Brutus and Cassius,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. i. 2, i.
Will you go see the order of the course?
Brutus and Portia,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. ii. 1, i.
Let not our looks, &c.

Bratus and Antony, orations of,-from North's Plutarch.'
J. C. iii, 2, i.

Enter Brutus and Cassius, and a throng of citizens.
Brutus the night before the battle,-from North's Plutarch.'
J. C. v. 1, i.

Be thou my witness that, against my will, &c.
Brutus, death of,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. v. 5, i.
Come, poor remains of friends, &c.

Buckle (v.)-bend. H. 4, S. P. i. 1, n.

And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints,
Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life.

Bucklersbury. M. W. iii. 3, i.

Backlersbury in simple time.

Bugs-hobgoblins. T. S. i. 2, n.

Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs.

Bugs-terrors. Cy. v. 3, n.

Those that would die or ere resist are grown
The mortal bugs o' the field.

Bulk. O. v. 1, .

Here, stand behind this bulk.

Bulk-the whole body. Luc. n.

May feel her heart, poor citizen, distress'd,
Wounding itself to death, rise up and fall,
Beating her bulk, that his hand shakes withal.

Bully-rook. M. W. i. 3, n.

What says my bully-rook ?

Bumbards-ale-barrels. II. E. v. 3, n.

And here ye lie baiting of bumbards, when
Ye should do service.

Bargonet-helmet. A. C. i. 5, n.

The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
And burgonet of men.

Burn daylight-waste time. M. W. ii 1, n.
We burn daylight:-here, read, read.
Burst-broken. T. S. Induction, 1, n.

Pay for the glasses you have burst.
Burton Heath. T. S. Induction, 2, i.
Old Sly's son of Burton Heath.

Busky-bosky, woody. H. 4, F. P. v. 1, n.
How bloodily the sun begins to peer
Above yon busky hill.

But unless. T. S. iii. 1, n.

For, but I be deceiv'd,

Our fine musician groweth amorous.

But one, except one. A. W. ii. 3, n.

To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress

Fall, when love please,-marry to each-but one.

But poor a thousand crowns. A. L. i. 1, n.

It was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will, but

poor a thousand crowns.

But justly-but as justly. A. L. i. 2, n.

If you do keep your promises in love

But justly as you have exceeded all promise,
Your mistress shall be happy.

But except. J. iii. 1, n.

But on this day, let seamen fear no wrack.

But now-just now. H. 6, S. P. iv. 9, n.

Butt.

But now is Cade driven back, his men dispers'd.

But thou love me-so thou do but love me. R. J. ii. 2, n.
And, but thou love me, let them find me here.
T. i. 2, n.
Where they prepar'd
A rotten carcase of a butt.
Butter-woman's rank to market. A. L. iii. 2, n.
It is the right butter-woman's rank to market.
Burum-obedient, disciplined. H. F. iii. 6, n.
Bardolph, a soldier firm and sound of heart,
Of burom valour, &c.

Buz-interjection of ridicule. T. S. ii. 1, n.
Should be? should? buz!

By nature-by the impulses of nature. C. E. i. 1, n.

Witness that my end

Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence.

By day and night-always, constantly. Li. 3, n.
By day and night he wrongs me.

By peeping-clandestinely peeping. Cy. i. 7, n.

Then, by peeping in an eye,
Base and unlustrous as the smoky light.

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By him-by his house. J. C. ii. 1, n.

Now, good Metellus, go along by him.
By'rlakin-by our ladykin; our little lady. M. N. D. iii. 1, n.
By'rlakin, a parlous fear.

Byron's Bride of Abydos,' lines from. A. L. iv. 1, i.

Good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the
Hellespont, and, being taken with the cramp, was
drowned.

Byron's Stanzas for Music.' M. M. iii. 1, i.
For all thy blessed youth, &c.

C.

Caddis-garter-garter of ferret. H. 4, F. P. ii. 4, n.
Puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, &c.

