[769] See Jamieson’s “Scottish Dictionary,” 1879, vol. i. p. 122.
[770] “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 57.
[771] Ibid. vol. i. p. 58.
[772] “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 143.
[773] “Glossary,” pp. 29, 30.
[774] See Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 156; Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 98. A simple mode of bat-fowling, by means of a large clap-net and a lantern, and called bird-batting, is alluded to in Fielding’s “Joseph Andrews” (bk. ii. chap. x.). Drake thinks that it is to a stratagem of this kind Shakespeare alludes when he paints Buckingham exclaiming (“Henry VIII.” i. 1):
“The net has fall’n upon me; I shall perish
Under device and practice.”
[775] Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 396.
[776] A pip is a spot upon a card.
[777] “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 436.