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CONTEMPTS = contents; I. i. 191.
CONVERSE OF BREATH, conversa-

tion; V. ii. 745.

CONVINCE, Overcome; V. ii. 756.
CORMORANT, ravenous; I. i. 4.
CORNER-CAP, the beretta, or
three-cornered cap of a Roman
Catholic priest; IV. iii. 55,
CORPORAL OF THE FIELD, an officer
similar to our aide-de-camp;
III. 1. 199.

Chambers's Book of Days); I.

ii. 58.

DAY-WOMAN, dairy-woman; I. ii. 139.

DAZZLING, being dazzled; "who dazzling so," i. e. "that when he has his eye made weak" (by fixing it upon a fairer eye); I. i. 82.

DEAR, used intensitively ("dear groans"); V. ii. 874.

COUPLEMENT, couple (used by DEAREST, best; II. i. 1.

Armado); V. 11. 535. COURSING, chasing; IV. iii. 1. COURTESY, Curtsy; I. 11. 68. CRABS, crab-apples; V. ii. 935. CRACK, boast; IV. iii. 271. CREST, badge; "beauty's crest becomes the heavens well" (i. e. the brightness which is the badge of beauty); IV. iii. 259. CRITIC, carper; III. i. 188. CRITIC, cynical; "critic Timon,"

the misanthrope par excellence; IV. iii. 173.

CROSSES, used quibblingly in the

sense of money; many old coins were marked with a cross

on one side; I. ii. 37.
CUCKOO-BUDS, probably the but-
tercup, or the bud of the cow-
slip, the name is now given
to the meadow cress; V. ii.
906.

CURIOUS-KNOTTED, elaborately
laid out in knots, intricately-
devised beds in which flowers
were planted; I. i. 253.
CURST, Shrewish; IV. i. 36.

DANCING-HORSE; an allusion to a
famous performing horse often
alluded to by contemporary
writers as "Bankes' horse"; he
is said to have gone up to the
top of St. Paul's in 1600; (cp.! ·

DEBATE, Contest; I. í. 174.
DEPART, to part; II. i. 147.
DICTYNNA (Dictisima, Dictissi-
ma, Dictima, in Folios and
Quartos), one of the names of
Diana; IV. ii. 39, 40.
DIGRESSION, transgression; I. ti.

123.

DISGRACE, disfigurement; I. i. 3. DISPOSED, inclined to be somewhat wantonly merry; II. ì. 250.

DOMINICAL, the red letter which
in old almanacs denotes the
Lord's day; "red d. my golden
letter" referring to the fash-
ionable color of Katharine's
hair; V. ii. 44.

DOUBT; "made a d."-"expressed
a fear"; V. ii. 101.
DRY-BEATEN, cudgeled; V. ii. 263.

EPITHETON, epithet (used by
Armado); I. ii. 15.
EXTEMPORAL, unpremeditated; I.
ii. 189.

FADGE, turn out well; V. i. 154.
FAIR, beauty; IV. i. 17.
FAIRINGS, presents (originally the
nicknacks bought at fairs); V.
ii. 2.
FAMILIAR, familiar spirit, demon;
I. ii. 181.

Ledge priest

LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST

FASTING, hungry; IV. iii. 125.
- FAVOR, leave, pardon; III. i. 72.
-FAVOR, a present, token of love;
V. ii. 30; with, a quibble on
"favor"-"face"; V. ii. 33.
FESTINATELY, quickly; III. i. 6.
FIERCE, ardent; V. ii. 863.
FILED, polished; V. i. 13.
FIRE-NEW, brand-new; I. i. 179.
FITTED, equipped; II. i. 46.
FLAP-DRAGON, a small substance
set on fire and put afloat in a
glass of liquor, to be swal-
lowed flaming; V. j. 48.
FLASK, a powder-flask; V. ii. 619.
FLEER'D, laughed; V. ii. 109.
FORCE, to care; V. ii. 440.
FORM, bench, used quibblingly; I.
i. 209.

FORTUNA DE LA GUERRA (Spanish),
fortune of war (used by Ar-
mado); V. ii. 533.
FRAME, order; III. i. 203.

GALLOWS, used playfully for a
mischievous knave (cp. wag=
wag-halter); V. ii. 12.
GELDED, maimed; II. i. 149.
GENTILITY, good manners (Theo-
bald conjectured "garrulity");
I. i. 129.

GET THE SUN; in the days of
archery it was an advantage to
get the sun at the back of the
bowmen, and in the face of
the enemy; IV. iii. 372.
GIG, a kind of top; IV. iii. 170.
GLOZES, Sophistries; IV. iii. 370.
GOD DIG-YOU-DEN, i. e. "God give
you good evening"; IV. i. 42.
GREASILY, grossly; IV. i. 143.
GUARDS, trimmings, ornaments;
IV. iii. 60.

