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INDEX.-I.

And there is much music, excellent voice, in this little
organ; yet cannot you make it.

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Mankind-woman with the roughness of a man. Cor. iv. 2, n.

Sic.

Are you mankind ?

Vol. Ay, fool: Is that a shame?

Manner. L. L. L. i. 1, n.

The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.

Manner, taken with the-taken with a stolen thing in hand.
H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n. (See L. L. L. i. 1, n.)

Thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago, and wert
taken with the manner.

Manners-morals. A. L. iii. 2, n.

If thou never saw'st good manners, then thy manners
must be wicked.

Mansions, old mode of building. H. E. v. 2, i.

At a window above.

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Mark-used as an interjection. O. ii. 3, n.

He hath devoted and given up himself to the contem
plation,―murk,—and devotement of her parts and

graces.

Marlowe's Passionate Shepherd.' M. W. iii. 1, i.

To shallow rivers, to whose falls.

Marlowe's Hero and Leander, lines from. A. L. iii. 3, í.
Dead shepherd! now I find thy saw of might;
Who ever lov'd, that lov d not at first sight i
Marseilles-pronounced as a trísyllable. A. W. iv. 4, n.
His grace is at Marseilles; to which place
We have convenient convoy.

Martians, house of the, from Plutarch. Cor. ii. 3, 1.
What stock he springs of

Martlemas-11th of November. H. 4, S. P. ii. 2, n.
And how doth the martlemas, your master?
Masks. G. V. iv. 4, i.

Sun-expeiling mask.

Masks. R. J. i. 1, i.

These happy masks, that kiss fair ladies' brows,
Being black, put us in mind they hide the fair.
Master person. L. L. L. iv. 2, n.

Good morrow, master persun.

Master of fence. M. W. i. 1, i.

At sword and dagger with a master of fence.
Mastick. T. C. i. 3, n.

When rank Thersites opes his mastick jaws.
Mated-made senseless. C. E. iii. 2, a.

Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know.
Mated-amated, dismayed. M. V. i. n.

My mind she has mated, and amaz'd my sight.
Mated-confounded.

V. A. n.

Her more than haste is mated with delays.
Material fool-fool with matter in him.
A. L. iii. 3, n.

A material fool!

Mates-destroys, confounds. H. 6, S. P. iii. 1, n.
For that is good deceit
Which mates him first that first intends deceit.
Maund-basket. L. C. n.

A thousand favours from a maund she drew.
May-day. M. N. D. i. 1, i.

To do observance to a morn of May.

Mazes. T. iii. 3, i.

Here's a maze trod, indeed,
Through forthrights and meanders.

Meal'd-compounded. M. M. iv. 2, n.

Were he meal'd

With that which he corrects, then were he tyrannous

Mean (in music)-tenor. G. V. i. 2, n.

There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.

Mean (in music)-an intermediate part. L. L. L. v. 2, s.
Nay, he can sing

A mean most meanly.

Means-tenors, intermediate voices. W. T. iv. 2, i.

Means and basses.

Means-resources, powers, capacities. L. iv. 1, a.

Full oft 't is seen

Our means secure us; and our mere defects
Prove our commodities.

Meant love-meant as love. R. J. iii. 5, n.

But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.
Measure-grave dance. L. L. L. v. 2, n.
To tread a measure with you on this
Measure. R. J. i. 4, i.

We'll measure them a measure.
J. iii. 1, a.

Measures-solemn dances

grass.

Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp.

Measures-grave dances. V. A. n.

Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures.

Med'cine potable. H. 4, S. P. iv. 4, n.

Other less fine in carat is more precious,
Preserving life in med'cine potable.
Medea, Ovid's invocation of. T. v. 1, i.
Ye elves of hills.

Meeds-merits. H. 6, T. P. ii. 1, n.

Each one already blazing by our meeds.
Meet-even. M. A. i. 1, n.

He'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
Meiny-retinue, attendants. L. ii. 4, n.

They summon'd up their meiny, straight took norse

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Metal of India. T. N. ii. 5, n.

How now, my metal of India.

Metaphysical-supernatural. M. i. 5, n.

All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crown'd withal.

