Note 18 — LECTURES ON THE DRAMATIC LITERATURE OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH

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‘He sent a shaggy, tattered, staring slave,

That when he speaks, draws out his grisly beard,

And winds it twice or thrice about his ear;

Whose face has been a grind-stone for men’s swords:

His hands are hack’d, some fingers cut quite off,

Who when he speaks, grunts like a hog, and looks

Like one that is employ’d in catzerie,

And cross-biting; such a rogue

As is the husband to a hundred whores;

And I by him must send three hundred crowns.’

Act IV.