Glossary

abridgement, pastime; V. i. 39.

aby, atone for, pay for; III. ii. 175, 335. Acheron, one of the four rivers of hell in classical mythology; III. ii. 357.

adamant, loadstone; II. i. 195.

adder, viper; III. ii. 71.

address'd, prepared, ready; V. i. 106.

admirable, wonderful; V. i. 27.

against, in preparation for; V. i. 75.

an, if; I. ii. 53.

an if, if; II. ii. 153.

-anon, forthwith; III. ii. 356.

Antipodes, dwellers in the opposite hemisphere; III. ii. 55.

approve, prove; II. ii. 68.

apricocks, apricots; III. i. 169.

artificial, skilled in art; III. ii. 203.

aunt, old woman; II. i. 51.

_barm, yeast; II. i. 38.

bated, excepted; I. i. 190.

bay'd, barked at, hunted; IV. i. 117.

belike, probably; I. i. 130.

beteem, grant, bestow upon, endow with; I. i. 131.

bootless, in vain; II. i. 37.

brakes, thickets; II. i. 227. brief, short list; V. i. 42.

canker-blossom, the worm that destroys blossoms; II. ii.

282.

cankers, worms; II. ii. 3.

changeling, a child changed by fairies in the cradle; II. i. 23.

cheer, countenance; III. ii. 96.

chide, quarrel; II. i. 145.

chiding, barking; IV. i. 119.

childing, productive; II. i. 112.

chough, formerly applied to all the smaller chattering species of birds, especially the jackdaw; III. ü. 21.

coil, turmoil, confusion; III. ii. 339.

collied, dark, blackened; I. i. 145.

companion, fellow (contemptuous); I. i. 15.

compare, contest, vie; II. ii. 99.

con, learn by heart; I. ii. 102; V. i. 80. conceits, fancies, pretty devices; I. i. 33. consecrate, consecrated; V. i. 422. constancy, consistency; V. i. 26.

continents, banks; II. i. 92.

coy, fondle; IV. i. 2.

crab, crab-apple; II. i. 48.

crazed, flawed; I. i. 92.

cry, pack of hounds; IV. i. 121.

cues, catch-words, by which the actor knows when he is to enter, or speak; III. i. 102.

curst, ill-tempered, shrewish; III. ii. 300.

darkling, (adv.), in the dark; II. ii. 86.

dear expense, a slight gain for which a high price has been paid; I. i. 249.

deriv'd, descended, born; I. i. 99.

dewlap, loose skin hanging from the throat; II. i. 50.

Cf. IV. i. 126.

discharge, act; IV. ii. 8.

earthlier happy, happier on this earth; I. i. 76.

eglantine, sweetbriar; II. i. 252.

Egypt, an Egyptian, a gypsy; V. i. 11.

eke, also; III. i. 97.

extenuate, mitigate, make light; I. i. 120. eyne, eyes; II. ii. 99; V. i. 178.

fancy, love; I. i. 155; IV. i. 167.

fancy-free, free from love's control; II. i. 164. fancy-sick, love-sick; III. ii. 96.

favour, beauty; I. i. 186.

fell, savage, angry; II. i. 20; V. i. 227.

flew'd, with large hanging chaps; IV. i. 124.

fond, foolish; II. ii. 88; III. ii. 114.

force, necessity; III. ii. 40.

fordone, worn out; V. i. 381.

for that, because; II. i. 220.

gaud, a trinket; I. i. 33; IV. i. 171. gleek, jest, scoff; III. i. 150. government, control; V. i. 124. grace, favour obtained; II. ii. 89.

griffin, dragon; II. i. 232.

harbinger, fore-runner; III. ii. 380; see note. head, face; I. i. 106.

hight, is called; V. i. 140.

hind, female deer; II. i. 232.

human, courteous; II. ii. 57.

humour, inclination, disposition; I. ii. 31.

immediately, for that very purpose; I. i. 45. impeach, accuse, expose to reproach; II. i. 214. incorporate, made into one body; III. ii. 208.

injurious, insulting; III. ii. 195.

intend, profess; III. ii. 333.

intents, intentions; V. i. 79.

jole, jowl; III. ii. 338.

juvenal, youth; III. i. 97.

knacks, knick-knacks; I. i. 34.

knot-grass, a weed with small pink flowers, supposed to stunt the growth; III. ii. 329.

latch'd, anointed; III. ii. 36. leviathan, whale; II. i. 174.

lingers, postpones; I. i. 4.

livery, any distinctive costume; I. i. 70; II. i. 113. lob, country bumpkin, clown; II. i. 16.

lode-stars, guiding stars, like the pole-star; I. i. 183. lose, let slip; I. i. 114.

love-in-idleness, the pansy; II. i. 168.

mechanicals, mechanics, workingmen; III. ii. 9.

mew'd, caged in; I. i. 71.

mimic, actor; III. ii. 19.

misgraffed, ill-matched; I. i. 137.

mispris'd, mistaken; III. ii. 74.

misprision, mistake; III. ii. 90.

momentany, momentary; I. i. 142.

mous'd, torn as a cat does a mouse; V. i. 274. murrain, infected with murrain or plague; II. i. 97.

neaf, fist; IV. i. 20.

neeze, sneeze; II. i. 56.

newt, a small water lizard; II. ii. 11.

night-rule, revelry by night; III. ii. 5.

nole, noddle, head; III. ii. 17.

oes, spangles, circles; III. ii. 188. ounce, a lynx; II. ii. 30.