Note 821 — SCENE IV.
Reading edition
gander-mooners] i. e. married gallants—“Gander-month, that month in which a man’s wife lies in,” &c. &c. Grose’s Clas. Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
“I’le keep her at the least this Gander-moneth,
While my fair wife lies in,” &c.
Brome’s English-Moor, p. 40—Fiue New Playes, 1659.