Fierce, V. ii. 920, ardent, ous; Lear, II. 1. 42. Filed, V. i. 12, polished. Fire, new (fire-new), I. i. 189, brand-new, fresh from the mint; Rich. III, I. iii. 269; Tw. Night, III. ii. 23.

Flapdragon, V. i. 44-5, a raisin, or the like, set on fire in a glass of brandy; 2 Hen. IV, II. iv. 242. Flaske (flask), V. ii. 682, powderflask; Rom. & Jul., III. iii. 51. Fleer'd, V. ii. 115, laughed, mocked, from Middle English Aerien; fleer, Much Ado, V. i. 66; fleering, Jul. Cæs., I. iii.

129.

Force not, V. ii. 492, attach no force to, care not for, have no scruples; Lov. Comp., 157; Lucrece, 1021.

Fortuna delaguar (de la guerra), V. ii. 589, fortune of war. Friend, V. ii. 450, mistress, as sometimes elsewhere; Meas. for Meas., I. iv. 33.

Gallows, V. ii. 13, one who deserves the gallows, gallows-bird. Gards (guards), IV. iii. 58, gauds, ornaments, form changed by pronunciation; Much Ado, I. i. 276; Meas. for Meas., III. 1. 111. Gentilitie (gentility), I. i. 138, urbanity, good manners.

Gigge (gig), IV. iii. 172, V. i. 66, 68, a top, often made of the tip of a horn.

Glast (glass'd), II. i. 260, mirrored. Glozes, IV. iii. 389, specious talk, idle words; used only here in Sh.

Going ore (o'er) it, IV. i. 107. For the play on 'style' and 'stile,' compare I. i. 211.

Greasely (greasily), IV. i. 160, grossly.

Greete (greet), V. ii. 415, look

683, profile. Heavy.. light, I. ii. 116-17, also II. i. 209; this play on different senses of light is frequent in Sh.; Mer. of Ven., V. i. 150.

Heed, I. i. 87, care. See note,

p. 124.

Hight, I. i. 181, 258, is called, used as an archaism; Mids. Night Dr., V. i. 148; Per., IV. prol. 18.

Hinde (hind), I. ii. 112, boor, peasant, also an animal, hence rationall hinde = man as opposed to beast; As You, I. i. 21; Mer. Wives, III. v. 88.

Home, V. i. 60, V. ii. 704, home thrust.

Honie (honey), V. ii. 587; used in this personal sense in 1 Hen. IV, I. ii. 152; Tro. & Cres., V. ii. 22; Rom. & Jul., II. v. 20. Horne-booke (horn-book), V. i. 48, spelling-book. See note, p. 170. Houres (hour's), II. i. 72, often, as here, pronounced hou-ers; Temp., V. i. 6. Humerous (humorous), III. 1. 173, capricious; As You, I. ii. 266; John, III. i. 126; 2 Hen. IV, IV. iv. 40.

Hyperboles, V. ii. 453, pronounced hy-pér boles here and Tro. & Cres., I. iii. 167.

Illustrate, IV. i. 74, V. i. 117, illustrious; used only here in Sh. Impe (imp), I. ii. 6, V. iii. 655, originally an offshoot or scion of a tree, thence offspring, child; used only by Armado, Holofernes, and Pistol.

Importeth, IV. i. 65, concerneth.

Importunes, II. i. 35, pronounced by Sh. im-pór-tunes; Ham., I. 111. 117.

In, IV. iii. 19, in the same state as himself.

In blood, IV. ii. 4, a term of the chase meaning in full vigor. Compare 1 Hen. VI, IV. ii. 52; Cor., I. i. 167.

Incision, IV. iii. 101, blood-letting; only meaning in Sh.; Mer. of

management of a horse, handling, from Latin manus, hand. Marcade (mercade), pronounced in modern text, V. ii. 787, verse, Mer-kah-dey, but in Folio, prose, may be Mar-kāde.

Margent, II. i. 262, margin, alluding to practice of putting notes in margin of books; Lucrece, 102; Rom. & Jul., I. iii. 82.

Meane (mean), V. ii. 367, tenor part; Two Gen. of Ver., I. ii. 104; Wint. Tale, IV. iii. 46. Measure, V. ii. 197, stately dance; Much Ado, II. i. 69.

Meat (mete), IV. i. 152, to mea

sure, hence to take aim. Meere (mere), I. i. 159, I. ii. 34, absolute; Mer. of Ven., III. ii. 278; Oth., II. ii. 5.

