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Bay; "at a b.," in my power (a term
taken from hunting); IV. ii. 42.
-, barking; II. ii. 3.
Beholding, beholden; I. i. 396.
Belike, I suppose; IV. ii. 50.
Bewray, betray, reveal; II. iv. 3.
Blowse, "a ruddy fat-faced wench";
IV. ii. 72.

Bonjour, good morning; I. i. 494.
Boots, avails; V. iii. 18.
Brabble, quarrel; II. i. 62.
Bravely, finely, properly; IV.iii.112.
Braves, defiance, threatenings; II.
i. 30.

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defies; II. iii. 126.

Break the parle, open the parley; V.

iii. 19.

Brethren (trisyllabic); I. i. 348.
Broach, spit; IV. ii. 85.
Buzz, whisper; IV. iv. 7.

Candidatus, candidate; I. i. 185.
Careful, full of care; IV. iii. 30.
Castle, (?) a close helmet (Theo-
bald "casque";
"; Walker," crest");

III. i. 170. Challenged, accused; I. i. 340. Chaps, wrinkles; V. iii. 77. Charm, affect by magic power; II. i.

23.

Charming, having the power of fascination; II. i. 16.

V. ii. 70.

Chase, hunting-ground; II. iii. 255. Cheer, countenance; I. i. 264. Chequer'd, variegated; II. iii. 15. Children (trisyllabic); II. iii. 115. Clean, entirely; I. i. 129. Close, secret; IV. ii. 118. Closing with, humouring; Closure, end; V. iii. 134. Clubs, Clubs, in any public affray the cry was Clubs! Clubs!' by way of calling for persons with clubs to part the combatants " (Nares); II. i. 37.

Cocytus, the infernal river; II.iii.236. Codding, lustful; V. i. 99.

Coffin, the crust of a pie; V. ii. 189. Coil, confusion, ado; III. i. 225.

Common, general; I. i. 21.
Compact, made of, composed; V. iii.
88.
Compassion, compassionate, pity; IV.
i. 124.

Complot, plot; II. iii. 265.
Complots, plots; V. i. 65.
Conceit, device, invention; IV. ii. 30.
Conduct, guidance; IV. iv. 65.
Confederate, in league, allied; V. i.
108.

Consecrate, consecrated; I. i. 14; II. i. 121.

Continence, moderation (Collier MS., "conscience"); l. i. 15.

| Controll'd, hindered; I. i. 420. Convenient, proper, becoming; V. ii. 90.

Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi;
IV. i. 12.

Couch, lie hidden; V. ii. 38.
Cousin, niece (used for any kinsman
or kinswoman); II. iv. 12.
Cozen'd, cheated; V. iii. 101.
Cut, cut off; V. i. 93.
Cyclops, the giant servants of Vulcan;
IV. iii. 46.

Dancing-rapier, a sword worn only for ornament at dancing; II. i. 39. (Cp. illustration.)

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Decipher'd, detected; IV. ii. 8.

Extent, maintenance, application;
IV. iv. 3.

Fact, evil deed; IV. i. 39.
III. i. 204.
Fat, fatten ;

Fear, fear for; II. iii. 305.
Feed, food; IV. iv. 93.
Fell, fallen; II. iv. 50.

Decreed, decided, determined; II. iii. Fere, spouse; IV. i. 89.

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Decrees, resolutions; V. ii. 11.

Fire (dissyllabic); I. i. 127 Flood, sea; IV. ii. 103.

Despite; "in my d.," in defiance of Fond, foolish; II. iii. 172.

me; I. i. 361.

Detect, expose; II. iv. 27.
Dian, Diana; II. iii. 61.
Discover, reveal; V. i. 85.
Dispose, dispose of; IV. ii. 173.
Distract, distracted; IV. iii. 26.
Dominator, ruler; II. iii. 31.
Doubted, suspected; II. iii. 68.
Dreadful, full of dread; II. i. 128.
Drive upon, rush upon, attack;

iii. 64.

Dumps, melancholy; I. i. 391.

Ecstasies, madness; IV. iv. 21. Ecstasy, excitement; IV. i. 125. Egal, equal; IV. iv. 4.

