LORD'S-LOVE-DAY.

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Lord's tokens-The, ii. 223: A quibble: tokens or God's tokens was the term for those spots on the body, which denoted the infection of the plague: compare death-tokens and token'd pestilence-The.

losel, a worthless fellow, a scoundrel, iii. 446.

loss, exposure, desertion : Poor thing, condemn'd to loss, iii. 448. lots to blanks My name hath touch'd your ears—It is, vi. 222: “Menenius, I imagine, only means to say, that it is more than an equal chance that his name has touched their ears. Lots were the term in our author's time for the total number of tickets in a lottery, which took its name from thence. So in the Continuation of Stowe's Chronicle, 1615, p. 1002; 'Out of which lottery, for want of filling, by the number of lots, there were then taken out and thrown away threescore thousand blanks, without abating of any one prize.' The lots were, of course, more numerous than the blanks. If lot signified prize, as Dr. Johnson supposed, there being in every lottery many more blanks than prizes, Menenius must be supposed to say, that the chance of his name having reached their ears was very small; which certainly is not his meaning" (MALONE): "Lots to blanks is a phrase equivalent to another in King Richard III., ‘All the world to nothing'" (STEEVENS): "Lots are the whole number of tickets in a lottery; blanks a proportion of the whole number” (KNIGHT).

lottery, an allottery, an allotment: Octavia is A blessèd lottery to him, vii. 522.

Louis the Tenth-King, iv. 427: Here Tenth should be Ninth : Shakespeare caught the error from Holinshed.

louted by a traitor villain—I am, I am mocked, contemned by, &c. v. 58; where louted has usually been wrongly explained (Compare

"he is louted and laughed to scorne

For the veriest dolte that ever was borne," &c.

Ralph Roister Doister, p. 40, reprint, 1818:

"Ah woe was me, for from that houre to this,

She bides with him, where me they lout and scorn," &c.

Sir J. Harington's Orlando Furioso, B. xliii. st. 45).

louts-Our general: see general louts—Our.

love Will creep in service where it cannot go, i. 306: "Kindness will creep where it cannot gang' is to be found in Kelly's Collection of Scottish Proverbs, p. 226" (REED).

Love, the Queen of love, Venus: Let Love, being light, be drownèd

if she sink, ii. 26; Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers, ii. 207; the love of Love, vii. 498; Love's master, viii. 258; She's Love, viii. 259; Love lack'd a dwelling, viii. 441: see note 56, ii. 62. love-day, a day of love, of reconciliation, a day for settling differences, vi. 297.

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LOVE-IN-IDLENESS-LOYAL.

love-in-idleness, one of the several names of the viola tricolor, more commonly called pansy, or heart's-ease, ii. 279.

lovely berries-Two, ii. 297; a lovely kiss, iii. 146: In these passages lovely seems to be equivalent to loving: see note 60, ii. 331.

lover, a mistress: Your brother and his lover, i. 455; athwart the heart of his lover, iii. 50.

lover, a male friend: the bosom lover of my lord, ii. 390; Whether Bassanio had not once a lover, ii. 402; I as your lover speak, vi. 58; Thy general is my lover, vi. 222; Thy lover, Artemidorus, vi. 644; as I slew my best lover, vi. 656; thy deceased lover, viii. 365; through my lover's life, viii. 380; the drops of thy lovers (persons who love thee), iv. 373; countrymen, and lovers! vi. 655; Knights, kinsmen, lovers, viii. 192; call your lovers, viii. 210.

Love's golden arrow at him should have fled, And not Death's ebon dart, viii. 270: "Our poet had probably in his thoughts the wellknown fiction of Love and Death sojourning together in an inn, and, on going away in the morning, changing their arrows by mistake. See Whitney's Emblems, p. 132" (MALONE): “Massinger, in his Virgin Martyr [act iv. sc. 3], alludes to the same fable;

'Strange affection!

Cupid once more hath chang'd his shafts with Death,

And kills, instead of giving life.'

Mr. Gifford has illustrated this passage by quoting one of the Elegies of Joannes Secundus. The fiction is probably of Italian origin. Sanford, in his Garden of Pleasure, 1576, has ascribed it to Alciato, and has given that poet's verses, to which he has added a metrical translation of his own. Shirley has formed a masque upon this story, Cupid and Death, 1650 [see Shirley's Works, vol. vi. ed. Gifford and Dyce]" (BOSWELL).

loves-Of all, For all loves, for love's sake, by all means, i. 368; ii. 286; vii. 414.

