Note 346 — SCENE II.

Plymouth cloak] “‘That is,’ says Ray, in his Proverbs, 1742, p. 238, ‘a cane, a staff; whereof this is the occasion. Many a man of good extraction, coming home from far voyages, may chance to land here, and, being out of sorts, is unable for the present time and place to recruit himself with clothes. Here (if not friendly provided) they make the next wood their draper’s shop, where a staff cut out serves them for a covering. For we use when we walk in cuerpo to carry a staff in our hands, but none when in a cloak.’” Reed.