[145] These words, not in the old copy, are necessary for the rhyme.—Cooper.
[146] His entrance is not marked in the original.—Cooper.
[147] Cuff. In Tim Bobbin's "Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect," a coil is explained by "a lump raised on the head by a blow." See also Brockett's "Glossary of North Country Words."—Cooper.
[148] [Passion.]
[149] I can. See ante.
[150] Slower, graver.
[151] Now, once for all.
[152] i.e., So fierce. A sow at certain seasons is said to go to brim—
"They foughten breme as it were bolles two."
—Cooper. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, line 1701.