And bring him jump where he may Cassio find.”
[299] The quarto reads lost.
[300] Terms current in the universities for different portions of bread and beer.—Steevens. In the character of an old college butler by Dr Earle (Microcosmographie, 1628), it is said: “He domineers over freshmen, when they first come to the hatch, and puzzles them with strange language of cues and cees, and some broken Latin, which he has learnt at his term.”—Note in edit. 1825.
[301] [Old copy, then.]
[302] [The old copy omits ears, which was suggested, in order to complete the sense, by Steevens.]
[303] To obscure day. So in “Othello,” act i. sc. 3: “You must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes.” And again in Howard’s “Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophecies,” fol. 1620, p. 117: “Surely, for the most part so they are, as may be gathered ‘either by the colours or the garments, or the slubbering of set purpose to bestow some greater grace and colour of antiquity.’”
[304] The word cling is so variously used in different authors, that it is difficult to affix any precise meaning to it. Several instances are quoted by Mr Steevens, in his Note on “Macbeth,” act v. sc. 5. I imagine Horatio means, that his weapon shall cling to him, or not leave him, until he had gratified his revenge for his friend’s murder.
[305] This word is not in the quarto.
[306] In “All’s Well that ends Well,” act iii. sc. 5, one of the stage-directions is a Tucket afar off; and in “Henry V.,” act iv. sc. 2, the constable says—
“Then let the trumpets sound