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aia NOTES 3.4.

nonny'. Q 'hay no on ny\ Steev. (+Camb.) 'says
suum mun ha no nonny'. The traditional refrain 'hey
nonny nonny' seems required by the context (see G.
7
'nonny nonny'); cf. Ham. 4. 5. 165; Ado, 2. 3. 1;
A.T.L. 5.3.16, 22, etc. And the omission in F may well
be due to careless correction of Q by a puzzled collator.
suum, mun seems to represent the sound of the wind,
though perh. 'suum' should be 'summ'.
100. Dolphin Unexplained. Poss. the name of a
'
devil. Muir owes to J. Crow: I pray to Dolphin, |
prince of dead [ Scald you all in | his lead' from the
Newcastle Play of Noah (The Non-Cycle Mystery P/ays,
ed. Waterhouse, 1909,p. 25). sessa! (Mai.) F 'Sesey',
Q 'caese'. Also unexplained, but prob. a variant of
'sa sa' (see 4. 6. 201, n.). Cf. Shrew Ind. 1, 5, and post
3. 6. 73. F reads 'Dolphin my Boy, Boy Sesey\
101. Thou(¥) Q'Whythou'. a (F) Q 'thy'.
103-8. Is man.../endings/ Taylor (pp. 9-10) cites
(with his italics) the following parallels from Florio
[Tudor Trans.]:
(i) Miserable man; whom if you consider well what is
he? (11, 172).
(ii) Truely, when I consider man all naked... I finde we
have had much more reason to hide and cover our naked-
nesse than any creature else. We may be excused for
borrowing those which nature had therein favored more
than us...and under their spoiles of 1000H, of haire, of
feathers, and of silks to shroud us (n, 184).
(iii) And that our wisdome should learne of beasts the
most profitable documents, belonging to our chiefest and
most necessary parts of life....Where with., .men have done,
as perfumers doe with oyle, they have adulterated her with
so many augmentations and sophisticated'her' (in, 310).

105. the cat see G. 'civet'. Ha! (F'Ha?'). on's=
of us.
106. sophisticated: thou...itself, (punc. J.D.W.) F