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i.e. drunk. An allusion to Webster's "Vittoria Coromborea, or the White Devil." Not marked in MS. We have, instead, a note: "And then begin as was intended." Old authors constantly allude to the riotous conduct of the 'prentices on Shrove Tuesday. "A sister's thread i' faith had been enough." Dyce was no doubt right in thinking that the expression is a corruption of sewster's thread.
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