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The missing syllable in the third verse is compensated for by the
pause after the comma. This is quite in accordance with Jonson's
custom (see Wilke, p. 1 f. ).

=4. 7. 45 Publication. = See 3. 3. 137.

=4. 7. 54 I sou't him. = See variants. Gifford says that he can make
nothing of _sou't_ but _sought_ and _sous'd_, and that he prefers the
latter.
Dyce (_Remarks_) confidently asserts that the word is the
same as _shue_, 'to frighten away poultry,' and Cunningham accepts
this without question. There seems, however, to be no confirmation
for the theory that the preterit was ever spelt _sou't_. Wright's
_Dialect Dictionary_ gives: '_Sough. _ 19. to strike; to beat
severely,' but the pronunciation here seems usually to be _souff_.
Professor Wright assures me that _sous'd_ is the correct reading,
and that the others are 'mere stupid guesses. '

=4. 7. 62 in possibility. = A legal phrase used of contingent
interests. See note 4. 6. 38, 9.

=4. 7. 65 Duke O' Shore-ditch.