Note 33 — ACT II., SCENE 1.
Reading edition
Dosser is used for a basket generally, but as it means strictly a pannier for the back (from the Fr. dossier), it is here used very inappropriately with reference to the burden Mrs Wagtail carries before her. We have it in the modern sense of pannier in "The Merry Devil of Edmonton"—
"The milkmaids' cuts shall turn the wenches off, And lay their dossers tumbling in the dust." —[x. 224.]