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30 do you doubt his eares? = Ingine's speech is capable of a
double interpretation. Pug has already spoken of the 'liberal ears' of
his asinine master.

=2. 1. 41 a string of's purse. = Purses, of course, used to
be hung at the girdle. A thief was called a cut-purse. See the
amusing scene in _Bart. Fair_, _Wks. _ 5. 406.

=2. 1. 53, 4 at the Pan, Not, at the skirts.
= '_Pan_ is not
easily distinguished from _skirt_. Both words seem to refer to
the outer parts, or extremities. Possibly Meercraft means--on
a broader scale, on a more extended front. '--G.

'The pan is evidently the deepest part of the swamp, which
continues to hold water when the _skirts_ dry up, like the hole
in the middle of the tray under a joint when roasting, which
collects all the dripping. Meercraft proposed to grapple with
the main difficulty at once. '--C.

I had already arrived at the same conclusion before reading
Cunningham's note. The _NED. _ gives: 'Pan. A hollow or depression in
the ground, esp. one in which water stands.

1594 Plat, _Jewell-ho_ 1. 32 Of all Channels, Pondes, Pooles,
Riuers, and Ditches, and of all other pannes and bottomes
whatsoeuer. '

_Pan_, however, is also an obsolete form of _pane_, a cloth
or skirt. The use is evidently a quibble.