Note 1175 — ACT V. SCENE I.

stalled to the rogue] “This done, the Grand Signior called for a Gage of Bowse, which belike signified a quart of drinke, for presently a pot of Ale being put into his hand, hee made the yong Squire kneele downe, and powring the full pot on his pate, vttered these wordes, I doe stall thee to the Rogue by vertue of this soueraigne English liquor, so that henceforth it shall be lawfull for thee to Cant (that is to say) to be a Vagabond and Beg,” &c. Dekker’s Belman of London, 1608, sig. C. “Stalling, making or ordeyning.” Dekker’s Lanthorne and Candlelight, 1612, sig. C 3.