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INDEX OF WORDS AND PHRASES

EXPLAINED

a' (=he), 168

a many, 193

abide (=bear), 195
accomplished, 191

achieve, 186

address, 178

advice, 200

advised, 155, 166
advisedly, 206
afeard, 175

agitation (=cogitation),

192

alablaster, 154

alas the while! 166
Alcides, 166, 184
aleven, 171

alien (trisyllable), 200
all my whole, 192
an (if), 158
and (=an), 158
and so following, 161
Andrew, 152
angel (coin), 176
appropriation, 158
approve (=prove), 183
argosy, 131

as (omitted), 189

as who should say, 154
aspect (accent), 152, 165
at full, 206

attempt (=tempt), 200
attended, 203
avail (avale), 152
aweary, 157

balance (plural), 198
Balthazar, 191

Barrabas, 199

bate, 190

be (=are), 161, 175, 199
be friends with, 164

beefs, 165

beest, 175

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had better, 158

had rather to, 158
hair (dissyllable), 188
hairs, 185
hangman, 196

hard food for Midas, 185
hear thee, 171
heels (play upon), 167
high-day, 180
high-gravel-blind, 168
his (=its), 183, 202
hit, 187

holy crosses, 202
hood, 175

hose (round), 159

hour (dissyllable), 179
humility, 180
husbandry, 191
Hyrcanian, 175

I (=me), 189

I were best, 177, 205
I wis, 179
if that, 175, 187
impeach the freedom
the state, 188
imposition, 159, 191
in (=go in), 170
in (into), 202
in all sense, 205
in supposition, 160
in the weather, 178
incarnation, 168

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light (play upon), 184. 205

like (likely), 176

likely, 180

line of life, 170
liver, 154, 184
living, 186, 206
lodged, 195
loose, 194

lord worshipped might he
be! 169

love (=lover), 199
lover, 190

magnificoes, 188

main, 195

make moan, 155, 190
making question, 156
manage (noun), 191
mannerly (adverb), 180
mantle (verb), 154,
many a time and oft, 163
marry, 168
martlet, 178

168

of master (as title),
masters of passion, 195
match, 180
matched, 181

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stead, 160

steal your thoughts, 165
Stephano (accent), 202
sterve, 197

still, 152, 155, 183, 199
studied in a sad ostent, 171
substance (=amount), 199
success, 187
suited, 159

Sultan Solyman, 166
sum of nothing, 186
swan-like end, 183
sweet, 193

swelling port, 155
swift (adverb), 186

table (of the hand), 170
teaches (plural), 164
temple (=chapel), 167
that (with conj.), 175, 187
the which, 160
thee (=thou), 171
this (all this), 152
Thisbe, 201

thorough (=through), 144

thou (of servants), 191
thought (love), 165

throughfare, 176

throughly, 176, 197
thrift, 157

time (=time of life), 155
to (omitted), 176, 190, 197
to-night (=last night), 172
too-too, 174
towards my rest, 172

tranect, 101

Tripolis, 160
Troilus, 201

truth (=honesty), 198

tucket, 204

turquoise, 182

uncapable, 194

underta'en, 172
undertook, 172
undervalued, 156, 176
unfurnished, 185
unhandled colts, 203
unpleasant'st, 187
unthrift, 202
unthrifty, 165
untread again, 174
upon more advice, 200
upon my power, 196
upon supposed fairness,
184

upon the hip, 161, 199
urge, 206
usance, 161
use, 199, 200
usury, 161

vail, 152
vantage, 186
vasty, 176
venture, 152
Venus' pigeons, 174
very (adjective), 187
via! 167

vinegar aspect, 152
virtue, 205

waft (=wafted), 201
waste, 190
wealth, 206
weather, 178

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