Note 31 — SCENE IV.
Reading edition
trashed] The following passage of The Puritan, “a guarded lackey to run before it [a coach], and pied liveries to come trashing after it,” act iv. sc. 1, which is cited here by the editor of 1816, is given by Todd in his additions to Johnson’s Dict. as an example of trash in the sense of—to follow with bustle, to tramp about with fatigue; and such seems to be the meaning of the word in our text.