veal
“quoth the Dutchman. Is not ‘veal’ a calf?”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2.
247.
“I suppose by veal
she means well, sounded as foreigners usually
pronounce that word; and introduced merely for the sake of the subsequent question”
(MALONE)
.
“The same joke occurs in The Wisdome
of Dr. Dodypoll: ‘Doctor. Hans, my very speciall friend; fait and trot, me
be right glad for to [dele to] see you
veale. Hans. What, do you make a calfe of me, M. Doctor?’ [sig. C 3, ed.
1600]”
(BOSWELL)
. Dr. Wellesley has discovered that, in“this miserable
skirmish of puns,” certain words
“make up the syllables of Lord Longaville's name, compounded
of long calf veal, or langue half veal.”
Stray Notes on the Test of
Shakespeare, p. 17
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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