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Forfeiters. Cy. iii. 2, n.

Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet You clasp young Cupid's tables. Forgetine-inventive. H. 4, S. P. iv. 3, n.

Makes it apprehensive, quick, furgetive. Forked heads-the heads of barbed arrows, A. L. ii. 1, n. Should, in their own confines, with forked heads Have their round haunches gor'd. Formal-reasonable. T. N. ii. 5, n.

Why, this is evident to any formal capacity. Form'd as marble will. Luc. n.

For men have marble, women waxen minds, And therefore are they form'd as marble will. Former ensign-ensign in the van.

J. C. v. 1, n.

Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign
Two mighty eagles fell.

Forres, moors near. M. i. 2, i.

Camp near Forres.

Forres, town of. M. i. 4, i.

Forres. A room in the Palace.

Forspent-wearied out. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, n.

After him, came spurring hard,

A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Forspent-wearied. H. 6, T. P. ii. 3, n. Forspent with toil, as runners with a race. Forspoke-spoken against. A. C. iii. 7, n.

Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars. Fortune-chance. T. N. K. ii. 2, n.

Arcite shall have a fortune,

If he dare make himself a worthy lover. Forty pence-I lay forty pence. H. E. ii. 3, n. How tastes it? is it bitter? forty pence, no. Forwearied-wearied. J. ii. 1, n.

Your king, whose labour'd spirits Forwearied in this action of swift speed, Craves harbourage within your city walls. Foul-homely. A. L. iii. 3, n.

I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.

Fouler. Cor. iv. 7, n.

One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights fouler.

Fountains. T. S. v. 2, i.

A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled. Fourteen years' purchase. T. N. iv. 1, n.

These wise men that give fools money get themselves a good report after fourteen years' purchase.

Fox, Mr., strange tale of. M. A. i. 1, i.

Like the old tale, my lord: it is not so, nor 't was not so; but indeed, God forbid it should be so." For-sword. H. F. iv. 4, n.

Thou diest on point of for.
Foysons-abundant provision. M. iv. 3, n.

Scotland hath foysons to fill up your will. Frame ordinance, arrangement. M. A. iv. 1, n.

Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame? Frampold-fretful, uneasy. M. W. ii. 2, n.

She leads a very frampold life with him. Franciscan order of friars. R. J. v. 2, i.

Going to find a barefoot brother out. Frank-sty. H. 4, S. P. ii. 2, n.

Doth the old boar feed in the old frank. Franklins. Cy. iii. 2, i.

A franklin's housewife.

Fraughting-constituting the fraught, or freight. T.

i. 2, n.

The fraughting souls within her.

Free maids. T. N. ii. 4, n.

And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones,

Do use to chant it.

Free expressions, old mode of. R. J. i. 4, i.

Of this sir reverence, love.

Free-free from offence. H. ii. 2, n.

Make mad the guilty, and appal the free. Frescoes at Grove House. H. 4, S. P. ii. 1, i. The German hunting in water-work. Frets. T. S. ii. 1, n. (See Hamlet, iii. 2, n.) I did but tell her she mistook her frets. Frets-wires fixed across the finger-board of a lute or guitar. H. iii. 2, n.

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Friar Tuck. G. V. iv. 1, i.

Robin Hood's fat friar.

'Friar of Orders Grey.' T. S. iv. 1, i.

It was the friar of orders grey.

Frogmore. Duel of Dr. Caius and Sir H. Evans, place of. M. W. ii. 3, i.

Go about the fields with me through Frogmore. From sun to sun-from the rising to the setting of the sun. R. S. iv. 1, n.

And spur thee on with full as many lies
As may be holla'd in thy treacherous ear
From sun to sun.

From-before, a short distance off. P. iii. Gower, n.
The cat, with eyne of burning coal,
Now couches from the mouse's hole.
Front (v.)-face. H. E. i. 2, n.

And front but in that file
Where others tell steps with me.
Frontier. H. 4, F. P. i. 3, n.

And majesty might never yet endure The moody frontier of a servant brow. Frontiers-forts. H. 4, F. P. ii. 3, n.

Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Froth and live. M. W. i. 3, n.

Let me see thee froth and live. Fruit to that great feast. H ii. 2, n.

My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. Frush (v.)-break to pieces. T. C. v. 6, n. I like thy armour well;

I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all. Fulfill'd-completely filled. Luc. a.

O, let it not be held

Poor women's faults that they are so fulfill'd

With men's abuses.

Fulfilling bolts-bolts filling full. T. C. Prologue, s. With massy staples

And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts.

