Note 108 — Vol. I.—15.
Reading edition
Vide Dryden’s Cymon,
“He whistled as he went for want of thought.”
[109] This word rhymes with lost, to oblige the cockneys.
[110] Like the punning clown in the stocks, that whistled Over the wood laddie!
[111]
“Whistle! and I will come to thee, my love.”