Note 177 — XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER
Reading edition
Latten is a mixed metal resembling brass. Pistol in Merry Wives of Windsor (I. i. 165) likens Slender to a ‘latten bilbo,’ that is, a sword made of the mixed metal. Cf. Anecdotes and Traditions, edited from L’Estrange’s MSS. by W. J. Thoms for the Camden Society, p. 2.