[286] God's, not the boy Cock's.
[287] Orig. you would.
[288] Orig. you.
[289] [Orig. of.]
[290] Orig. kockes.
[291] Original, you.
[292] [Beaten. Here was a note of half a page to explain and illustrate the meaning of the very common word wot!]
[293] Poultry. So in Fitzherbert's "Boke of Husbandry": "Gyve thy poleyn—meate in the morning," &c. Again, in "Your five Gallants," by Middleton: "And to see how pitifully the pullen will looke, it makes me after relent, and turne my anger into a quick fire to roast them."
[294] A base, contemptible fellow. So, in "Tom Tyler and his Wife," 1661, p. 19—
"It is an old saying, praise at the parting,