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Shakespeare Henry V query
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Maybe someone can help as googling just throws up examples, not the explanation.
In Henry V - during a protacted scene of mind-numbing puns comparing mistresses to horses a character says:
"I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair".
The copy I'm reading has full notes, and mentions this implies that the mistress of the person he's talking to doesn't have any hair (as she's got syphilis). In the margins it says that some editions had "her" instead of "his". But it doesn't explain why the mistress's hair is ever referred to as "his" (as it is in most online versions of the play). Maybe a learned user could shed some light on this.
In Henry V - during a protacted scene of mind-numbing puns comparing mistresses to horses a character says:
"I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair".
The copy I'm reading has full notes, and mentions this implies that the mistress of the person he's talking to doesn't have any hair (as she's got syphilis). In the margins it says that some editions had "her" instead of "his". But it doesn't explain why the mistress's hair is ever referred to as "his" (as it is in most online versions of the play). Maybe a learned user could shed some light on this.
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