[201] A pun; for he means Male aeger.—Pegge.
[202] The [first edit.] gives the passage thus: brandish no swords but sweards of bacon, which is intended for a pun, and though bad enough, need not be lost.—Collier.
[203] Glaves are swords, and sometimes partisans.—Steevens.
[204] Lat. for phalanxes.—Steevens.
[205] [Edits., dept.]
[206] Mars.
[207] See Note 2 to the "First Part of Jeronimo," [v. 349].
[208] [Edits., kist. The word hist may be supposed to represent the whistling sound produced by a sword passing rapidly through the air.]
[209] i.e., Exceeds bounds or belief. See a note on "The Merry Wives of Windsor," act iv. sc. 2.—Steevens.
[210] "Graecia mendax
Audet in historia."—Steevens.