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i8o NOTES 3.3.
27. since (F) Q (+Camb.) 'agoe since*.
29—30. make...moonshine o/Wmake mincemeat of.
Lit.=make into a dish of poached eggs, .see G. 'sop'.
Cf. Oth. 4. 1. 199, 'chop her into messes'.
31. S.D. (Rowe) Q, F om.
34. Vanity the puppet i.e. Gon.'Vanity'=a char, in
the old morality plays, often given as puppet-shows.
puppet 'a contemptuous term for a person (usually a
woman)', O.E.D. s.v. i. It can also=poppet or darling;
and poss. 'the puppet' shd read 'thy puppet'j cf. 'lady's
brach' (1. 4. 113).
40. S.D. (Rowe) £>,Fom. 41. S.D. (<£>).
42. Part(F) Dyce (+Camb.) takes this as a S.D.
43. With you Usually explained as=The matter
(i.e. my quarrel) is with you. But Kent prob. means
'I'll be with you' threateningly, which almost =*'I'll
trounce you, I'll give you "whatfor"' (see On. 'with' 5)
goodman boy=Master Malapert, cf. Rom. I. 5. 77, n.
//(F) Camb. 'an' (<Q 'and').
44. Jleshse&G.ImpHesOsw.hadneverfoughtbefore.
S.D. (Staunton). A single S.D. at 1. 41 in F ('Enter
Bastard, Cornewall, Regan, Gloster, Seruants.') and in
Q ('Enter Edmund, with his rapier drawne, Gloster the
Duke and Dutchesse.') separated by Furn. Edm. wd
not take it upon himself to speak peremptorily to the
brawlers if his seniors were present.
45. What'is (F) Q (+Camb.)'whats*.
47. What is (F+Czmb.) Q 'What's'.
48. The messengers etc. i.e. they had both been to
Reg.'s palace and returned.
52-3. a tailor.. .thee Proverbial; cf. Cymb. 4.2.81,
and Tilley, T 17. A ref. to his foppishness.
56. A tailor, sir. (<F) J. (+Camb.) 'Ay, a tailor,
sir' (<Q'I, a Taylor, sir').
57. they (F) Q (+Camb.) 'he'. 58. years (F) Q
(+Camb.) 'houres'. 'One form of vulgarization is