The bowler pitched the ball up.

I well know him For a most insatiate drabber . He hath given, Before he spent his own estate , which was Nothing to the huge mass he's now possess'd of, A hundred pound a leap

… based on the assumption that the precipitating conditions and state of being 'split in pieces' result in a tell-worthy emotional account.

His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.