“I’ll make thee run this lousy case, I wis.”

And again in Massinger’s “City Madam,” act iv. sc. 4—­

              “Tis more comely,
    I wis, than their other whim-whams.”

[478] “He had need of a long spoon that eats with the devil,” is a proverbial phrase.  See [Hazlitt’s “Proverbs,” 1869, p. 176.] So Stephano, in the “Tempest,” act ii. sc. 2, alluding to this proverb, says, “This is a devil, and no monster:  I will leave him; I have no long spoon.”  See also “Comedy of Errors,” act iv. sc. 3, and Chaucer’s “Squier’s Tale,” v. 10916—­

“Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone,
That shall ete with a fiend.”

[479] [To vomit.  One of the jests of Scogin relates how that celebrated individual “told his wife he had parbraked a crow”—­a story which occurs in the “Knight of the Tour-Landry” (Wright’s edit., p. 96).  See also Fry’s “Bibl.  Memoranda,” 1816, p. 337.  A note in edition 1825 says:] This is a word which I apprehend is very seldom found in writers subsequent to the year 1600.  It is used by Skelton, and sometimes by Spenser.  See Todd’s “Johnson’s Dict.”

[480] [Old copy, He falls; but Akercock evidently disappears simultaneously.]

[481] [Old copy, names.]

[482] [Old copy, song.]