Put out the fire, kill the chimney’s heart, That it may breathe no more than a dead man. _Case is Altered_ 2. 1, _Wks._ 6. 328. Wilson imitated the same passage in his _Projectors_, Act 2, Sc. 1: ‘Shut the door after me, bolt it and bar it, and see you let no one in in my absence. Put out the fire, if there be any, for fear somebody, seeing the smoke, may come to borrow some! If any one come for water, say the pipe’s cut off; or to borrow a pot, knife, pestle and mortar, or the like, say they were stole last night! But harke ye! I charge ye not to open the door to give them an answer, but whisper’t through the keyhole! For, I tell you again, I wilt have nobody come into my house while I’m abroad! No; no living soul! Nay, though Good Fortune herself knock at a door, don’t let her in!’ =2. 2. 1 I haue no singular seruice=, etc. I. e., This is the sort of thing I must become accustomed to, if I am to remain on earth. =2. 2. 49, 50 Though they take Master Fitz-dottrell, I am no such foule.= Gifford points out that the punning allusion of _foul_ to _fowl_ is a play upon the word dottrel. ‘The dotterel (Fuller tells us) is avis γελοτοποιος a mirth-making bird, so ridiculously mimical, that he is easily caught, or rather catcheth himself by his over-active imitation. As the fowler stretcheth forth his arms and legs, stalking towards the bird, so the bird extendeth his legs and wings, approaching the fowler till he is surprised in the net.’--G. This is what is alluded to in 4. 6. 42. The use of the metaphor is common. Gifford quotes Beaumont & Fletcher. _Bonduca_ and _Sea Voyage_. Many examples are given in Nares and the _NED._, to which may be added _Damon and Pithias_, _O. Pl._ 4. 68; Nash, _Wks._ 3. 171; and Butler’s _Character of a Fantastic_ (ed. Morley, p. 401): ‘He alters his gait with the times, and has not a motion of his body that (like a dottrel) he does not borrow from somebody else.’ Nares quotes _Old Couple_ (_O. Pl._, 4th ed., 12. 41): _E._ Our Dotterel then is caught? _B._ He is and just As Dotterels use to be: the lady first Advanc’d toward him, stretch’d forth her wing, and he Met her with all expressions. It is uncertain whether the sense of ‘bird’ or ‘simpleton’ is the original. _Dottrel_ seems to be connected with _dote_ and _dotard_. The bird is a species of plover, and Cunningham says that ‘Selby ridicules the notion of its being more stupid than other birds.’ In _Bart. Fair_ (_Wks._ 4. 445) we hear of the ‘sport call’d Dorring the Dotterel.’ =2. 2. 51 Nor faire one.= The dramatists were fond of punning on _foul_ and _fair_. Cf. _Bart. Fair_ passim.