Love's Tyburn—The shape of, ii. 198: "An allusion to the gallows of the time, which was usually triangular" (Douce).

love-springs, love-shoots, ii. 25: see first spring. low-crooked, vi. 647: see note 59, vi. 697.

lower chair, i. 460: "Every house had formerly, among its other furniture, what was called a low chair, designed for the ease of sick people, and, occasionally, occupied by lazy ones" (STEEVENS). lower world-This, i. 216: see note 141, i. 541.

lown: see loon.

loyal, faithful in love: loyal cantons of condemnèd love, iii. 341; your true And loyal wife, vii. 445; loyal to his vow, vii. 675; the loyal Leonatus, vii. 681; The loyal'st husband, vii. 638.

LOYALTY-LURCH.

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loyalty, fidelity in love: true loyalty to her, i. 306; when I end loyalty! ii. 283; Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty, vi. 305; would force the feeler's soul To th' oath of loyalty, vii. 653.

Lubber's-head, the Hostess's blunder for, or a vulgar corruption of, Libbard's (i. e. Leopard's) head, iv. 330.

luces in their coat―They may give the dozen white, i. 345; The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat, ibid.: Luce is a pike-fish ; and there can be no doubt that we have here an allusion to the armorial bearings of Shakespeare's old enemy Sir Thomas Lucy: “In Ferne's Blazon of Gentry, 1586, quarto, the arms of the Lucy family are represented as an instance that 'signs of the coat should something agree with the name. It is the coat of Geffray Lord Lucy. He did bear gules, three lucies hariant, argent'" (STEEVENS): "A quartering of the Lucy arms, exhibiting the 'dozen white luces,' is given in Dugdale's Warwickshire, 1656, p. 348, annexed to a representation of an early monument to the memory of Thomas, son of Sir William Lucy," &c. (HALLIWELL): But what is the meaning of the second of the above speeches? Farmer attempts to explain it thus; 66 Slender has observed, that the family might give a dozen white luces in their coat; to which the Justice adds, 'It is an old one.' This produces the Parson's blunder, and Shallow's correction. 'The luce is not the louse but the pike, the fresh fish of that name. Indeed our coat is old, as I said, and the fish cannot be fresh; and therefore we bear the white, i. e. the pickled or salt fish.'” Lud's-town, vii. 672, 697, 735: "Trinovantum, called Caer Lud, and by corruption of the word Caer London, and in process of time London, was rebuilt by Lud, Cassibelan's elder brother" (GREY). lugged bear, a bear pulled, seized, by the ears, iv. 212.

lullaby to your bounty, iii. 386: That lullaby is unusual as a verb has been remarked by Mr. Halliwell, who cites an example of it: I subjoin another;

"Sweet sound that all mens sences lullabieth."

Copley's Fig for Fortune, 1596, p. 59. lunes, fits of lunacy, mad freaks (Fr.), i. 396 ; iii. 441; vi. 39. Lupercal-The feast of, vi. 617; on the Lupercal, vi. 657: “The Roman festival of the Lupercalia (-ium or -iorum), whatever may be the etymology of the name, was in honour of the god Pan. It was celebrated annually on the Ides (or 13th) of February, in a place called the Lupercal, at the foot of Mount Aventine. A third company of Luperci, or priests of Pan, with Antony for its chief, was instituted in honour of Julius Cæsar" (CRAIK).

lurch-To shuffle, to hedge, and to, i. 366: Here lurch has been inter

preted "to shift, to play tricks," "to act covertly, to resort to shifts;" but qy. is it not equivalent to lurk (see Richardson's Dict.

in that word), and means "to lie in ambush, to lie close, to lie in concealment"?

lurch'd all swords of the garland—He, vi. 169: Here Malone, after observing that "To lurch is properly to purloin [" Fortraire. To lurch, purloyne." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.: "To lurch, Subduco, surripio." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.]," concludes thus; "To lurch in Shakespeare's time signified to win a maiden set at cards, &c. See Florio's Italian Dict., 1598: Gioco marzo. A maiden set, or lurch, at any game.' See also Coles's Lat. Dict. 1679; 'A lurch, Duplex palma, facilis victoria.' 'To lurch all swords of the garland,' therefore, was to gain from all other warriors the wreath of victory, with ease, and incontestable superiority."

