table, a board, a pannel, the surface on which a picture is painted: In our heart's table, iii. 209; Drawn in the flattering table of her eye, iv. 26; in table of my heart, viii. 361. table, "in the language of palmistry or chiromancy, the whole collection of lines on the skin within the hand" (Nares's Gloss.), “a space between certain lines on the skin within the hand" (HALLIWELL): if any man in Italy have a fairer table, ii. 363. table and tables, a memorandum-book: the table wherein all my thoughts, &c. i. 288; the table of my memory, vii. 124 ; lisping (“ making love, saying soft things," MALONE) to his master's old tables, iv. 348; wipe his tables clean, iv. 368; My tables,—meet it is I set it down, vii. 125; Thy gift, thy tables, viii. 410. table-book, a memorandum-book (see the preceding article), iii. 483; vii. 135. tabled, set down in writing, vii. 644. tables, backgammon (and other games played with the same board and dice) when he plays at tables, ii. 220. tabor, a sort of small drum, beaten with a single stick, and generally accompanied by a pipe, which the taborer himself played, i. 223; ii. 96, 211; iii. 360 (three times,-where Douce remarks, "This instrument is found in the hands of fools long before the time of Shakespeare"), 471; vi. 151; Tabors, vi. 232. taborer, a player on the tabor, i. 214; viii. 164: see tabor. tabourines, small drums,-drums, vi. 79; vii. 572. tackled, made of ropes fastened together, vi. 422. tag-The, The common people, the rabble, vi. 187 (so, the tag-rag people, vi. 624). tail-A rat without a: see rat without a tail, &c. "tailor” cries, ii. 276: "The custom of crying tailor at a sudden fall backwards, I think I remember to have observed. He that slips beside his chair, falls as a tailor squats upon his board" (JOHNSON): It may be doubted if this explains the text. tailor, or be redbreast teacher-'Tis the next way to turn, iv. 253: "The plain meaning is, that he who makes a common practice of singing, reduces himself to the condition either of a tailor [tailors being often mentioned as much given to singing], or a teacher of music to birds" (MALONE):-the next way, the nearest way. taint, tainted, touched, imbued: a pure unspotted heart, Never yet VOL. IX. FF 434 TAINTURE-TAKE. taint with love, v. 74; Nero will be tainted with remorse (touched with compassion), v. 273. tainture, defilement, v. 133. take, to captivate, to delight: which must Take the ear strangely, i. 235; play'd to take spectators, iii. 451; take The winds of March with beauty, iii. 469. take, to bewitch, to affect with malignant influence, to strike with disease: takes the castle, i. 402; No fairy takes, vii. 108; You taking airs, vii. 288. take, to strike: take you a blow o' the lips, iii. 356; Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy sword, v. 376 (Take in this sense is of considerable antiquity; so in the ballad of Little John, the Beggar, and the Palmers, "But one of them tooke litle Iohn on his head, The blood ran over his eye." Bishop Percy's folio Ms. printed by the Early English Text Society, vol. i. p. 49). take, to leap: make you take the hatch, iv. 67. take, to take refuge in: for God's sake, take a house! ii. 44. take all is, I believe, properly, as Mr. Collier observes, "an expression from the gaming-table, meaning, let all depend upon this hazard, and let the successful competitor 'take all':" And bids what will take all, vii. 293; I'll strike, and cry “ Take all” (“Let the survivor take all; no composition; victory or death," JOHNSON), vii. 564. (There was a game at dice called Take-all.) take all, pay all, i. 368: Ray gives "Take all and pay all" among proverbs communicated by a Somersetshire gentleman, Proverbs, p. 273, ed. 1768. take away, to remove, to make away: Let me still take away the harms I fear, vii. 272. take eggs for money?