Methinks, already. W. T. v. 3, n.

Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already-
What was he that did make it?

Mettle-temper, disposition. T. N. v. 1, n.

So much against the mettle of your sex.

Mew'd-term of falconry. R. J. iii. 4, n.

To-night she 's mew'd up to her heaviness.

Micher-truant. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n.

Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher?

Miching mallecho. H. iii. 2, n

Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

Middleton's 'Witch.' M. iv. 1, i.

Might.

Black spirits, &c.

M. N. D. v. 1, n.

Noble respect takes it in might, not merit.

Might-power. P. P. n.

Let reason rule things worthy blame,

As well as fancy, partial might.

Mile-end. A. W. iv. 3, n. (See H. 4, S. P. iii. i.)

He had the honour to be the officer at a place there called Mile-end.

Mill sixpences. M. W. i. 1, i.

Seven groats in mill sixpences.

Milon, notice of a passage in. R. J. ii. 3, i.

The earth, that 's nature's mother, is her tomb.

Mimic-actor. M. N. D. iii. 2, n.

And forth my mimic comes.

Mine enemy. R. S. i. 3, n.

Norfolk,-so far as to mine enemy.

Mineral-mine, compound mass of metals. H. iv. 1, n.

Like some ore,
Among a mineral of metals base,
Shows itself pure.

Mines-undermines, seeks to destroy. A. L. i. 1, n.

And, as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education.

Mingled damask. A. L. iii. 3, n.

Betwixt the constant red, and mingled damask.

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Misconster-misconstrue. H. 6, F. P. ii. 3, n.
Be not dismay'd, fair lady; nor misconster
The mind of Talbot.

Miser-wretch, miserable creature. H. 6, F. P. v. 4, n
Decrepit miser! base, ignoble wretch!
Miscreate-spurious. H. F. i. 2, n.

With opening titles miscreate, whose right
Suits not in native colours with the truth.
Misprising-undervaluing. M. A. iii. 1, n.
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
Misprising what they look on.

Miss-amiss, fault. V. A. n.

He says she is immodest, blames her miss. Missingly-missing him. W. T. iv. 1, n.

But I have, missingly, noted he is of late much retired

from court.

Mistaken-misapprehended. H. E. i. 1, n.

I am sorry

To hear this of him; and could wish he were Something mistaken in 't.

Mo-more. Luc. n.

Why should the private pleasure of some one Become the public plague of many mo?

Mo-more. L. C. n.

Found yet mo letters sadly penn'd in blood. Mobled-muffled up. H. ii. 2, n.

The mobled queen.

Mock-water. M. W. ii. 3, n.

Ah, monsieur Mock-water.

Model-thing formed, or fashioned. R. S. iii. 2, n.
And that small model of the barren earth,
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.

Modena, battle near,-from North's 'Plutarch.' A. C. i. 4, i,
When thou once

Wast beaten from Modena, &c. Modern-common. A. C. v. 2, n.

As we greet modern friends withal.

Modern-trite, common. So. lxxxiii. n.

That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short.

Modo and Mahu. L. iii. 4, i.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman;
Modo he 's called, and Mahu.

Moiety. H. 4, F. P. iii. 1, n.

Methinks, my moiety, north from Burton here,
In quantity equals not one of yours.

Moiety-small portion, share. L. i. 1, n. (See H. 4, F. P iii. 1, n.)

Curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moicy. Moiety-portion. Luc. Dedication.

But a superfluous moiety.

Moiety-portion. So. xlvi. n.

And by their verdict is determined

The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part.

Moist star-moon. H. i. 1, n.

And the moist star,

Under whose influence Neptune's empire stands,
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.

Moll Cutpurse. T. N. i. 3, i.

Like mistress Mall's picture.

Mome-blockhead. C. E. iii. 1, n.

Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch I
Monarch. A. W. i. 1, n. (See L. L. L. iv. 1, n.)
And you, monarch.

Monarch of the north. H. 6, F. P. v. 3, n.
You speedy helpers, that are substitutes
Under the lordly monarch of the north,
Appear.

Monarcho. L. L. L. iv. 1, i.

A Monarcho.

