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Quail (v.)-slacken. A. L. ii. 2, n.

M. N. D.

And let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. Qualify (v.)-moderate. M. M. iv. 2, n.

He doth with holy abstinence subdue

That in himself, which he spurs on his power
To qualify in others.

Quality kind. H. 4, F. P. iv. 3, n.

Because you are not of our quality,
But stand against us like an enemy.

Quarrel-arrow. II. E. ii. 3, n.

Yet if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce
It from the bearer.

Quarry-prey. M. i. 2, n.

And fortune, on his damned quarry smiling,

Show'd like a rebel's whore.

Quart d'ecu -a French piece of money. A. W. iv.

3, n.

Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee simple of his salvation.

Quarter staff play. L. L. L. v. 2, i.

I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man. Quat. O. v. 1, n.

I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense. Queazy-delicate, ticklish. L. ii. 1, n.

And I have one thing, of a queazy question,
Which I must act.
Quell-murder. M. i. 7, n.

Who shall bear the guilt

Of our great quell?

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I met the duke yesterday, and had much question with him.

Questionable-capable of being questioned. H. i. 4, n.
Thou com st in such a questionable shape,
That I will speak to thee.

Questioned conversed. Luc. n.

For, after supper, long he questioned
With modest Lucrece.

Questioning-discoursing. A. L. v. 4, n.
Whiles a wedlock hymn we sing,
Feed yourselves with questioning.
Quests-inquisitions. M. M. iv. 1, n.

These false and most contrarious quests
Upon thy doings.

Quick-alive. H. v. 1, n.

Be buried quick with her, and so will I.

Quick winds lie still. A. C. i. 2, n.

O, then we bring forth weeds

When our quick winds ie still; and our ills

told us,

Is as our earing.

Quiddits quiddities, subtleties. H. v. 1, n.
Where be his quiddits now?

Quillet, quodlibet-argument without foundation.
L. L. L. iv. 3, n.

Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.

Quillets-quidlibets, frivolous distinctions. H. v.

1, n.

Where be his quiddits now, his quillets? Quintain. A. L. i. 2, i.

My better parts

Are all thrown down; and that which here stands up

Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block. Quit (v.)-requite, answer. H. F. iii. 2, n. And I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick occasion.

Quits-requites. M. M. v. 1, n.

Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well. Quiver-nimble. H. 4, S. P. iii. 2, n.

There was a little quirer fellow, and he would manage you his piece thus.

Quote (v.)-mark. G. V. ii. 4, n.

And how quote you my folly?
Quote-pronounced cote G. V. ii. 4, n-

I quote it in your jerkin.

Quote (v.)-observe. R. J. i. 4, n.

What curious eye doth qu te deformities.

Quote (v.)-observe. Luc. n.

Yea, the illiterate, that know not how

To 'cipher what is writ in learned books,
Will quote my loathsome trespass in my looks.
Quoted-observed, noted. H. ii. Î, n.

I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
I had not quoted him,

Quotes-observes, searches through. T. And. iv.

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That what we have we prize not to the worth,
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value.

Rack-small feathery cloud. T. iv. 1, n.

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.

Rack-vapour. So. xxxiii. n.

Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face.

Ragged-broken, discordant. A. L. ii. 5, n.

My voice is ragged; I know I cannot please you. Ragged-contemptible. Luc. s. (See H. 4, P. S. i. 1, n.

Thy smoothing titles to a ragged name. Ragged'st-n -most broken, torn. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, §. And approach

The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring.

Rain (v.)-pour down. M. V. iii. 2, R.

In measure rain thy joy.

Raise up the organs of her fantasy-elevate her fancy. M. W. v. 5, n.

Raise up the organs of her fantasy.

Rakes.

Cor. i. 1, n.

Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we be come rakes.

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Rapture-fit. Cor. ii. 1, n.

Your prattling nurse

Into a rapture lets her baby cry.

Rascal-term given to young deer, lean and out of season. A. L. iii. 3, n.

The noblest deer hath them as huge as the rascal.

