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Matrons flong Gloues, Ladies . . . Scarffes Malone: Here our author has attributed some of the customs of his own age to a people who were wholly unacquainted with them. Few men of fashion in his time appeared at a tournament without a lady's favour upon his arm; and sometimes when a nobleman had tilted with uncommon grace and agility, some of the fair spectators used to fling a scarf or glove ‘upon him as he pass'd.’ 303. A Shower, and Thunder, etc.] W. A. Wright: For a similar distribution compare V, iii, 110, and Macbeth, I, iii, 60: ‘Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate’; that is, neither beg your favours nor fear your hate. And Winter's Tale, III, ii, 164: ‘Though I with death and with Reward did threaten and encourage him.’
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D. The Tragedie of Coriolanus. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company.
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