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fold; but here 'pinfold'=the teeth imaged as a palisade.
Thus Kent means 'if I had you between my teeth',or
'in my clutches'. There is no record of a place called
Lipsbury.
13-18. an eater...bawd... An outline of Osw.'s
career from a menial in the kitchen to Gon.'s intimate.
14-15. three-suited', hundred-found (F 2 'three-
suited, hundred pound'), F 1 'three-suited-hundred
pound'. No hyphens in Q. three-suited W.A.W. notes
that 'three suits of clothes a year were prob. part of a
servant's allowance'; and cites Jonson, Silent Woman,
3.1,39—42.where Mrs Otter, 'treating her husband like
a dependent', asks him 'Who allows you...your three
suits of apparel a year? your four pairs of stockings, one
silk, three worsted?'. Cf. Edg.'s words at 3. 4. 84ff.
Osw. is nothing more than a menial, though he aspires to
be a gentleman; cf. G. 'hundred-pound'. A rich, if
somewhat frayed, doublet-and-hose wd lend point to
these references. Cf. 1. 3. S.D. (head) and below
11. 54-5, n.
15-16. worsted-stocking F 'woosted-stocking', Q
uncorr. 'wosted stocken', corr. .'worsted-stocken'; i.e.
who usuallywears coarse stockings. Seell. 14-15,n. lily-
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livered Cf. Macb. 5.3.15; 2 jfif Z/", 4.3.113. The liver,
seat of courage in the old physiology, shd be red, and,
in a courageous man, wd be. action-taking see G.
17. finical seeG. one-trunk-inheriting (<F 3) F I
'one Trunke-inheriting'. I.e. having so few possessions
that they can all be contained in a single trunk. See G.
'inherit'.
18. that...service i.e. ready to act pandar to master
or mistress.
21. clamorous (Qcorr.) Q uncorr. 'clamarous', F
'clamours'.
22. thy addition=the honourable titles I have con-
ferred upon you. See G.