haps a quibble was intended: compare, in The Third Part of King Henry VI. act ii. sc. 1,

"henceforward will I bear

Upon my target three fair-shining suns.

Rich. Nay, bear three daughters," &c.).

suns? Do I see three, v. 252: "This circumstance is mentioned both by Hall and Holinshed; '—at which tyme the son (as some write) appeared to the earle of March like three sunnes, and sodainely joyned altogither in one, uppon whiche sight hee tooke such courage, that he fiercely setting on his enemyes put them to flight; and for this cause menne ymagined that he gave the sun in his full bryghtnesse for his badge or cognisance.' These are the words of Holinshed" (MALONE).

sun-burned, uncomely, homely, ill-favoured: I am sun-burned, ii. 93; The Grecian dames are sunburnt, vi. 24.

superfluous, possessed of more than enough: Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly (" Cold for naked, as superfluous for overclothed," WARBURTON; but see note 13, iii. 289), iii. 209; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous, vii. 291; Let the superfluous ("one living in abundance," WARBURTON) and lust-dieted man, vii. 314.

superflux, a superfluity, vii. 299.

superpraise, to overpraise, ii. 295.

superserviceable, over-officious, vii. 278.

supervise, an inspection: on the supervise (on the sight of the document), vii. 201.

supervise, to inspect, to overlook, ii. 195.

supervisor, an inspector, an overlooker, a looker-on, vii. 427. suppliance of a minute, “i.e. what was supplied to us for a minute, or, as Mr. M. Mason supposes, an amusement to fill up a vacant moment and render it agreeable" (STEEVENS), "the means of filling up the vacancy" (CALDECOTT), vii. 116. supplications in the quill-Deliver our, v. 119: see note 20, V.

201.

supplyant, suppletory, auxiliary, vii. 693.

supplyment, a continuance of supply, vii. 684.

supposal, a notion, a belief, vii. 109.

suppose, a supposition: we come short of our suppose, vi. 17; on vain suppose, vi. 295; counterfeit supposes, iii. 173 (where supposes is equivalent to "persons supposed to be not what they really were:" compare, at the conclusion of act ii. "I see no reason but suppos'd Lucentio Must get a father, call'd-suppos'd Vincentio"). supposed—I'll be, Elbow's blunder for I'll be deposed, i. 461.

SUR-ADDITION-SWATH.

sur-addition, a surname, an additional name, vii. 636.

surance, an assurance, vi. 344.

surcease, a cessation, vii. 18.

surcease, to cease, vi. 194, 451; viii. 337.

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sure, safe, out of danger: If we recover that, we're sure enough, i. 317. surfeiter, a glutton, a feaster, a reveller, vii. 514.

surmise, "speculation, conjecture concerning the future" (MALONE): function Is smother'd in surmise, vii. 12.

surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart-It will wear the, iii. 217: "This passage refers to the sour objection of the puritans to the use of the surplice in divine service, for which they wished to substitute the black Geneva gown. At this time the controversy with the puritans raged violently. Hooker's Fifth Book of Ecclesiastical Polity, which, in the 29th chapter discusses this matter at length, was published in 1597. But the question itself is much older-as old as the Reformation," &c. Note signed “S.” in Knight's Shakspere.

sur-reined, over-reined, over-worked, iv. 458.

suspect, suspicion, ii. 24; v. 122, 146, 156, 292, 406; vi. 564 (twice); viii. 273, 384 (twice); suspects, v. 365.

suspiration, the act of drawing the breath from the bottom of the breast, vii. 110.

suspire, to breathe, iv. 43, 381.

sustaining garments—Their, 183: This, I believe, means the garments that bore them up (not, as Mason supposes, their garments which bore, without being injured, the drenching of the sea). swabber, a sweeper of the deck of a vessel, i. 203; iii. 340. swag-bellied, having a large loose heavy belly, vii. 405. swam in a gondola, iii. 56: "That is, been at Venice" (JOHNSON). swart or swarth, black, dark, dusky, ii. 28; iv. 30; v. 12; vi. 304; swart-complexion'd, viii. 363.

swashers, swaggerers, braggadocios, iv. 451.

swashing, swaggering, blustering, "dashing" (Nares's Gloss.): a swashing and a martial outside, iii. 19.

swashing blow, a blow that comes down with noise and violence, an overpowering blow, vi. 389 ("To swash (or clash with swords and armour), Chamailler." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.).

swath, a line or row of grass as left by the scythe: the mower's swath, vi. 94; utters it by great swaths, iii. 350.

swath, a linen bandage for a new-born child,-infancy: from our first swath, vi. 557.

