Note E334 — 53.
Reading edition
"Cock apace." Cf. Piers Plowman, C. Text, Passus vi. 12, 13 (ed. Skeat).
"Canstow seruen, he seide, oþer syngen in a churche, Oþer coke for my cokers, oþer to þe cart picche?"
i.e. put hay into cocks for my harvest men. Mr. Skeat quotes in his note to this passage: "Bee it also prouided, that this act, nor anything therein contained, doe in any wise extende to any cockers or haruest folkes that trauaile into anie countrie of this realme for haruest worke, either corne haruest, or hay haruest, if they doe worke and labour accordingly."—Rastall, Statutes; Vagabonds, etc., p. 474.