Note 589 — THE BLACK BOOK.
Reading edition
cruel garters] We have the same pun in Shakespeare’s King Lear, act ii. sc. 4, in Ben Jonson’s Alchemist, act i. sc. 1, and elsewhere. Crewel means a finer kind of yarn.
Reading edition
cruel garters] We have the same pun in Shakespeare’s King Lear, act ii. sc. 4, in Ben Jonson’s Alchemist, act i. sc. 1, and elsewhere. Crewel means a finer kind of yarn.