ON A PASSAGE IN "THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR," AND ON CONJECTURAL EMENDATION

The late Mr. Baron Field, in his *Conjectures on some Obscure and Corrupt Passages of Shakspeare*, published in the "Shakspeare Society's Papers," vol. ii. p. 47., has the following, note on *The Merry Wives of Windsor*, Act ii. Sc. 2.:— "'*Falstaff.* I myself sometimes having the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, you rogue, will esconce your *rags*, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honour.' "Pistol, to whom this was addressed…