Note 293 — ACT II. SCENE I.

wry mouth ... like a plaice] “So in Nash’s Lenten Stuff, 1599: ‘None won the day in this but the herring, whom all their clamorous suffrages saluted with Vive le Roy, God save the King, God save the King, save only the playse and the butt, that made wry mouths at him, and for their mocking have wry mouths ever since.’” Reed. The wry mouth of the plaice was a favourite allusion with our old writers.