Note 72 — PART I. MASTER THOMAS DALLAM’S DIARY.
Reading edition
Dallam’s constant use of the word butt for boat sufficiently explains the following passage in Shakspeare, where butt is supposed to have been a misprint:
“ ... where they prepared A rotten carkasse of a butt, not rigg’d, Nor tackle, sayle, nor mast.” (Tempest, i, 2.)