Note 13 — SCENE I.—A Room in Old Wincott’s House.

One was hacking to cut off a neck; this was mangling a breast; his knife slipped from the shoulder, and only cut off a wing; one was picking the brains out of a head, another was knuckle-deep in a belly; one was groping for a liver, another searching for the kidneys. I saw one pluck the soul[13] from the body—goose that she was to suffer’t!; another pricked into the breast with his own bill—woodcock to endure it!