[personal profile] diejacobsleiter
PROTEUS
Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out.
LAUNCE
Soho, soho!

I decided not to gamble with Google, guessing on which page some reasonable explanation of that "soho" could appear. So I opened Oxford dictionary, and it said:

A call used by huntsmen to direct the attention of the dogs or of other hunters to a hare which has been discovered or started, or to encourage them in the chase.

Of course. Launce had a dog named Crab, one of the brightest dogs in the history of literature, the hero of the monologue:

LAUNCE
...I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog...

BBC-1983, sorry for the low quality.



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