Note 628 — ACT III. SCENE I.

cock-shoot] Properly, cock-shut—was a large net, suspended between two poles, employed to catch, or shut in, woodcocks, and used chiefly in the twilight—hence cock-shut came to signify twilight. (See Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s Works, vol. vi. p. 473.) Perhaps “a fine cock-shoot evening” means here—a fine evening for taking our game.