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Hick Scorner, and in one of the scenes the stocks are introduced. The works of Shakespeare include numerous allusions to this subject. Launce, in
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona (IV. 4), says:
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I have sat in the stocks for puddings he hath stolen. In
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All's Well that Ends Well (IV. 3), Bertram says:
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Come, bring forth this counterfeit module has deceived me, like a double-meaning prophesier. Whereupon one of the French lords adds:
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Bring him forth; has sat i' stocks all night, poor gallant knave.
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There's no man in the world More bound to's mother; yet here let me prate Like one i' the stocks.
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Comedy of Errors (III. 1), Luce speaks of
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and in
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King Lear
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Fetch forth the stocks! You stubborn ancient knave.
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Hudibras
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An old dull sot, who toll'd the clock For many years at Bridewell-dock; · · · Engaged the constable to seize All those that would not break the peace; Let out the stocks and whipping-post, And cage, to those that gave him most.
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Thomas Bewick and his Pupils, to reproduce from that work a picture of the stocks, engraved by Charlton Nesbit for Butler's
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Hudibras,