Note 737 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
My sconce takes this in snuff] A poor conceit: to take in snuff is, to be angry, to take offence. So Shakespeare:
“You’ll mar the light, by taking it in snuff.”
Love’s Labour’s Lost, act v. sc. 2.
Reading edition
My sconce takes this in snuff] A poor conceit: to take in snuff is, to be angry, to take offence. So Shakespeare:
“You’ll mar the light, by taking it in snuff.”
Love’s Labour’s Lost, act v. sc. 2.