hack —
“These knights will,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 1.
45.
A very obscure passage, about the meaning of which sundry conjectures have been
offered; the most probable one perhaps being that there is an allusion to the extravagant
number of knights created by King James, and that“hack” is
equivalent to “become cheap or vulgar.”
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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