—Collier.
[216] A gredaline petticoat is probably a petticoat puckered, or crumpled, from the French word grediller. See Cotgrave. In Boyer's Dictionary it is explained, Gris de lin, sorte de couleur.
[217] Paulo Purganti's wife has the same sentiment. She
"thought the nation ne'er wou'd thrive,
Till all the whores were burnt alive."
—Prior.
[218] [Pearl here, and in three or four other places below, is used as a plural, quasi a rope of pearl.]
[219] Or lief.
[220] [i.e., On all sides, both by the bye and the main passages.]
[221] [Old copy, your.]
[222] See note to "Albumazar" [xi. 328].