Full of knight. M. W. iv. 2, n.

Pray Heaven it be not full of knight again.

Full-quite. W. T. i. 2, n.

Thou want'st a rough pash, and the shoots that
I have,

To be full like me.

Full of bread. H. iii. 3, n.

He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as fresh as May. Fulvia, death of,-from North's Plutarch.' A. Č. i. 2, i.

Fulvia thy wife first came into the field. Furbish (v.)-polish. R. S. i. 3, n.

And furbish new the name of John of Gaunt, Fust (v.)-become mouldy. H. iv. 4, n.

Gave us not

That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd.

G.

Gadshill. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, i.

But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four o'clock, early at Gadshill.

Gait-progress, the act of going. H. i. 2, n.
To suppress

His further gait herein.

Galliard, coranto, sink-a-pace. T. N. i. 3, i.
Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard,
and come home in a coranto?.... sink-a-pace.
Galliard-ancient dance. H. F. i. 2, n.

There's nought in France
That can be with a nimble galliard won.
Galliasses-vessels of burthen. T. S. ii. 1, .
Besides two galliasses

And twelve tight galleys.

Gallimaufry confused heap. W. T. iv. 3, n. And they have a dance which the wenches say a gallimaufry of gambols.

Gallow (v.)-scare. L. iii. 2, n.

Gallow the very wanderers of the dark.

Gamester-adventurer at a game. A. L. i. 1, s.
Now will I stir this gamester.

Gamut. T. S. iii. 1, i.

Gamut I am, the ground of all accord. Gaping pig. M. V. iv. 1, n.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig.

is

Gaping-shouting. H. E. v. 3, n.

Ye rude slaves, leave your gaping. Garboils-disorders, commotions. A. C. i. 3, n. Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read The garboils she awak'd.

Gardim-guerdon. L. L. L. iii. 1, n.

Gardon-remuneration.

Garters. G. V. ii. 1, i.

He, being in love, could not see to garter his hose. Gate-got, procured. L. C. n.

Who, glaz'd with crystal, gate the glowing roses That flame through water which their hue encloses.

Gaudy night-night of rejoicing. A. C. iii. 11, n. Let's have one other gaudy night.

Gauntlet. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, i.

Scaly gauntlet.

Gave-was inclined to, made a movement towards.
L. C. n.

These often bath'd she in her fluxive eyes,
And often kiss'd, and often gave to tear.

Gear-matter. M. V. i. 1, n.

I'll grow a talker for this gear.

Geck-person derided. T. N. v. 1, n.

And made the most notorious geek and gull,
That e'er invention play'd on.

General-people. M. M. ií. 4, n.

The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,
Quit their own part.

Generous-used in its Latin sense.

M. M. iv. 6, n.

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Giglot. Cy. iii. 1, n.

O giglot fortune!

Giglots-wantons. M. M. v. 1, n.

Away with those giglots too.

Gilded loam. R. S. i. 1, n.

Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. Gilly'cors-gillyflowers. W. T. iv 3, n.

The fairest flowers o' the season Are our carnations, and streak'd gilly'vors. Gimmal-bit-double-bit. H. F. iv. 2, n.

And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal-bit
Lies foul with chaw'd grass.

Gimmers. H. 6, F. P. i. 2, n.

I think, by some odd gimmers or device, Their arms are set like clocks, still to strike on. Ging-gang. M. W. iv. 2, n.

There's a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me.

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Gloves, perfumed. W. T. iv. 3, i. A pair of sweet gloves.

Glow-worm. M. N. D. iii. 1, i.

R. S. i. 2, i.

And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes. Gloze (v.) explain, expound. H. F. i. 2, n. Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze

To be the realm of France.

Glut (v.)-swallow. T. i. 1, n.

Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at wid'st to glut him.

Go to the world-marry. A. W. i. 2, n.

If I may have your ladyship's good will to go to the world.

God of Love, old song of. M. A. v. 2, i.

The god of love.

God 'ild you-God yield you, give you recompense. A. L. iii. 3, n.

God 'ild you for your last company.

God 'ield you-God requite you. H. iv. 5, n.

Well, God 'ield you.

God before-God being my guide. H. F. iii. 6, n. Yet, God before, tell him we will come on. God-eyld. M. i. 6, n.

Herein I teach you,

How you shall bid God-eyld us for your pains,
And thank us for your trouble.
Godfathers-jurymen so called. M. V. iv. 1, n.

In christening thou shalt have two godfathers;
Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten

more.

Goes every one to the world-every one is married. M. A. ii. 1, n.

Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburned.

Goitres. T. iii. 3, i.