Mellowing of occasion, IV. ii. 86, opportune moment. Messe (mess), IV. iii. 221, V. ii. 401, party of four; 3 Hen. VI, I. iv. 80.

Methegline (metheglin), V. ii. 252, mead. See note, p. 174. Misbecom'd, V. ii. 840, a frequent irregular participial form; Rom. & Jul., IV. ii. 31; Ant. & Cleo., III. vii. 33; Cymb., V. v. 483. Misprision, IV. iii. 102, mistake; Mids. Night Dr., III. ii. 93; Much Ado, IV. i. 193. Monarcho, IV. i. 109, name of a Spanish braggart of the time. See note, p. 111.

Moth, originally pronounced Mote, as shown in IV. iii. 166, from the pun on 'mote' and 'beam.'

Mouse, V. ii. 19, used as a term of endearment; Tw. Night, I. v. 61; Ham., III. iv. 186.

Much, II. i. 21, frequently used as an ordinary adjective.

Native she doth owe, I. ii. 100, she possesses by nature. Ove is frequently used for 'own,' II. i. 9; Tw. Night, I. v. 313. Neither of either, V. ii. 512, a common expression in time of Sh.

Night of dew, IV. iii. 29, tears of sorrow; Ven. & Ad., 481.

Nit, IV. i. 176, mite; used only here and Tam. of Shr., IV. iii. 119.

Novum, V. ii. 601, a rare throw at dice. See note, p. 177. Numbers, IV. iii. 341, poetical

measures.

Oes (O's), V. ii. 47, marks left by smallpox.

Of, I. i. 47; used with expressions of time signifies 'during'; Tam. of Shr., Ind. ii. 85; Mids. Night Dr., II. i. 263. II. i. 61, by; here = loved for (his) virtue by all that love virtue. For this use compare Macb., III. vi. 7.

Of all hands, IV. iii. 235, on all sides, in any case.

Of force, I. i. 158, perforce, of necessity; Mids. Night Dr., III. ii. 42; Mer. of Ven., IV. i. 61. On her (one, her), IV. iii. 147, (the hairs) of one, her put by analogy with 'his' for the possessive, one's (one his); no other example in Sh., but frequent in Elizabethan literature.

Opinion, V. i. 7, self-conceit; I Hen. IV, III. 1. 199. Ore-parted (o'erparted), V. ii. 651, having a part beyond his power. Out of frame, III. i. 189, out of order; Ham., I. ii. 24. Compare Much Ado, IV. i. 136; Meas. for Meas., V. i. 74.

Parcell (parcel), V. ii. 169, frequently used of persons; Mer. of Ven., I. ii. 104; All's Well, II. iii. 54.

Parlee (parle), V. ii. 128, hold parley.

Parrators ('paritors), III. i. 184, apparitors, court clerks; perhaps here used in sense of 'go-betweens.'

Passado, I. ii. 171, a thrust in fencing; Rom. & Jul., II. iv. 26, III. i. 86.

Passe (pass), V. i. 124, pass as, represent.

Passion, I. i. 261, grieve, sorrow; used as a verb; Two Gen. of Ver., IV. iv. 169; Ven. & Ad., 1059; Temp., V. i. 30.

Patch, IV. ii. 36, a play on the word in its sense of 'fool' or 'clown'; Mer. of Ven., II. v. 49; Mids. Night Dr., III. ii. 11; Macb., V. iii. 20.

Patheticall (pathetical), I. ii. 92, IV. i. 176, touching, pleasing; used as an affectation, only here and As You, IV. i. 184.

Pedant, III. i. 175, pedagogue; only meaning in Sh.; Tw. Night, III. ii. 75.

Pensals (pencils), V. ii. 45, small brushes used by painters. Perjure, IV. iii. 48, perjurer, 'wearing papers,' as punishment

for his crime. See note, p. 160. Person (parson), IV. ii. 97, IV. iii. 204, parson, a specialized use of same word. See note, p. 156. Perst, persing (pierced, piercing), IV. ii. 99, 102, shows the old pronunciation of pierce, still common in proper names. Phantasime, IV. i. 109, V. i. 21, fantastic fellow.

Pied, V. ii. 974, variegated; Mer. of Ven., I. iii. 82. Pitcht (pitched) a toyle (toil),

IV. iii. 4, set a snare. Placcats (plackets), III. i. 182, the opening in a woman's skirt, hence here a name for 'woman'; Lear, III. iv. 102.

Please-man, V. ii. 516, pickthank, flatterer.

Pompion, V. ii. 559, blunder for 'Pompey.'