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SWATHING-CLOTHES-SWIFT.

swathing-clothes (the same as swaddling-clouts, vii. 141), linen bandages for new-born children (compare the preceding article), iv. 256.

sway of earth-All the, "The whole weight or momentum of this globe" (JOHNSON), All "the balanced swing of earth" (CRAIK), vi. 626.

sway, to incline: Now sways it this way.

v. 265; swaying more upon our part, iv. 424.

Now sways it that way,

sway on-Let us, iv. 364: see note 58, iv. 410. swayed in the back, iii. 144: “Of the swayinge of the backe. This is called of the Italians mal feruto, and, according to Russius and Martins opinions, commeth either by some great straine, or else by heavie burthens: you shall perceive it by the reeling and rolling of the horses hinder parts in his going, which will faulter many times, and sway, sometime backward, and sometime sideling, and bee ready to fall even to the ground, and the horse being laid, is scant able to get uppe." Blundevile's Order of Curing Horses Diseases, 1609 (quoted by Halliwell).

swear'st thy gods in vain-Thou, Thou swearest by thy gods, &c.

vii. 253.

sweat-Till then I'll, vi. 100: An allusion to the cure of the venereal disease by means of sweating: see tub.

sweat, what with the gallows,—What with the, i. 449: Here, it would seem, the sweat means "the sweating-sickness," and not the method used for the cure of the venereal disease.

sweet-and-twenty, twenty times sweet, iii. 347: A term of endearment: Steevens cites, from The Merry Devil of Edmonton, "his little wanton wagtailes, his sweet and twenties," &c.

sweet mouth-She hath a, i. 299: Here a sweet mouth is equivalent to "a sweet tooth;" but Launce, in his rejoinder, chooses to understand the words literally.

sweeting, a kind of sweet apple, and used as a term of endearment in all the passages now referred to, except the fourth,-iii. 160, 346; v. 47; vi. 420; vii. 410.

sweetmeats, perfumed sugar-plums (see kissing-comfits): Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are, vi. 403: and such perhaps is the meaning of sweetmeats, ii. 266.

sweetness-Their saucy, i. 472: Here Steevens understands sweetness to mean "lickerishness."

sweet-suggesting, sweetly tempting, i. 287: see suggest.

swet, sweated, ii. 385; iii. 24; v. 505.

swift, ready, quick: so swift and excellent a wit, ii. 105; he is very

SWINGE-BUCKLERS-SWORD.

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swift and sententious, iii. 73; A good swift simile (with a quibble), iii. 175.

swinge-bucklers, riotous blades, roisterers, iv. 355.

swinged, whipped, beaten, chastised, i. 275, 300, 415 (twice), 510; iv. 20, 398 (twice).

Swinstead, iv. 69: The name ought to be Swineshead: but the error was derived from the old play, The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn, &c. (see iv. 3), and from ballads concerning that king. Swithold, vii. 301: The contraction of Saint Withold (supposed by Tyrwhitt to mean St. Vitalis), who, it appears, was commonly invoked against the nightmare.

Switzers, vii. 182: The Swiss in Shakespeare's days, as in recent times, were ready to serve for pay in any part of Europe.

swoop, the sudden descent of a bird of prey on its quarry, vii. 60. swoopstake, "by wholesale, undistinguishingly" (CALDECOTT), vii.

