Gags
in theatrical parlance, are interpolations. When Hamlet directs
the players to say no more “than is set down,” he cautions them against
indulgence in gags. (Hamlet, iii. 2.) (Dutch, gaggelen,
to cackle. Compare Anglo-Saxon, geagl, the jaw.)
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