Note 977 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
thrummed] Seems here to mean thatched: the father of the Country Wench, speaking of her (act ii. sc. 2), says,
“O, if she knew
The dangers that attend on women’s lives,
She’d rather lodge under a poor thatch’d roof” &c.
Thrum is, properly, the tuft at the end of the warp in weaving.