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Notes for lines 2023-2950 ed. Frank N. Clary

For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.

2456 That thus hath cosund you at hodman blind;	3.4.77

1773 v1773

v1773

2456 hodman blind] Steevens (ed. 1773): “This is, I suppose, the same as blindman’s buff. Steevens.”

1774 capn

capn:

2456 hodman] Capell (1774, 1:1: glossary, hoodman): “a Person hooded or blindfolded.”

1778 v1778

v1778 = v1773 +

2456 hodman blind] Steevens (ed. 1778): “So, in the Merry Devil of Edmonton, 1626: ‘And ever since hath shot at hoodman-blind.’ Again, in the Two Maids of Moordlacke, 1609:‘—was I bewitched, That thus at hoodman-blind I dallied?’ Again, in the Wise Woman of Hogsden, 1638: ‘Why should I play at hoodman-blind?’ Steevens.”

1780 malsi

malsi: Two Lamentable Tragedies analogue

2456 hodman blind] Steevens (apud Malone, 1780, p. 359): “Again, in Two lamentable Tragedies in One, the One a murder of Master Beech &c. 1601: ‘Pick out mens’ eyes, and tell them tha’s sport Of hood-man blind.’ Steevens.”

1785 v1785

v1785 = v1778, malsi minus Merry Devil and Two Maids analogues +

2456 hodman blind] Steevens (ed. 1785): “So, in the Wise Woman of Hogsden, 1638: ‘Why should I play at hoodman-blind?’ Steevens.”

1790 mal

mal = v1785, minus Wise Woman analogue)

1793 v1793

v1793 = v1785

1803 v1803

v1803 = v1793

1813 v1813

v1813 = v1803

1819 cald1

cald1 ≈ v1773 without attribution

2456 hodman blind] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Blindman’s-buff.”

1821 v1821

v1821 = v1813

1826 sing1

sing1: Baret

2456 hodman blind] Singer (ed. 1826): “‘The hoodwinke play, or hoodman blind, in some place, called blindmanbuf.’—Baret. It appears also to have been called blind hob. It is hob-man blind in the quarto of 1603.”

1832 cald2

cald2 = cald1

1839 knt1 (nd)

knt1 ≈ cald2 without attribution

2456 hodman blind] Knight (ed. [1839] nd): “the game which we call blind-man’s buff.”

1843 col1

col1 ≈ knt1 without attribution

2456 hodman blind] Collier (ed. 1843): “This should seem to have been the old name of blind-man’s buff, or bough! It is often mentioned.”

col1: Three Lordes of London analogue

2456 hodman blind] Anonymous (ms. notes in Collier, ed. 1843): “But at an early date it was called ‘Blindman buffe,’ in the Three Lordes of London 1590 ‘Ile to my stall, Love, Lucre, Conscience, blindman buffe to you all.”

1854 del2

del2 ≈ col1 without attribution + magenta underlined

2456 hodman blind] Delius (ed. 1854): “hoodman-blind, ein veraltetes Wort, entspricht dem jetzigen blindman’s buff, unserem "Blindkuhspiel".—Die folgenden vier Zeilen fehlen wieder in der Fol.” [hoodman-blind, an archaic term, corresponds to present blindman’s buff or to German Blindkuhspiel (blind cow game).]

1856 hud1 (1851-6)

hud1 ≈ sing1 minus “It appears . . . in 1603” without attribution

2456 hodman blind] Hudson (ed. 1851-6): “‘The hoodwinke play, or hoodman blind, in some place called blindmanbuf.’—Baret.”

1856b sing2

sing2 = sing1

1857 fieb

fieb ≈ v1773, malsi (Two Lamentable Tragedies analogue) without attribution

2456 hodman blind] Fiebig (ed. 1857): “Hoodman-blind is the childish sport now called blind man’s bluff. So, in Two Lamentable Tragedies in One, etc. 1601: ‘Pick out men’s eyes, and tell them that’s the sport of hoodman-blind.’ —To cozen, to cheat, to defraud.”

1858 col3

col3 = col1 +

2456 hodman blind] Collier (ed. 1858): “This should seem to have been the old name of blind-man’s buff, or bough! It is often mentioned, and an explanation of it, if wanted, may be found in Strutt’s ‘Sports and Pastimes,’ and elsewhere.”

