GAMMER. By the mass, chill rather spend the coat that is on my back. Thinks the false quean by such a sleight,[240] that chill my nee'le lack? DICCON. Slip not your gear,[241] I counsel you, but of this take good heed, Let not be known, I told you of it, how well soever ye speed. GAMMER. Chill in, Diccon, and clean aporn to take, and set before me; And ich may my nee'le once see, chill sure remember thee. THE SECOND ACT. THE FIFTH SCENE. DICCON. Here will the sport begin, if these two once may meet, Their cheer, durst lay money, will prove scarcely sweet. My gammer sure intends to be upon her bones With staves or with clubs, or else with cobble stones.[242] Dame Chat on the other side, if she be far behind, I am right far deceived, she is given to it of kind.[243] He that may tarry by it a while, and that but short, I warrant him trust to it, he shall see all the sport. Into the town will I, my friends to visit there, And hither straight again to see the end of this gear. In the meantime, fellows, pipe up your fiddles: I say, take them,[244] And let your friends hear such mirth as ye can make them. FOOTNOTES: [189] So in Nash's "Pierce Pennilesse," p. 23, "we have generall rules and injunctions as good as printed precepts, or statutes set downe by acte of parliament, that goe from drunkard to drunkard as still to keepe your first man, not to leave anie flockes in the bottom of the cup, to knock the glasse on your thumbe when you have done, to have some _shooring horne_ to pull on your wine, as a rasher of the coles, or a redde herring." Again in Nash's "Lenten Stuff," 1599, "which being double roasted, and dried as it is, not only sucks up all the rheumatick inundations, but is a _shoeing horn_ for a pint of wine overplus." [190] [Soiled.] [191] A _planch_ is a plank of wood. To _planch_ therefore is a verb formed from it. See "Measure for Measure," Vol. II., edit. 1778, p. 106.--_S._ The above note but ill explains its meaning; the word will be better illustrated by the following description of the fortification of Ypres by Holinshed: "It was fensed with a mighty rampire and a thicke hedge, trimlie _planshed_, and woond with thornes," &c.--_Chron._ 2. 759. _Ed._ 1807.--_O. G._ [192] This is the reading of the first edition, which in all the subsequent ones is very improperly altered to _cover_. _To cower_, is to bend, stoop, hang, or lean over. See Beaumont and Fletcher's "Monsieur Thomas," act. iv., sc. 6, and Nash's "Pierce Pennilesse," 1592, p. 8. Again-- "He much rejoyst, and _cour'd_ it tenderly, As chicken newly hatcht, from dreaded destiny."-- Spenser's _Fairy Queen_, B. ii., c. 8. sc. 9. So in Shakspeare's "King Henry VI." Part II. vol. vi., p. 362, edit. 1778-- "The splitting rocks _cowr'd_ in the sinking sand."--_S._ Again--