140 Clearstories - Cling bed might have reposed still, THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 382; the clearest gods, KING LEAR, iv. 6. 73. clearstories, TWELFTH NIGHT, iv. 2. 37. A clearstory is a term in Gothic architecture for an upper story or row of windows in a church, hall, etc., and rising clear above the adjoining parts of the building. "This term seems to have been used in a variety of ways for any method of admitting light into the upper parts of a building. It appears from Holme that clearstory windows are those which have no transum or cross piece in the middle of them, to break the same into two lights,' the meaning employed by Shakespeare," etc. (HALLIWELL). clearness Always thought That I require a, "that is, you must manage matters so, that throughout the whole transaction I may stand clear of suspicion " (STEEVENS), MACBETH, iii. 1. 132. cleave to, to unite with closely: Thy thoughts I cleave to, THE TEMPEST, iv. 1. 164; cleave to no revenge but Lucius, TITUS ANDRONICUS, V. 2. 136; cleave not to their mould, MACBETH, i. 3. 145; If you shall cleave to my consent, MACBETH, ii. 1. 25 (a very obscure passage). cleft the root, cleft the root of her heart (an allusion to cleaving the pin, see pin and clout, the metaphor from archery with which the speech begins being continued here), THE TWO GENTLEMEN of Verona, v. 4. 103. clepe, to call, HAMLET, i. 4. 19; clepes, VENUS AND ADONIS, 995; clepeth, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 1. 19; clept, MACBETH, iii. 1. 93. clerkly, scholar-like, THE Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, ii. 1. 97; THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iv. 5. 52 (twice); 2 HENRY VI., iii. 1. 179. cliff, a key in music (used equivocally): if he can take her cliff, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 2. 11. cling thee Till famine, MACBETH, V. 5. 40. Here cling is Clinquant Close 141 generally explained "shrink or shrivel;" but it means, I suspect, "make the entrails stick together;" compare Donne, "As to a stomack sterv'd, whose insides meete," etc. The Storme,— Poems, p. 57, ed. 1633. clinquant, glittering, shining, HENRY VIII., i. 1. 19. clip, to embrace: Clip dead men's graves, 2 HENRY VI., iv. 1. 6; let me clip ye In arms, CORIOLANUS, i. 6. 29; here I clip The anvil of my sword, CORIOLANUS, iv. 5. 109; You elements that clip us round about, OTHELLO, iii. 3. 468; clip your wives, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv. 8. 8; No grave upon the earth shall clip in it, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, V. 2. 356; To clip Elysium, VENUS AND ADONIS, 600; clip me, THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, Xi. 14; clipp'd in with the sea, 1 HENRY IV., iii. 1. 44; clipp'd his body, CYMBELINE, ii. 3. 134; clipp'd about, CYMBELINE, v. 5. 449; she clipp'd Adonis, THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, Xi. 6; clippeth thee about, KING JOHN, v. 2. 34; clipping her, THE WINTER'S TALE, v. 2. 52. cloister'd flight, MACBETH, iii. 2. 41. "The bats wheeling round the dim cloisters of Queen's College, Cambridge, have frequently impressed on me the singular propriety of this original epithet" (STEEVENS). close, secret: a close exploit (act) of death, RICHARD III., iv. 2. 35; close delations, OTHELLO, iii. 3. 127. close, secretly, by stealth: Which in a napkin being close convey'd, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Induction, 1. 125. close as oak. See oak, etc. close your hands - Young princes, KING JOHN, ii. 1. 533. See clap thyself my love. close with, and close in with, "to come to an agreement with, to comply with, to unite with" (Johnson's Dict.), to fall in with make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us, 2 HENRY IV., ii. 4. 315; to close In terms of 142 Closely - Clout friendship with thine enemies, JULIUS CESAR, iii. 1. 203; He closes with you in this consequence, HAMLET, ii. 1. 45; He closes with you thus, HAMLET, ii. 1. 55; This closing with him fits his lunacy, TITUS ANDRONICUS, v. 2. 70. closely, secretly, privately: go closely in with me, KING JOHN, iv. 1. 133; to keep her closely at my cell, ROMEO AND JULIET, V. 3. 254; we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, HAMLET, iii. 1. 29. closeness, recluseness, privacy, THE TEMPEST, i. 2. 90. closure, an enclosure: the guilty closure of thy walls, RICHARD III., iii. 3. 11; the quiet closure of my breast, VENUS AND ADONIS, 782; the gentle closure of my breast, SONNETS, xlviii. 11. closure, a conclusion, an end: a mutual closure of our house, TITUS ANDRONICUS, V. 3. 