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Page xlvii
... French falconers flew at anything . This pastime can only be appropriately introduced in winter - here in late winter or about February to March . There are no suggestions of real spring in the play , except the metaphorical ones ...
... French falconers flew at anything . This pastime can only be appropriately introduced in winter - here in late winter or about February to March . There are no suggestions of real spring in the play , except the metaphorical ones ...
Page lviii
... Halliwell , coarse and blundering , about Simple . Dr. Caius , the renowned French physician , has reminded me of Ambrose Parey . See my note at III . i . 61. He } was in the front rank of Parisian doctors at lviii INTRODUCTION.
... Halliwell , coarse and blundering , about Simple . Dr. Caius , the renowned French physician , has reminded me of Ambrose Parey . See my note at III . i . 61. He } was in the front rank of Parisian doctors at lviii INTRODUCTION.
Page lix
... French physicians appear often in later plays , and must have been as common as blackberries . Nashe , however , has a very interesting account of what he represents as the impostor French doctor , half drugger , half conjurer ...
... French physicians appear often in later plays , and must have been as common as blackberries . Nashe , however , has a very interesting account of what he represents as the impostor French doctor , half drugger , half conjurer ...
Page lxi
William Shakespeare. Evans is a much more amusing person than the fussy French doctor , and in the duelling scene he is capital . We are indebted to Evans for a number of interesting allusions . It is satisfactory to find him in an ...
William Shakespeare. Evans is a much more amusing person than the fussy French doctor , and in the duelling scene he is capital . We are indebted to Evans for a number of interesting allusions . It is satisfactory to find him in an ...
Page lxvi
... French . Shakespeare may have taken his name Pistol from Soliman and Perseda , with a slight and suitable alteration from " Piston " to " Pistol . " The play was very popular , on account of the character " Basilisco , a vainglorious ...
... French . Shakespeare may have taken his name Pistol from Soliman and Perseda , with a slight and suitable alteration from " Piston " to " Pistol . " The play was very popular , on account of the character " Basilisco , a vainglorious ...
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