wax
“Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire—As a form of,”
KING JOHN, v. 4. 24
;
“like a waxen image 'gainst a fire,”
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, ii.
4. 197.
Allusions to the alleged practice of witches in roasting before a fire images of the
persons they wished to torment or destroy; whose bodies, it was supposed, wasted away as the
images melted.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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