Note 371 — ACT V. SCENE I.
Reading edition
cucking-stool] i.e. a stool or chair at the end of a long pole, in which scolds, &c. being placed, were plunged into some muddy pool or stinking pond: see Brand’s Pop. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 441, ed. 1813.
Reading edition
cucking-stool] i.e. a stool or chair at the end of a long pole, in which scolds, &c. being placed, were plunged into some muddy pool or stinking pond: see Brand’s Pop. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 441, ed. 1813.