II.

Embracement, embrace; V. ii. 68. Embrewed, bathed in blood; II. iii.

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For, as for; IV. iii. 39.

—, through; IV. i. 21. Forfend, forbid; I. i. 434. Forth, out of; III. i. 84.

Found, found out, discovered; IV ii. 26.

Framed, formed, fashioned; IV. iii. 46.
Fraught, freight; I. i. 71.
Funeral, burial; IV. ii. 163.

Funerals, obsequies; I. i. 381.

Gad, sharp point; IV. i. 103.
Gear, business; IV. iii. 52.
Gentleness, kindness; I. i. 237.
Glad, gladden; I. i. 166.
Glistering, glittering; II. i. 7.
Gloze, make mere words; IV. iv. 35.
God-den, good evening; IV. iv. 43.
Good; 66 were as g.," might just as
well; IV. iii. 57.

Gramercy, many thanks; I. i. 495.
Gratulate, make glad, gratify; I. i.

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Hecuba, the wife of Priam, King of Troy; IV. i. 20.

High-witted, sly, cunning; IV. iv. 35.

Himself; "not with h.," i.e. beside himself; I. i. 368. His, its; III. i. 97.

It

Holp'st, didst help; IV. iv. 59. Home, to the quick; II. i. 118. Honesty, chastity; II. iii. 135. Honey-stalks, i.e. "Clover flowers, which contain a sweet juice. is common for cattle to overcharge themselves with clover, and die" (Johnson); IV. iv. 91. Horse, horses; II. ii. 18. Hyperion, the Sun god; V. ii. 56.

Ignomy, ignominy, shame; IV. ii. 115.

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Imperious, imperial(Quarto 2, Folios,
' imperiall”); I. i. 250; IV. iv. 81.
Incorporate, incorporated; I. i. 462.
Increase, produce; V. ii. 192.
Indifferently, impartially; I. i. 430.
Ingrateful, ungrateful; V. i 12.
Inherit, possess; II. iii. 3.
Insult on, exult, triumph; III. ii. 71.
Intercepted, restrained; II. iii. 80.

Jet upon, i.e. "treat with insolence"
(Quartos, "iet"; Folios, "set";
Malone, "jut"); II. i. 64.
Joy, enjoy; II. iii. 83.
Just, just so, exactly; IV. ii. 24.

Kind, nature; II. i. 116.

Laertes' son, Ulysses; I. i. 380. Lamenting doings, lamentations [Anon. MS. conj. apud Theobald, "dronings" for "doings"]; III. ii. 62. Lasting, everlasting; II. iii. 275. Lave, wash, bathe; IV. ii. 103. Learn, teach; II. iii. 143.

Leer, complexion; IV. ii. 119. Leisure; "by 1.," in no hurry; I. i 301.

Like, equal; V. iii. 200. Limbo, the borders of hell, or hell itself; the Limbus patrum, as it was called, is a place that the schoolmen supposed to be in the neighbourhood of hell, where the souls of the patriarchs were detained, and those good men who died before our Saviour's resurrection. Milton gives the name of Limbo to his "Paradise of Fools"; III. i. 149.

List, pleases; IV. i. 100. Lively, living; III. i. 105. Loaden, laden; V. ii. 53. Loose, loosen my hold; II. iii. 243. loosen your bow, let fly; IV. iii. 58.

Luxurious, lustful; V. i. 88.

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Pack, plot; IV. ii. 155.

Painted hope (v. Note); II. iii. 126.
Palliament, robe; I. i. 182.
Parcel, part; II. iii. 49.
Part, depart; I. i. 488.
Passing, surpassingly; II. iii. 84.
Passion, violent sorrow; I. i. 106.
Passionate, express sorrowfully; III.
ii. 6.

Patient; "p. yourself," i.e. be
patient; I. i. 121.
Perforce, of necessity; II. i. 107.
Per Styga, per manes vehor, i.e. I am
borne through the Styx, through
the kingdom of the dead; II. i.
135.

Philomel, the daughter of Pandion, ravished by Tereus, who afterwards cut out her tongue to prevent her exposing him; II. iii. 43. Phabe, Diana (Quartos, Folio 1, "Thebe"); I. i. 316.

