wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this
time of night? Do you make an alehouse of my lady's house,
that you squeak out your cozier's catches without any
mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of place,
person, nor time, in you?

"_Sir To._ We did keep time, Sir, in our catches. Sneck up!"

"Sneck up," according to Mr. C. Knight, is explained thus:--

"A passage in Taylor, the Water Poet, would show that this
means 'hang yourself.' A verse from his 'Praise of Hempseed'
is given in illustration."

"Snick up," according to Mr. Collier, is said to be "a term of
contempt," of which the precise meaning seems to have been lost.
Various illustrations are given, as see his Note; but all are wide of
the meaning.

Turn to Halliwell's _Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words_, 2d
edition, and there is this explanation:--

"SNECK, that part of the iron fastening of a door which is
raised by moving the latch. To _sneck_ a door, is to latch
it."

See also Burn's Poems: _The Vision, Duan First_, 7th verse, which is
as follows:--

"When dick! the string the snick did draw,--