Goe limping home to Christendome on stilts."—Cooper.
[128] This expression, though now generally used to denote some little lapse of time, formerly signified immediately. It is so used still in the North of England.—Cooper.
[129] With difficulty—scarcely. See "Second Part of Henry the Sixth," act ii., sc. 4.—Cooper.
[130] [Since.] The re-entrance of Merrygreek is not marked in the old copy.—Cooper.
[131] [Time.]
[132] Earlier. Rath, for early, occurs in Chaucer and in Milton.—Cooper.
[133] Plundering—
"Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise."
—Cooper. —Faerie Queene, Book v., canto 2.
[134] [In the old copy this half-line is wrongly given to the Scrivener.]