v. 216.
Your gorge not endewed
Without a capon, &c.]
Equivalent to—You not digesting any thing except, &c.: see notes, p. 207. v. 78. and v. 87.
v. 218. a stewed cocke] Compare the following passage in the Interlude of the iiii Elementes, n. d.;
“Tauerner. Though all capons be gone what than
yet I can get you a stewed hen
That is redy dyght.
Humanyte. yf she be fat yt wyll do well.
Tauerner. Fat or lene I cannot tell