He used to go about London streets in shough and rough-spun clothes, a plaid flung from one shoulder.

In hough, lough, shough, it sounds like k, or ck; thus, hock, lock, shock.

That of close or curt o; as in cough, trough, lough, shough: which are, I believe, the only examples. (5.)

Ay, in the catalogue, ye go for men; As hounds, and grey-hounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demy-wolves are cleped All by the name of dogs.

Though this is not the most sparkling passage in the play, and though the name of a dog is of no great importance, yet it may not be improper to remark, that there is no such species of dogs as shoughs mentioned by Caius De Canibus Britannicis, or any other writer that has fallen into my hands, nor is the word to be found in any dictionary which I have examined.