Sir To. No, sir, it is legs and thighs.
Both the knights are wrong in their astrology, according to the almanacs of the time, which make Taurus govern the neck and throat. Their ignorance is perhaps intentional.
Scene 5. Page 31.
Sir To. ... How now, sot?
There is great humour in this ambiguous word, which applies equally to the fool and the knight himself, in his drunken condition.
ACT II.
Scene 3. Page 51.
Clown. How now, my hearts? Did you never see the picture of we three?
The original picture, or sign as it sometimes was, seems to have been two fools. Thus in Shirley's Bird in cage, Morello, who counterfeits a fool, says, "We be three of old, without exception to your lordship, only with this difference, I am the wisest fool." In Day's comedy of Law tricks, 1608, Jul. says, "appoint the place prest." To which Em. answers, "At the three fools." Sometimes, as Mr. Henley has stated, it was two asses. Thus in Beaumont and Fletcher's Queen of Corinth, Act III. Scene 1,
"Nean. He is another ass, he says, I believe him.