Mountaineers

Dew-lapp'd like bulls.

Gold noble of Richard II. R. S. i. 1, i.

Eight thousand nobles.

Golding's Translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses,' passage in. Cy. i. 4, i.

I would have broke mine eye-strings.

Good. Cor. i. 1, n.

We are accounted poor citizens; the patricians, good.

Good deed-indeed. W. T. i. 2, n.

Yet, good deed, Leontes,

I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind
What lady she her lord.

Good den-good evening. J. i. 1, n.
Good den, sir Richard.

Good kissing carrion. H. ii. 2, n.

For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrium.

Good life alacrity, energy, spirit. T. iii. 3, n.
So, with good life,

And observation strange.

Good my glass-used metaphorically. L. L. L. iv.

1, n.

Here, good my glass, take this for telling true. Good my complexion-small oath. A. L. iii. 2, n. Good my complerion! dost thou think, though I am caparisoned like a man, &c.

Good old Mantuan. L. L. L. iv. 2, n.

Ah, good old Mantuan!

Good year. M. A. i. 3, n. (See L. v. 3, n.)
What, the good year, my lord!

Good years. L. v. 3, n.

The good years shall devour them, flesh and fell,
Ere they shall make us weep.

Goodwin Sands. M. V. iii. 1, i.

The Goodwins, I think they call the place. Gondola, M. V. ii. 8, i.

That in a gondola were seen together.

Gondolier. O. i. 1, i.

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P. ii. i.

Gower's Confessio Amantis,' extracts from. P. i. i.
Gower's Confessio Amantis,' extracts from.
Gower's Confessio Amantis,' extracts from. P. iii. i.
Gower's Confessio Amantis,' extracts from. P. iv. i.
Gower's Confessio Amantis,' extracts from. P. v. i.
Gourd, fullam, high, low-cant terms for false dice.
M. W. i. 3, n.

Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and
fullam holds,

And high and low beguile the rich and poor.

Graces, metrical. M. M. i. 2, i.

Lucio. I think thou never wast where grace was

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6, n.

Arc.

You care not for a grand-guard.

Pal. No, no; we 'll use no horses.

Grange-lone farm-house. O. i. 1, n.

What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;
My house is not a grange.

Grates-offends. A. C. i. 1, n.

Att. News, my good lord, from Rome-
Ant.

Gravedigger's song. H. v. 1, i.

In youth, when I did love, did love.

Grave (v.)-engrave. V. A. n.

Grates me.

And being steel'd, soft sighs can never grave it. Graymalkin-cat. M. i. 1, n.

I come, Graymalkin.

Green Sleeves.' M. W. ii. 1, i.

Green sleeves.

Green-ey'd monster. O. iii. 3, n.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;

It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

Greenly-unwisely. H. iv. 5, n.

And we have done but greenly,

In hugger-mugger to inter him.

Gregory Nazianzen's poem. M. N. D. iii. 2, i.
O, and is all forgot?

Grey-used as blue. V. A. n.

Mine eyes are grey, and bright, and quick in turning.

Grief, in two senses: 1. bodily pain; 2. mental sorrow. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, n.

Even so my limbs, Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd with grief.

Griefs-grievances. H. 4, F. P. iv. 3, n.
He bids you name your griefs.

Griefs grievances. H. 4, S. P. iv. 1, n.
And find our griefs heavier than our offences.
Griefs-grievances. J. C. iv. 2, n.
Speak your griefs softly.

Grise-step. T. N. iii. 1, n.
Viola. I pity you.

Olivia. That's a degree to love.
Vio. No, not a grise.

Grize-step, degree. T. Ath. iv. 3, n.

For every grize of fortune

Is smooth'd by that below.

Groat of Richard II. R. S. v. 5, i.

The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. Growing to me-accruing to me. C. E. iv. 1, a.

Even just the sum that I do owe to you

Is growing to me by Antipholus.

Grunt-loud lament. H. iii. 1, n.

To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Grype-bird of prey. Luc. n.

Like a white hind under the grype's sharp claws. Gualtree forest. H. 4, S. P. iv. i, i.

'Tis Gualtree forest, an 't shall please your

grace.

Guard (v.)-border, ornament. J. iv. 2, n.

Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before. Guarded-ornamented, fringed. M. V. ii. 2, n. Give him a livery

More guarded than his fellows. Guarded-trimmed. M. A. i. 1, n.

The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments. Guarded-faced, bordered. H. 4, S. P. iv. 1, n.

Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rage. Guards-hem of a garment. L. L. L. iv. 3, R.

