The smoke of the pine-wood fires which at night were kept continually burning around them. This had most effectually begrimed their features, and their dresses had not scrupled to partake of the same colouring.

[H]e should forthwith reform his manners, purify himself, and discontinue the vile, filthy habit of snuff-taking—a habit which, to use her own words, begrimeth the face, spoileth the form of the nose—Heaven bless the mark!—destroyeth the voice, and eventually undermineth the constitution.

collowest] i.e. begrimest, blackenest: […] Collow is smut from burnt coals.
The play was originally attributed to Middleton, but Lording Barry, Thomas Dekker, and John Marston have also been suggested as authors.]

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