Note 367 — ACT IV. SCENE I.
Reading edition
a wild Cataian of forty such] “i. e. forty such shallow knights, &c. would go to the composition of a dexterous thief. See a note on The Merry Wives of Windsor, [‘I will not believe such a Cataian,’ &c., act ii. sc. 1.]” Reed. A Cataian came to signify a sharper, because the people of Cataia (China) were famous for their thieving.