Note 3 — Chapter I · INTRODUCTORY.
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2 Alluding to the drunkenness of the clergy.
3 Cf:
“And sometimes lurk I in a gossip’s bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab.”
Midsummer Night’s Dream
, Act ii. Scene 1.
4 The word “trowle” was used of passing the vessel about, as appears by the beginning of an old catch:
Trole, trole the bowl to me, And I will trole the same again to thee.