O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose. Guarini's Pastor Fido.' A. L. i. 1, i.

Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.

Guiled-deceiving. M. V. iii. 2, n.

Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea.

Guiltless blood-shedding-shedding

H. 6, S. P. iv. 7, n.

guiltless blood.

These hands are free from guiltless blood-shedding.

Guilty to guilty of. C. E. iii. 2, n.

But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong.

Gules-red, in the language of heraldry. H. ii. 2, n.

Head to foot

Now is he total gules.

Gull. H. 4, F. P. v. 1, n.

As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird.

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walls,

I must be ripp'd.

Hand fire arms. A. W. iii. 2, i.

Smoky muskets.
Handkercher-handkerchief. J. iv. 1, n.

I knit my handkercher about your brows.
Handlest in thy discourse. T. C. i. 1, n.

Handlest in thy discourse, O that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach.
Handsaw-heron. H. ii. 2, n.

I know a hawk from a handsaw.

Hannibal. H. 6, F. P. i. 5, n.

A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal,
Drives back our troops, and conquers as she

lists.

Happies-makes happy. So. vi. n.

That use is not forbidden usury,

Which happies those that pay the willing loan. Harlot-hireling. C. E. v. 1, n.

While she with harlots feasted in my house. Harmuir. M. i. 3, i.

A heath.

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. Haughmond Hill. H. 4, F. P. v. 1, i.

How bloodily the sun begins to peer
Above yon busky hill.

Haughty-lofty, spirited.

H. 6, F. P. iii. 4, n.
These haughty words of hers

Have batter'd me like roaring cannon-shot.
Hautboy. H. 4, S. P. iii. 2, i.

The case of a treble hautboy was a mansion to him.

Have done-we, his successors, have done. M. W. i. 1, n.

Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three hundred years.

Have I-if I have. H. 6, S. P. v. 1, n.

A sceptre shall it have, have I a soul,

On which I'll toss the fleur de luce of France. Have their free voices-have sent their free voices. H. E. ii. 2, n.

All the clerks,

I mean the learned ones, in christian kingdoms
Have their free voices.

Have uncheck'd theft-have their theft unchecked.
T. Ath. iv. 3, n.

The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough

power

Have uncheck'd theft.

Have what shall have no end. So. ex. n.

Now all is done, have what shall have no end.

Having-possession. A. L. iii. 2, n.

Your having in beard is a younger brother's

revenue.

Having estate. W. T. iv. 3, n.

Of what having, breeding?

Havings. L. C. n.

Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote.

Havock-no quarter. J. C. iii. 1, n.

Cry Havock,' and let slip the dogs of war.

Hawks' bells. A. L. iii. 3, i.

The falcon her bells.

VOL. XII.

He not look'd.

A. C. iii. 4, n.

Most narrow measure lent me,

When the best hint was given him; he not

look'd,

Or did it from his teeth. Headly-headstrong, rash, passionate. H. F. iii.

3, n.

The cool and temperate wind of O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds Of headly murther, spoil, and villainy. Heart's attorney. V. A. n.

But when the heart's attorney once is mute, The client breaks, as desperate in his suit. Heat-heated. T. N. i. 1, n.

The element itself, till seven years heat, Shall not behold her face at ample view. Heat-heated. J. iv. 1, n.

grace

The iron of itself, though heat red-hot. Heavy-dark. O. v. 1, n. 'T is heavy night. Hector's challenge in Chapman's Homer.' T. C. i. 3. i.

Kings, princes, lords, &c.

Hector, death of,-from Chapman's Homer.' T. C. iv. 5, i.

Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body
Shall I destroy him?

Hector's horse. T. C. v. 5, i.

Now here he fights on Galathe his horse. Hector, death of. T. C. v. 9, i.

Strike, fellows, strike.

Heers. M. W. ii. 1, n.

Will you go on, heers?

Hefts-heavings. W. T. ii. 1, n.

He cracks his gorge, his sides,

With violent hefts.

Helmed-steered through. M. M. iii. 2, n.

And the business he hath helmed, must, upon a warranted need, give him a better proclamation.

Helpless-that afford no help. V. A. n.

As those poor birds that helpless berries saw. Hemp. C. E. iv. 4, i.

Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all. Henbane. H. i. 5, i.

With juice of cursed hebenon.
Henchman-page. M. N. D. ii. 2, n.

I do but beg a little changeling boy,
To be my henchman.

Henry of Monmouth. R. S. v. 3, i.

