Page:Hamlet - The Arden Shakespeare - 1899.djvu/272

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APPENDIX III
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V. i. 101: loggats. Steevens notes "It is one of the unlawful [new and crafty] games enumerated in the statute of 33 Henry VIII."

V. ii. 6: bilboes. Mr. Craig notes an earlier example than any in New English Dictionary: Elyot, Latin Dictionary (1538), "arca, the pillory, stocks, or bilboes."

V. ii. 298: fat and scant of breath. Mr. Craig understands fat to mean not reduced to athletic condition by a fencer's training.