Chapter 121

“Altho’ he be my enemy, should any Of the gay flies that buz about the court, _Sit_ to catch trouts i’ the summer, tell me so, I durst,” &c.

Colman’s note.

Pshaw! “Sit” is either a misprint for “set,” or the old and still provincial word for “set,” as the participle passive of “seat” or “set.” I have heard an old Somersetshire gardener say:—“Look, Sir! I set these plants here; those yonder I _sit_ yesterday.”