Note 741 — SCENE II.

Chough, a Cornish gentleman] Old eds. “Chawgh,” &c.—Chough or chuff is a sea-bird, generally thought a stupid one, common in Cornwall: and a Cornish chough appears to have been a name for a silly fellow from the country;

“For here I might obserue a Country gull,

Whose fathers death had made his pockets full,

Mount Ludgate-hill to buy a Spanish felt,

Pull out his money, bid the Knaue go tel’t.

Notes from Black-fryers I presently might gather,

For now this Cornish Chough mourns for his father

In a Carnation feather,” &c.

Brathwait’s Honest Ghost, 1658, p. 167.