—Will you: see eggs for money, &c. take-For I can, iv. 435: "Means, 'I can take fire.' Though Pistol's cock was up, yet if he did not take fire, no flashing could ensue. The whole sentence consists in allusions to his name" (MASON). take his haste-Let him, vi. 571: see note 205, vi. 605 (and to the passages there cited add, "And to mete him he toke his pase full right." Lydgate's Fall of Prynces, B. ix. fol. xxxiiii. verso, ed. Wayland: "To the Bruers gate he tooke his race." Song how a Bruer meant to make a Cooper cuckold-among take in, to conquer, to subdue: take in the mind, iii. 482; take in many towns, vi. 144; take in a town, vi. 192; Take in that king TAKE. 435 dom, vii. 498; take in Toryne, vii. 548; take in some virtue, vii. 674; With his own single hand he'd take us in, vii. 698 (where Johnson, and Nares in Gloss., wrongly explain take in by "apprehend as an outlaw or felon"); taking kingdoms in, vii. 559. take it on one's death-To: see death-Took it, on his and com66 Gripe. But I am sure she loues not him. pare Will. Nay, I dare take it on my death she loues him.” Wily Begvilde, sig. c verso, ed. 1606. take me with you, let me understand you ("go no faster than I can follow," JOHNSON), iv. 243; vi. 446 (twice). take on, which commonly signifies "to grieve" ("To take on, Doleo, Egre ferre." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.), appears to be used by Shakespeare in the sense of "to be angry, to rage:" she does so take on with her men, i. 390; How will my mother for a father's death Take on with me, v. 267; he so takes on yonder with my husband, i. 396 (Malone compares Nash's Pierce Pennilesse his Supplication to the Diuell; "Some wil take on like a mad man, if they see a Pig come to the table." Sig. D 3, ed. 1595). take on, to simulate, to pretend: take on as you would follow, ii. 298. take order, to adopt measures, to make necessary dispositions: If your worship will take order for the drabs, &c. i. 462; take order for the wrongs, ii. 47; I'll order take, iii. 261; I will take such order, iv. 359; take some order in the town, v. 46; take order for mine own affairs, v. 151; to take some privy order, v. 408; take order for her keeping close, v. 420; Some one take order Buckingham be brought, &c. v. 439; this order hath Baptista ta'en, iii. 124; there is order ta'en for you, iv. 167; Iago hath ta'en order for't, vii. 461. take out, to copy: Take me this work out, vii. 435; I must take out the work? vii. 440; I'll have the work ta'en out, vii. 425. take peace with, to forgive, to pardon, v. 507. take scorn, to disdain: Take thou no scorn, iii. 60; take foul scorn, v. 60; takes no scorn, iv. 490. take the head, "to act without restraint, to take undue liberties" (JOHNSON), "to take away or omit the sovereign's chief and usual title" (DOUCE): to shorten you, For taking so the head, your whole head's length, iv. 148. take thought, "to turn melancholy" (JOHNSON), vi. 635: see thought. take toy: see second toy. take a truce and take truce, to make peace: With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce, iv. 29; Could not take truce with the unruly spleen Of Tybalt, vi. 431; The seas and winds, old wranglers, took a truce, vi. 32. take up, to settle, to make up: And how was that [quarrel] ta'en up? iii. 73; when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, iii. 74 ; I have his horse to take up the quarrel, iii. 375. ("And chiefe Marsilio and Sobrino sage Advise King Agramant to stay the fight, And to take up the quarrell if they might," &c. Sir J. Harington's translation of the Orlando Furioso, B. xxx. st. 26; where on the 28th st. is the following marginal note; "This is almost the chiefe cause why quarrels betweene Princes and great states be so seldome taken up.") take up, to obtain goods on credit, to take commodities upon trust: take up commodities upon our bills (with a quibble; see first bill), v. 181; a goodly commodity, being taken up of these men's bills (with a quibble both on taken up-the common meaning of which is "apprehended,”—and on bills), ii. 113; yet art thou good for nothing but taking up, iii. 235 (“ When Lafeu adds, and that thou'rt scarce worth,' the intention is to play upon another sense of the words, that of taking from the ground," Nares's Gloss.); if a man is thorough with them in honest taking-up, iv. 321. take up, to levy: You have ta'en up, Under the counterfeited seal of God, The subjects of his substitute, iv. 370. taken with the manner : see manner, &c. taking, witchery, malignant influence: