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228 NOTES 4.7.

22. loud a wind Steevens quotes Ascham's Toxo-
fMlus, 1598 (ed. Arber, p. 151) 'Weake bowes, and
lyghte shaftes can not stande in a rough wynde.'
27. if praises.. .again = if I may praise her as she
once was.
37. These (Q2) F 1 'This.' Cf. 1.41 'you shall hear
them.' The term 'letters' was often used with a sing,
meaning. Qz misprints the second 'these' as 'this.'
MSH. p. 242.
50. Naked v. G.
52. devise (Q2) F i 'aduise'—which all edd. read,
v. G. and MSH. p. 278.
57. As how... otherwise? i.e. He was safely shipped
off; how can he have returned? And yet here is his
letter in my hand!
67-80. My lord, I toill...graveness F i omits.
MSH. p. 31.
74-6. in my regard... of youth The K. is of the old-
fashioned school which disliked the new-fangled French
or Italian rapier play; cf. note 5. 2. 222 S.D. and Silver,
pp. ix-x.
80. health = prosperity, v. G.
83. can well — are most expert.
88-9. That I...he did i.e. That I could never
have imagined the 'tricks and shapes' (v. G.) he per-
formed.
89. A Norman The reputation of Normandy for
horse-breedingand horsemanship stood high (v. Sh. Eng.
ii. 411).
91. Lamord (Q2) F i 'Lamound.' Most read
'Lamond'; Malone conjectures 'Lamode,' Grant White
'Lamont.' Possibly'Le Monte'was intended. Dowden
follows Q2, 'having noticed in Cotgrave "Mords, a bitt
of a horse.'" I agree with Verity that some personal
allusion is prob., more esp. as the whole passage (80-93)
'does not arise naturally out of a context in which the
accomplishment dwelt on is fencing, not horsemanship.'