Piece, used contemptuously of a person; I. i. 309. Pitch, used of the height to which a falcon soars; II. i. 14. Piteously, in a manner exciting pity (Heath conj. "pitilessly"; Singer (ed. 2), "piteousless"; Collier MS., "despiteously "); V. i. 66. Plots, spots of ground; II. i. 115. Power, armed force; III. i. 300; IV. iv. 63.

Present, immediate, instant; II. iii. 173.

Presently, immediately; II. iii. 62; IV. ii. 166.

Prize; "played your p.," a technical term in the ancient fencing-school; I. i. 399. Progne, wife of Tereus, to whom, in revenge for her sister Philomela, she slaughtered and served up his son Itys to eat; V. ii. 196. Propose, be ready to meet; II. i. 80. Put it up, put up with it; I. i. 433. Put up, i.e. sheathe your swords; II. i. 53.

Quit, requite, revenge; I. i. 141.
Quotes, observes, examines; IV. i. 50.

Rapier, small sword; IV. ii. 85.
Rapine, rape; V. ii. 59.
Re-edified, restored; I. i. 351.
Remembered; "be you r.,'
ber; IV. iii. 5.

remem

Reprehending, reproving, reprimanding; III. ii. 69.

Requite, revenge; III. i. 297. Reserved, preserved, kept safe; I. i. 165.

Resolve, tell; V. iii. 35
Rolled, coiled (Collier MS., "coiled");
II. iii. 13.
Rue, pity; I. i. 105.
Ruffle, be turbulent and disorderly ;
I. i. 313.

Sacred (used ironically, with perhaps a quibble on the Latin use =accursed); II. i. 120.

Sanguine, blood-coloured; IV. ii. 97: Saturn, the planet of hate and gloom; II. iii. 31. Scath, injury; V. i. 7. Secure of, safe from; II. i. 3. Self-blood, selfsame blood; IV. ii 123.

Semiramis, the queen of Assyria,

proverbial for her voluptuousness and cruelty; II. iii. 118. Sensibly; "endowed with the same feelings as you"; IV. ii. 122. Sequence; "in s.,' one after the other; IV. i. 37.

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Sequester'd, separated(Quartos, Folios, "sequestred"); II. iii. 75. Servile, slavish (Quarto 2, Folios, "idle"); II. i. 18. Shall, will; IV. iv. 107. Shape, form; IV. iv. 57. Shive, slice; II. i. 87.

Sibyl, one of the Roman prophetesses; IV. i. 105.

Single, isolate; "s. you," bring
unattended; II. i. 117.
Sinon, the Greek who persuaded the
Trojans to carry the wooden
horse into Troy; V. iii. 85.
Sit fas aut nefas, be it right or wrong
(a popular Latin phrase); II. i.
133.

Sith, since; I. i. 271; IV. iii. 49.
Slip, scion; V. i. 9.
Smooth, flatter; IV. iv. 96.
Solemn, ceremonious; II. i. 112.
Solon's happiness, alluding to Solon's
saying that no man can be pro-
nounced happy before his death;
I. i. 177.

Some deal, somewhat; III. i. 245.
Somewhat, something; IV. i. 9.
Somewhither, somewhere, to some
place or other; IV. i. 11.
Speak fair, humour; V. ii. 140.
Speed, succeed (Delius

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conj.

Spleenful, hot, eager; II. iii. 191.

Spurn, hurt, stroke; III. i. 101.

Square, quarrel; II. i. 100.

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Stale, laughing-stock; I. i. 304.
Stand on, insist on; IV. iv. 105.

Starved, benumbed with cold; III.

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Subscribe, submit; IV. ii. 130. Succeed, succeeded; I. i. 40. Successantly, (?) following after another, or, perhaps, successfully; (Rowe, successfully"; Capell, "incessantly"; Collier conj. "thou instantly "); Cartwright conj. 'you instantly"); IV. iv. 113. Successive; "my s. title," my title to the succession"; I. i. 4. Suppose, supposition; I. i. 440. Surance, assurance; V. ii. 46. Suum cuique, to every man his due; I. i. 280.

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