508

WOMAN-WOODEN.

Shakespeare's time female characters were performed by boys or young men.

woman me, "affect me suddenly and deeply, as my sex are usually affected" (STEEVENS), iii. 244.

woman of the world—A: see world—A woman of the. woman'd, accompanied, haunted by a woman, vii. 435. woman-queller: see man-queller, &c.

woman-tir'd, woman-pecked, hen-pecked, iii. 445: see first tire. wombs, encloses, contains, iii. 480.

womby, hollow, capacious, iv. 448.

wonder'd, able to effect wonders, marvellously gifted: So rare a wonder'd father, i. 221 : see note 96, i. 252.

wood, mad: like a wood woman, i. 279; wood within this wood, ii. 279; raging-wood, v. 64; frenzies wood, viii. 264.

woodbine, the bindweed, the convolvulus: So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwine; the female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm, ii. 305: On the words in Jonson's Vision of Delight,

"behold,

How the blue bindweed doth itself infold
With honeysuckle," &c.,

....

Gifford remarks; "This passage settles the meaning of the speech of Titania in Midsummer-Night's Dream . . . . The woodbine of Shakespeare is the blue bindweed of Jonson: in many of our counties the woodbine is still the name for the great convolvulus." Jonson's Works, vol. vii. p. 308: My friend the late Rev. John Mitford, an excellent botanist, who at one time had maintained in print that Gifford's explanation of "woodbine" was wrong, acknowledged at last that it was the only true one. (What an odd notion of poetic composition must those interpreters have who maintain that here woodbine and honeysuckle are put in apposition as meaning the same plant-and who, of course, consider entwine to be an intransitive verb!-a notion which Mr. Beisly (Shakspere's Garden, &c. p. 37) thus most ridiculously amplifies; "The name' woodbine' denotes its character as a climbing plant; 'honeysuckle' the property of the flower, which contains a sweet juice"!) woodcock, a cant term for a simpleton (the woodcock being proverbial as a foolish bird, perhaps because it is easily caught in springes or in nets), ii. 133; iii. 125, 259, 357; woodcocks, ii. 199; vii. 118.

wooden 0: see second 0.

wooden thing-A, "An awkward business, an undertaking not likely to succeed" (STEEVENS), v. 71.

WOODMAN-WORLD.

509

woodman, a forester, a huntsman ("seems to have been an attendant or servant to the officer called Forrester. See Manwood on the Forest Laws, 4to, 1615, p. 46," REED): prov'd best woodman, vii. 690; He is no woodman, viii. 303.

woodman, one who hunts female game, a wencher: Am I a wood

man, ha? i. 411; a better woodman than thou takest him for, i. 503. woollen - Lie in the, ii. 86: "I suppose she means- - between blankets, without sheets" (STEEVENS).

woolward for penance—I go, ii. 230: To go woolward was to wear woollen, instead of linen, next the skin,,—a penance often formerly enjoined by the Church of Rome.

("make

Their enemies like Friers wool-ward to lie."

Exchange Ware at the Second Hand, &c. 1615, sig. B.)

woo't, for wilt, vii. 199 (five times), 564, 582.

word, a watch-word: Now to my word; It is,' Adieu,'" &c. vii. 125 (on which passage Steevens remarks, “"Hamlet alludes to the watchword given every day in military service, which at this time he says is Adieu, adieu! remember me! So in The Devil's Charter, a tragedy [by B. Barnes], 1607, 'Now to my watch-word"); Give the word. Edg. Sweet marjoram. Lear. Pass, vii. 324.

word, a motto: The word, Lux, &c. viii. 25; The word, Me pompæ, &c. ibid.; The word, Quod me, &c. ibid.

word-I moralize two meanings in one: see moralize.

words me-He, He plies me with words, vii. 592.

