Both Uses of
wretch
in
The Comedy of Errors
- Fie on thee, wretch!†
Scene 5.1 *
- …met My wife, her sister, and a rabble more Of vile confederates: along with them They brought one Pinch; a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller; A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch; A living dead man; this pernicious slave, Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer; And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me, Cries out, I was possess'd: then altogether They fell upon me, bound me,…†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
-
(wretch) someone you feel sorry for
or:
a person of bad character