—— a chase] Compare a passage in that curious tract, by Walter Smith, xii Mery Jests of the wyddow Edyth;
“Her potage & eke her ale were well poudred
With an holsome influence that surgeons call
Pouder Sinipari that wil make on cast his gall:”
in consequence of which, she is compelled suddenly to quit the supper-table, and,
“When that she was vp, she got her foorth apace,
And er she had walkt xxx fote, she marked a chase
And eftsones another, thrugh the Hal as she yede,” &c.
Sig. f iii. ed. 1573.