Note 214 — REIGN OF JAMES VI.: 1591-1603. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Cockalane—Fr. coq-à-l’âne, defined in the dictionary of the Academy, ‘Discours qui n’a point de suite, de liaison, de raison.’ Equivalent to the English phrase, a cock-and-bull story. The word occurs in at least one English author—Etheridge.