Rascal-like-like a lean deer. H. 6, F. P. iv. 2, n.
Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch.
Ras'd-erased. P. i. 1, n.

Her face the book of praises, where is read
Nothing but curious pleasure, as from thence
Sorrow were ever ras'd.

Raught-reached. L. L. L. iv. 2, n.

And raught not to five weeks.
Raught-taken away. H. 6, S. P. ii. 3, n.

His lady banish'd, and a limb lopp'd off;
This staff of honour raught.

Raught-reached. H. 6, T. P. i. 4, n.

Come, make him stand upon this molehill

here.

That raught at mountains with outstretched

arms.

Ravin (v.)-devour greedily. M. M. i. 3, n.

Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. Rayed-covered with mire, sullied. T. S. iv. 1, n. Was ever man so beaten? was ever man so rayed?

Razed slashed. H. iii. 2, n.

With two provincial roses on my razed shoes. Razes-roots. H. 4, F. P. ii. 1, n.

I have a gammon of bacon, and two razes of ginger.

Re, fa. R. J. iv. 5, n.

I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you, I'll fa you. Read (v.)-discover. H. 4, F. P. iv. 1, n. For therein should we read

The very bottom and the soul of hope.
Read-counsel, doctrine. H. i. 3, n.

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own read.

Rear-mice-bats. M. N. D. ii. 3, n.

Some war with rear-mice, for their leathern wings.

Rear of our birth. W. T. iv. 3, n.

My good Camillo,

She is as forward of her breeding, as
She is i' the rear of our birth.

Rearly-early. T. N. K. iv. 1, n.

Brother.

Daugh Do, very rearly.

I'll bring it to-morrow.

Reason (v.)-converse. R. T. ii. 3, n.

You cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of dread. Reason'd-discoursed. M. V. ii. 8, n.

I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday. Rebeck-three-stringed violin. R. J. iv. 5, n. What say you, Hugh Rebeck? Receiving comprehension. T. Niii. 1, n. To one of your receiving

Enough is shown.

Recheat-huntsman's note to recall the hounds. M. A. i. 1, n.

I will have a recheat winded in my forehead. Record (v.)-sing. G. V. v. 4, n.

Tune my distresses, and r cord my woes. Recorder-flageolet, or small English flute. H. iii.

2, n.

Enter one with a recorder.

Records makes music, sings. P. iv. Gower, n.
She sung, and made the night bird mute,
That still records with moan.

Red lattice phrases-alehouse terms. M. W. ii. 2, n. Your cat-a mountain looks, your red lattice phrases.

Redbreast. Cy. iv. 2, i.

The ruddock would, &c.

Reduce (v.)-bring back. R. T. v. 4, n.

Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again. Reechy-begrimed, smoky. M. A. iii. 3, n.

Like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy painting. Refell'd-refuted. M. M. v. 1, n.

How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,
How he refell'd me.
H. E. ii. 4, n.

Refuse, technical use of the word.

I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge.
Regards-considerations. L. i. 1, n.
Love's not love,

When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from the entire point.

Regiment. R. T. v. 3, n.

The earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment. Regiment-government, authority. A. C. iii. 6, n.

And gives his potent regiment to a trull. Regreets salutations. M. V. ii. 9, n.

From whom he bringeth sensible regreets. Reguerdon-recompense. H. 6, F. P. iii. 1, n. And in reguerdon of that duty done,

I girt thee with the valiant sword of York.
Relapse of mortality. H. F. iv. 3, n.

Break out into a second course of mischief.
Killing in relapse of mortality.
Remember'd-reminded. So. cxx. n.

O that our night of woe might have remember`d
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow
hits!
Remiss-inattentive. H. iv. 7, n.

He, being remiss, Most generous, and free from all contriving. Remorse-compassion. A. L. i. 3, n.

It was your pleasure, and your own remorse.
Remorse-pity, tenderness. J. C. ii. 1, n.

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
R morse from power.

Remorse-tenderness. V. A. n.

'Pity,' she cries, 'some favour-some remorse.' Remorseful-compassionate. G. V. iv. 3, n.

Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd. Remov'd-distant. M. N. D. i. 1, n.

From Athens is her house remov'd seven leagues. Removed-remote. A. L. iii 2, n.

Your accent is something finer than purchase in so removed a dwelling. Removes-stages. A. W. v. 3, n.

you could

Here's a petition from a Florentine,
Who hath, for four or five removes, come short
To tender it herself.

Render (v)-represent. A. L. iv. 3, n.

O, i have heard him speak of th it same brother,
And he did render him the most unnatural
That liv'd 'mongst men.

Reneagues-renounces. A. C. i. 1, n.

His captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath

burst

The buckles on his breast, reneagues all temper. Renege (v.)-deny. L. ii. 2, n.

Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks. Renew me with your eyes. Cy, iii. 2, n.

Justice, and your father's wrath, should he take me in his dominion, could not be so cruel to me, an you, O the dearest of creatures, would even renew me with your eyes.

Repeal-recall. Luc. n.

I sue for exil'd majesty's repeal. Repetition of lines. L. L. L. iv. 3, i.

For when would you, my liege, or you, or you. Repine (used as a substantive). V. A. n.

Were never four such lamps together mix'd, Had not his clouded with his brows' repine Report, to his great worthiness-my report compared to his great worthiness. L. L L. ii. 1, n. And much too little of that good I saw, Is my report, to his great worthiness. Reproof-disproof. H. 4, F. P. iii. 2, n. Yet such extenuation let me beg, As in reproof of many tales devis'd.

Repugn (v.)-resist. H. 6, F. P. iv. 1, n.

When stubbornly he did repugn the truth, About a certain question in the law. Reserve (v.)-preserve. So. xxxii. n.

Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme. Reserve (v.)-preserve. So. lxxxv. n.

While comments of your praise, richly compil'd, Reserve their character with golden quill. Reserve (v.)-preserve. P. iv. 1, n.

Walk, and be cheerful once again: reserve
That excellent complexion which did steal
The eyes of young and old.

Resolve-be firmly persuaded. H. 6, F. P. i. 2, n.
Resolve on this: Thou shalt be fortunate
If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.
Respect-circumspection. V. A. n.

Like the proceedings of a drunken brain,
Full of respect, yet nought at all respecting.
Respect-prudence. Luc. n.

Respect and reason wait on wrinkled age! Respective-having relation to. G. V. iv. 4, n.

What should it be, that he respects in her, But I can make respective in myself. Respective-regardful. M. V. v. 1, n.

You should have been respective, and have kept it. Respectively-respectfully. T. Ath. iii. 1, n. You are very respectively welcome, sir. Resty-rusty, spoiled for want of use. Cy. iii. 6, n. Resty sloth

Finds the down pillow hard. Retail'd-retold. R. T. iii. 1, n.

Methinks, the truth should live from age to age, As 't were retail'd to all posterity. Retires-retreats. H. 4, F. Þ. ii. 3, n.

And thou hast talk'd

Of sallies and retires.

Retiring-used in the sense of coming back again. Luc. n.

One poor retiring minute in an age

Would purchase thee a thousand thousand

friends.

Revolution-change of circumstances. A. C. i. 2, n.
The present pleasure,

By revolution lowering, does become
The opposite of itself.

Reworded-echoed. L. C. n.

From off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale. Rhodope's, or Memphis. H. 6, F. P. i. 6, n. A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear, Than Rhodope's, or Memphis, ever was.

Rialto, the. M. V. i. 3, i.

What news on the Rialto?

Richard Coeur-de-Lion and the lion, combat of. J. i. 1, i.

The awless lion could not wage the fight,

Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

Richest coat-highest descent. L. C. n.

For she was sought by spirits of richest coat. Rides the wild mare-plays at see-saw.

ii. 4, n.

H. 4, S. P.

And rides the wild mare with the boys. Rigol-ringed circle. H. 4, S. P. iv. 4, n. This is a sleep,

That from this golden rigol hath divore'd
So many English kings.

Rigol circle. Luc. n.

About the mourning and congealed face
Of that black blood a watery rigol goes.

