(increases it, in fact) with fresh interrogatories, whereby Celia becomes lost in a south sea of questions (Ingleby); South-sea, because of its great extent: apace, rapidly; literally, on, or at, a pace.

178. of God's making? "or his tailor's? cp. Lear, ii. 2. 59, 'nature disclaims in thee: a tailor made thee "" (Wright); so, Cymb. iv. 2. 81-3, "thy tailor, rascal, Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes, Which, as it seems, make thee"; Jonson, The Alchemist, i. 1. 9, 10, "I shall mar All that the tailor has made, if you approach."

182, 3. let me stay... chin, I am ready to wait for his beard to grow (i.e. I do not care how long it may be before his beard grows), if you will only tell me who the man is whose beard is yet but small.

186, 7. speak, maid, speak seriously and as an honest maid

should.

...

191, 2. what shall I ... hose? how shall I get rid of my man's attire, as I must do before I meet him?

193. Wherein went he? how was he dressed? To 'go in,' in this sense, is very frequent in Shakespeare.

193, 4. What makes... here? what is he doing in this forest? how comes he to be in this forest? cp. above, i. 1. 26: remains, abides.

́197. Gargantua's mouth, the mouth of the giant in Rabelais who swallowed five pilgrims, with their pilgrims' staves, in a salad.

198-200. To say. catechism, to answer categorically to all these questions would be worse than to be taken through one's Church Catechism.

202. freshly, spritely, in good health and spirits.

204. atomies, an atomie,' says Bullokar, in his Expositor, 1616, 'is a mote flying in the sunne. Anything so small that it cannot be made lesse"" (Malone); literally, that which cannot

be divided.

...

205, 6. but take observance, but as I cannot satisfy you by answering all your questions, I will give you some food for your thoughts by telling you something as to the way I found him, and will leave you to digest my information with all

attention.

210. Give me audience, listen to me without interruption; said in imitation of one craving an audience from a superior

212. stretched along, stretched at full length.

213. becomes, adorns or sets off.

215. Cry... tongue, call out to your tongue not to be so restive, as you would to a fidgetty horse; holla, "stop, wait. Not the same as halloo, but somewhat differently used in old authors... -F. holà, 'an interjection, hoe there, enough; ... also, hear you me, or come hither'; Cotgrave.-F. ho, interjection; and là, there" (Skeat, Ety. Dict.).

216. furnished like a hunter, equipped with the accoutrements, weapons, etc., of a hunter.

217. heart, with a pun on hart.

218. I would... burden, I should prefer to sing my song without a chorus, i.e. I should like to tell my story without interruptions; burden, the refrain of a song. "The same word as

F.

bourdon, the drone of a bag-pipe or the bass in music bourdon, a drone or dorre-bee; also, the humming or buzzing of bees; also the drone of a bag-pipe'; Cotgrave.- Low. Lat. burdonem, accusative of burdo, a drone or non-working bee" (Skeat, Ety. Dict.).

219. bringest... tune, cause me to sing out of tune, i. e. put me out in the narration of my story.

223. slink by, let us turn aside so as to watch him unobserved. 225. lief, gladly; see note on i. 1. 128: myself, probably for by myself.

229. better strangers, more complete strangers; a sort of parody of the more usual 'better acquainted,' or 'better friends.'

232. moe, according to Skeat, moe or 'mo' were used in relation to sense, 'more' in relation to size; according to Wright, "the distinction appears to be that 'moe' [or 'mo '] is used only with the plural, 'more' both with singular and plural." 233. ill-favouredly, with so little appreciation.

235. just, exactly.

240. Just... heart, just as tall as I should wish her to be. 242. goldsmiths' wives, "the shop-keepers' wives decked out in fine clothes were wont to sit before their doors, and had it in their power by their engaging manners greatly to augment their husbands' custom. Goldsmiths' Row in Cheapside was the pride of London for its display of glittering ware, and naturally a resort for young fops with more money than brains "...(Furness). 243. out of rings, which commonly were engraved with 'posies' or mottoes.

244. I answer ... cloth, I give you exactly such trite answers as are found in the mottoes on painted cloth, i. e. cloth or canvas painted in oil with various devices or mottoes. The allusions to these painted cloths are frequent in Shakespeare, e.g. Lucr. 244, i. H. IV. iv. 2. 28, T. C. iv. 10. 46. The construction here is

the same as in K. J. ii. 1. 462, "He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce"; T. N. i. 5. 114, 5, he speaks nothing but madman"; Oth. ii. 3. 281, "Drunk? and speak parrot?"

66

249. breather, living person.

259. cipher, a thing without any value; cp. Lear, i. 4. 212, now thou art an O without a figure.

265. under that habit, in that guise: play... him, fool him, trick him; cp. A. W. v. 2. 32.

271-3. else sighing... clock, Abbott compares R. II. v. 5. 50-8; detect... clock, reveal the slow passage of time as a clock does by its minute and hour hands; there seems to be something of a confusion between you, by sighing every minute and groaning every hour, would detect,' and 'your sighing, etc., and groaning, etc., would betray, reveal'; cp. iii. H. VI. ii. 2. 143, "To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart."

277. who, for the omission of the inflection, see Abb. § 274.

