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The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 2 (of 5)

Note 680 — ACT V. SCENE I.

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twilight, twitter-lights] Are, I believe, synonyms; and perhaps one of them ought to be struck out of the text. The latter is a word of rare occurrence; but we find it in our author’s More Dissemblers besides Women, “Come not till twitter-light,” act iii. sc. 1; and in the old play called Wily Beguilde, “What mak’st thou heere this twatter light?” Sig. E 3, ed. 1623.

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