Rim. H. F. iv. 4, n.

For I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat.
Ringlets, green sour-fairy rings. T. v. 1, n.
You demi puppets that

By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites.

Rites. H. v. 1, n.

Yet here she is allow'd her virgin rites.

Rivage shore. H. F. iii. Chorus, n.

You stand upon the rivage, and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing,
Rivals-partners, companions.
H. i. 1, n.

If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
The rivals of my watch.

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This post haste and romage in the land. Roman law, Shakspere's acquaintance with. A. L. ii. 5, i.

Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me nothing.

Romances of chivalry. L. L. L. i. 1, i.

In high-born words, the worth of many a knight

From tawny Spain, lost in the world's debate. Romans. H. 4, S. P. ii. 2, n.

I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity. Romaunt of the Rose, antithetical peculiarities of. R. i. 1, i.

O brawling love! O loving hate! Rome-pronounced room. J. iii. 1, n.

O, lawful let it be,

That I have room with Rome to curse awhile! Rondure-circumference. So, xxi. n.

With April's first-born flowers, and all things

rare

That heaven's air in his huge rondure hems.
Ronyon. M. i. 3, n. (See A. L. ii. 2, s.)
The rump-fed ronyon cries.

Roof of the theatre. H. 6, F. P. i. 1, i.
Hung be the heavens with black.
Rose-cheek'd Adonis-an expression found in Mar-
lowe's poem of Hero and Leander.'
V. A.

Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chase.

Rosemary, for remembrance. H. iv. 5, .

There's rosemary, that 's for remembrance. Round-a piece of music printed in 1609. T. S. iv. 1, i.

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But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd. Scaling. Cor. ii. 3, n. (See Cor. i. 1, n.)

But you have found,

Scaling his present bearing with his past,
That he 's your fixed enemy.

Scaligers, family of the. R. J. v. 3, i.
Some shall be punished.

Scall-scald. M. W. iii. 1, n.

This same scall, scurvy, cogging companion.

Scambling disorderly. H. F. i. 1, n.

But that the scambling and unquiet time
Did push it out of further question.

Scamels. T. ii. 2, n.

And sometimes I'll get thee
Young scamels from the rock.

Scarfed bark-vessel gay with streamers. M. V. iii.

6, n.

The scarfed bark puts from her native bay. Scarre-rock, precipitous cliff. A. W. iv. 2, n. Men make ropes, in such a scarre.

Scath-harm. H. 6, S. P. ii. 4, n.

And had I twenty times so many foes,

And each of them had twenty times their

power,

All these could not procure me any scath. Scath (v.)-injure. R. J. i. 5, n.

This trick may chance to scath you. Scathful-harmful, destructive.

T. N. v. 1, n.

With which such scathful grapple did he make. Sconce-fortification. H. F. iii. 6, n.

At such and such a sconce, at such a breach.

Scope of nature. J. iii. 4, n.

No natural exhalation in the sky,

No scope of nature, no distemper'd day,

No common wind, no customed event,

But they will pluck away his natural course. Scotland, contests of, with England. C. E. iii. 2, i. Where Scotland?

Scrimers-fencers. H. iv. 7, n.

He swore,

The scrimers of their nation, had neither motion, guard, nor eye. Scrip a written paper. M. N. D. i. 2, n.

Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.

Scroyles-persons afflicted with king's evil. J. ii.

2, n.

By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings!

Sculls-shoals of fish. T. C. v. 5, n.

And there they fly, or die, like scaled sculls,
Before the belching whale.

Sea of wax. T. Ath. i. 1, n.

My free drift

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A brother's dead love, which she would keep

fresh.
Season, ungenial, of 1593 and 1594. M. N. D. ii. 2, i.
Therefore, the winds, piping to us in vain.
Seasons-used as a verb. Cy. i. 7, n.
Bless'd be those,

How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,
Which seasons comfort.

Seat-throne. H. F. i. 2, n.

We never valued this poor seat of England. Secondary stage in old theatres. O. v. 2, i.

A bedchamber.