1864a glo

glo ≈ knt1 without attribution

2456 hodman blind] Clark and Wright (ed. 1864a [1865] 9: glossary, Hoodman-blind): “sb. the game now called blind-man’s-buff.”

1865 hal

hal: Florio, Cotgrave, Nomenclator, Cooper, Baret, Porta Linguarum

2456 hodman blind] Halliwell (ed. 1865): “Blind-man’s buff. See Florio, pp. 26, 301, 480; Nomenclator, p. 208; Cotgrave, in v. Capifou, Cline-mucette, Savate; Cooper, 1559, in v. Mya. It is called Hob man blind in the two Angrie Women of Abington, p. 113, and Hoodwink by Drayton. ‘The hoodwinke play, or hoodman blinde, in some places called the blindmanbuf.’ Baret’s Alvearie, 1580, H. 597. ‘Hoodman-blind, or blind-man-buff,’ Porta Linguarum, 1640. The annexed engraving of two persons engaged in this pastime is from an illuminated manuscript of the fourteenth century. [illustration included].”

1866 ktlyn

ktlyn ≈ glo without attribution

2456 hodman blind] Keightley (ed. 1866, glossary): “blindman’s buff.”

1869 Romdahl

Romdahl ≈ glo without attribution

2456 hodman blind] Romdahl (1869, p. 35): “was formerly the expression for the game now called blind-man’s buff.”

1872 hud2

hud2 ≈ hud1

2456 hodman blind] Hudson (ed. 1872): “Hoodman-blind is the old game of blindman’s-buff.”

1872 del4

del4 = del2

1872 cln1

cln1: MV //

2456 cosund] Clark and Wright (ed. 1872): “cheated. See MV [2.9.38 (1150)], and many other passages.”

cln1: ktlyn + magenta underlined

2456 hodman blind] Clark and Wright (ed. 1872): “blind-man’s buff. See AWW [4.3.119 (2227)]: ‘’Hood-man comes.’ Cotgrave (French Dict.) gives, ‘Clignemusset. The childish play called Hodman blind, Harrie-racket, or, are you all hid.’”

1877 v1877

v1877 ≈ sing1, col3, cln1

2456 hodman blind] Furness (ed. 1877): “Singer: ‘The Hoodwinke play, or hoodmanblinde, in some places called the blindmanbuf.’—Baret’s Alvearie. Collier (ed. 2): An explanation of the game, if wanted, may be found in Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes. Clarendon: See aww [4.3.119 (2227)]. Cotgrave gives: ‘Clignemusset. The childish play called Hodman blind, Harrie-racket, or, are you all hid.’”

1877 neil

neil: standard for hodman blind

1877 col4

col4: standard for hodman blind

2456 hodman blind] Collier (ed. 1877): “The old name of blind man’s bough!”

1878 rlf1

rlf1: sing, cln1 (AWW //)

2456 hodman blind] Rolfe (ed. 1878): “Blind-man’s-buff. Cf. AWW [4.3.119 (2227)]: “Hoodman comes!” Sr. quotes Baret, Alvearie: ‘The Hoodwinkle play, or hoodmanblinde, in some places called blindmanbuf.’”

1881 hud3

hud3 = hud2

1885 macd

macd

2456 cosund . . . blind] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “‘played tricks with you while hooded in the game of blind-man’s buff?’ The omitted passage of Q2 enlarges the figure.”

1889 Barnett

Barnett: Wiv. //

2456 cosund] Barnett (1889, p. 51): “beguiled. In Wiv. 4.2.180 [0000]—‘When he had played the cosining mate with others . . . . himself was beguiled.’ Cozen is a verb formed from cousin. Cotgrave has F. cousiner, ‘to claimed kindred for advantage, . . . . as he, who to save charges in traveling, goes from house to house, as cosin to the honour of everyone.’”

1890 irv2

irv2 ≈ sing1 (Baret), v1778 (Merry Devil analogue), cln1 (AWW //)

2456 hodman blind] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “Hoodman-blind is the old name for blindman’s buff. Sh. has Hoodman in AWW [4.3.119 (2227)]. There is a very entertaining scene of hodman-blind in Day’s Humour out of breath, 1608, iv. 3 (ed. Bullen, pp. 58 et seq.). Baret’s Alvearie has: ‘ The hoodwinke play,or hoodmanblinde, in some places called the blindmanbuf.’ Compare The Merry Devil of Edmonton, 1.3 (ed. Warnke and Proescholdt, p. 15).”

