Note 594 — ACT II. SCENE I.

quail-pipe boot] The following lines from Chaucer’s Rom. of the Rose (v. 7212), though relating to a much earlier period, may be quoted here:

“And high shewis knoppid with dagges,

That frouncin [i. e. wrinkle] like a quale-pipe,

Or botis riveling as a gipe.”