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5. 8. 14. Waltham Forrest. What is now called Epping Forest, near Waltham Abbey, or Waltham Holy Cross, Essex. In early times it was called the Forest of Essex. 'As late as the middle of the 17th century, Thomas Fuller, who lived here many years, wrote: On the one side the town itself hath large and fruitful meadows . . . on the other side a spacious forest spreads itself, where fourteen years since (1640) one might have seen whole herds of red and fallow deer." -Thorne, Handbook to the Environs of London 2. 651.

5. 8. 22. For the metre, see note on 3. 5. 156. In this verse a pause apparently takes the place of a short syllable. A Sui tor to your Neice? Yes. You were

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5. 8. 32. For the metre, see notes to 4. 8. 40; 1. 2. 32. And claimes it. You | doe heare | he's married? For the metre, see note on 1. 3. 16.

5.8.39.

And yet

sheis not | heard of. | Be she nere | heard of,

5. 8. 51. For the metre, see notes on 3. 5. 156; 3. 3. 43. You shall have time, | Sir, to | triumph | on him,

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5. 10. I. For the metre, see notes on I. 1. 81; 3. 4. 62. Helpe, helpe | for Chari | ty; Sir | Moath In | terest

5. 10. 14. A pause apparently takes the place of a short syllable.

All starres were re | trograde. |—Í' | the name

5. 10. 14. All starres were retrograde. The connection of medicine and astrology was close. Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy, 1.235-9, writes an account of the stars as a cause of melancholy. Astrology was a favorite subject of satire to Jonson and other dramatists. See note on 2. 2. 50.

5. 10. 34. For the metre, see note on I. 3. 41.

And Dame Placentia | his wife. | The Ac | tion's ent' red,

5. 10. 45.

You must to prison, Sir,

Vnless you find Baile the Creditor likes.

Laws giving the creditor power over the person of the debtor were introduced in to England in Plantagenet times, and survived till well on into the nineteenth century. See the article, Debt, in Palgrave, Dict. Pol. Econ., and in Larned's History for Ready Reference. Vol. 1.

This unusual term Jon

5. 10. 50. at mine owne apperill. son employed also in A Tale of a Tub (Wks. 6. 148):

Now, don constable

I am to charge you in her majesty's name,
As you will answer it at your apperil,

5. 10. 62. bid an Offring. This was evidently a custom at the wedding of poor people; cf. Tale of a Tub (Wks. 6. 127):

I'll bid more to the bason and the bride-ale,
Although but one can bear away the bride.

5. 10. 74. The Law is plaine; if it were heard to cry. It will be recalled how this law figured in George Eliot's Adam Bede.

5. 10. 83. The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. This, of course, is taken from the language of the law-courts. 5. 10. 91. For the metre, see note on I. I. 28.

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5. 10. 112. A double breake. Farmer and Henley define break as a collection (of money)... more generally applied to a pause in street performances to enable the hat to be passed around.'

5. 10. 123. nor the purchase. The purchase of his friendship; see 4. 3. 36–47.

5. 10. 134. For the metre, see note on 1. 2. 47.

In reconcilement. When | the portion

5. 10. 139. And make him Lord of me, and all my fortunes. A partial excuse for the precipitate match of Lady Loadstone and Ironside may be found in the fact that he is a soldier: see An

Essay of Valour (Morley, p. 101): ' And to come nearer home, nothing draws a woman like to it, for valour toward men is an emblem of an ability toward women, a good quality signifies a better. Nothing is more behoveful for that sex, for from it they receive protection, and we free from the danger of it; nothing makes a shorter cut to obtaining, for a man of arms is always void of ceremony, which is the wall that stands betwixt Pyramus and Thisbe, that is, man and woman.' 5. Ch. 8. For the metre, see note on I. I. 61. And prefers that, | 'fore all | the Péo | ples hands.

GLOSSARY

In preparing this Glossary, the New English Dictionary has, where available, been my chief authority; the Century Dictionary, Schmidt's Shakespeare-Lexicon, and Nares' Glossary have also furnished considerable aid; for other lexicons used, see the Bibliography.

A dagger before a word or definition indicates that the word or definition is obsolete; parallel lines, that a word has never been naturalized; an interrogation-mark, that the sense is doubtful.

A, prep. [A worn-down proclitic form of O. E. prep. an, on.] In.

3. 5. 191.

Abate, v. †To put down, to do

away with. (Fig.) 3. 3. 86. Abuse, v. †To impose upon, cheat, deceive. 1. 6. 26; 3. 6. 28; 4. 4. 44.

