68 Otto Jespersen: cunning: ” Cunningham. A punning appellation for a simple fellow‘. Grose, Vulg. diss: Diss in Norfolk was formerly so little frequented by travellers, that it became a proverb to express indifference respecting trivial matters, He knows nothing about Diss‘“. (Nares). Brynildsen (Engelsk-da.-no. ordb.) is probably right in finding here a pun, diss being a curtailed form of disputation or dissertation. dull: live in Dull-Street‘‘, i. e. in an uninteresting part of the town (Muret, Brynildsen). duress?: You are a man of Duresley. Used to one who has broken his promise‘. (G., who does not explain it). Duresley in Gloucestershire. fleet? : Please your honour, liberty and Fleet-street for ever!“ (Goldsmith, She Stoops IV; Globe ed. p. 666). foot: travel by Mr. Foots horse. Cf. below, shanks. gaunt: In Shakespeare's H4A II. 2. 69 Prince Hal says, ” What, a Coward, Sir Iohn Paunch,‘ alluding to Falstaff’s fat paunch (cf. 11. 4. 159), and Sir John wittily rejoins, Indeed I am not John of Gaunt your Grandfather‘. green: send a horse to Dr. Green, turn it out to grass. grumble: the Grumbletonians used to be a nickname for the landed opposition in the reign of William III, see Macaulay, Hist. of Engl. VII 111. (Tauchn.), as if from a town called Grumbleton (or from a man of that name). The word is explained by Grose, Vulg. ”A discontented person; one who is always railing at the times, or ministry‘. . gutter, Lat. guttur? : "All goeth down Gutter-lane. That is, the throat. ‘This proverb is applicable to those who spend all their substance in eating and drinking‘. (G.) Gutter-lane off Cheapside in London, according to Grose originally Guthurun-lane, from a person who once owned it. hammer: ”He has been at Hammersmith‘‘, i. e. beaten, thrashed. Hammersmith, a well-known suburb of London. haste, hasting (a kind of early pea): He is none of the Hastings. ‘Said of a dull, sluggish messenger‘. (6.) Cf. NED hasting with quotations from J. Heywood 1546, Fuller 1661 and Diet. of Cant 1700. Cf. German: er ist aus Bilenburg. hog: ‘You were borne at ΠΟ 5. Norton‘ (G.) H. N. or Hogh Norton, a village in Leicestershire. :