[83] Old form of alloy.
[84] Brittle (Fr. aigre).—“Aigre, eagre, sharpe, tart, biting, sower also brittle, or easily broken with a hammer.”—Cotgrave.
SCENE III.
Franceschina’s lodging.
Enter Franceschina melancholy, Cocledemoy leading her.
Coc. Come, catafugo, Frank o’ Frank-hall! who, who ho! Excellent! Ha, here’s a plump-rump’d wench, with a breast softer than a courtier’s tongue, an old lady’s gums, or an old man’s mentula. My fine rogue——
Fra. Pah, you poltroon!
Coc. Goody fist,[85] flumpum pumpum; ah, my fine wag-tail,
thou art as false, as prostituted, and adulterate as some translated manuscript. Buss, fair whore, buss!
Fra. God’s sacrament, pox! 10