HALF-CHEEK, profile; V. ii. 620.
HANDS; "of all hands"="in any
case"; IV. iii. 222.

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HAY, an old country-dance; V. i.
161.

HEAD, "a buck of the first head"
"a buck of the fifth year";
IV. ii. 12.

HEED, protection, lodestar; I. i.
82.

HEREBY, used by Jaquenetta in
the sense of "as it may hap-
pen"; Armado takes it to mean
"close by"; I. ii. 143.

HID, vide "ALL HID."
HIGHT, is called; I. i. 171.
\HIND, boor, peasant (with a

quibble on "hind," the beast;
hence "rational hind”); I. ii. 126.
HOBBY-HORSE, one of the princi-
pal characters in the old Mor-
ris-dance, but growing out of
use after the Reformation;
"The hobby-horse is forgot"
was a well-known quotation
from some popular ballad
("But O," or "For O," pre-
ceded); III. i. 32.
HOME, a home thrust; V. i. 67.
HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS,
word often mentioned as the
longest in the language; its
source is not known; V. i. 47.
HORN-BOOK, primer; V. i. 53.
HUMOROUS, capricious; III. i. 177.

IMP, youngster; V..ii. 592.
INCISION, blood-letting; IV. iii.

100.

INCONY, nice, smart; III. i. 144.
INKLE, tape; III. i. 148.
INSANIE (Folios and Quartos, in-
famie), insanity, madness; V.
i. 28.
INTELLECT, Signature; IV. ii. 145.
INWARD, confidential; V. i. 108.
IT, used with general reference
to a plural substantive preced-
ing; I. i. 23.

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JAQUES (dissyllabic, here and elsewhere in Shakespeare); II. i. 42.

JOAN, common designation for a peasant girl; III. i. 217. JUVENAL, juvenile, youth (used by Armado); I. ii. 8.

KEEL, to cool by stirring, or perhaps to scum the pot in order to keep it from boiling over; V. ii. 930. KERSEY, a coarse woollen stuff; V. ii. 413. KINGLY-POOR (not hyphened in Folios and Quartos); "K. flout" (?) "poor mockery of a king," or "poor mockery given with the airs of royalty"; ("poor-liking," "poor kingly," have been suggested); V. ii.

269.

LADY-SMOCKS, probably the flow

ers of the Cardamine Pratensis, so called from the resemblance of its flowers to little smocks hung out to dry; or perhaps the name is a corruption of "Our Lady's smock"; V. ii. 905. LANCES, lancers; V. ii. 650. LAST, continue, remain, "l. love,"

i. e. "continue to be love"; V. ii. 813.

L'ENVOY, often used at this

period with the article or pro-
noun prefixed, hence "thy
l'envoy"; III. i. 76.

LIBBARD'S, leopard's; V. ii. 551.
LIE, lodge; I. i. 149.

LIVER-VEIN, the style and manner

of men in love; IV. iii. 76. 'LONG OF, owing to; II. i. 119. LOOSE, loosing of the shaft; V. ii. 752.

"LORD HAVE MERCY ON US," the inscription put upon the doors of

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MAIL, bag (the Quartos and Folio 1 read: "in the male"; Tyrwhitt's ingenious emendation "in them all" has been adopted by many editors); III. i. 78.

MALMSEY, a kind of sweet wine; V. ii. 233.

MANAGE, government, training (of horses); V. ii. 482. MANAGER, one who wields arms; 1. ii. 193.

MANNER, a law term (=mainour); "taken with them," i. e. "taken with the thing stolen upon him"; I. i. 205. MANTUAN, Giovanni Battista

Spagnoli, named Mantuanus, was the author of certain eclogues written in Latin which were read in schools; Holofernes quotes the first line of the first eclogue; IV. ii. 103.

MARGENT, margin (an allusion to the custom of writing notes in the margin of books); II. i. 246.

MARKET, "he ended the market,"

alluding to the proverb, "three women and a goose make a market"; III. i. 117.

MEAN, tenor; V. ii. 328. MEASURE, a stately dance; V. ii. 187.

MERE, absolute; I. i. 149. MESS, a set of four; "at great dinners the company was usually arranged into fours"; IV. iii. 210.

METE AT, to measure with the eye in aiming, to aim at; IV. i. 138.

METHEGLIN, a drink made of honey and water fermented; V. ii. 233.

MINSTRELSY, the office of a minstrel; I. i. 177.

MISPRISON, misapprehension; IV. iii. 101.

MONARCHO, the name of a fantastic Italian resident in London; often alluded to by contemporary writers; IV. i. 103. mutton love NATIVE, produced by nature; I. ii. 113.

NEW-FANGLED, delighting in novelty; I. i. 106. NICE, coy; V. ii. 219.

NIT, applied to anything very small; IV. i. 150.

