Note 770 — FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES; OR, THE ANT AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
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squalls] Equivalent here, it would seem, to—wenches: vide note, vol. iii. p. 55. Taylor, the water-poet, uses the word as a term of endearment;
“The rich Gull Gallant calls her Deare and Loue,
Ducke, Lambe, Squall, Sweet-heart, Cony, and his Doue.”
A Whore, p. 112—Workes, 1630.
and Kempe as a term of reproach; “Swearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de hoy, a chicken, a squib, a squall.” Humble Request, &c., appended to his Nine daies Wonder, 1600.