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224 NOTES 3.6.
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beasts. To throw one's eyes', is common in Sh. Cf.
3S9
g Mastiff etc. Cf. the list of dogs in Macb. .1.
3
92 ff. This touch wd appeal to King James.
67-8. mongrel grim, \ Hound (Rowe, subs.) F
'Mongrill, Grim, | Hound' Q 'mungril, grim-houd'.
The Q/F comma is a common error. The Q reporter
seems to have taken 'greyhound' and 'grim-hoQd' as
a pair.
68. lym (Han.) Q 'him', F 'Hym'—another com-
mon error. The form 'lym' was app. so rare that the F
corrector prob. took the T for a slip. Every word in
11. 67-8 except 'or' is given a capital by F comp.
(
69. Or(F) Qom. /y/k <Q'tike') F'tight'. Cf.
the treatment of 'lym' (1. 68). trundle-tail (<£) 2)
Q 1 'trudletaile', F 'Troudle taile'.
70. him (F) Q (+Camb.) 'them'.
72. leaped F 'leapt', Q (+Camb.) 'leape\
73. Do,...de. See 3. 4. 57, n. Sessa! (Mai.) F
'sese:'. Cf. G. and 4. 6. 201, n.
73—4. Come...towns A beggar will do best in places
of public resort. Cf. Wint. 4. 3. 99, 'he haunts wakes,,
fairs, and bear-baitings'.
74. thy...dry = (a) he has had as little to drink as to
'
eat. Cf. 11. 30-1 and next note. (J>) I cannot daub it
further' (4. 1. 51).
horn K. notes that Aubrey, Natural Hist. Wiltshire
[ante 1691] (11, 4 ed. Britten, p. 93), records Tom 0'
Bedlams 'wore about their necks a great horn of an ox
on a string' which 'they did wind' for alms and into
which they 'putt the drink' given to them.
75-8. Then...hundred A response to Edg.'s 'dry';
'her' (1. 76) being emphatic. Is Reg.'s heart as dry
and bloodless as Gon.'s? is what the anatomists must
discover. But that and the 'cause in nature' for such
'hard hearts' are 'philosophical' problems. Best, then,