183.

sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones—No trophy, vii. 185: “It was the custom, in the times of our author, to hang a sword over the grave of a knight" (JOHNSON): "This practice is uniformly kept up to this day," &c. (SIR J. HAWKINS).

sword-To swear by a: "The singular mixture of religious and military fanaticism which arose from the crusades, gave rise to the extraordinary custom of taking a solemn oath upon a sword. In a plain unenriched sword, the separation between the blade and the hilt was usually a straight transverse bar, which, suggesting the idea of a cross, added to the devotion which every true knight felt for his favourite weapon, and evidently led to this practice; of which the instances are too numerous to be collected. The sword, or the blade, were often mentioned in this ceremony, without reference to the cross." Nares's Gloss.: “ In consequence of the practice of occasionally swearing by a sword, or rather by the cross or upper end of it, the name of Jesus was sometimes inscribed on the handle or some other part. Such an instance occurs on the monument of a crusader in the vestry of the church at Winchelsea," &c. (DOUCE): Swear by this sword, iii. 447; Swear by my sword, vii. 126 (twice): Hence Falstaff says jestingly that Glendower swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook, iv. 241; see Welsh hook, &c. (The custom of swearing by a sword prevailed even among the barbarous worshippers of Odin; "The Scythians commonly substituted a sword as the most proper symbol to represent the supreme god. It was by planting a spear in the middle of a field, that they usually marked out the place set apart for prayers and sacrifices: and when they had relaxed from their primitive strictness, so far as to build temples and set up idols in them, they yet preserved some traces

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SWORD-AND-BUCKLER-SYMPATHY.

of the ancient custom, by putting a sword in the hands of Odin's statues. The respect they had for their arms made them also swear by instruments so valuable and so useful, as being the most sacred things they knew. Accordingly, in an ancient Icelandic poem, a Scandinavian, to assure himself of a person's good faith, requires him to swear by the shoulder of a horse, and the edge of a sword.' This oath was usual more especially on the eve of some great engagement: the soldiers engaged themselves by an oath of this kind, not to flee though their enemies should be never so superior in number." Mallet's Northern Antiquities, &c., transl. by Percy, vol. i. p. 216, ed. 1770).

sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales-That same, That same Prince of Wales who brawls and fights in the lowest company, iv. 221: "Upon the introduction of the rapier and dagger, the swordand-buckler fell into desuetude among the higher classes, and were accounted fitting weapons for the vulgar only, such as Hotspur implies were the associates of the prince" (STAUNTON). ("My olde master kept a good house, and twenty or thirty tall sword and buckler men about him." Wilkins's Miseries of Inforst Marriage, sig. E 4, ed. 1629.)

sworder, a swordsman, a cutthroat, a gladiator, v. 168; vii. 557. sword-hilts: see hilts.

sworn brother, an expression originally derived from the fratres jurati, who, in the days of chivalry, mutually bound themselves by oath to share each other's fortune, ii. 76; iii. 483; iv. 166, 232, 362; sworn brothers, iv. 434, 452.

sworn-out house-keeping-I hear your grace hath, I hear your grace has forsworn, renounced, housekeeping, ii. 178. swounds, swoons, viii. 329: In this passage, of course, the rhyme requires the former spelling to be preserved. (Here Malone asserts -what he had already asserted in a note on The Winter's Tale— that "swoon is constantly written sound or swound in the old copies of our author's plays;" a most rash assertion: see note 93, iii. 519.) Sycorax, i. 185, 186, 187 (twice), 213 (twice): see wicked dew. sympathy-If that thy valour stand on, iv. 158: "Aumerle has

challenged Bagot with some hesitation, as not being his equal, and therefore one whom, according to the rules of chivalry, he was not obliged to fight, as a nobler life was not to be staked in a duel against a baser. Fitzwater then throws down his gage, a pledge of battle; and tells him that if he stands upon sympathies, that is, upon equality of blood, the combat is now offered him by a man of rank not inferior to his own. Sympathy is an affection incident at once to two subjects. This community of affection implies a likeness or equality of nature, and thence our poet transferred the term to equality of blood" (JOHNSON).