Accidentall, a. Incidental, sub-
sidiary. 3. Ch. 10.
Accoast, v. To make up to, and
speak to.
2. 4. 23.
Accompt, v. [Form of account.]
Arch. 2. 5. 67.
Acquaintance, coll. n. Persons
with whom one is acquainted.
I. I. 16.

Advance, v. †To benefit.

27.

4. 6.

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thing that diminishes the value. 3. I. 22.

Amber-gris, n. A secretion of the sperm-whale used in perfumery. 3. 2. 4

Amphiboly, n. Ambiguous dis-
course; a sentence which may
be construed in two distinct
ways. 2. 3. 33.

Ana-sarca, n. Path. A dropsical
affection producing a very
puffed appearance of the flesh.
2. 3. 15.
And, conj. If.
1. 4. 8; 2. 3. 8.
Animadverting, ppl. a. Express-
ing censure or blame. 2. 6. 122.
Anon, adv. Immediately, straight
way, at once. Ind. 86; I Ch.

42.

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†Apparance, n. [Form of tapparence]. The earlier form of the sb. answering to adj. ‘apparent,' which was subseq. refashioned as Appearance,' by assimilation to the vb. appear.' Apparence survived, esp. in sense, which connected it more closely with ' apparent' than appear.'-NED.; false show; apparition. 4. 7. 44. Appeale, v. †Law. To accuse of a crime which the accuser undertakes to prove. 5. 10. 68. †Apperill, n. Peril, risk. 5. 10.

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Appoint, v. 1. To fix by appoint- | Beholden, ppl. a. Obliged, inment the time or place of a meeting.

Arch.

2. To settle, arrange definitely.

3. 3. 42.

Apprehension, n. The anticipation of what is still future; chiefly of things adverse. 3. 5. 143.

Argument, n. The summary of

the subject-matter of a book. Ind. 117; 5. 7. 23. As, adv. As if. I. 7. 34, 35. As, conj. †Result: That. Ind. 107; I. I. 9; 2 Ch. 34, 36; 4. 3. 43; 4. 8. 41. Ascites, n. Path. Dropsy of the abdomen. 2. 3. 17. Assure, v. t1. To convey property by deed. 5. 80. 59. †2. To make sure by marriage; betroth or engage. 5. 10. 93. Attendance, n. †The action or condition of turning one's energies to; assiduous effort. 1.7.5. Auditorie, Auditory, n. An audience. Ind. 129; 3 Ch. 9. Avise, n. [Form of Advice.] Legal counsel. I. 7. 41.

Ayiso, n. †A motification, dispatch, or formal advice. 1. 7.

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go-between,' a pander.

96; 4. 4. 2.

A

2. 6.

Beagle, n. A small variety of hound, tracking by scent. Fig. 5. 5. I.

use.

debted. 1. Ch. 53; I. 3. 19; I. 4. 48.

†Beholdingnesse, n. Obligation, indebtedness. Being, ppl. a.

4. 2. 21. Absol. Seeing,

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since. 2. 5. 30. Bencher, n. 'One of the senior members of the Inns of Court, who form for each Inn a selfelective body, managing its affairs, and possessing the privilege of "calling to the bar.' NED. 4. 2. 46. Beside, prep. †Beyond the range or compass of; utterly apart from. (L. præter). I. 5. 23. Betimes, adv. In good time, in due time. I. 2. 9. Betrothed, ppl. a. †Pledged, plighted. I. 6. 23.

5. 5. 17.

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Bevy, n. A company of maidens or ladies. Bird, n. A maiden, girl. [Confused often with †burd, a poetic word for 'woman,' lady'; and with bride.] 2. 5. 78. Blacks, n. (pl.) Black clothing, especially that worn as a sign of mourning. I. 2. 22. Blade, n. 1. A bravo, Hector; a fierce man, Arch. 2. 6. 147. 2. A gallant; a fellow; generally familiarly laudatory, sometimes good-naturedly contemptuous. 3. 5. 160. Blancks, n. [Form of Blanks.] Blank verse; esp. the iambic pentameter or unrimed heroic, the regular measure of English dramatic and epic poetry. I. 2. 37.

Blow, v. Said of flies and other insects: To deposit their eggs. 5. 7. 2.

Blowne, ppl. a.

Fig. Inflated with pride. Arch. 3. 5. 135. Bomb, n. [Form of bum.] ProBeget, v. ti. To get, to acquire tuberance, swelling. 2. 3. 20. (usually by effort). I Ch. 19; Brace, n. A pair, a couple. 2. 6. 127. 51; 2. 6. 117; 4. 8. 43. 2. To produce, occasion. 1. 1. 66.|Brake, n. A clump of bushes,

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