Cade cask. H. 6, S. P. iv. 2, n.

Cade. We, John Cade, so termed of our supposed
father,-

Dick. Or rather, of stealing a cade of herrings.

Cæsar and his fortune,-passage in 'Plutarch.' H. 6, F. P.
i. 2, i.

Now am I like that proud insulting ship
Which Cæsar and his fortune bare at once.

Cæsar's fear of Cassius,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. i.
2, i.

Let me have men about me that are fat, &c.
Caesar, offer of the crown to,-from North's Plutarch.' J.C
i. 2, i.

Ay, Casca; tell us what hath chanc'd to-day.
Cæsar, assassination of,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. iii.
1, i.

All the senators rise.

If but a dozen French

Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side.

Call there-call it. A. W. ii. 3, n.

What do you call there.

Callet. H. 6, T. P. ii. 2, n.

A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,
To make this shameless callet know herself.

Calling-name. A. L. i. 2, n.

I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,

His youngest son;-and would not change that calling,
To be adopted heir to Frederick.

Calm-used by Hostess for qualm. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n.
Sick of a calm.

Calphurnia's dreams,-from North's Plutarch.' J. C. ii. 2, i.
Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out, &c.
Calves'-guts. Cy. ii. 3, n.

It is a voice in her ears, which horse-hairs and calves'-
guts, nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to boot, can never
amend.

Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens

City feasts. A. W. ii. 5, i.

Like him that leaped into the custard.
Civil-grave. T. N. iii. 4, n.

He is sad, and civil.

Civil-decorous. L. C. n.

Shook off my sober guards, and civil fears.
Clamour your tongues. W. T. iv. 3, n.

Clamour your tongues, and not a word more.

Clap thyself my love. W. T. i. 2, n.

Ere I could make thee open thy white hand,
And clap thyself my love.

Classical allusions. T. S. i. 1, i.

O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,
Such as the daughter of Agenor had.

Clean kam-nothing to the purpose. Cor. iii. 1, n.
This is clean kam.

Clear-stories-clerestories. T. N. iv. 2, n.

And the clear-stories towards the south-north are as
lustrous as ebony.

Clear thy crystals-dry thine eyes. H. F. ii. 3, n.

Go, clear thy crystals.

Cleave to my consent-unite yourself to my fortunes. M. ii.
1, n.

If you shall cleave to my consent,-when 't is
It shall make honour for you.

Cleft the root-(in archery). See Cleave the pin. G. V. v.

Cock-a-hoop. R. J. i. 5, n.

COM

You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
You will set cock-a-hop.

Cock-cock-boat. L. iv. 6, n.

And yon tall anchoring bark,

Diminish'd to her cock.

Cockle-weed amongst the corn.

Cor. iii. 1, .
We nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.
Cockney. L. ii. 4, i.

Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels
Coffer of Darius. H. 6, F. P. i. 6, я.

Her ashes in an urn more precious
Than the rich-jewell'd coffer of Darius.
Coffin crust of a pie. T. S. iv. 3, s.

A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie.
Coffin-crust of a pie. T. And. v. 2, n.

And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,
And of the paste a coffin I will rear.

Coffin coffer. P. iii. 1, R.

Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink, and paper.
My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander
Bring me the satin coffia.

Cog (v.)-term applied to dice. L. L. L. v. 2, n.
Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you.
Cognizance-badge. H. 6, F. P. ii. 4, .

This pale and angry rose,

As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,
Will I for ever, and my faction, wear.

Colbrand and Guy of Warwick, combat of. J. i. 1, i
Colbrand the giant.

Cold-unmoved. H. F. i. 2, n.

All out of work, and cold for action.

Coleridge, passage from Literary Remains. A. L. i. 1, A.
Of all sorts enchantingly beloved.

Coleridge's Essay on Method,' passage from. H. 4, S. P
ii. 1, i.

Marry, if thou wert an honest man, &c.
Coleridge, passage from. R. J. ii. 2, i.
Well, do not swear, &c.

