Line of an author, whose name I cannot at this time recollect.--_Steevens_.
[91] A Dottrel is a silly kind of bird which imitates the actions of the fowler, till at last he is taken. If the fowler stretches out a leg, the bird will do so to. So, in Butler’s “Character of a Fantastic (_Remains_, vol. ii., p. 132)”: “He alters his gate with the times, and has not a motion of his body that (_like a Dottrel_) he does not borrow from somebody else.” See also Jonson’s “Devil is an Ass,” iv., 6, and Dyce’s “Beaumont and Fletcher,” iii., 79, and v., 64.
[92] [Original here has _Cobex epi_. Colliers used to be nick-named _Carry-coals_. See Hazlitt’s “Proverbs,” p. 98.]
[94] [For the supply of the court, or _Bouche de la cour_.]
[97] _i.e._, A cast of that species of hawks that were called _Merlins_.--_Steevens._ He calls them [_merlins_, which he might perhaps have been supposed to pronounce] _Murlons_ on account of their size. _Merlins_ were the smallest species of hawks. Turbervile says, “These _merlyns_ are very much like the haggart falcon in plume, in seare of the foote, in beake and talons. So as there seemeth to be no oddes or difference at al betwixt them save only in the _bignesse_, for she hath like demeanure, like plume, and very like conditions to the falcon, and in hir kind is of like courage, and therefore must be kept as choycely and as daintly as the falcon.” The _merlin_ was chiefly used to fly at small birds; and Latham says, it was particularly appropriated to the service of ladies.
[99] [Something seems to have dropped out of the text here to this purport.]
[100] Adopted into the original text from the second edition.--_Collier._
[101] [A play on the similarity between _rug_ and _rogue_.]
[102] _What fault can you see heere?_ second edition.
[104] _i.e._, Robin red breasts. Shakespeare uses _ruddock_ for red breast in “Cymbeline.”--_S._ Again, in Nash’s “Lenten Stuff,” 1599: “He eft soons defined unto me, that the red herring was this old tickle cob, or magister fac totum, that brought in the _red ruddocks_, and the grummel seed as thick as oatmeal, and made Yarmouth for Argent to put down the city of Argentine.”
[108] An intended mistake for _muscadine._--_S._