[314] "_Gulchin, q.d_. a _Gulckin_, i.e., parvus Gulo; _kin_ enim minuit. Alludit It. _Guccio_, Stultus, hoc autem procul dubio a Teut. _Geck_, Stultus, ortum ducit."--_Skinner_. Florio explains _Guccio_, a gull, a sot, a ninnie, a meacock. Ben Jonson uses the word in "The Poetaster," act iii. sc. 4: "Come, we must have you turn fiddler again, slave; get a base violin at your back, and march in a tawny coat, with one sleeve, to Goose-fair; then you'll know us, you'll see us then, you will _gulch_, you will." [315] _Bawsin_, in some counties, signifies a _badger_. I think I have heard the vulgar Irish use it to express bulkiness. Mr Chatterton, in the "Poems of the Pseudo-Rowley," has it more than once in this sense. As, _bawsyn olyphantes_, i.e., bulky elephants.--_Steevens_. [316] [Edits., _weary_. I wish that I could be more confident that _weird_ is the true word. _Weary_ appears to be wrong, at any rate.] [317] [Edits., _bedewy_.] [318] [This and Chanter are the names of dogs. Auditus fancies himself a huntsman.] [319] _Counter_ is a term belonging to the chase. [Gascoigne,] in his "Book of Hunting," 1575, p. 243, says, "When a hounde hunteth backwardes the same way that the chase is come, then we say he hunteth _counter_. And if he hunt any other chase than that which he first undertooke, we say he hunteth _change_." So in "Hamlet," act iv. sc. 5-- "How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! O, this is _counter_, you false Danish dogs." See Dr Johnson's note on this passage. [320] [The author may have had in his mind an anecdote related of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Edward Dyer. See the "New London Jest Book," p. 346.] [321] [Flatulent.] [322] [_Rett_ and _Cater_ appear to be the names of dogs. Edits. print _ware wing cater_.] [323] [See note at p. 367.] [324] Idle, lazy, slothful. Minsheu derives it from the French _lasche_, desidiosus. [325] [See a review of, and extracts from, this very curious play in Fry's "Bibliographical Memoranda," 1816, pp. 345-50.] [326] Catalogue of the library of John Hutton. Sold at Essex House, 1764, p. 121. The whole title of the tract, which Mr Reed does not appear to have seen, as he quotes it only from a sale catalogue, is as follows:--"Three Miseries of Barbary: Plague, Famine, Ciuill warre. With a relation of the death of Mahamet the late Emperour: and a briefe report of the now present Wars betweene the three Brothers. Printed by W.I. for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold in Pater noster rowe, at the signe of the Sunne." It is without date, and the name of the author, George Wilkins, is subscribed to a dedication, "To the right worshipfull the whole Company of Barbary Merchants." The tract is written in an ambitious style, and the descriptions are often striking; but there is nothing but the similarity of name to connect it with "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage."--_Collier_. [327] [Hazlitt's "Handbook," 1867, p. 656.] [328] [Not in the old copies.]