CONTEMPTS = contents; I. i. 191. tion; V. ii. 745. CONVINCE, Overcome; V. ii. 756. 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. CURIOUS-KNOTTED, elaborately DANCING-HORSE; an allusion to a DEBATE, Contest; I. í. 174. 123. DISGRACE, disfigurement; I. i. 3. DISPOSED, inclined to be somewhat wantonly merry; II. ì. 250. DOMINICAL, the red letter which DOUBT; "made a d."-"expressed EPITHETON, epithet (used by FADGE, turn out well; V. i. 154. Ledge priest LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST FASTING, hungry; IV. iii. 125. FORTUNA DE LA GUERRA (Spanish), GALLOWS, used playfully for a GET THE SUN; in the days of HALF-CHEEK, profile; V. ii. 620. green geeze-simp 138 HAY, an old country-dance; V. i. HEAD, "a buck of the first head" HEED, protection, lodestar; I. i. HEREBY, used by Jaquenetta in HID, vide "ALL HID." quibble on "hind," the beast; IMP, youngster; V..ii. 592. 100. INCONY, nice, smart; III. i. 144. a 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- LIBBARD'S, leopard's; V. ii. 551. 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 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 e. in 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 peregrinate 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 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): = an 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. |