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of “‘a folding spoon of gold,” and ‘‘a pair of small snuffers, silver- 
gilt.’—Pictorial History of England, ii. 856. 
98. 4. ‘Go toie with his nodie.” The edition of 1573 reads 
“‘go toy with his noddy, with ape in the street,” and more recent 
editions read ‘‘ go toy with his noddy-like ape in the street.” This 
reading has been adopted by Dr. Mavor. Peacock’s Gloss. gives 
‘‘ Noddipol a sillie person. ‘ Whorson zodzfol that Iam!’—Bernard’s 
Terence, 43. ‘A verye nodyfoll nydyote myght be ashamed to 
say it..—The Workes of Sir Thomas More, 1557, p. 209.” 
99. 3. “ Fisging.” The Rev. W. Skeat, in his note to Piers 
Plowman, C. Text, Passus x. ]. 153, ‘“‘And what frek of pys folde 
Siskep pus a-boute,” remarks: ‘“ /isketh, wanders, roams. As this 
word is scarce, I give all the instances of it that I can find. In 
Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, ed. Morris, 1. 1704, there is a 
description of a foxhunt, where the fox and the hounds are thus 
mentioned :— 
‘& he /yskez hem by-fore - pay founden hym sone ’— 
7.¢. and he (the fox) runs on before them (the hounds) ; but they 
soon found him. ‘ Fyscare abowte ydylly; Discursor, discursatrix, 
vagulus vel vagator, vagatrix.—Prompt. Parv. p. 162. ‘ Fiskin 
abowte yn ydilnesse ; Vago, giro, girovago.’—Ibid. 
‘Such serviture also deserveth a check, 
That runneth out jiskzng, with meat in his beck [mouth].’— 
Tusser, Five Hundred Points, etc., ed. Mavor, p. 286. 
‘Then had every flock his shepherd, or else shepherds ; now they 
do not only run jisking about from place to place, . . but covetously 
join living to living.’—Whitgift’s Works, i. 528. ‘I /yske, ie fretille. 
I praye you se howe she /ysketh about.’—Palsgrave. ‘ Trofiére, a 
raumpe, fisgig, fiskieng huswife, raunging damsell.’—Cotgrave. 
’* Then in cave, then in a field of corn, 
Creeps to and fro, and jisketh in and out.’ 
Dubartas (in Nares). 
‘His roving eyes rolde to and fro, 
He jiskyng fine, did mincyng go.’ 
Kendalls’s Flower of Epigrammes, 1577 (Nares). 
‘Tom Tankard’s cow... . 
Flinging about his halfe aker, fiskzmg with her tail.’ 
Gammer Gurton’s Needle, i. 2. 
‘Fieska, to fisk the tail about ; to fisk up and down.’—Swedish Dic- 
tionary, by J. Serenius. ‘ /jeska, v.n. to fidge, to fidget, to fisk.’— 
Swed. Dict. (Tauchnitz).” 
100. 3. In the Rolls of Parliament, at the opening of the Parlia- 
ment of 2 Rich. II. in the year 1378, we find—* Qui sont appellez 
Bacbyters sont auxi come chiens gi mangeont les chars crues,” etc. 
In the Ancren Riwle (Camden Soc. ed. Morton), p. 86, are de- 
scribed two kinds of backétters, who are defined generally as “‘ Bac- 
bitares, pe biteS o%Sre men bihinden” ; the two kinds are 1. those 
