. iii. 195.
Car-ves, makes a sign of favour ; I.
iii. 46.
Cashiered, in Bardolph's slang it
seems to mean " eased of his
cash " ; I. i. 176.
Castalion — Kin^r — Urinal ; a non-
sensical title which the host gives
to Caius ; "Castalion," = Casti-
lian, with perhaps a quibbling
reference to the medical practice
of "casting the water" of the
patient; II. iii. 34(1' Notes).
Cataian, an inhabitant of Cataia or
" Cathay " (China) ; a thief; used
as term of reproach ; 11. i.
148.
Cat-a-mountain, wild - cat, leopard
(used adjectivally) ; II. ii. 28.
Charactery, characters, writing ; V.
V. 76.
Charge, to put to expense ; II. ii.
168.
Chariness, scrupulousness ; II. i.
102
Charms, love-charms, enchantments ;
II. ii. 106.
Cheater, escheater, an officer of the
Exchequer, employed to exact
forfeitures (used quibblingly) ;
I. iii. 74.
Clapper-claiu, thrash ; II. iii. 66 {cp.
67, 69).
Coat, coat-of-arms ; I. i. 17.
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Glossary
Cock and pie, a vulgar corruption of
"God "and "Pie" (the service-
book of the Romish Church) ; I.
i. 304.
Coo-, to virheedle ; III. iii. 47.
Cogging, deceiving; III. i. 119.
Colours, ensigns ; III. iv. 86.
Comd off, to pay handsomely ; IV.
iii. II.
Companion, fellow (in a bad sense) ;
III. i. 119.
Cony-Catch, to poach, pilfer ; I. iii. 34.
Cony-Catching, poaching, pilfering ;
I. i. 125.
Coram ; probably due to the formula
"jurat coram me," or a corrup-
tion of " quorum " (quorumesse
volumus " in a Justice's commis-
sion) ; both forms " corum " and
" coram " are found as part of the
title of " a justice of the peace " ;
I. i. 6.
Cornuto, cuckold ; III. V. 68.
Cotsall, an allusion to the annual
sports on the Cotsw^old Hills,
Gloucestershire ; I. i. 91 {y-
Notes).
Couch, crouch ; V. ii. i.
Counter-gate, the entrance to one of
the Counter Prisons in London ;
III. iii. 80.
Country, district; I. i. 219.
Coivl-itaff', a pole on which a tub
or basket is borne between two
persons ; III. iii. 149.
Cozeners , sharpers (? play on " Cozen-
Germans,"^/'. IV.V.78); IV. v.66.
Cuckoo-birds, with allusion to cuck-
olds ; II. i. 128.
Curtal, having a docked tail; "a
curtal dog" = a dog unfit for the
chase, or one that has missed the
game ; II. i. 114.
Custalorum ; Shallow's corruption of
" Custos Rotulorum " ; I. i. 7.
Cut and long tail, any kind of dogs,
curtal dogs or long-tailed ; (hence,
come who will to contend with
me) ; III. iv. 49.
Barrier, "playing at sword and d."
a blunt blade used in place of the
buckler; I. i. 284.
From a black-letter ballad ("A Looking-
Glasse for Maids, or the Downfall of
two desperate Lovers . . .").
Datchet-mead, in Windsor ; III. iii.
14, etc.
Daubery, imposture; IV. ii. 177.
Defy, reject ; II. ii. 74.
Detest ; Mistress Quickly's error for
" protest " ; I. iv. 154.
Dickens (exclamatory), the devil ;
probably = devilkins ; III. ii. 16.
Diffused, discordant; IV. iv. 55.
Dissolved, and dissolutely ; Slender's
error for " resolved, and resolute-
ly " ; I. i. 251.
Dole, portion; "happy man be his
d."=" happiness be his portion";
III. iv. 68.
Drianble, dawdle ; III. iii. 149.
Eld, old age, used in the sense of
" old persons " ; IV. iv. 37.
Elder, "heart of elder "= weak,
faint-hearted ; the elder has no
heart; used in contrast to "heart
of oak " ; II. iii. 30.
Ensconce, to shelter under protection
of a sconce or fort ; II. ii. 28.
Ephesian, boon-companion (an allu-
sion perhaps to St Paul's Epistle
to the Ephesians, chap. ii. 10) ;
IV. V. 18.
Eringoes, sea-holly (supposed to pos-
sess aphrodisiac qualities); V v. 22.
Glossary
MERRY WIVES
Esquire, a gentleman next in degree
below a knight; I. i. 4.
Eyas-musket, young male sparrow-
hawk ; III. iii. 21.
Fdp, evidently a cant term for
"fuddled "; I. i. 176.
Fartuous; Mistress Quickly's pronun-
ciation of '< virtuous â– ' ; 11. ii. 99.
Fault, misfortune; I. i. 94; III. iii. 220.
Faiistuses, "three Doctor F." {cp.
" Mephostophilus ") ; IV. v. 70.
Fights fa sea-term), the canvas that
hangs round the ship in a fight, to
screen the combatants ; II. ii. 140.
Fine and reco-very, a term of law^ denot-
ing absolute ownership; IV.ii.212.
FLinnel, originally manufactured in
Wales, hence ludicrously used for
a Welshman; V. v. 167.
Flemish, given to drink like a Flem-
ing ; the Dutch were notorious
drunkards ; II. i. 23.
Foin, to thrust in fencing; II. iii. 24.
Fortune thj/foe,'a.n allusiontotheold bal-
lad " Fortune my foe"; III. iii. 65.
Frampold, quarrelsome: II. ii. 92.
French thrift ; Falstaff alludes to the
practiceof making a richly-dressed
page take the ]5lace of a band of
retainers; I. iii. 90.
Frize, a kind of coarse woollen stuff
manufactured by Flemings in
Wales ; V. v. 142.
Froth, to make a tankard foam ; I.
iii. 14.
Fullam, a loaded die (so called from
Fulham, where false dice were ap-
parently manufactured); I. iii.
Gallimaufry, " hotch-potch," used
by Pistol for "the whole sex";
II. i. 119.
Gar, Dr Caius' pronunciation of
" God"; I. iv. Ill, &c.
Geminy, a pair ; II. ii. 8.
Ging, gang; IV. ii. 118.
Good-jer, supposed to be a corruption
of the French word goujere, the
name of a disease ; used as a
slight curse ; I. iv. 126.
Good life, good name; III. iii. 121.
Gourd, some instrument of false
gaming ; I. iii. 91.
Grated upon, irritated, vexed; II.
ii. 6.
Groat, piece of money valued at four-
pence ; I. i. 151.
Green sleeves, an old popular ballad
tune, prob. of Henry Vlllth's time,
still extant (see below); II. i.
64.
The Ballad of Green Sleeves.
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