1891 dtn

dtn: Skeat

2456 cosund] Deighton (ed. 1891): “cheated; from ‘F. cousiner,’ “to claim kindred for advantage, goes from house to house, as cosin to the honour of every one” Cotgrave. So in modern F. cousiner is “to call cousin, to sponge, to live upon other people”; Hamilton and Legros. The change of meaning from “sponge” to “beguile” or “cheat” was easy’ (Skeat, Ety. Dict.).”

dtn

2456 hodman blind] Deighton (ed. 1891): “what we now call ‘blind-man’s-buff,’ a game among children in which one of them has his eyes ‘hooded,’ or blinded, with a handkerchief, and is set to catch and name one of his companions, a forfeit being paid if he names the wrong one.”

1899 ard1

ard1 ≈ ktlyn (def.); ≈ sing1 (Baret)

2456 hodman blind] Dowden (ed. 1899): “blind-man’s buff. Singer quotes Baret’s Alvearie: ‘The hoodwinke play, or hoodman-blind, in some paces called the blind-manbuff.’”

1903 p&c

p&c ≈ rlf1 (Baret)

2456 hodman blind] Porter & clarke (ed. 1903): “‘The Hoodwinke play or hood manblinde in some places called the blind man buf’ (Baret’s ‘Alvearie,’ 1597).”

1903 rlf3

rlf3 = rlf1 minus sing attribution

1904 ver

ver: In Memoriam analogue

2456 hodman blind] Verity (ed. 1904): “blind’man’s bluff; cf. In Memoriam, LXXVIII.”

1905 rltr

rltr = cln1 minus MV//

2456 cosund] Chambers (ed. 1905): “cheated.”

rltr = ver minus In Memorian analogue

2456 hodman blind] Chambers (ed. 1905): “blind man’s buff.”

1906 nlsn

nlsn ≈ rltr

2456 cosund] Neilson (ed. 1906, glossary): “cozen] cheat.”

1924 vand

vand

2456-58 VanDam (1924, p. 81): “From 2458, and what follows, it appears that thou must refer to something of which it cannot be imagined that it could ever rebel. As rebelling may be called, as it were, a common function of hell, thou cannot refer to hell but must refer to shame, for the essence of shame is a timorous modesty, which does not think of rebelling. From this it follows that 2457 was interpolated.” </p.81>

1931 crg1

crg1 ≈ rltr

2456 cosund] Craig (ed. 1931): “tricked, cheated.”

crg1 = rltr for hodman blind

1934 rid1

rid1= rltr (hodman blind)

1939 kit2

kit2 = crg1 for cosund

kit2

2456 hodman blind] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “blindman’s buff. The Queen, Hamlet implies, had made her choice with as little discrimination as that shown by the hoodman (or blinded person) in blindman’s buff, who seizes upon anybody within reach and cannot tell one from another.”

1942 n&h

n&h = rltr for cosund and hodman blind

1957 pel1

pel1 = n&h for cosund and hodman blind

1974 evns1

evns1 = pel1 for cosund and hodman blind

1980 pen2

pen2

2456 cosund . . . blind] Spencer (ed. 1980): “tricked you in playing blind-man’s buff (into choosing the very worst).”

1982 ard2

ard2 = rltr for hodman blind

1984 chal

chal

2456 cosund] Wilkes (ed. 1984): “cozen’d duped.”

chal = evns1 for hodman blind

1988 bev2

bev2 = evns1 for cosund

bev2 = evns1 + magenta underlined

2456 hodman blind] Bevington (ed. 1988): “blindman’s bluff (In this game, says Hamlet, the Devil must have pushed Claudius toward Gertrude while she was blindfolded).”

1997 evns2

evns2 = evns1

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2 ≈ chal

2456 cozened] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “deceived.”

ard3q2 ≈ kit2

2456 at hoodman-blind] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “in a game of blind man’s buff (so called because one of the players was blindfolded by wearing a hood over the head); Hamlet implies that his mother must have been blindfolded when she chose her second husband.”