134. clothier's yard, an arrow the length of a clothier's yard, KING LEAR, iv. 6. 88 (Arrows "a cloth-yard long" are frequently mentioned in our early writers). cloud in 's face - He has a, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iii. 2. 51. Said of a horse "when he has a black or dark-coloured spot in his forehead between his eyes. This gives him a sour look, and being supposed to indicate an ill-temper, is, of course, regarded as a great blemish" (STEEVENS). clouded, stained, defamed: My sovereign mistress clouded so, THE WINTER'S TALE, i. 2. 280. clout, the nail or pin of the target: he'll ne'er hit the clout, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 1. 127; 'a would have clapped i' the clout at twelve score (he would have hit the clout at twelve score yards), 2 HENRY IV., i' the clout, KING LEAR, iv. 6. 92. "is merely the French clou, the the target is fastened to the butt. As the head of this pin was commonly painted white, to hit the white, and hit the clout, were, of course, synonymous; both phrases iii. 2. 45; the clout, "Clout," says Gifford, wooden pin by which expressed perfection in art, or success of any kind." Note on Jonson's Works, vol. v. p. 309. It is not safe to differ from Gifford, who may have had some authority for the above statement concerning the clout or pin. From the passages, however, which I happen to recollect in our early writers I should say, that the clout or pin stood in the centre of the inner circle of the butts, which circle, being painted white, was called the white, - that to "hit the white" was a considerable feat, but that to "hit or cleave the clout or pin" was a much greater one, though, no doubt, the two expressions were occasionally used to signify the same thing, viz., to "hit the mark." cloy, to claw, to stroke with a claw: cloys his beak, CYMBELINE, V. 4. 118. clubs cannot part them, As You LIKE IT, v. 2. 37; I'll call for clubs, if you will not away, 1 HENRY VI., i. 3. 83; Clubs, clubs! these lovers will not keep the peace, TITUS ANDRONIcus, ii. 1. 37; I missed the meteor once, and hit that woman, who cried out Clubs!' when I might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her succour, which were the hope o' the Strand, where she was quartered, etc., HENRY VIII., v. 4. 48; Clubs, bills, and partisans! ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 1. 71. "It appears, from many of our old dramas, that, in our author's time, it was a common custom, on the breaking out of a fray, to call out Clubs-clubs,' to part the combatants" (MALONE). "Clubs" was originally the popular cry to call forth the London apprentices, who employed their clubs for the preservation of the public peace. Sometimes, however, they used those weapons to raise a disturbance, as they are described doing in the last but one of the passages above cited. clutch, to contract, to clasp close to clutch my hand, KING JOHN, ii. 1. 589; extracting it clutched, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 2. 44. 144 Coach-fellow - Cock coach-fellow, a horse that draws in the same carriage with an associate, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, another, ii. 2. 6. coals - Carry. See carry coals. coasteth to the cry - She, She advanceth to the cry, VENUS AND ADONIS, 870. coat, a coat of arms: an eye-sore in my golden coat, THE Rape of LucreCE, 205; spirits of richest coat, A LOVER'S COMPLAINT, 236. coat is of proof - His. See second proof. cobloaf, a large, clumsy or misshapen loaf of bread, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 1. 36. cock, a weather-cock: drown'd the cocks! King Lear, iii. 2. 3. cock, a cock-boat: Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy, KING LEAR, iv. 6. 19. cock, a corruption of, or euphemism for God: Cock's passion, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, iv. 1. 103; By cock, HAMLET, iv. 5. 59. (This irreverent alteration of the sacred name was formerly very common: it occurs at least a dozen times in Heywood's Edward the Fourth, where one passage is cock "Herald. Sweare on this booke, King Lewis, so help you God, You meane no otherwise then you haue said. King Lewis. So helpe me Cock as I dissemble not." ·A wasteful, “a pipe with a turning stopple running to waste; probably referring to the "spilth of wine" (line 161), TIMON OF ATHENS, ii. 2. 163. cock and pie-By, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. 1. 276; 2 HENRY IV., v. 1. 1. A not uncommon oath, of uncertain derivation: cock has been understood to be the corruption of God (see above), and pie to mean the service-book of the Romish Church; which seems much more |