"Fur in see hi west Spaynge Is a lond ihote Cocaygne Ther nis lond under hevenriche Of wel of goodnis hit iliche In Cokaygne is met and drink Withute care, how, and swink ....... Ther nis lac of met no cloth ....... Ther beth rivers gret and fine Of oile, melk, honi and wine. Water seruith ther to nothing Bot to siyt and to waussing. ....... Ther is a wel fair abbei Of white monkes and of grei ....... The gees irostid on the spitte Fleey to that abbai, god hit wot, And gredith 'gees al hote, al hot.'" Shakspeare's use of _Cockney_, in _Twelfth Night_, Act IV. Sc. 1., is somewhat obscure; but I conceive that the Clown means to express his opinion that the world is already replete with folly: "_Seb._ I prithee vent thy folly somewhere else; thou know'st not me. "_Clown._ Vent my folly! He has heard that word of some great man, and now applies it to a fool. Vent my folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a _Cockney_." The Clown probably intends to say, that to vent his folly to the world will be like sending coals to Newcastle, or provisions to _Cocagne_; for that, as regards folly, this great lubber the world will prove to be a _Cocagne_ or _Cokeney_, _i.e._ a land of plenty. He may, however, mean to hint, in a round-about way, that _Cockneys_, or natives of London, are full of folly; or that the world is as well supplied with folly as a _Cockney_ is with food. I do not know whether I committed a _Cockney_, a _clerical_, or a _canonical_ error, when I wrote the name of Chaucer under the following lines instead of the word _Cokeney_:-- "I have no peny, quod Pierce, polettes for to bie, Ne neither gose ne grys, but two grene cheses, A few curdes and creame, and an haver cake, And two loves of beanes and branne, bake for mi folke, And yet I say by my soule, I have no salt bacon Ne no _Cokeney_, by Christe, coloppes to make." _The Vision of Pierce Plowman_, printed 1550. "At that fest thay wer seruyd with a ryche aray, Every fyve and fyve had a _Cokenay_." _The Turnament of Tottenham._ The sentence for which I am responsible, p. 318., should read thus: "_Cokeney_, in the above lines quoted by Webster, probably refers to any substantial dish of fresh meat which might be cut in collops." I may add that this use of the word brings it into close alliance with the Anglo-Saxon word _cocnunga_, signifying _things cooked_, _pies_, _puddings_, and _cock's-meat_.