“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.”