He was describing an ordinary windlass hoist used at the shaft of a mine.

And I gave him a hoist with my gum-boot, a kind of a lift with my toe; But you can't give a fellow a hiding, as anyone sure must know, When you hauled him out of a snowdrift at maybe thirty 'below.'" C.F.S. * * * *

| sea and] Which is the Mightier, in his lawlesse fit [Footnote A: Here in the Quarto: [10]Ther's letters seald, and my two Schoolefellowes, Whom I will trust as I will Adders fang'd, They beare the mandat, they must sweep my way And marshall me to knauery: let it worke, For tis the sport to haue the enginer Hoist with his owne petar, an't shall goe hard