Note 154 — SCENE V.
Reading edition
Welch ambassador] “A jocular name for the cuckoo, I presume from its migrating hither from the west.” Nares’s Gloss. in v.—Perhaps it was so called because
“the note which his hoarse voice doth beare
Is harsh and fatall to the wedded eare.”
The Cuckow (by Niccols), 1607, sig. A 3.