[105] A fool or blockhead. See act v., scenes 2 and 5. "Cough me a fool" is common in old plays.—Cooper.

[106] A bird-bolt, a short, thick arrow, with a blunt head, chiefly made use of to kill rooks. It appears to have been looked upon as an emblem of dulness. So in Marston's "What you Will," 1607—

"Ignorance should shoot

His gross-knobb'd bird-bolt."

[107] [Chop-logic.]

[108]

"The divell is in th' orloge, the houres to trye:

Searche houres by the sun, the devylls dyall will lie."

—Heywood's Proverbs.

—Cooper.