Note 299 — GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE.
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The head. So, in "Hickscorner"—
"I will rap you on the costard with my horn."
—Mr Steevens's Note on Love's Labour's Lost, act iii., sc. 1.
Again, in Ben Jonson's "Tale of a Tub," act ii., sc. 2—
"Do you mutter! sir, snorle this way, That I may hear and answer what you say, With my school dagger 'bout your costard, sir."