Pomwater (pomewater), IV. ii. 5, a kind of apple. Power, IV. iii. 350, sense. Poysons (poisons) up, IV. iii. 323; for the intensive force of up, compare As You, II. i. 67.

Praise sake, IV. i. 41; the sign of the possessive case was frequently omitted before a sibilant, or when the noun itself ended in 'sh.'

Present, IV. iii. 197, matter to be presented; V. i. 129, represent; Temp., IV. i. 191; Much Ado, III. iii. 73; Mer. Wives, IV. vi.

22.

President (precedent), I. ii. 110, precedent.

Pricke (prick), IV. i. 152, the point in the center of the target.

Pricke (pick) out, V. ii. 602, single

out.

Primater (pia mater), IV. ii. 85, the pia mater, covering of the brain, here put for the brain itself; Tw. Night, I. v. 114; Tro. & Cres., II. i. 68. Profound, IV. iii. 173, pronounced pró-found for the sake of meter. Pruning mee (me), IV. iii. 189, adorning myself, from Middle English proinen, prunen, to dress up smartly. Compare I Hen. IV, I. 1. 101.

Pursents, V. ii. 544, blunder for 'represents.'

Qualme (qualm), V. ii. 313, pronounced calm; 2 Hen. IV, II. iv. 37.

Quicke (quick), I. i. 172, V. i. 59, V. ii. 318, sprightly, lively; 2 Hen. IV, IV. iii. 102; Ant. & Cleo., V. ii. 260. Quillets, IV. iii. 305, casuistries, nice distinctions; I Hen. VI, II. iv. 21; Ham., V. i. 102; Tim. of Ath., IV. iii. 170.

Rack'd, V. ii. 892, reckoned up against you, from Anglo-Saxon reccan, to reckon.

Reasons, V. i. 4, discourse, con

versation.

Reformation, V. ii. 944, here pronounced in five syllables, reform-á-ti-on. Repasture, IV. i. 102, repast, food. Requests (request'st), V. ii. 221, the Folio form is frequent in verbs ending with 't'; Rich. II, IV. i. 273; Rich. III, II. i. 108; Ham., I. iv. 36.

Resolve, II. i. 117, answer; Tam. of Shr., IV. ii. 9. Retire, II. i 250, withdrawal, retirement; John, II. i. 347. Right, V. ii. 579, true; Mids. Night Dr., III. ii. 316; Ant. & Cleo., IV. xii. 33.

Rosaline, pronounced Rose-a-line to rhyme with 'thine,' IV. iii. 238, V. ii. 139. When spelled Rosalin in 1F. the pronunciation Rõs-a-lin seems to be indicated. Rubbing, IV. i. 164, a term in bowling; Rich. II, III. iv. 6. Russet, V. ii. 459, homespun.

Salve, III. i. 77, 79, this play on the two words, English salve and Latin Salve, seems to show an old pronunciation of the former. Saw, V. ii. 1003, maxim; As You, II. vii. 167; 2 Hen. VI, I. iii. 61; Ham., I. v. 105.

Sensible, IV. iii. 356, sensitive: Temp., II. i. 181.

Severall (several), II. i. 238, belonging to a private owner, separate, as frequently; Temp., III. i. 53-4, V. 1. 277. See note, p. 143.

She, V. ii. 522; used here for the rhyme, but frequently as if an uninflected noun in place of 'woman'; Oth., IV. ii. 5; Ant. & Cleo., III. xiii. 120; Tro. & Cres., II. iii. 245.

Shooter (suitor), IV. i. 122, suitor; the Folio reading shows old pronunciation of the word and the pun intended.

Shrewd, V. ii. 13, mischievous, evil, the old meaning; Mer. Wives, II. ii. 214; Mids. Night Dr., II. i. 32.

Shrowes (shrows), V. ii. 48, another spelling of 'shrew' (showing the pronunciation), for the sake of rhyme, as 'strew, 'strow.'

Simplicitie (simplicity), V. ii. 56, 82, silliness.

,

Situate, I. ii. 130; verbs ending in 'd' or 't' do not add another dental for the participle in Sh. as in Middle English.

Skipping, V. ii. 833, flighty, thoughtless; Mer. of Ven., II. ii. 183.

Small, I. i. 91, little; this use of adjectives for nouns is frequent. Compare Meas. for Meas., II. iv. 184; Ham., I. iii. 133; Temp., I. ii. 170. V. ii. 711, of the leg. Sneaping, I. i. 109, snipping, nipping; Wint. Tale, I. ii. 17.

Sod, IV. ii. 23, sodden, boiled; a