Note 207 — GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE.
Reading edition
Trowl, or trole the bowl, was a common phrase in drinking for passing the vessel about, as appears by the following beginning of an old catch—
"Trole, trole the bowl to me, And I will trole the same again to thee."
And in this other, in Hilton's Collection—
"Tom Bouls, Tom Bouls, Seest thou not how merrily this good ale trowles? —Sir John Hawkins's History of Music, Vol. III., 22.
Again—
"Sirra Shakebagge, canst thou remember Since we trould the boule at Sittingburn."
—Arden of Feversham, 1592.
"Giv't us weele pledge, nor shall a man that lives In charity refuse it, I will not be so old As not be grac't to honour Cupid, giv't us full. When we were young, we could ha trold it off. Drunke down a Dutchman." —Marston's Parasitaster or The Fawne, act. v.
"Now the cups trole about to wet the gossips whistles, It pours down, I faith, they never think of payment." —A Chast Mayd in Cheap-side, p. 34.