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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

Note 933 — X THE ACTOR'S QUALITY

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Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins of London (1606, Works, ii. 52), 'The players prayd for his [Sloth's] comming: they lost nothing by it, the comming in of tenne Embassadors was never so sweete to them, as this our sinne was: their houses smoakt every after noone with Stinkards who were so glewed together in crowdes with the steames of strong breath, that when they came foorth, their faces lookt as if they had beene per-boyld'.

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