Note E269 — 45.
Reading edition
"Bots." "Pease an beanes are as danke here as a dog, and this is the next way to give poor jades the bottes."—Shakspere King Henry IV. Act ii. sc. 1. "Begnawne with bots."—Taming of Shrew, Act iii. sc. 2.
"Sauin." "It is often put into horses' drenches, to helpe to cure them of the bots, and other diseases."—Parkinson, Paradisus, p. 607.