Why bear you these rebukes, and answer not?
Adriana. She did betray me to my own reproof.’
Pinch the conjuror is also an excrescence not to be found in Plautus. He is indeed a very formidable anachronism.
‘They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-fac’d villain,
A meer anatomy, a mountebank,
A thread-bare juggler and a fortune-teller;
A needy, hollow-ey’d, sharp-looking wretch,
A living dead man.’
This is exactly like some of the Puritanical portraits to be met with in Hogarth.