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consign, to seal Consign to thee ("seal the same contract with thee, that is, add their names to thine upon the register of death," STEEVENS), and come to dust, CYMBELINE, iv. 2. 276; With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iv. 4. 44.

consist-If he on peace, "If he stands on peace. A Latin sense (MALONE), PERICLES, i. 4. 83.

consolate, to console, to comfort, ALL 's WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iii. 2. 127.

consort, a company, a band of musicians,

a concert: With some sweet consort, THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iii. 2. 84; make the consort (concert, Cambridge) full, 2 HENRY VI., iii. 2. 327.

consort, a fellowship, a fraternity: wilt thou be of our consort? THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iv. 1. 64; he was of that consort, KING LEAR, ii. 1. 97.

consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? ROMEO AND JULIET, iii. 1. 44. See above, the first consort.

consort, to accompany afterward consort you, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, i. 2. 28; consort your Grace, Love's LABOUR'S Lost, ii. 1. 177.

conspectuities, sights, — eyes, CORIOLANUS, ii. 1. 59.

constancy, consistency something of great constancy, A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM, v. 1. 26.

constantly, certainly, firmly I do constantly believe you, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 1. 20; I constantly do think, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iv. 1. 42.

contain, to retain: contain their urine, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1. 50; contain the ring, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, V. 1. 201.

contain, to restrain: we can contain ourselves, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Induction, 1. 98; 0, contain yourself, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, V. 2. 178; Contain thyself, good friend, TIMON OF ATHENS, ii. 2. 29.

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content, "acquiescence" (MALONE): Forced to content, but never to obey, VENUS AND ADONIS, 61. (But qy. is content here a verb, "to content himself," "to be contented " ?) content Cassius, be, "That is, be continent; contain, or restrain, yourself" (CRAIK), JULIUS CÆSAR, iv. 2. 41. contemptible spirit, a contemptuous spirit, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 3. 166.

continent, that which contains any thing: Which is not tomb enough and continent, HAMLET, iv. 4. 64; you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see ("you shall find him containing and comprising every quality which a gentleman would desire to contemplate for imitation," JOHNSON), HAMLET, V. 2. 110; be stronger than thy continent, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv. 14. 40; overborne their continents, A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. 1. 92; Rive your concealing continents, KING LEAR, iii. 2. 58.

continent, that which is contained in any thing: thou globe of sinful continents (contents), 2 HENRY IV., ii. 4. 275. continuance, continuity: fierce extremes In their continuance, KING JOHN, v. 7. 14.

continuate, uninterrupted, TIMON OF ATHENS, i. 1. 11; OTHELLO, iii. 4. 179.

contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands - A, etc., TWELFTH NIGHT, v. 1. 150. Douce, after comparing this passage with one at the end of the fourth act of the same play,

"Now go with me and with this holy man," etc., observes: "Now the whole has been hitherto regarded as relating to an actual marriage that had been solemnized between the parties; whereas it is manifest that nothing more is meant than a betrothing, affiancing, or promise of future marriage, anciently distinguished by the name of espousals, a term which was for a long time confounded

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with matrimony, and at length came exclusively to denote it."

contraction plucks The very soul - From the body of, "annihilates the very principle of contracts (CALDECOTT), HAMLET, iii. 4. 46. contrary, to oppose, to thwart, ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 5. 83. contrive, to wear out, to pass away, to spend (Lat. contero, contrivi): we may contrive this afternoon, THE TAMING of THE SHREW, i. 2. 272.

contriving friends in Rome - Of many our, ANTONY AND Cleopatra, i. 2. 176. According to Walker, “contriving here is not managing or plotting, but sojourning; conterentes tempus [see the preceding article]:" but qy.? control, constraint, compulsion: The proud control of fierce and bloody war, KING JOHN, i. 1. 17.

control, to "confute, unanswerably contradict" (JOHNSON):

The Duke of Milan And his more braver daughter could control thee, THE TEMPEST, i. 2. 439.

convent, to summon, to cite all our surgeons Convent in their behoof, THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, i. 4. 31; We convent nought else but woes, THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, i. 5. 9; Whensoever he 's convented, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, v. 1. 158; to the council-board He be convented, HENRY VIII., v. 1. 52; We are convented, CORIOLANUS, ii. 2. 52. convent, to assemble, to collect: convented (convicted, Cambridge) sail, KING JOHN, iii. 4. 2.

convent, "to serve, agree, be convenient" (DOUCE): golden time convents, TWELFTH NIGHT, v. 1. 368.

conversation, behaviour, conduct of a holy, cold and still conversation, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 6. 119; The good in conversation, PERICLES, ii. Gower, 9.

convertite, a convert, KING JOHN, V. 1. 19; THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 743; convertites, As YOU LIKE IT, v. 4. 178.

