"You speak as if a man Should know what fowl is coffin'd in a bak'd meat Afore it is cut up;"
that is, what fowl is under the crust of the pie. _Good Angelica_ perhaps means Lady Capulet, not the Nurse; and, as Dowden suggests, _Spare not the cost_ seems more appropriate to the former. It may, however, be the Nurse, who here seems to be treated as a kitchen servant--perhaps to avoid the introduction of another character.
6. _Go, you cot-quean_, etc. Several editors give this speech to Lady Capulet; on the ground that the Nurse is not present, having been sent for spices. It has also been suggested that a servant would not venture to be so impudent to her master; but, as we have seen, the Nurse is an old and petted servant who is allowed a good deal of liberty. For the same reason she may not have gone for the spices at once, but may have lingered, gossip-like, to hear what Capulet had to say. A _cot-quean_ is a man who meddles with female affairs; used by S. only here.
11. _Mouse-hunt._ A woman-hunter. For _mouse_ as a term of endearment, see _Ham._ iii. 4. 183, _L. L. L._ v. 2. 19, and _T.N._ i. 5. 69.
13. _Jealous-hood._ Jealousy; the abstract for the concrete; used by S. only here.
16. _Drier logs._ For the kitchen; not a slip like that in i. 5. 30.
21. _Logger-head._ Blockhead. Cf. _L. L. L._ iv. 3. 204: "Ah, you whoreson loggerhead!" So _logger-headed_; as in _T. of S._ iv. 1. 128: "You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!"
SCENE V.--3. _Sweet-heart._ Accented on the last syllable; as regularly in S. (cf. _Hen. VIII._ i. 4. 94, etc.) except in _W. T._ iv. 4. 664: "take your sweet-heart's hat." Schmidt would print it as two words (as is common in the old eds.) except in this latter passage.
28. _Will not let me speak._ Malone remarks: "S. has here followed the poem closely, without recollecting that he had made Capulet, in this scene, clamorous in his grief. In _Romeus and Juliet_, Juliet's mother makes a long speech, but the old man utters not a word:--
"'But more then all the rest the fathers hart was so Smit with the heauy newes, and so shut vp with sodain woe, That he ne had the powre his daughter to bewepe, Ne yet to speake, but long is forsd his teares and plaint to kepe.'"