Can no man tell of my unthrifty son?
Henry V., character of. H. F. i. 1, i.
Hear him but reason in divinity.
Hent (v.)-take hold of.
W. T. iv. 2, n.
And merrily hent the stile-a.
Hent-grasp. H. iii. 3, n.

Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent. Her affections-what she affected, liked. T. N. K.

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Hob, nob, is his word.

Hobby-horse. L. L. L. iii. 1, i.

The hobby horse is forgot.

Hoist with his own petar-blown up with his own engine. H. iii. 4, n.

For 't is the sport, to have the engineer

Hoist with his own petar.

Hold a goodly manor. A. W. iii. 2, n.

I know a man that had this trick of melancholy

hold a goodly manor for a song.

Hold, or cut bow strings. M. N. D. i. 2, n.

Enough. Hold, or cut bow-strings.

Hold, therefore-hold, therefore, our power. M. M. i. 1, n.

Hold, therefore, Angelo;

In our remove, be thou at full ourself.

Holding-burden of the song. A. C. ii. 7, n.
Then the boy shall sing;

The holding every man shall bear, as loud
As his strong sides can volley.

Holla-enough, soft, no more of that. V. A. n.
What recketh he his rider's angry stir,
His flattering holla,' or his Stand, I say?'

Holy wells. G. V. iv. 2, i.

At saint Gregory's well.

Holy crosses in Italy. M. V. v. 1, i.

She doth stray about

By holy crosses.

Honesty-liberality. T. Ath. iii. 1, n.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. Honey seed-used by Hostess for homicide. H. 4, S. P. ii. 1, n.

O thou honey-seed rogue! thou art a honey-seed.

Honeysuckle-used by Hostess for homicidal. H. 4, S. P. ii. 1, n.

O thou honeysuckle villain! wilt thou kill God's officers, and the king's?

Honorificabilitudinitatibus. L. L. L. v. 1, i.

Not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus. Honour-a style of nobility. V. A. Dedication.

I leave it to your honourable survey and your honour.

Hoodman comes-allusion to the game of blindman's
buff, formerly called hoodman-blind. A.W.iv 3, n.
Hoodman blind-blindman's buff. H. iii. 4, n.
What devil was 't

That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
Hope (v.)-expect. A. C. ii. 1, n.
I cannot hope

Cæsar and Antony shall well greet together. Hopes-expectations. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, n.

By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes.
Hopes not surfeited to death. O. ii. 1, .

Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,
Stand in bold cure.

Horse-used in the plural. T. S. iii. 2, n.
Petrucio.
Grumio, my horse.
Grumio. Ay, sir, they be ready.
Horse, qualities of the. T. S. iii. 2, i.
His horse hipped.

House-representative of the family. L. ii. 4, n.
Ask her forgiveness ?

Do you but mark how this becomes the house? Household's grave. T. N. K. i. 5, n.

This funeral path brings to your household's

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How the wheel becomes it-how well is this ditty adapted to be sung by spinners at the wheel. H. iv. 5, n.

You must sing, Down-a down, an you call him a-down-a. O how the wheel becomes it!

However-in whatsoever way. G. V. i. 1, n.

However, but a folly bought with wit.
Hores-hamstrings. W. T. i. 2, n.

Which hores honesty behind, restraining
From course requir'd.

Hugger-mugger-a confused state, disorderly. H. iv. 5, n.

And we have done but greenly,

In hugger-mugger to inter him.

Human mortals. M. N. D. ii. 2, n.

The human mortals want.

Humour of forty fancies—a collection of ballads. T. S. iii. 2, n.

An old hat, and The humour of forty fancies pricked in 't for a feather.

Humorous-capricious. A. L. i. 2, n.

The duke is humorous.

Humorous-full of humours. H. 4, S. P. iv. 4, s.
As humorous as winter, and as sudden
As flaws congealed in the spring of day.
Humorous-dewy, vaporous. R. J. ii. 1, n.

Come, he hath hid himself among these trees, To be consorted with the humorous night. Humphrey Hower. R. T. iv. 4, n.

Duchess. What comfortable hour canst thou

name,

That ever grac'd me in thy company?

K. Rich. 'Faith, none, but Humphrey Hower, that call'd your grace

To breakfast once, forth of my company. Hundred Merry Tales. M. A. ii. 1, i.

That I had my good wit out of the Hundred Merry Tales.'

Hungarian. M. W. i. 3, n.

O base Hungarian wight!

Hunts-up, song of. R. J. iii. 5, i.

Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day. Hurly-loud noise. H. 4, S. P. iii. 1, n.

That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Hurly-burly-uproar, tumultuous stir. M. i. 1, #. When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won.

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