Coleridge, extract from. R. J. ii. 4, i.

Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?
Coleridge's remarks on Shakspere's philosophy of presents
ments. R. J. iii. 5, i.

O God! I have an ill-divining soul.
Collection-consequence deduced from premises. Cy. v. §, a.
When I wak'd, I found

This label on my bosom; whose containing
Is so from sense in hardness, that I can
Make no collection of it.

Collied-black, smutted. M. N. D. i. 1, n.

Brief as the lightning in the collied night.
Collied-blackened, discoloured. O. ii. 3, n.

And passion, having my best judgment allied,
Assays to lead the way.

Collins's dirge to Fidele. Cy. iv. 2, i.

We have done our obsequies.
Colour'd hat and cloak. T. S. i. 1, n.

Tranio, at once

Uncase thee, take my colour'd hat and clock.
Colours-deceits. H. 6, F. P. ií. 4, n.

I love no colours.

Colt (v.)-trick. H. 4, F. P. ii. 2, n.

What a plague mean ye to colt me thus ?
Combinate-betrothed. M. M. iii. 1, s.

Her combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo.

Combined-bound. M. M. iv. 3, n.

I am combined by a sacred vow.

Come o'er the Bourn, a songe betwene the Queen's Majest
and Englande.' L. iii. 6, i.

Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.
Comforting-encouraging. W. T. ii. 3, n.

Yet that dares

Less appear so, in comforting your evils,
Than such as most seems yours.
Commings-meetings in assault. H. iv. 7, s.

We'll make a solemn wager on your comings.
Commodity-interest. J. ii. 2, n.

That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity,

Common and several. L. L. L. ii. 1, n.

My lips are no common, though several they be.

Common-make common, interchange thoughts. H. iv. 5, n.
Laertes, I must common with your grief.
Compact of credit-credulous. C. E. iii. 2, n.

Being compact of credit, that you love us.
Compact-compounded, made up of. A. L. ii. 7, n.
If he, compact of jars, grow musical,

We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.
Compact-confederate. L. ii. 2, n.

When he, compact, and flattering his displeasure,
Tripp'd me behind.

Companies-companions. M. N. D. i. 1, n.

To seek new friends and stranger companies. Companies-companions. H. F. i. 1, n.

His companies unletter'd, rude, and shallow.

Companion-fellow. Cy. ii. 1, n.

It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.

Company-companion. A. W. iv. 3, n.

I would gladly have him see his company anatomized.

Compass (v.)-used ambiguously. G. V. iv. 2, n.
Sil. What is your will?

Pro. That I may compass yours.

Compassed window-bow-window. T. C. i. 2, n.

She came to him the other day into the compassed window.

Compass'd-arched. V. A. n.

His braided hanging mane

Upon his compass'd crest now stand on end. Compassionate-complaining. R. S. i. 3, n. It boots thee not to be compassionate. Competitors-confederates. T. N. iv. 2, n. The competitors enter.

Competitors-associates. R. T. iv. 4, n.

And every hour more competitors

Flock to the rebels.

Complain of good breeding-complain of the want of good breeding. A. L. iii. 2, n.

That he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding.

Complain myself-the French se plaindre. R. S. i. 2, n.
Where then, alas! may I complain myself?
Complain'd-formerly used without a subjoined preposition.
Luc. n.

And by chaste Lucrece' soul that late complain'd
Her wrongs to us.

Complement extern-outward completeness. O. i. 1, n.
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In complement extern, 't is not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve.
Complements-ceremonies. L. L. L. i. 1, n.
A man of complements.

Compliment-respect for forms. R. J. ii. 2, n.

But farewell compliment.

Compose (v.)-agree, come to agreement.
If we compose well here, to Parthia.
Composition-agreement. M. M. v. 1, n.

A. C. ii. 2, n.

Her promised proportions

Came short of composition. Comptible-accountable, ready to submit. T. N. i. 5, n. Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage.

