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Deny refuse. I. v. p. 48.

Depend: foreshadow. III. i. p. 92. Despite: defiance. V. iii. p. 152. Determine of: decide. III. ii. p. 98.

Digressing: deviating, swerving. III. iii. p. 108.

Discover: reveal. III. i. p. 91. Discovered: betrayed. II. ii. p. 62.

Dislike: displease. II. ii. p. 60. Disparagement: harm. I. v. p.

50.

Displant: transplant. p. 105.

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Ethiop: Ethiopian. I. v. p. 49. Expire: end. I. iv. p. 47. Extremes: the extremity of my position. IV. i. p. 127. Extremity: dreadful plight. I. iii. p. 41.

Fair: fair one, beauty. Epilogue I. p. 54.

Fantasticoes: absurdly affected persons. II. iv. p. 72.

Farewell compliment: away with affectation. II. ii. p. 62. Fay faith. I. v. p. 53. Fearful: full of fear. p. 102.

III. iii.

Fee-simple: a legal term used to express "possession for ever." III. i. p. 87. Fettle: make ready. III. v. p. 119.

First house: first rank. II. iv. p. 72. Flecked: mottled. II. iii. p.

67.

Fleer sneer. I. v. p. 50. Flirt-gills: romps, hoydens. II. iv. p. 77.

Fond: foolish. III. iii. p. 105. Foolish: trifling. I. v. p. 53. Frank: liberal. II. ii. p. 63. Freetown: name of one of Capulet's castles. I. i. p. 25. French slop : large loose trousers. II. iv. p. 73. Furnish: adorn. IV. ii. p. 131. Gear: matter, stuff. II. iv. p. 75; concoction, potion. V. i. p. 147.

Ghostly: spiritual. II. ii. p. 66. Give you: call you. IV. v. p.

142.

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Grievance: trouble. I. 1. p. 28. Gyves: fetters. II. ii. p. 66. Hair: "against the 'against the grain.' II. iv. p. 75. Hap: "dear ; good fortune. II. ii. p. 66. Harlotry: contemptuous expression for "wilful girl." IV. ii. p. 130.

Have at thee: take warning. I. i. p. 24.

Hay: a home thrust in fencing. II. iv. p. 72.

Heartless: cowardly. I. i. p. 23. Heaviness: sorrow. III. iv. p.

111.

Heavy sorrowful. I. i. p. 27. Hilding base creature.

p. 120.

III. v.

Hinds: servants. I. i. p. 23. Holidame: corruption of 'holy dame,' an oath. I. iii. p. 38. Holp: helped. I. ii. p. 34. Hood: hide, cover. III.ii. p. 96. (See Notes.)

Humourous: humid. II. i. p. 57. Humours: here used in the sense of "amorous fancies." II. i. p. 27.

Hunts-up: the call to the hunt. III. v. p. 114.

Impeach: accuse. V. iii. p. 161.

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Made: did. V. iii. p. 163. Mammet: puppet. III. v. p. 121. Manage course. III. i. p. 93. Margent: margin. I. iii. P. 40. Mean: means. III. iii. p. 104. Measure: dance. I. iv. p. 42. Medicine: medicinal, curative. II. iii. p. 68.

Mickle: much, great. II. iii. p. 67.

Minion: properly 'favourite,' 'darling,' here used contemptuously for 'impudent person. III. v. p. 119. Minute: minutes. V. iii. p. 162. Mistempered: ill-tempered. I. i. p. 25.

Modern: customary, ordinary. III. ii. p. 101.

Moved: aggravated. I. i. p. 21. Much upon these years: at

about your age. I. iii. p. 40. Muffle: conceal. V. iii. p. 150. Natural: idiot. II. iv. p. 75. Naught: bad. III. ii. p. 100. Needly will: necessarily must. III. ii. p. 101. New just. I. i. p. 28.

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Old murderer: one accustomed

to murder. III. iii. p. 107. Once only. I. iii. p. 39. Operation: effect. III. i. p. 86. Orchard: an old name for a garden. II. i. p. 56. Outrage: uproar, clamour. iii. p. 160.

Overwhelming :

V. i. p. 146.

V.

overhanging.

Owes: owns. II. ii. p. 59.
Pardonnez-mois: people who
are always apologising for
themselves. II. iv. p. 72.
Part and part: one side or the
other. I. i. p. 26.
Partisans: pikes or halberds.
I. i. p. 24.

