Note 1009 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
a cast of manchets] i. e. a couple of small loaves, or rolls, of fine white bread. “A cast of hawks” (a not unfrequent expression) occurs in our author’s Spanish Gipsy, act ii., scene 2.
Reading edition
a cast of manchets] i. e. a couple of small loaves, or rolls, of fine white bread. “A cast of hawks” (a not unfrequent expression) occurs in our author’s Spanish Gipsy, act ii., scene 2.