“Chough’s language, gabble enough, and good enough.”

All’s Well that Ends Well, Act iv. Sc. 1.

And probably there was a good deal more chattering than talking, as we understand the term.

“There be …

… lords that can prate

As amply and unnecessarily

As this Gonzalo; I myself could make

A chough of as deep chat.”

Tempest, Act ii. Sc. 1.

In Henry IV., in the scene where Falstaff, with the