‘They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain ...

A needy hollow-ey’d, sharp-looking wretch,

A living dead man.’

Com. of Errors, V. i. 237.

V.

II. i. 56. all to torn; ‘entirely torn.’ To in the sense of ‘asunder’ was commonly emphasised by all. Cf. ‘Her wings ... were all to ruffled.’—Comus, 380.

II.

II. i. 58. seam rent: torn at the seams; ‘Seam rent fellows,’—Ben Jonson.

II.

II. i. 101. Imitated in Yarington’s Two Tragedies (iii. 2):—

II.

‘Grace me no graces, I respect no grace,

But with a grace to give a graceless stab.’

II. i. 114. I have inserted follow.

II.

SCENE II

Michael. I have gotten such a letter as will touch the

painter: And thus it is:

‘My duty remembered, Mistress Susan, hoping in God

you be in good health, as I Michael was at the

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