Secondary stage, the. T. N. K. ii. 2, n. (See O. v. i.)
Seconds. So. cxxv., n.

And take thou my oblation, poor but free,
Which is not mix'd with seconds, knows no

art.

Sect-in horticulture, cutting. O. i. 3, n.

Whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.

Sectional rhyme, example of. M. N. D. iii. 2, i. Shall seem a dream, and fruitless vision. Secular tunes adapted to versions of the psalms. W. T. iv. 2, i.

Sings psalms to hornpipes.

Security-legal security, surety. M. M. iii. 2, n.

There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure; but security enough to make fellowships accursed.

Seeing-used as a noun. W. T. ii. 1, n.

That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation,
But only seeing.

Seel with wanton dulness. O. i. 3, n.

No, when light-wing'd toys

Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dulness
My speculative and offic'd instrument.

Seeling blinding. M. iii. 2, n.

Come, seeling night,

Skarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. Seeming-specious resemblance. M. A. iv. 1, n. Hero. And seem'd I ever otherwise to you? Claud. Out on the seeming.

Seeming-seemly. A. L. v. 4, n.

Bear your body more seeming.

Seen-versed. T. S. i. 2, n.

Well seen in music.

Seen with mischief's eyes. P. i. 4, n.

O my distressed lord, ev'n such our griefs are;
Here they 're but felt, and seen with mischief's

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(Her sweet perfections,) with one self king! Self-sovereignty-self-sufficiency. L. L. L, iv. 1, n. Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty? Selling a bargain. L. L. L. iii. 1, 7.

The boy hath sold him a bargain.

Seniory seniority. R. T. iv. 4, n.

If ancient sorrow be most reverent, Give mine the benefit of seniory. Sense-sensibility. O. ii. 3, n.

I had thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in repu tation.

Sense-impression upon the senses.

O. iii. 3, n.

What sense had I in her stolen hours of lust? S parable-separating. So. xxxvi. n.

In our two loves there is but one respect, Though in our lives a separable spite. Sere-affection of the throat, by which the lungs are tickled. H. ii. 2, n.

The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled o' the sere.

Serious hours-private hours. C. E. ii. 1, n.

And make a common of my serious hours.

Servant. G. V. ii. 1, i.

Sir Valentine and servant.

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Set-term used at tennis. L. L. L. v. 2, n.
A set of wit well play'd.

Set a watch. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, n.

Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a watch. Set her two courses. T. i. 1, R.

Set her two courses; off to sea again, lay her off. Set on stirred up. Cor. iii. 1, n.

The people are abus'd-set on.

Several plot. So. cxxxvii. n. (See L. L. L. ii. 1, s.)
Why should my heart think that a several plot,
Which my heart knows the wide world's com-
mon place?
Severals-details. H. F. i. 1, n.

The severals, and unhidden passages,

Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms. Serving man. L. iii. 4, n.

A serving-man, proud in heart and mind.
Shadow of poor Buckingham. H. E. i. 1, n.
I am the shadow of poor Buckingham;

Whose figure even this instant clouds put on,
By dark'ning my clear sun.

Shakspere and Hogarth, Lamb's parallel between.
T. Ath. i. 1, i.

Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance. Shakspere's Cliff. L. iv. 1, i.

There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shakspere's grammar, objections to. R. J. ii. 3, i. Both our remedies

Within thy help and holy physic lies. Shakspere's knowledge of art. Cy. v. 5, i.

Postures beyond brief nature.

Shall be thought-where shall be thought. R. T. îïì. 1, n.

Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:
Then where you please, and shall be thought

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She to scant her duty-she knows to scant her duty.
L. ii. 4, n.

You less know how to value her desert,
Than she to scant her duty.

Sheav'd-made of straw. L. C. n.

For some, untuck'd, descended her sheav'd hat, Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside. Sheep-pronounced ship. G. V. i. 1, n.

And I have play'd the sheep, in losing him.
Sheep-pronounced ship. C. E. iv. 1, n.
Why, thou peevish she p,

What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?
Sheer-pure. R. S. v. 3, n.

Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain.

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