แ

work, a term of fortification" (STEEVENS): and let 'em win the work, v. 569.

workings, "labours of thought" (STEEVENS): our dull workings, iv. 370.

workings, acts: mock your workings in a second body (“treat with contempt your acts executed by a representative," JOHNSON), iv. 391.

world-To go to the, To be married, to commence housekeeper, iii. 215; Thus goes every one to the world but I, ii. 93.

world—A woman of the, A married woman, iii. 70: see the preceding article.

world may laugh again—The, v. 141: "The world may look again favourably upon me" (JOHNSON); "Equivalent to-Fortune may smile again" (STAUNTON).

world to see-It is a, It is a wonder to see, ii. 117; iii. 137 (This expression was in use as early as the time of Skelton, who has in his Bowge of Courte,

"It is a worlde, I saye, to here of some."

Works, vol. i. p. 47, ed. Dyce:

510

WORLD-WITHOUT-END-WORTS.

and it is found even in the Second Volume of Strype's Annals of the Reform., which was first published in 1725, and must have been written only a few years earlier; "But it was a world to consider, what unjust oppressions of the people and the poor this occasioned, by some griping men, that were concerned therein." p. 209). world-without-end bargain-A, "An everlasting bargain" (MALONE), ii. 233; the world-without-end hour, "the tedious hour, that seems as if it never would end" (MALONE), viii. 377.

worm, a serpent: the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm, i. 477; a worm, an adder, do so much, ii. 293; The mortal worm, v. 160; eyeless venom'd worm (the blind-worm), vi. 555; the worm, that's fled, vii. 39; the pretty worm of Nilus, vii. 594; all the worms of Nile, vii. 680.

worm, used in the sense of "creature," as a term of commiseration, sometimes of contempt: Poor worm, thou art infected, i. 208; the poor worm doth die for't, viii. 9; to reprove these worms for loving, ii. 201; you froward and unable worms, iii. 179.

wormwood to my dug―Laid, In order to wean the child, vi. 398. worship, honour, dignity: rear'd to worship, iii. 429; the worship of revenge, iv. 59; the slightest worship of his time, iv. 257; give me worship and quietness, v. 293; As I belong to worship, v. 485; Wherein the worship (" dignity, authority," JOHNSON) of the whole world lies, vii. 578; The worships of their name, vii. 270 (see note 36, vii. 353).

worship, to honour, to dignify: worship me their lord, v. 171; Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph, iv. 431 (see waxen epitaph, &c.).

worth, substance, wealth: To be of worth and worthy estimation, i. 281; But, were my worth, as is my conscience, firm, iii. 367; They are but beggars that can count their worth, vi. 426; all my outward worth, vii. 320: see note 27, i. 328.

worth of contradiction-His, vi. 195: see note 149, vi. 261. worthied him, rendered him worthy, vii. 281. Worthies- The Nine, ii. 210 (twice); iv. 347: "The genuine worthies were Joshua, David, Judas Macabeus, Hector, Alexander, Julius Cæsar, Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bulloigne, or sometimes in his room Guy of Warwick. Why Shakespeare, in the five of them only whom he has introduced by name, has included Hercules and Pompey, remains to be accounted for" (Douce). worthy feeding-A, iii. 471: see note 104, iii. 521.

worts, all kinds of pot-herbs, and sometimes, as in the present passage, with a more confined signification,-coleworts, cabbages : Good worts! good cabbage, i. 348 (where Falstaff is ridiculing Sir Hugh's pronunciation of words).

WOT-WRITE.

