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I. iii. 127, 128. yet I will not compare with an old man. On consideration Sir Andrew modestly limits his profession of superiority first to those who are not his superiors in rank and then to those who are not his elders.

I. iii. 137. Mistress Mall's picture. Mall, or Malkin, was from the time of Chaucer and Langland a proverbial name for a common woman, whose picture no man would respect.

I. iii. 149. born under Taurus. Actually in almanacs, which continue the old astrological theory of medicine, the sign of Taurus governs the neck and throat. Sir Andrew and Sir Toby are therefore both wrong.

I. v. 6. fear no colours. A proverbial phrase, meaning to have no fear, fear the flag of no enemy. The same pun on 'colours' and 'collars' (of the hangman) occurs in 2 Hen. IV., V. v. 91–94.

I. v. 26. if one break. A play upon the word points, meaning the laces with metal ends that attached doublet and gaskins.

I. v. 55–57. As there is no true cuckold, etc. Feste is intent only on keeping up a rattling fire of nonsense to ward off Olivia's attack.

I. v. 316. Unless the master were the man. Unless Orsino and his servant could change places.

I. v. 329, 330. fear . . . mind. Fear that love at first sight ran away with my sober judgment.

II. ii. S. d. at several doors. The normal Elizabethan stage had two doors, right and left, with a third possible one through the curtains under the balcony. The conventional direction of modern editors, 'Enter Viola, Malvolio following,' misrepresents the manner in which Shakespeare intended the meeting to take place.

II. iii. 17. the picture of 'we three.' 'A common sign, in which two wooden heads are exhibited, with