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lush, juicy, succulent,―luxuriant, i. 194; ii. 281.

lust, pleasure, inclination, liking: I'll answer to my lust, vi. 71 (see note 131, vi. 121); Gazing upon the Greeks with little lust, viii. 326. lustic, as the Dutchman says, iii. 231: Lustigh is the Dutch for "lusty, healthy, cheerful" ("An old play, that has a great deal of merit, call'd The Weakest goeth to the Wall (printed in 1600; but how much earlier written, or by whom written, we are no where inform'd) has in it a Dutchman call'd Jacob Van Smelt, who speaks a jargon of Dutch and our language, and upon several occasions uses this very word, which in English is-lusty" (CAPELL) : The word lustic occurs frequently in our old plays as well as in other early compositions: I cannot forbear remarking that in a recent edition of Webster's works, The Weakest goeth to the Wall (of which assuredly he never wrote a syllable) is most absurdly and ignorantly included).

lustihood, vigour, energy, ii. 131; vi. 32.

luxurious, lascivious (its only sense in Shakespeare), ii. 119; iv. 483; vi. 93, 340; vii. 55.

luxuriously, lasciviously, vii. 560.

luxury, lasciviousness (its only sense in Shakespeare), i. 413, 520; iv. 458; v. 408; vi. 85; vii. 124, 325; viii. 448.

lym, a lime-hound, a sporting dog, led by the thong called a lyme (according to Minsheu, as cited by Malone, a blood-hound:" but qy?), vii. 307.

M.

mace, a sceptre: The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, iv. 476. mace, a club of metal: Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy, vi. 674 (where Steevens explains mace to mean "sceptre,"―wrongly, as is shown by the epithet "murderous" in the preceding line).

MACULATE-MAIL'D.

maculate, stained, impure, ii. 173; viii. 196. maculation, a stain, impurity, vi. 69.

mad as a buck, a proverbial expression, ii. 24.

made, having one's fortune made, fortunate: see first make. made, fastened, barred: see second make.

made, did see third make.

made, made up, raised as profit: see fourth make.

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made, formed: my made intent, vii. 330 ("So we say in common language to make a design and to make a resolution," JOHNSON). made means to come by what he hath-One that, v. 450: "To make means was, in Shakespeare's time, often used in an unfavourable sense, and signified 'to come at anything by indirect practices' " (STEEVENS).

made-up villain-A, A complete, a perfect villain, vi. 568.

magnifico, a title given to the grandees of Venice, vii. 381; magnificoes, ii. 387.

magot-pies, magpies, vii. 42.

Mahomet inspirèd with a dove?—Was, v. 13: "Mahomet had a dove 'which he used to feed with wheat out of his ear; which dove, when it was hungry, lighted on Mahomet's shoulder, and thrust its bill in to find its breakfast; Mahomet persuading the rude and simple Arabians that it was the Holy Ghost that gave him advice.' See Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Book i. Part 1, ch. vi. Life of Mahomet by Dr. Prideaux" (GREY).

Mahu, vii. 302, 314: In the first passage of our text, according to

what seems to be a quotation, Mahu is another name for "the prince of darkness;" in the second he is described as the fiend "of stealing;" and, according to Harsnet's Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, 1603, a work from which our poet appears to have derived the names of several fiends in King Lear, "Maho [sic] was generall dictator of hell; & yet, for good manners sake, he was contented of his good nature to make shew, that himselfe was vnder the check of Modu, the graund deuil in Ma[ister] Maynie." p. 50; again, "Maho the chiefe deuill.... had two thousand deuils at his commaundement." p. 201.

mail'd up in shame, wrapped up in shame (as a hawk is in a cloth),

v. 140 ("Mail a hawk is to wrap her up in a handkerchief or other cloath, that she may not be able to stir her wings or to struggle." R. Holme's Academy of Armory and Blazon (Terms of Art used in Falconry, &c.), B. ii. c. xi. p. 239: A hawk was sometimes mailed by pinioning her with a girth or band; see Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster, act v. sc. 4: Drayton makes the speaker of our text say of herself;