Note 239 — SCENE IV.
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the prick and praise] So in The London Prodigall, 1605: “tho she had the pricke and praise for a prettie wench.” Sig. E 3. Spenser has, Faery Queene, ii. xii. 1,
“her adorned head
To prick of highest praise forth to advance.”
The prick was the point or mark in the centre of the butts in archery.