Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works, bavin

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bavin “wits,” 1 HENRY IV., iii. 2. 61 flashing wits. (Bavin is “a faggot of brushwood;” but the word, as here, is sometimes used adjectively: “I onely burne the bauen heath of youth.”
Jacke Drums Entertainement, sig. A 3 verso, ed. 1616).

A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.

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