Note 893 — X THE ACTOR'S QUALITY
Reading edition
Cf. Middleton, A Mad World, my Masters (1608), I. i. 38, 'Tis Lent in your cheeks; the flag's down'; T. Earle, Microcosmography, char. 64, of a player, 'Shrove-tuesday hee feares as much as the bawdes, and Lent is more damage to him then the butcher'.