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I claim her not, and therefore she is thine. Duke. The more degenerate and base art thou, To make such means for her as thou hast done, And leave her on such slight conditions. Now, by the honor of my ancestry, I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine, And think thee worthy of an empress' love: Know, then, I here forget all former griefs, Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again, Plead a new state in thy unrival'd merit, To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine, Thou art a gentleman, and well derived;

Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserved her. Val. I thank your grace; the gift hath made me

happy.

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I now beseech you, for your daughter's sake, To grant one boon that I shall ask of you. Duke. I grant it, for thine own, whate'er it be. Val. These banish'd men that I have kept withal Are men endued with worthy qualities: Forgive them what they have committed here, And let them be recall'd from their exile: They are reformed, civil, full of good,

And fit for great employment, worthy lord. Duke. Thou hast prevail'd; I pardon them and thee:

Dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts.

137. “To make such means for her," to make such interest for, to take such disingenuous pains about her.-H. N. H.

143. "Repeal thee home," that is, repeal the sentence of banishment.-H. N. H.

152. "That I have kept withal," that is, that I have been living with.-H. N. H.

Come, let us go: we will include all jars 160
With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.

Val. And, as we walk along, I dare be bold

With our discourse to make your Grace to smile.

What think you of this page, my lord?

Duke. I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes.

Val. I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy.
Duke. What mean you by that saying?

Val. Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along,
That you will wonder what hath fortuned.
Come, Proteus; 'tis your penance but to hear
The story of your loves discovered:
That done, our day of marriage shall be yours;
One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.

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160. "Include," is here used for conclude. This is another of Shakespeare's Latinisms.-H. N. H.

GLOSSARY

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

ACCOUNT OF, appreciates; II. i.

68.

ADVICE, "more advice," i. e. “further knowledge"; II. iv. 208; consideration; III. i. 73. AGOOD, in good earnest; IV. iv 176.

AIM, conjecture; III. i. 28.
AIMED AT, guessed; III. i. 45.
ALE, ale-house (with perhaps an
allusion to church-ale, or rural
festival); II. v. 63.

ALLYCHOLLY, corrupted
"melancholy"; IV. ii. 27.

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BESTOW, deport (one's self); III. i. 87.

Boots, "to give one the boots"= "to make a laughing-stock of one" (an allusion, perhaps, to the torture known as "the boots," or to a Warwickshire sport in which the victim was belabored with boots); I. i. 27.

Boots, profits, avails; I. i. 28. BOTTOм, to wind thread; III. ii. 53. BREAK, broach a matter; III. i. 59.

BROKEN, fallen out; II. v. 20. BROKER, matchmaker, go-between; I. ii. 41.

BURDEN, undersong, (with a quibble on ordinary sense of the word); I. ii. 85.

CANKER, canker-worm; I. i. 43. CATE-LOG (Launce's blunder for "catalogue"); III. i. 274. CENSURE, pass judgment; I. ii.

19. CHARACTER'D, written; II. vii. 4. CIRCUMSTANCE, circumstantial de

duction; I. i. 36; I. i. 84; the position in which one has placed one's self, conduct; I. i. 37; detail, particulars; III. ii. 36.

CITE, incite; II. iv. 86.

CLOSE, union; V. iv. 117.
CLERKLY, scholarly; II. i. 117.
CODPIECE, "a part of the male
attire, indelicately conspicu-
ous in the poet's time"; II. vii.
53.

COIL, fuss, ado; I. ii. 99.
COMMIT, sin; V. iv. 77.
COMPASS, obtain; IV. ii. 92.
COMPETITOR, Confederate; II. vi.
35.

CONCEIT, Opinion; III. ii. 17.
CONCEITLESS, devoid of under-
standing; IV. ii. 96.
CONDITION, quality; III. i. 275.
CONSORT, a company; IV. i. 64; a

company of musicians playing
together; III. ii. 84.

CONVERSED, associated; II. iv. 64.
CREWS, bands; IV. i. 74.
CURST, shrewish; III. i. 348.

DAZZLED (trisyllabic), II. iv. 211. DEIGN, condescend to accept; I. i. 165.

DESCANT, "counterpoint, or the adding one or more parts to a theme, which was called 'the plain song'"; I. ii. 94. DIET, "takes diet"-"is under a strict regimen"; II. i. 25. DISPOSE, disposal; II. vii. 86. DOUBLET, inner garment of a man, sometimes worn without the jerkin, with which at times it was confounded; II. iv. 20. DUмp, slow, melancholy tune; III. ii. 85.