Monopolies in the reign of Elizabeth. L. i. 4, i.

If I had a monopoly out, they would have part. on 'iMontagues and Capulets, badges of. R. J. i. 1, i. Here comes of the house of the Montagues. Montanto-term of the fencing-school. M. A. i. 1, n. Is signior Montanto returned from the wars? Month's mind. G. V. i. 2, n.

I see you have a month's mind to them. Monument of the victory. H. 6, S. P. iv. 3, n. This monument of the victory will I bear.

Mood-caprice. A. W. v. 2, n.

I am now, sir, mud-died in fortune's mood.
Moods-manner. H. i. 2, n.

Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief.
Moon-used in the sense of month. P. P. n.

To spite me now, each minute seems a moʊn.

Moor-ditch. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, i.

The melancholy of Moor-ditch.

Moors in Venice. O. i. 1, i.
The thick-lips.

Moralize-comment.

V. A. n.

Unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize.

Moralize (v.)-interpret. Luc. n.

Nor could she moralize his wanton sight.

More gratulate- more to be rejoiced in. M. M. v. 1, n.
There's more behind that is more gratulate.

More and less-great and small. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, n.
And more and less do flock to follow him.

More and less-greater and less. M. v. 4, n.

Both more and less have given him the revolt.

Morisco. H. 6, S. P. iii. 1, n.

I have seen him

Caper upright like a wild morisco.

Morning's love. M. N. D. iii. 2, i.

I with the morning's love have oft made sport.

Morning, description of, in Venus and Adonis.' R. J. iii.
5, i.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn.

Morris-dance. A. W. ii. 2, i.

A morris for May-day.

Morris-pike--pike of the Moors. C. E. iv. 3, n.

He that sets up his rest to do more exploits with his
mace than a morris-pike.

Mort o' the deer-note of the hunter's horn at the death of
the deer. W. T. i. 2, n.

And then to sigh, as 't were

The mort o' the deer.

Mortal in fully-extremely foolish.

A. L. ii 4, n.

As all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love

mortal in folly.

Mortal-deadly. O. ii. 1, n.

As having sense of beauty do omit

Their mortal natures, letting go safely by

The divine Desdemona.

Mortal-deadly. V. A. n.

Like to a mortal butcher, bent to kill.

Mortified man-hermit, one indifferent to the concerns of

the world. M. v. 2, n.

For their dear causes

Would, to the bleeding and the grim alarm,
Excite the mortified man.

Mortise-hole of one piece of timber fitted to receive the
tenon of another.

Ô. ii, 1, n.

What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Can hold the mortise?

Mot-motto. Luc. n.

And Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

Motion-puppet-show. G. V. ii. 1, n.

O, excellent motion! O, exceeding puppet!

Motion-puppet-show. W. T. iv. 2, i.

A motion of the prodigal son.

Motion-dumb show. Luc. n.

For then the eye interprets to the ear

The heavy motion that it doth behold.

Motions-impulses. H. E. i. 1, n.

(Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
From sincere motions.)

Motions. H. iii. 2, n. (See G. V. ii. 1, n.)

I could interpret between you and your love, if I
could see the puppets dallying.

Motley-fool. So. ex. n.

Alas, 't is true, I have gone here and there,
And made myself a motley to the view.

Mount-Mount Misenum. A. C. ii. 4, n.

We shall,

As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount
Before you, Lepidus.

Mounted-term of falconry. H. F. iv. 1, n.

His affections are higher mounted than ours.
Mowes-mouths. H. ii. 2, n.

Those that would make mowes at him.

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Pist. Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of mays?
Much Orlando-a great deal of Orlando. A. L. iv. 3, n.
Is it not past two o'clock? and here much Orlando,
Much-expression of contempt. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n.

What with two points on your shoulder? much!
Much-ironical and contemptuous expression. T. Ath. i.
2, n.

3 Lord. I promise you, my lord, you mov'd me much.
Apem. Much!

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And are apparell'd thus,-

Like Muscovites, or Russians.

Muse (v.)-wonder. H. 6, S. P. iii. 1, n.

I muse my lord of Gloster is not come.