star-blasting and taking, vii. 300. tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor 'twas not so; but indeed, God forbid it should be so'-Like the old, ii. 80: "I believe none of the commentators have understood this; it is an allusion, as the speaker says, to an old tale, which may perhaps be still extant in some collections of such things, or which Shakespeare may have heard, as I have, related by a great-aunt, in his childhood. "Once upon a time, there was a young lady (called Lady Mary in the story), who had two brothers. One summer they all three went to a country-seat of theirs, which they had not before visited. Among the other gentry in the neighbourhood who came to see them was a Mr. Fox, a bachelor, with whom they, particularly the young lady, were much pleased. He used often to dine with them, and frequently invited Lady Mary to come and see his house. One day that her brothers were absent elsewhere, and she had nothing better to do, she determined to go thither; and accordingly set out unattended. When she arrived at the house, and knocked at the door, no one answered. At length she opened it, and went in; over the portal of the hall was written 'Be bold, be bold, but not too bold:' she advanced; over the staircase, the same inscription: she went up; over the entrance of a gallery, the same: she proceeded; over the door of a chamber Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your heart's blood should run cold.' She opened it; it was full of skeletons, tubs full of blood, &c. She retreated in haste: coming down stairs, she saw out of a window Mr. Fox advancing towards the house, with a drawn sword in one hand, while with the other he dragged along a young lady by her hair. Lady Mary had just time to slip down, and hide herself under the stairs, before Mr. Fox and his victim arrived at the foot of them. As he pulled the young lady up stairs, she caught hold of one of the banisters with her hand, on which was a rich bracelet. Mr. Fox cut it off with his sword: the hand and bracelet fell into Lady Mary's lap, who then contrived to escape unobserved, and got home safe to her brother's house. After a few days, Mr. Fox came to dine with them as usual (whether by invitation, or of his own accord, this deponent saith not). After dinner, when the guests began to amuse each other with extraordinary anecdotes, Lady Mary at length said, she would relate to them a remarkable dream she had lately had. I dreamt, said she, that as you, Mr. Fox, had often invited me to your house, I would go there one morning. When I came to the house, I knocked, &c., but no one answered. When I opened the door, over the hall was written 'Be bold, be bold, but not too bold.' But, said she, turning to Mr. Fox, and smiling, 'It is not so, nor it was not so;' then she pursues the rest of the story, concluding at every turn with 'It is not so, nor it was not so,' till she comes to the room full of dead bodies, when Mr. Fox took up the burden of the tale, and said 'It is not so, nor it was not so, and God forbid it should be so:' which he continues to repeat at every subsequent turn of the dreadful story, till she came to the circumstance of his cutting off the young lady's hand, when, upon his saying as usual, 'It is not so, nor it was not so, and God forbid it should be so,' Lady Mary retorts, 'But it is so, and it was so, and here the hand I have to show,' at the same time producing the hand and bracelet from her lap: whereupon the guests drew their swords, and instantly cut Mr. Fox into a thousand pieces. เ "Such is the old tale to which Shakespeare evidently alludes, and which has often 'froze my young blood,' when I was a child, as, I dare say, it had done his before me. I will not apologize for repeating it, since it is manifest that such old wives' tales often prove the best elucidation of this writer's meaning” (BLAKEWAY). The above may really be a modernised version of "the old tale" alluded to by Shakespeare: but Blakeway was not aware that one of the circumstances in the good lady's narrative is borrowed from Spenser's description of what Britomart saw in the castle of Busyrane; "Tho, as she backward cast her busie eye, |