Concave as a covered goblet. A. L. iii. 4, n.

I do think him as concave as a covered goblet.

Conceited characters-fanciful figures worked. L. C. n.
Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters.
Conceited-ingenious, imaginative. Luc. n.

Threat'ning cloud-kissing Ilion with annoy;
Which the conceited painter drew so proud.

Conclusions to be as kisses. T. N. v. 1, n.

So that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why, then the worse for my friends and the better for my foes.

Conclusions-experiments. Cy. i. 6, n.

Is't not meet

That I did amplify my judgment in
Other conclusions ?

Condition-temper. A. L. i. 2, n.

Yet such is now the duke's condition

That he misconstrues all that you have done.

CON

Condition-temper. H. 4, F. P. i. 3, n.

I will from henceforth rather be myself,
Mighty, and to be fear'd, than my condition.
Condition-art. T. Ath. i. 1, n.

This throne, this Fortune, and this hill, methinks,
With one man beckon'd from the rest below,
Bowing his head against the steepy mount

To climb his happiness, would be well express'd

In our condition.

Conduct-conductor. Luc. n.

The wind wars with his torch, to make him stay,
And blows the smoke of it into his face,
Extinguishing his conduct in this case.

Conduits. W. T. v. 2, i.

Weather-bitten conduit.

Coney-catching-thieving. M. W. i. 1, n.

Your coney-catching rascals, Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol. Confession's seal-seal of confession. H. E. i. 2, n. Whom after under the confession's seal He solemnly had sworn.

Confound (v.)-destroy. A. C. iii. 2, n.

What willingly he did confound he wail'd.

Confounded destroyed. H. F. iii. 1, n.

As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base. Confounds-destroys. Luc. n.

And one man's lust these many lives confounds. Consent (v.)-concur. A. L. v. 1, n.

All your writers do consent, that ipse is he.

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

But have consented unto Henry's death.

Considerate stone. A. C. ii. 2, n.

Go to then; your considerate stone.

Consign'd-confirmed, ratified. H. 4, S. P. iv. 1, n.
And present execution of our wills

To us, and to our purposes, consign'd.

Consist-stands on. P. i. 4, n.

Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist.

Consuls, elections of,-from North's Plutarch.' Cor. in. 1, i. Are these your herd?

Contain (v.)-retain. M. V. v. 1, n.

Or your own honour to contain the ring.

Contemn me this-contemptuously refuse this favour. V. A.” What am I, that thou shouldst contemn me this? Content. A. L. i. 3, n.

Now go in we content To liberty, and not to banishment. Content with my harm-resigned to any evil. Glad of other men's good, content with Content-acquiescence. V. A. n.

Forc'd to content, but never to obey. Continents-banks. M. N. D. ii. 2, n.

A. L. iii. 2, n. my harm.

That they have overborne their continents.
Continuate-uninterrupted. O. iii. 4, n.

But I shall, in a more continuate time,
Strike off this score of absence.

Contrary feet. J. iv. 2, n. (See G. V. ii. 3, i.)
Standing on slippers (which his nimble haste
Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet).
Contrive-wear away. T. S. i. 2, n.

Please ye we may contrive this afternoon.
Convented-summoned. H. E. v. 1, n.

To-morrow morning to the council-board
He be convented.

Convents-serves, agrees, is convenient. T. N. v. 1, n.
When that is known, and golden time convents,
A solemn combination shall be made

Of our dear souls.

Conversion-change of condition. J. i. 1, n.

For new-made honour doth forget men's names;
"T is too respective, and too sociable,
For your conversion.

Convert (v.)-turn. T. Ath. iv. 1, n.
To general filths
Convert o' the instant, green virginity.

Convertite - convert. J. v. 1, n.

But, since you are a gentle convertite.

Convey (v.) manage. L. i. 2, n.

Convey the business as I shall find means.

Conveyance-theft. H. 6, F. P. i. 3, n.

Since Henry's death, I fear there is conveyance.