Music - a source of discord amongst the commentators upon
Shakspere. M. V. v. 1, i.

The man that hath no music in himself.

Music to hear. So. viii. n.

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

Musicians. R. J. iv. 4, i.

Musicians! O, musicians!

Musit. T. N. K. iii. 1, n. (See V. A. r.)
You hear the horns:

Enter your musit, lest this match between us
Be cross'd ere met.

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INDEX.-I.

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Declare the canse

My father, earl of Cambridge, lost his head.

Mor. That cause, fair nephew, that imprison'd me.
Nephews-grandsons. O. i. 1, n. (See R. T. iv. 1, n.)
You'll have your nephews neigh to you.
Nether-stocks-stockings. L. ii. 4, n.

When a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears
wooden nether-stocks.

New made-regenerate. M. M. ii 2, n.

And mercy then will breathe within your lips
Like man new made.

'News from Scotland,' passage from. M. i. 3, i.
But in a sieve I'll thither sail.

Next nearest. A. W. i. 2, n.

And I speak the truth the next way.

Nice-affected. A. L. iv. 1, n.

Nor the lady's [melancholy],

which is nice.

Hence therefore, thou nice crutch.

Nice-weak. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, n.

Nice-slight. R. J. iii. 1, n.

Bade him bethink

How nice the quarrel was.

Nice-trivial. R. J. v. 2, n.

The letter was not nice, but full of charge
Of dear import.

Nick-reckoning. G. V. iv. 2, n.

He loved her out of all rick.
Nicks him like a fool. C. E. v. 1, n.

His man with scissars nicks him like a fool.
Niece-grand-daughter. R. T. iv. 1, n.

Who meets us here ?-my niece Plantagenet.

Night-rule-night-revel. M. N. D. iii. 2, n.

What night-rule now about this haunted grove.

Nightly gulls him with intelligence. So. lxxxvi. n.

He, nor that affable familiar ghost

Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Nights of the early summer of the north of Europe. H. i. 1, i.

But, look, the morn, &c.

Nile, rise of the. A. C. ii. 7, i.

They take the flow o' the Nile, &c.

Nine worthies. L. L. L. v. 2, i.

Pageant of the nine worthies.

Nine men's morris. M. N. D. ii. 2, i.

The nine men's morris is filled up with mud.

Nine years old-during nine years. M. M. iv. 2, n.
One that is a prisoner nine years old.

Nine moons wasted-nine months unemployed. O. i. 3. n.
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd
Their dearest action in the tented field.

No poynt-the double negative of the French. L. L. L. ii. 1, n
Biron. Will you prick 't with your eye?
Rosaline. No poynt, with my knife.

No more-say no more. T. i. 2, n.

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Noise-band of musicians. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n.

And see if thou canst find out Sneak's noise; mistress
Tear-sheet would fain have some music.

Noise-music of the hautboys. M. iv. 1, n.

Why sinks that cauldron, and what noise is this?
Non-payment-penalty for. V. A. n.

Say, for non-payment that the debt should double,
Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?

None for me-none, on my part. R. S. i. 4, n.
'Faith, none for me.

Nonce-once, the one thing in question. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, n
I have cases of buckram for the nonce.
H. F. iii. 5, n.

Nook-shotten.

In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.

Noontide prick-point of noon. Luc. n.

Ere he arrive his weary no ntide prick.

Nor here, nor here, nor what ensues. Cy. iii. 2, n.
I see before me, man; nor here, nor here,
Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them.
Not thinking on-being forgotten. H. iii. 2, n.
Or else shall he suffer not thinking on.

Note-knowledge. L. iii. 1, n.

Sir, I do know you;

And dare, upon the warrant of my note,
Commend a dear thing to you.

Noted weed-dress known and familiar, through being always
the same. So. lxxvi. n.

Why write I still all one, ever the same,

And keep invention in a noted weed?

Nott-pated-with the hair cut close. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n.
Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal button,
nott-pated, agate-ring.

Nourish. H. 6, F. P. i. 1, n.

Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears.

Novum-a game at dice. L. L. L. v. 2, n.

Abate a throw at novum, and the whole world again
Cannot prick out five such, take each one in his vein.