EARNEST, pledge, token of future bestowal (with a quibble on "earnest" as opposed to "jest"); II. i. 168.

ELSE, elsewhere; IV. ii. 125. ENGINE, instrument; III. i. 138. ENTERTAIN, take into service; II. iv. 104; IV. iv. 68.

EXHIBITION, allowance; I. iii. 69. EXTREME (accented on the first syllable); II. vii. 22.

FARTHINGALE, hoop petticoat; II. vii. 51.

FEATURE, shape, form; II. iv.

74.

FIGURE, a turn of rhetoric; II. i. 159.

FIRE (dissyllabic); I. ii. 30.
FOND, foolish; I. i. 52.

FOR - for fear of), I. ii. 136.
FOR WHY, because; III. i. 99.
FORLORN (accented on first syl-
lable); I. ii. 124.

GOSSIPS, sponsors at baptism

(used quibblingly); III. i. 269. GREED, agreed; II. iv. 184. GRIEFS, grievances; V. iv. 142. GRIEVANCES, causes of grief; IV. iii. 37.

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credit; I. iii. 15. IMPOSE, injunction; IV. iii. 8. INCLUDE, conclude; V. iv. 160. INFINITE, infinity; II. vii. 70. INHERIT, Win; III. ii. 87. INLY, inward; II. vii. 18. INTEGRITY, sincerity; III. ii. 77. INTERPRET, act the interpreter (to the figure in a puppet show); II. i. 104.

JADE (used quibblingly); III. i. 278.

JERKIN, jacket or short coat, usually worn over the doublet; II. iv. 19.

JOLT-HEAD, blockhead; III. i. 292.

KEEP, restrain; IV. iv. 12. KIND, kindred; II. iii. 2.

LACED v. "mutton." LEARN, teach; II. vi. 13. LEARN'd, taught; V. iii. 4. LEASE, "out by lease," i. e. "let to others, and not under one's own control"; the point of the line turns on the equivocal interpretation of "possessions” in the sense of "mental endowments"; V. ii. 29.

LEAVE, cease; III. i. 182; part with; IV. iv. 84.

LETS, hinders; III. i. 113.
LIBERAL, wanton; III. i. 355.
LIES, lodges; IV. ii. 137.
"LIGHT O' LOVE," a popular old
tune, referred to also in Much
Ado, III. iv. 44; I. ii. 83.
LIKES, pleases; IV. ii. 55.
LIME, bird-lime; III. ii. 68.

MANAGE, to wield; III. i. 247. MEAN, tenor; I. ii. 95. MEANS, "to make means," i. e. "to contrive measures and opportunities" (to win her); V.

iv. 137.

MEASURE, "within the measure,"

i. e. "within reach"; V. iv. 127. MEROPS, Phaethon was reproached, though falsely, with being the son, not of Apollo, but of Merops; III. i. 153. MINION, a spoiled favorite; I. ii. 88, 92.

MONTH'S MIND (to be pronounced

probably "moneth's mind"), originally meant the monthly anniversary of a person's death; hence "remembrance," and finally "yearning"; I. ii.

137.

MOOD, rage; IV. i. 51.

MOTION, puppet-show; II. i. 103. MOUTH, "a sweet mouth," i. e. "a sweet tooth"; III. i. 331. MUSE, wonder; I. iii. 64. MUTTON, a sheep; I. i. 101; "laced mutton" seems to have been a cant term for a loose woman, but probably used here in the sense of "a fine piece of woman's flesh," "a finely trimmed woman"; I. i. 102.

NICHOLAS (Saint), the patron saint of scholars; III. i. 302. NICK, reckoning (alluding to the "nicks" or "notches" on a wooden tally); IV. ii. 76. NODDY (quibblingly for "noday"), simpleton; I. i. 119.

ON (play upon "on" and "one");
II. i. 1.

ON, of; IV. ii. 73.
ONE, "one knave," i. e. "a single,

not a double knave" (referring
perhaps to Proteus' falsehood
to both friend and mistress;
III. i. 263.

OMITTING, neglecting; II. iv. 67. ONSET, beginning; III. ii. 94. O'ERLOOK'D, perused; I. ii. 50. OWE, own; V. ii. 28.

PAGEANTS, dramatic entertainments; IV. iv. 164.

PARDON, excuse your absence; III. ii. 98.

PARLE, talk; I. ii. 5.

PASSENGER, passer-by; IV. i. 1. PASSIONING, passionately grieving; IV. iv. 178.

PEEVISH, wayward; III. i. 68; V. ii. 49.

PERSEVERS (accented on second syllable); III. ii. 28.

POSSESSIONS, interpreted equivo

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