The deuyll in a brake]
For “stare,” which is the reading of all the eds., I have substituted “stale”—i. e. lure, decoy. “Stale of fowlys takinge.” Prompt. Parv. ed. 1499. So in Marmyon’s Hollands Leaguer, 1632;
“And if my skill not failes me, her I’ll make
A Stale, to take this Courtier in a brake.”
Act ii. sc. 1. sig. D 3.
Compare too an epigram by Heywood;
“Take time when time commeth: are we set time to take?
Beware time, in meane time, take not vs in brake.”
Workes, sig. Q 3. ed. 1598.