[280] Read, for the metre, He is.
[281] Equivalent to—poor, contemptible fellow: but I must leave the reader to determine the exact meaning of this term of reproach. As pingle signifies a small croft, Nares (citing a passage from Lyly's "Euphues") says that pingler is "probably a labouring horse, kept by a farmer in his homestead." "Gloss." in v.—In Brockett's "Gloss, of North Country Words" is "Pingle, to work assiduously but inefficiently,—to labour until you are almost blind." In Forby's "Vocab. of East Anglia" we find, "Pingle, to pick one's food, to eat squeamishly:" and in Moor's "Suffolk Words" is a similar explanation. See also Jamieson's "Et. Dict. of Scott. Lang."
[282] So second edit. Not in first edit.
[283] So second edit. First edit., drinke.
[284] So second edit. First edit., Nich.
[285] [This is probably intended to run into verse—
"For when a man doth to Rome come,
He must do as there is done.">[
[286] [Old copies, crush.]
[287] A form of digest, common in our early writers.
[288] [This emendation was suggested by Dyce.]