censer —
“You thin man in a,”
2 HENRY IV., v. 4. 19.
It has been supposed that the allusion is to one of the thin embossed figures in the
middle of the pierced convex lid of a censer or fire-pan, in which coarse perfumes were
burned to sweeten the atmosphere of the musty rooms in our author's days; but Mr. Grant
White understands censer to mean some kind of
cap.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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