“Let them that bee colde, blow at the cole.
So may a man do, and yet play the foole.”
Scourge of Folly,—Prouerbes, p. 171.
and by Ray, Proverbs, p. 90. ed. 1768, seems to have a quite different meaning.
Page 386. v. 611. kownnage] i. e. coinage,—coining.
v. 612. Pope holy ypocrytis] i. e. Pope-holy hypocrites: see note, p. 230. l. 24 (prose).
—— as they were golde and hole]—hole, i. e. whole. Heywood also has this expression;
“In words gold and hole, as men by wit could wish,
She will [lie] as fast as a dog will lick a dish.”
Dialogue, &c.—Workes, sig. H 2, ed. 1598.