[126] A pestle of porke—i.e., gammon of bacon.—Minsheu.
[127] Trimly, second edition.
[128] [i.e., Dionysius, to which Dodsley changed it.]
[129] Bonns, both 4tos.
[130] Sometimes called New Queen Street, where there seems to have been the sign of the three Cranes. Ben Jonson mentions this place in “The Devil is an Ass,” act. i. sc. 1.
“From thence shoot the bridge child, to the Cranes of the Vintry,
And see there the gimblets how they make their entry!”
Stow says it was a place of some account for the Costermongers who had warehouses there; and it appears from Dekker’s “Belman of London,” sig. E 2, that the beggars of his time called one of their places of rendezvous by this name. [See Herbert’s edition of Ames, p. 367-8.]
[131] These, first edition.
[132] Vaunted, second edition.