Note 51 — ACT II.

“There is comprehended under the curs of the coarsest kind a certain dog in kitchen service excellent. For when any meat is to be roasted they go into a wheel, which they turning round about with the weight of their bodies so diligently look to their business that no drudger nor scullion can do the feat more cunningly: whom the popular sort hereupon call turnspits.”—Topsel’s History of Four-footed Beasts, ed. 1658 (p. 139).