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The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 3 (of 5)

Note 908 — ACT III. SCENE I.

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urchin] Signified both a hedgehog and a particular kind of fairy or spirit. In the present passage, “prick’d” would seem to refer to the former, “pinch’d” to the latter—the two significations being perhaps confounded in the author’s mind.

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