Note 215 — THE MASQUE.
Reading edition
In dock out nettle] Compare vol. iii. p. 611, and note. The expression occurs in J. Heywood’s Dialogue, &c.;
“But wauering as the winde, in docke, out nettle.”
Sig. F 2, Workes, ed. 1598.
and in Taylor’s Farewell to the Tower Bottles, p. 125—Workes, ed. 1630.