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The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 2 (of 5)

Note 1163 — ACT V. SCENE I.

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I’ll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel, &c.] i.e. I’ll tumble this next night in the straw, and drink good drink (baufe being probably, as Reed has observed, a mistake for bouse), and eat a fat pig, a cock (or capon), and a duck. See Dekker’s Lanthorne and Candlelight, 1612, sig. C 2, 3.

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