Now my dear lady. T. i. 2, n.

Bountiful Fortune,

Now my dear lady, hath many enemies
Brought to this shore.

Nowl-noll, head. M. N. D. iii. 2, n.
An ass's now! I fixed on his head.

Number'd-numerous, numberous. Cy. i. 7, n.

And the twinn'd stones

Upon the number'd beach.

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Oaths upon the sword.
U pon my sword.

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H. i. 5, i.

Oberon and Titania. M. N. D. ii. 2, i.

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
Objected-proposed, suggested. H. 6, F. P. ii. 4, n.
Good master Vernon, it is well objected.
Obsequious-performing obsequies. H. 6, T. P. ii. 5, n.
My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;
And so obsequious will thy father be.

Obsequious-funereal. H. i. 2, n.

And the survivor bound

In filial obligation, for some term
To do obsequious sorrow.

Obsequious-funereal. So. xxxi. n.

How many a holy and obsequious tear

Hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye
Obsequiously-performing obsequies. R. T. i. 2, n.

While I awhile obsequiously lament

The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.

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Old-faced ancient-old patched-up standard. H. 4, F. P. iv. 2, n.

Ten times more dishonourable ragged than an oldfaced ancient.

Old utis-extreme merriment. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n.

By the mass, here will be old utis.

Old-wold. L. iii. 4, n.

Swithold footed thrice the old.

Omen-portentous event. H. i. 1, n.

As harbingers preceding still the fates,

And prologue to the omen coming on.

Omens and prodigies,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. i. 3, i.

A common slave, &c.

'On a day.' L. L. L. iv. 3, i.

On a day, &c.

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Oneyers. H. 4, F. P. ii. 1, n.

Burgomasters and great oneyers.

Opal-gem whose colours change when viewed in different lights. T. N. ii. 4, n.

Thy mind is a very pal.

Open room. M. M. ii. 1, n.

It is an open room, and good for winter.
Ophelia's songs, music of. H. iv. 5, i.
How should I your true love know
From another one?

Opinion-reputation. H. 4, F. P. v. 4, n.

Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion.

Opinion-reputation. T. N. K. iii. 6, n.

Might breed the ruin of my name's opinion. Opposite with of a different opinion. T. N. ii. 5, a. Be opposite with a kinsman.

Opposite-adversary. M. M. iii. 2, n.

Or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. Or-gold in heraldry. Luc. n.

Virtue would stain that or with silver white.

Or e'er-before, sooner than. T. i. 2, n.

I would

Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er
It should the good ship so have swallow'd.

Or e'er-before. J. iv. 3, n.

Two long days' journey, lords, or e'er we meet. Orbs-fairy-rings. M. N. D. ii. 1, n.

And I serve the fairy queen,

To dew her orbs upon the green.

Order-rule, canon of ecclesiastical authority. H. v. 1, n.

Her death was doubtful;

And, but that great command o ersways the order,
She should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd.

Ordnance. H. 4, F. P. ii. 3, i.

Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin.

Orgulous-proud. T. C. Prologue, n.

The princes orgulous, their high blood chaf`d.

Ostent-display. M. V. ii. 2, n.

Use all the observance of civility,

Like one well studied in a sad ustent

To please his grandam.

Ouphes-goblins. M. W. iv. 4, n.

Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.

Out of all whooping-beyond all measure.

A. L. iii. 2, n.

And yet again wonderful, and after that out of al whooping.

Out three years old-quite three years old. T. i. 2, n.
Then thou wast not

Out three years old.

Out of all cess-excessively. H. 4, F. P. ii. 1, n. .

The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess. Out went the candle. L. i. 4, n.

So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Out-complete. Cor. iv. 5, n. Thou hast beat me out,

Twelve several times.

Overflown-flooded, drowned. M. N. D. iv. 1, n.

I would be loth to have you overflown with a honey bag.

Oversee this will. Luc. n.

Thou, Collatine, shalt oversee this will.
Overture for the wars. Cor. i. 9, n.

May these same instruments, which you profane,
Never sound more, when drums and trumpets shall
I' the field prove flatterers! Let courts and cities be

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