Note 299 — Chapter IV · SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION (COUNTRY).
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It is in allusion to the disturbance thus created in the small hours of the night we find a writer of the Stuart period saying, not unwittily, to one thus rudely aroused:—
‘That you are vext their wakes your neighbours keep
They guess it is, because you want your sleep:
I therefore wish that you your sleep would take,
That they (without offence) might keep their wake.’
(Brand’s Pop. Ant. iii. 9.)