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Henry IV).
6 This example is posited in opposition to Frye, who views Mosca in Volpone as a buffoon (Anatomy 175).
7 Frye also notes sympathy as an important characteristic: “The audience is sympathetic to the eiron side” (Anatomy 172).
8 A “doer of sword tricks with an old-fashioned sword with hilt shaped like a basket.” Norman Holland’s footnote (47).
9 A Bartholomew boar-pig is a “young male pig fattened as a special delicacy for the Bartholomew fair on August 24th at West Smithfield.” Norman Holland’s footnote (51).
10 In line 16, Touchwood indicates that the activity with whores and number of children produced cannot be reckoned (or counted). In line 17 “gear” is a pun
(1) business or activity, (2) penis.
11 According to Bevington’s gloss, portent is synonymous with monster.
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