"_Manes._ Didst thou not find I did _quip_ thee?
"_Psyllus._ No, verily; why, what's a _quip_?
"_Manes._ We great girders call it a short saying of a sharp wit, with a
bitter sense in a sweet word."
_Alexander and Campaspe, Old Plays_,
vol. ii. p. 113. ed. 1780.
"Then for your Lordship's _Quippes_ and quick jestes,
Why Gesta Romanorum were nothing to them."
_Sir Gyles Goosecappe_, a Com., Sig. G. 2. 4to. 1606.
_Crank_ is used in a different sense by Drayton:--
"Like Chanticleare he crowed _crank_,
And piped full merily."
Vol. iv. p. 1402. ed. 1753.