Passado: a forward thrust in
fencing. II. iv. p. 72.
Passing: supremely. I. i. p. 31.
Pastry: the room where the

pastry was made. IV. iv. p. 135. Pay that doctrine: give you that teaching. I. i. p. 31. Peruse examine. V. iii. p. 153. Pilcher: see Notes. III. i. p. 90. Pin: the centre of the target in archery. II. iv. p. 72. Poor John: hake, salted and dried. I. i. p. 22. Portly of good carriage, noble demeanour. I. v. p. 50. Post: haste. V. iii. p. 163. Presence: presence chamber. V. iii. p. 153.

Prevails: serves. III. iii. p. 105. Prick-song: technical term for written descant, the harmony being written or "pricked

down. Prick-song books were used in all churches. II. iv. p. 72. Princox: forward boy. I. v. p. 51. Procures: brings. 115.

III. v. p.

Prodigious: portentious. I. v. p. 54.

Proof: experience. I. i. p. 28. Properer: handsomer. II. iv. p. 80.

Pump: shoe. II. iv. p. 74. Punto reverso: a back-handed stroke in fencing. II. iv. p. 72. Purge clear from suspicion. V. iii. p. 161.

Purged made clear. I. i. p. 29. Quite: requite. II. iv. p. 79. Quote: observe, note. I. iv. p. 43. Řeckoning: estimation. I. ii.

p. 32.

Reeky: foul. IV. i. p. 127.
Remedies: "both our

the remedy for both of us. II. iii. p. 69. Respective: considerate. III. i. p. 92.

Retorts: resists and returns. III. i. p. 94.

IV.

Rood: cross. I. iii. p. 38. Ropery: roguery. II. iv. p. 77. Rosemary: a herb used at weddings and funerals as a symbol of remembrance. v. p. 141. Rote: " read by-"; "know by heart." II. iii. p. 70. Runagate: vagabond. p. 116. Rushed: set;

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III. v.

aside,"

evaded. III. iii. p. 104. Sack destroy. III. iii. p. 108. Sadly seriously. I. i. p. 30. Sadness: seriousness. I. i. p. 30. Scant: scarcely. I. ii. p. 36. Scathe injure. I. v. p. 51. Shrift: confession. IV. ii. p. 130. Shrived: absolved by a priest. II. iv. p. 79.

Simpleness: folly. III. iii. p.

106.

Simples: medicinal herbs. V. i. p. 146. Single-soled:

II. iv. p. 74.

contemptible.

Slip: a name in common use for a counterfeit piece of money. II. iv. p. 73.

Sober suited: quietly dressed. III. ii. p. 96.

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Sped: done for. III. i. p. 90.
Spell: "could not-"; knew
nothing of real love. II. iii.
p. 70.

Spite: defiance.

I. i. p. 24;

annoyance. II. i. p. 57.
Spleen: passion. III. i. p. 94.
Starveth in: gaze hungrily
from. V. i. p. 147.

Stay: wait for. II. v. p. 82; de-
tain. V. iii. p. 159.
Steads: helps. II. iii. p. 69.
Still: ever. I. i. p. 28.
Stinted: stopped. I. iii. p. 39.
Straight: immediately. I. iii.
p. 41.

Strains: distresses and per-
plexes. IV. i. p. 126.
Strange: reserved. II. ii. p. 62;
unfamiliar. III. ii. p. 96.
Stratagems: torments. III. v.

p. 122.

Strucken: struck. I. i. p. 31.
Suit: a solicitation to obtain
Court promotion. I. iv. p. 45.
Surcease: stop beating. IV. i.
p. 128.

Swashing: dashing. I. i. p. 23.
Sweeting: a sweet kind of apple.
II. iv. p. 74.

Swounded: swooned. III. ii.
p. 98.

Take the wall: get the better
of. I. i. p. 21.

Teen: sorrow, grief. I. iii. p. 37.
Temper: mix. III. v. p. 117.
Tender: regard, hold. III. i.

p. 89; offer. III. iv. p. 111.
Tetchy: fretful. I. iii. p. 38.
Therewithal: with it. V. iii.
p. 163.

Thorough: through. II. iv. p.

72.

Thought: hoped. IV. v. p. 139.

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