Dro. S. Master, shall I fetch your stuff from ship-board? 412 [Exeunt Ant. S. and Ant. E. Dro. S. There is a fat friend at your master's house, That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner : She now shall be my sister, not my wife. Dro. E. Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth. Will you walk in to see their gossiping? Dro. S. Not I, sir; you are my elder. Dro. E. That's a question: how shall we try it? 420 Dro. S. We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first. Dro. E. Nay, then, thus: We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. [Exeunt. By; "send me by some token"; a not uncommon Elizabethan idiom, meaning "give me some token whereby I may show that you have sent me"; IV. i. 56. Caracks, galleons, large ships of burden; III. ii. 138. From an engraving in Halliwell's Folio Edition. Caract, carat; IV. i. 28. Carcanet, necklace; III. i. 4. Careful, full of care; V. i. 298. Carriage, bearing: III. ii. 14. Carved, made amorous gcstures; II. ii. 119. 66 Case; an action upon the case is a general action given for the redress of a wrong done any man without force, and not especially provided for by law"; IV. ii. 42. Cates, dainties; III. i. 28. Charged, gave in charge; III. i. 8. Chargeful, expensive; IV. i. 29. Children (trisyllabic); V. i. 360. Choleric; the choleric man was advised "to abstain from all salt, scorched, dry meats, from mustard, and such like things as might aggravate his malignant humours "; II. ii. 62. Circumstance, detail; V. i. 16. Claim; "my heaven's claim," i.e. "all that I claim from heaven hereafter"; III. ii. 64. From a Sixteenth Century Venetian specimen. Compact of, wholly composed of; III. ii. 22. Companion (1 (used contemptu ously), fellow; IV. iv. 64. Conceit, conception; III. ii. 34. apprehension; IV. ii. 65. Confiscate, confiscated; I. i. 21. Confounds, destroys; I. ii. 38. Confusion, ruin; II. ii. 181. Consort, to keep company with; I. ii. 28. Countermands, stops one going through; IV. ii. 37. Cozenage, cheating; I. ii. 97. Credit, credulity; III. ii. 22. Curtal, having a docked tail; III. ii. 148 (cp. “turn i' the wheel"). Customers (used contemptuously), visitors, guests; IV. iv. 63. Cuts; papers cut of unequal lengths, of which the longest was usually the prize; hence, "to draw cuts to draw lots"; V. i. 422. Dankish, dampish; V. i. 247. Deadly, deathly; IV. iv. 96. Death; "the death," i.e. "death by judicial sentence "; I. i. 147. Debted, indebted; IV. i. 31. Deciphers, distinguishes; V. i. 334. Decline, incline; III. ii. 44. Declining, inclining; III. ii. 136. Defeatures, disfigurements; II. i. 98; V. i. 299. Deformed, deforming; V. i. 298. Demean, conduct; IV. iii. 82. Denied (followed by a tauto logical negative); IV. ii. 7. Despite of; "in d. of mirth," i.e. "though I feel despiteful towards mirth "; III. i. 108. Detain, withhold; II. i. 107 Dilate, narrate; I. i. 123. Disannul, annul; I. i. 145. Discharged, paid; IV. i. 32. Dispense with, put up with; II. i. 103. Dispose, disposal; I. i. 21. Disposed, disposed of; I. ii. 73. Distain'd, sullied, disgraced; II. ii. 147. Distemperatures, distempers; Fool-begg'd, foolishly begged or demanded; II. i. 41. Formal, ordinary, rational; V. i. 105. Forswore; "forswore to have," i.e. swore that he did not have"; V. i. II. Forth; "to find f.," i.e. "to find out "; I. ii. 37; away from home; II. ii. 211. For why, because; III. ii. 104. Fraughtage, freight; IV. i. 87. Genius, attending spirit; V. i. 332. = Get within, close with, grapple with; V. i. 34. Gillian Juliana; III. i. 31. Ginn = Jenny; III. i. 31. Good now= good fellow now (others explain the phrase as equivalent to "well now"); IV. iv. 22. Gossip, make merry; V. i. 407. Gossiping, merry-making (with a probable reference to original sense, a sponsors' feast); V. i. 419. Gossips, sponsors; V. i. 405. Grain; "in grain," i.e. "ingrained, deeply dyed"; III. ii. 107. Grained, furrowed (like the grain of wood); V. i. 311. Growing, accruing; IV. i. 8. Guilders; Dutch coins of the value of about two shillings; used in a general sense for 'money"; I. i. 8. Harlots, lewd fellows: V. i. 205. |