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convey, to steal: Convey' the wise it call, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. 3. 27; That a king's children should be so convey'd! CYMBELINE, i. 1. 63.

convey, to manage secretly and artfully: Convey your pleas

ures in a spacious plenty, MACBETH, iv. 3. 71; convey the business as I shall find means, KING LEAR, i. 2. 97; How I convey my shame out of thine eyes ("How I pass by sleight my shame out of thy sight," STAUNTON), ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iii. 11. 52; Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare, HENRY V., i. 2. 74.

conveyance, dexterity (conveyance meaning formerly "sleight of hand") with such impossible (inconceivable) conveyance, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 1. 218.

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conveyance, juggling artifice, secret management: I fear, there is conveyance, 1 HENRY VI., i. 3. 2; Thy sly conveyance, 3 HENRY VI., iii. 3. 160.

conveyers, jugglers, tricksters, defrauders, RICHARD II., iv.

1. 317.

convicted. See second convent.

convince, to conquer, to overcome: The holy suit which fain it would convince (prevail in), LOVE'S LABOUR's Lost, v. 2. 734; Will I with wine and wassail so convince, MACBETH, i. 7. 64; to convince the honour of my mistress, CYMBELINE, i. 4. 91; this truth shall ne'er convince, PERICLES, i. 2. 123; Convinced or supplied them, OTHELLO, iv. 1. 28; their malady convinces The great assay of art, MACBETH, iv. 3. 142.

convince, to convict: convince of levity As well my undertakings, etc., TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 2. 130.

convive, to feast together, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iv. 5. 272. cony-catch, to deceive, to cheat, to impose upon, to sharp

(the cony or rabbit being regarded as a very simple animal), THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. 3. 31; cony-catched,

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THE TAMING OFf the Shrew, v. 1. 87; cony-catching, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. 1. 113.

cony-catching, a jocular deceiving: you are so full of conycatching, THE Taming of thE SHREW, iv. 1. 38.

cooling card, 1 HENRY VI., v. 3. 84. "A phrase probably borrowed from primero, or some other game in which money was staked upon a card. A card so decisive as to cool the courage of the adversary. Met. Something to damp or overwhelm the hopes of an expectant." Nares's Gloss. Gifford objects to this explanation of Nares, which he charges him with borrowing from Weber; and says, "(whatever be the metaphorical sense), a cooling-card is literally a bolus." Introd. to Ford's Works, p. clxi. Gifford may, no doubt, be right; but compare, in The True Tragedie of Richard the Third, 1594,

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'My lord, lay down a cooling card, this game is gone too far.” p. 23, ed. Shakespeare Soc. copatain hat, a hat rising to a cop, top, or head, a hat with a high crown (" either cylindrical and rounded at the top, or cylindrical and flat at the top," HALLIWELL), THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, v. 1. 57.

cope, the canopy of heaven in the cheapest country under the cope, PERICLES, iv. 6. 122.

cope, to pay, to reward (see Richardson's Dict. in v.): We freely cope your courteous pains withal, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1. 407.

cope, to encounter: to cope him in these sullen fits, As You LIKE IT, ii. 1. 67; I'll cope with thee, 2 HENRY VI., iii. 2. 230; Clifford, cope with him, 3 HENRY VI., i. 3. 24; whom you are to cope withal, RICHARD III., v. 3. 315; To cope malicious censurers, HENRY VIII., i. 2. 78; Ajax shall cope the best, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 3. 258; the adversary I come to cope, KING LEAR, V. 3. 124; to cope (= embrace) your wife, OTHELLO, iv. 1. 86; Or futurely can cope, THE