281. trots hard, if this means 'trots fast,' as it would in modern English, then the week's interim must be taken to compress into itself the hopes and wishes of seven years; on the other hand we have no example of the phrase in the sense of trotting uneasily and so making the time seem long.

282. the contract of her marriage, the betrothal, an important ceremony in former days.

283. a se'nnight, a period of seven days and nights, as we now use 'fortnight,' i.e. a period of fourteen days and nights.

284. year, the singular used with a plural numeral of a concrete period, as frequently also of a concrete amount or measure

ment.

289, 90. the one ... learning, the one being free from the burden of learning which wastes a man and makes him lean.

294. softly, gently, easily; perhaps here in contrast with hard in ll. 281, 3.

300. like... petticoat, which are to the forest what the fringe is to the petticoat; the comparison is suggested by skirts.

301. native, Wright points out that the word in Shakespeare when applied to a person is always an adjective.

302. cony, rabbit; kindled, brought forth; from kind, adjective, A.S. cynde, natural, native.

303. finer, more refined: purchase, acquire.

304. removed, retired, sequestered; cp. M. M. i. 3. 8, “How I have ever loved the life removed."

305. of, by; see Abb. § 170.

306. religious, consecrated to God, a recluse; cp. R. II. V. 1. 23, "And cloister thee in a religious house," i.e. convent.

307. inland, brought up in cities; cp. above, ii. 7. 96: courtship, "used in the double sense of civility and elegance of manners and of courting or wooing" (Schmidt); the latter sense here the primary one, I think.

308. there, the civilized society he was brought up in.

309, 10. to be touched, so as to be infected.

311. taxed, accused, censured; cp. above, ii. 7. 71.

319. abuses, illtreats, mangles.

323. fancy-monger, fellow whose trade is love; with the same contemptuous sense, as in 'ballad-monger,' 'barber-monger,' 'fashion-monger,' 'love-monger,' all in Shakespeare.

324. quotidian of love, Furness quotes Greene's Planetomachia, 1585, to show that quotidian fevers (i.e. fevers recurring every day) were accounted symptoms of love.

325. love-shaked, made to shiver with the ague of love.

327. There is, for the inflection in -s preceding a plural subject, see Abb. § 335.

328, 9. cage of rushes, imprisonment from which men so easily escape; a hint that she does not believe in the strength of his love.

331. blue eye, eyes heavy with grief; black under the eyes, as we now say.

332. unquestionable, unwilling to converse; in which sense 'question,' both verb and substantive, is frequent in Shakespeare.

333. neglected, untrimmed.

334. having, possession, wealth; frequent in Shakespeare, e.g. T. N. iii. 4. 379, 66 'my having is not much"; W. T. iv. 4. 740, "of what having, breeding."

335. is a ... revenue, is but very trifling.

336. bonnet, hat; now used only for the head gear of women and Highlanders: unbanded, without a band to it; these bands were often very rich, and great store was laid upon them by men of fashion.

338. a careless desolation, the abandonment of despair; a hopelessness that made all attention to dress a thing impossible.

339. point-device, spick and span in your dress, spruce to the last degree; "a shortened form of at point device = with great nicety or exactitude, a translation of O. F. à point devis, according to a point [of exactitude] that is devised or imagined, i.e. in the best way imaginable" (Skeat, Ety. Dict.).

...

349. that unfortunate he, see note on 1. 10, above.

351. Neither rhyme nor reason, a common alliteration for that which has nothing to justify it.

353. a dark house and a whip, the treatment formerly employed in the case of lunatics; cp. T. N. iii. 4. 148, "Come, we 'll have him (Malvolio, who they pretend is mad) in a dark room and bound"; v. 1. 350.

360. moonish, changeable as the moon.

...

363, 4. for every thing, having in me a spice of every passion and yet constant, thorough, in no passion; cp. Cor. iv. 7. 46, "but one of these-As he had spices of them all, not all."

365. colour, nature; cp. Lear, ii. 2. 145, "This is a fellow of the self-same colour Our sister speaks of": now... . now, at one time, at another time. 366. entertain, receive with welcome: forswear, refuse to have anything to do with him.

367. spit at him, show the greatest loathing at his presence.

368. a loving humour of madness, a humour in which he was enamoured of madness; loving is Johnson's conjecture for 'living,' which some editors retain in the sense of real, actual.

368-70. which was, monastic, and this humour manifested itself in his forsaking the busy throngs of men, and shutting himself up as a hermit in a cell; merely, entirely, absolutely. Allen suggests that perhaps the punctuation should be to live in a nook, merely monastic,' i.e. absolutely religious, which seems very plausible.

370, 1. this way, in this way, by this method of treatment. 371. liver, that organ being supposed to be the seat of love among other passions.

374. I would not be cured, I do not desire to be cured.

377. by the faith of my love, I swear by my love; which is the faith he holds more strongly than any other faith.

SCENE III.

STAGE DIRECTION. Audrey, a corruption of Etheldreda, a name best known as that of a female Saint; from St. Audry, or Awdry, we get the adjective tawdry, first used in connection with lace, a tawdry lace being a rustic necklace, whether from such necklaces being commonly sold at fairs held on St. Awdry's day, or, according to another account, from St. Awdry having in her youth been much addicted to wearing fine necklaces.