511

wot, to know, i. 311, 367; iv. 129.

wo't, wilt, iv. 331 (four times).

would, equivalent to "would have:" Sorrow would solace, and mine age would ease, v. 136.

wound with adders, enwrapped, encircled, by adders, i. 202.

wounds Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh-Dead Henry's, v. 357: "It is a tradition very generally received, that the murdered body bleeds on the touch [or the approach] of the murderer. This was so much believed by Sir Kenelm Digby, that he has endeavoured to explain the reason" (JOHNSON).

wrack, wreck, destruction, ruin, vii. 68; viii. 44, 257, 311, 412. wrath, wrathful, angry : Oberon is passing fell and wrath, ii. 275. wreak, revenge, vi. 208, 332.

wreak, to revenge, to avenge, vi. 333, 445.

wreakful, revengeful, wrathful, vi. 344, 556.

wreaks, fits of rage or violence, vi. 335.

wren of nine-The youngest, iii. 366: "The wren is remarkable for laying many eggs at a time, nine or ten, and sometimes more; and as she is the smallest of birds, the last of so large a brood may be supposed to be little indeed; which is the image intended here to be given of Maria" (HANMER).

wrest, a tuning-key for drawing up the strings of musical instruments; used metaphorically in what follows: this Antenor, I know, is such a wrest in their affairs, vi. 53.

wretch, a term of endearment: The pretty wretch, vi. 399; Excellent wretch! vii. 419.

wretched, vile, hateful, utterly bad (" A wretched fellow, Deploratè

malus." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.): The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar, v. 441 (but see note 91, v. 471); O wretched villain, vii. 456.

wring, to writhe with anguish those that wring under the load of sorrow, ii. 129; He wrings at some distress, vii. 692.

wring it-An you'll not knock, I'll, iii. 121: "Here seems to be a quibble between ringing at a door and wringing a man's ears" (STEEVENS).

wringer, a person who wrings the water out of clothes, i. 352. writ and the liberty-For the law of, vii. 142: see note 64, vii. 224. write, to write or style one's self, to write one's self as the possessor of something, "to call one's self, to be entitled, to use the style of" (Johnson's Dict.): I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man, iii. 235; About it; and write happy when thou hast done, vii. 337; I'd give

512

WRITHLED-YCLEPED.

bay curtal and his furniture, My mouth no more were broken than these boys', And writ as little beard, iii. 231; as if he had writ man ever since his father was a bachelor, iv. 321.

writhled, wrinkled, v. 27 (So in Sir J. Harington's version of the Orlando Furioso ;

"To scorne her writheld skin and evill favour."

B. xx. st. 76). wrong-I fear you've done yourself some, "I fear that in asserting yourself to be King of Naples, you have uttered a falsehood which is below your character, and, consequently, injurious to your honour" (STEEVENS), i. 190.

wrongs, and chase them to the bay-To rouse his, iv. 138: see note 140, ii. 254.

wroth-Patiently to bear my, ii. 376: "The old editions read 'to bear my wroath.' Wroath is used in some of the old books for misfortune; and is often spelt like ruth, which at present signifies only pity, or sorrow for the miseries of another. Caxton's Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, &c. 1471, has frequent instances of wroth. Thus, also, in Chapman's version of the 22nd Iliad,

'born to all the wroth

Of woe and labour' "

(STEEVENS):

Qy. have we not here only a various spelling of wrath for the sake of the rhyme? and does it not mean angry vexation” (“ torturing anger," Richardson's Dict. sub “ wrath”)?

wrought, worked, agitated: Would thus have wrought you, iii. 503; my dull brain was wrought, vii. 12.

wrying, swerving, going astray, vii. 710.

Y.

yare, ready, brisk, active, nimble, handy, i. 175, 176, 233, 495; iii. 373; vii. 549, 560, 595 (twice).

yarely, readily, briskly, actively, handily, i. 175; vii. 521.

yaw, to move on unsteadily, to stagger, to vacillate ("To yaw [as a ship], huc illuc vacillare, capite nutare." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.), vii. 203 (The substantive" yaws" occurs in Massinger's Very Woman, Works, vol. iv. p. 297, ed. 1813,-where Gifford remarks, 66 A yaw is that unsteady motion which a ship makes in a great swell, when, in steering, she inclines to the right or left of her course").

y-clad, clad, v. 110.

ycleped, called, named, ii. 169.