Hatch, half-door, wicket; III. i. 33.

Healthful, full of safety; I. i. 115.

Heart's meteors; "alluding to those meteors in the sky (the aurora borealis) which have the appearance of lines of armies meeting in the shock"; IV. ii. 6. Heir (with a play upon hair,

cf. Preface); III. ii. 125. Hell, used quibblingly; the cant term for an obscure dungeon; IV. ii. 40. Helpless, unavailing; II. i. 39. His, its; II. i. 110.

Hit of, hit on, guess; III. ii. 30.
Holp, helped; IV. i. 22.
Horn-mad; "mad like

a

Kitchen'd, entertained in the kitchen; V. i. 415.

Lapland; Shakespeare's sole reference to Lapland sorcerers (cp. Milton's "Lapland witches"); IV. iii. 11. Lash'd, scourged (with perhaps a reference to "lashed" in the sense of " fastened, bound"); II. i. 15. Lets, hinders; II. i. 105. Liberties, libertinisms, "1. of sin," i.e. "licensed offenders"; I. ii. 102.

Light, wanton (used equivocally); IV. iii. 51.

Limbo; a cant term for "prison," properly, "hell," or "the borders of hell"); IV. ii. 32. Love-springs, shoots of love; III. ii. 3.

Pack'd, leagued; V. i. 219. Parcel, part; V. i. 106. Part, depart; III. i. 67. Partial; "I am not p. to infringe," i.e. "I am not so inclined in your behalf as to infringe"; I. i. 4.

Passage, the going to and fro of people; III. i. 99. Patch, fool, jester; III. i. 32. Peasant, servant; V. i. 231. Peevish, foolish; IV. i. 93. Penitent, doing penance; I. ii. 52.

Perdie, par dieu! IV. iv. 74. Perforce, by force; IV. iii. 94. Peruse, survey; I. ii. 13. Plainings, wailings; I. i. 73. Please, pay; IV. iv. 52. Porpentine, Porcupine

(the

only form of the word used by Shakespeare); III. i. 116.

S

From a leaden token in the collection of the late C. Roach Smith, Esq.

Post, post-haste; I. ii. 63. Post; used quibblingly; an allusion to keeping the score by chalk or notches on a post; I. ii. 64.

Presently, immediately; III. ii.

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Quit, remit; I. i. 23.

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Rag, shred, particle; IV. iv. 89. Rest; "sets up his rest"; Dromio plays on 66 rest,' arrest," and a metaphor, "setting up his rest," taken from gaming, and meaning "staking his all" upon an event; IV. iii. 27. Reverted, turned back; III. ii. 124.

Road, harbour; III. ii. 150. Round; used quibblingly in the sense of (1) 'spherical," and (2) "plain-spoken "; II. i. 82.

Runs counter; follows the scent backward instead of forward; with a play perhaps upon "Counter," the name of two London prisons; IV. ii. 39.

Sconce, a helmet (originally a small fort, bulwark), applied also to the head itself; I. ii. 79; II. ii. 34; II. ii. 37. Scorch, excoriate; V. i. 183. Season, opportunity; "to s." = at the opportune time"; IV. ii. 58. Semblance, (trisyllabic); V. i. 358. Sensible (used equivocally in

ordinary sense and in sense of "sensitive ") IV. iv. 28. Sere, dry, withered; IV. ii. 19. Shapeless, unshapely; IV. ii.

20.

"S. at five

o'clock," i.e. "about o'clock"; I. ii. 26.

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Soothe, humour; IV. iv. 82. Sorry, pitiable, sad; V. i. 121. Sot, dolt; II. ii. 195. Sour (dissyllabic; sower in the Folios); V. i. 45. Spite, vexation; IV. ii. 8. Spoon-meat (used equivocally, to introduce allusion to the proverb, 'he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil "); IV. iii. 60. Stale; "second woman," the

one to fall back on if another is not to be had; II. i. ΙΟΙ.

Stands upon, concerns; IV. i. 68. Stigmatical, marked or stigmatized with deformity; IV. ii.

22.

Stomach, appetite; I. ii. 49.

Take; "t. a house," i.e. "take sanctuary in a house"; V. i.

36. Tartar, Tartarian; it is noteworthy that Tartarian was a cant term for "thief"; IV. ii. 32. Tilting, v. Heart's Meteors. Timely, speedy; I. i. 139. Tiring, attiring; II. ii. 98. To, of; III. ii. 168.

Took on him as, pretended to be; V. i. 242.

Train, entice; III. ii. 45. Turn the wheel; "there is comprehended, under the curs of the coarsest kind, a certain dog in kitchen service excellent; for when any meat is to be roasted, they go into a wheel, which they turning round about with the weight of their bodies, so diligently look to their business, that no drudge nor scullion can do the feat more cunningly." (Topsell, History of Four-footed beasts, 1607); III. ii. 149.

Villain (used good-humouredly); I. ii. 19.

Vulgar, public; III. i. 100.

Waftage, passage; IV. i. 95. Wafts, beckons; II. ii. 110. Week; perhaps with a play up

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week"); III. ii. 100.

Well-advised, acting with due deliberation, in right mind; II. ii. 214.

When? Can you tell? "a proverbial inquiry indicating the improbability that the person addressed will get what he asks"; III. i. 52.

When as, whenas, i.e. when; IV. iv. 140.

Whether (monosyllabic, printed "whe'r" in the Folios); IV. i. 60.

Wink, to shut the eyes; III. ii. 58.

Wont, is wont (to bear); IV. iv. 40.