56. As from. As if from. Cf. 64 and 83 below. This ellipsis was common in Elizabethan English. Cf. Shakespeare, Macb. ii. 2. 28: "One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other, As they had seen me with these hangman's hands."
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56. As from. As if from. Cf. 64 and 83 below. This ellipsis was common in Elizabethan English. Cf. Shakespeare, Macb. ii. 2. 28: "One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other, As they had seen me with these hangman's hands."