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i.4. NOTES 167
X90. You (F) Q (+Camb.) 'Me thinks you*.
192-3. an...figure=& zero with no number before
it to give it value; a mere cipher. Cf. Wint. 1.2. 6-9,
and Tilley, C 391. 194. S.D. (Pope).
197. Mum, mum:=Hush, hush! (to himself).
198-9. He that...some, see Introd. p. xxix. nor
cruml>(<Q) F'notcrum'. Weary of all (Q,F) = tired
of life. Poss. a common error for 'weary to all'=tire-
some to everyone—wh. wd fit the context better, since
'shall want some' is inconsequent after 'weary of all'.
want some=have neither.
200. S.D. (J.) Q,Fom. shelled'(Cap.) Q'sheald',
F (+Camb.) 'sheal'd'. We modernize, a shelled
peascod=an emptied pea-pod. Cf. 1. 1. 134—7.
204. Hyphens Craig's, endurid riots. (Theob.,
Warb.) Q 'indured riots,) Sir'. F 'endur'd) riots Sir.'
We now take the metrically disturbing 'Sir' to be a
common error (G.I.D. withdrawing note in 1949 ed.
p. 374) Camb. (<Cap.) reads 'endured riots. Sir'.
207. too late=only too recently.
211. in the...weal=\n my care for good govern-
ment. 213. shame i.e. shameful in us.
214. Will call=wi]l make men call.
216-17. The hedge-sparrow ...young, see Introd.
p. xxx. Trad, bird-lore, as seems clear from Chaucer,
e
Parl. of Foules (612-13; ^ Merlin to the Cuckoo):
'Thou mordrer of the heysugge on the braunche j That
broghte the forth, thou rewthelees glotoun!'; Massinger,
The Picture, n, ii: 'Soldiers—that like the foolish
hedge-sparrow | To their own ruin hatch this cuckoo,
peace.'; and Bullokar, Engl. Expos. 1616: 'Heisugge, a
bird which hatcheth the cockooes egges.' [O.E.D.]
Every English boy of course knows that cuckoos lay in
hedge-sparrows' nests. At 1 H. IF, 5. 1. 59-66, n.,
J.D.W., following T. W. Baldwin (Parrott Presenta-
tion Volume (1935)1 pp. 157-63; Sh.'s Small La tine, 1,