p. 378 _cogging_. To cog is to trick, to cheat. A word in common use.
p. 384 _like to like_.... A very old proverbial saying. The humours of
Grim the collier are introduced by Ulpian Fulwell into his morality,
_Like Will to Like_ (1561). cf. The amusing anonymous comedy, _Grim, the
Collier of Croydon_ (1600), with its major plot of the Belphegor story.
p. 384 _smoke_. To detect. cf. _All’s Well That Ends Well_, iii, 6. ‘He
was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu.’
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