PROCESS. Act I., Sc. 1. "Where's Fulvia's process?" Process is used in the sense of order or summons in a suit at law. PYRAMIDES. Act V., Sc. 2. "My country's high pyramides." Pyramiaes is used as a quadrisyllable; it is the Latin plural of pyramid. "Were well deserv'd of rashness." That is, you would well deserve reproof on account of rashness. RANG D. Act I., Sc. 1. "Of the rang'd empire fall." Ranged, as Capell (the most neglected of the commentators) properly explains, is orderly ranged; he refers to a passage in Coriolanus' Bury all which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruins." REGIMENT. Act III., Sc. 6. "And gives his potent regiment to a trull." Regiment is here used in its Latin sense of government or rule. RENEAGUES. Act I., Sc. 1. "Reneagues all temper." Reneagues is renounces. It is usually spel: reneges; Chaucer uses it in the form of reneyes in the same sense, but Coleridge suggested the form reneagues, which gives us the proper pronunciation, as in leagues, and we have adopted his sug gestion. SAFE Act I., Sc. 3. "Which most with you should safe my going." Safe is here used as a verb active, to make safe. In Act IV., "Best you saf'd the bringer." SEEL. Act III., Sc. 11. "The wise gods seel our eyes." To seel was to close up the eyes of the wild hawk, for the pur pose of taming. STATION. Act III., Sc. 3. "Her motion and her station are as one." Station is the act of standing, as motion is the act of moving. STONE. Act II., Sc. 2. "Your considerate stone." An allusion, probably, to the old saying," As silent as a stone;" a frequent comparison among our ancient writers. TAKE IN. Act III., Sc. 7. "And take in Toryne." To take in is to gain by conquest, to take. TOKEN'D PESTILENCE. Act III., Sc. 8. "On our side like the token'd pestilence." The token'd pestilence is that stage of the plague when the spots appear on the skin, and which were called God's tokens. TRIPLE. Act I., Sc. 1. "The triple pillar of the world." Triple is here used in the unusual sense of third or one of three, and except in 'All's Well that Ends Well' (Act II., Sc. 1), "bad me store up, as a triple eye, safer than mine own two," we know of no other instance of triple being used otherwise than in the ordinary sense of threefold. VILD. Act V., Sc. 2. "In this vild world." Vild was the old spelling for vile, and is used by Shakspere and the writers of his time. WEET. Act I., Sc. 1. "The world to weet." To weet, from the Anglo-Saxon witan, is to know. Chaucer uses it in the form of wete. YARE. Act III., Sc. 11. "For being yare about him." Yare is prompt, nimble. See "The Tempest." YIELD. Act IV., Sc. 2. "And the gods yield you for 't." This is equivalent to the gods reward you for it. In 'As You PERSONS REPRESENTED. CYMBELINE, King of Britain. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 5. CLOTEN, son to the Queen, by a former husband. Appears, Act I. sc. 3. LEONATUS POSTHUMUS, husband to Imogen. Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 5. Act II. sc. 4; sc. 5. BELARIUS, a banished lord, disguised under the name of Morgan. Appears, Act III. sc. 3; sc. 6. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 5. GUIDERIUS, son to Cymbeline, disguised under the name of Polydore, supposed son to Belarius. Appears, Act III. sc. 3; sc. 6. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 5. ARVIRAGUS, Son to Cymbeline, disguised under the name of Cadwal, supposed son to BELARIUS. Appears, Act III. sc. 3; sc. 6. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 5. PHILARIO, a Roman, friend to Posthumus. Appears, Act I. sc. 5. Act II. sc. 4. IACHIMO, a Roman, friend to Posthumus. Appears, Act I. sc. 5; sc. 7. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 5. CAIUS LUCIUS, General of the Roman forces. Appears, Act III. sc. 1; sc. 5. Act IV. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 5. Two British Captains. Appear, Act V. sc. 3. PISANIO, gentleman to Posthumus. Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6; sc. 7. Act II. sc. 3. Act V. sc. 5. CORNELIUS, a physician. |