588. 'Make their beds in the fen,' i. e. lie down in the fen or mud.

596. Spoken ironically. Adam offers them some refreshment. They reply, that

his wine is not good, being too strong; indeed, so strong that it will not

only, like ordinary wine, steal away a man's brains, but even take them out

of his head altogether, so that they lie scattered in his hood. In other

words. Adam's staff breaks their heads, and lets the brains out.

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