[798] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” pp. 499, 500; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 397, 398.

[799] “Anatomy of Melancholy;” Drake’s “Shakespeare and His Times,” vol. ii. p. 298.

[800] Clark and Wright’s “Notes to Hamlet,” 1876, pp. 212, 213.

[801] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” p. 365; Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 522.

[802] Baker’s “Northamptonshire Glossary,” 1854, vol. i. p. 198.

[803] See Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 134.

[804] Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 144.

[805] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 605.

[806] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, pp. 368, 369.

[807] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 429, 432.