NOVI HOMINEM, etc. ("I know the man as well I do you"), a wellknown sentence in the Latin phrase-books; V. i. 11. NOVUм, a game at dice, "properly called novum quinque, from the two principal throws of the dice, nine and five"; "abate throw at n."="except in a throw at novum, the whole world could not furnish five such"; V. ii. 546.

O'ERPARTED, Overweighted in his part, or rôle; V. ii. 588. OF, during; I. i. 43. -OPINION, Self-conceit; V. i. 6. O's, the marks left by the smallpox; V. ii. 45.

PARCEL, Company, party; V. ii. -160. 'PARITORS, apparitors, i. ferior officers of the bishop's

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court whose duty it was to serve citations; III. i. 198. PARLE, parley; V. ii. 122. PASSADO, thrust in fencing; I. ii. 189.

PASSION, grieve; I. i. 268. PASSION's, sorrow's; V. ii. 118. PATCH, used with a quibble or "patch" in the sense of fool; IV. ii. 34. PATHETICAL, Seemingly used by Armado and Costard in the sense of "pleasing in a high degree," "touching”; I. ii. 103; IV. i. 154.

PEDANT, pedagogue; III. i. 189. PENANCE, misused by Dull; I. ii.

136.

PENCILS, Small brushes used by painters to lay on color; "ware pencils" "beware of pencils," i. e. "of drawing likenesses"; V. ii. 43. PENTHOUSE-LIKE, hanging over like a penthouse, a porch with a sloping roof; III. i. 18. PEREMPTORY, unawed, bold; IV. iii. 229.

PERJURE, perjurer; (perjurers were obliged to wear papers on their breasts describing their offense); IV. iii. 50. PERTTAUNT-LIKE, vide Note. PHANTASIME, a fantastic; IV. i. 103.

PIA MATER, the membrane which covers the brain, used for the brain itself; IV. ii. 73. PICKED, over-refined; V. i. 15. PIED, variegated; V. ii. 904. PIN, the wooden pin that upheld the clout; IV. i. 142. PITCHED A TOIL, set a net; IV. iii. 2.

PLACKETS, stomachers, or petti

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coats, or some portion of female attire; III. i. 196. PLEASE-MAN, pickthank; V. ii. 463.

POINT, suggest; II. i. 245.

POINT, used with a quibble on the French negative particle; II. i. 190.

REMEMBER, "r. thy courtesy," a common phrase of the time, bidding a person who had courteously taken off his hat to put it on again; V. i. 109. REPASTURE, repast, food; IV. i. \ 97.

RESOLVE, answer; II. i. 110.

I'OINT-DEVISE, over-exact, precise; RESPECTS, considerations; V. ii.

V. i. 22.

POLE, the long quarter-staff, in the use of which the northerners were skilful; V. ii. 700. POMEWATER, a kind of apple; IV. ii. 4.

PRESENT, document to be presented; IV. iii. 192.

PRICKET, a buck of the second year; IV. ii. 14.

PRINT, “in p.," i. e. "accurately"; III. i. 183.

PRISCIAN, "P. a little scratched," alluding to the common phrase diminuas Prisciani caput, applied to such as speak false Latin; V. i. 33.

PRISONS UP (Folios and Quartos

"poisons up"), confines; "up" used as an intensive particle; IV. iii. 308.

PROCEEDED, used with a play upon

"proceed" as an academical sense, i. e. "to take a degree"; I. i. 95.

PRUNING, adorning; IV. iii. 186. PUSH-PIN, a child's game in which

pins are pushed alternately; IV. iii. 172.

QUALM, probably used with a

play upon "calm"; V. ii. 279. QUILLETS, casuistries; IV. iii. 291. QUOTE, regard; V. ii. 796.

RAUGHT, reached; IV. ii. 43.

REASONS, arguments; V. i. 2.

792.

RHETORIC; II. i. 229.

RUSSET, homespun (commonly of russet color); V. ii. 413.

SAINT DENIS, the patron saint of France; V. ii. 87.

SALVE, ointment; III. i. 76; used perhaps with a quibble on Latin salve, a word of greeting, and sometimes also a parting salutation; III. i. 88.

SATIS QUOD SUFFICIT, "enough's as
good as a feast"; V. i. 1.
SAW, maxim; V. ii. 932.
SELF-SOVEREIGNTY, "not a SOV-

ereignty over but in themselves"; or perhaps one should read "that self-sovereignty," i. e. "that self-same s."; IV. i. 36.

SET, i. e. a set at tennis; "to bandy" (cp. "well-bandied both") to send the ball to and fro; V. ii. 29. SEVERAL (used quibblingly):

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enclosed field, the private property of an individual, as opposed to a common, which was used by the public generally; II. i. 223.

SHAPELESS, unshapely, ugly; V. ii. 303.

SHREWD, mischievous; V. ii. 12. SHROWS, shrews; V. ii. 46. SIGNIFICANT, symbol (used by Armado); III. i. 137.

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