The former valiant gentleman, to whose ear the words were soon brought by his spies, whom he had plac'd behind the scenes to observe how the action was taken there, came immediately from the pit in a heat, and demanded to know of the author of those words if he was the person that spoke them?
A former valiant figure, whose speech was quickly gathered by his spies stationed backstage to watch the performance, hurriedly arrived from the pit and demanded to know who had spoken these words.