An' your waist, mistress, were as slender as your wit.
This would point the reply; but perhaps he mentions the slenderness of his own wit to excuse his bluntness.
IV.i.59 (387,3) [Break the neck of the wax] Still alluding to the capon.
IV.i.65 (388,5) [king Cophetua] This story is again alluded to in
Henry IV.
Let king Cophetua know the truth thereof.
But of this king and beggar, the story, then doubtless well known, is, I am afraid, lost. Zenelophon has not appearance of a female name, but since I know not the true none, it is idle to guess.
IV.i.99 (389,7) [ere while] Just now; a little while ago. So
Raleigh,
Here lies Hobbinol our shepherd, while e'er.
IV.i.108 (390,9) [Come, lords, away] Perhaps the Princess said rather,
—Come, ladies, away.