Note 785 — FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES; OR, THE ANT AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
Reading edition
cogged] The same pun occurs in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s lost, “Since you can cog, I’ll play no more with you,” act v. sc. 2; where Johnson remarks, “To cog signifies to falsify the dice, and to falsify a narrative or to lie [or to cheat].”