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Dro. S. Master, shall I fetch your stuff from ship-board?
Ant. E. Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd?
Dro. S. Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur.
Ant. S. He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio:
Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon:
Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him.

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[Exeunt Ant. S. and Ant. E. Dro. S. There is a fat friend at your master's house,

That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner:

She now shall be my sister, not my wife.

Dro. E. Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

Will you walk in to see their gossiping?

Dro. S. Not I, sir; you are my elder.

Dro. E. That's a question: how shall we try it?

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Dro. S. We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead

thou first.

Dro. E. Nay, then, thus:

We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

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Caract, carat; IV. i. 28. Carcanet, necklace; III. i. 4. Careful, full of care; V. i. 298. Carriage, bearing: III. ii. 14. Carved, made amorous gestures; II. ii. 119.

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Case; an action upon the case is a general action given for the redress of a wrong done any man without force, and not especially provided for by law"; IV. ii. 42.

Cates, dainties; III. i. 28. Charged, gave in charge; III. i. 8.

Chargeful, expensive; IV. i. 29. Children (trisyllabic); V. i. 360.

Choleric; the choleric man was advised "to abstain from all salt, scorched, dry meats, from mustard, and such like things as might aggravate his malignant humours"; II. ii. 62. Circumstance, detail; V. i. 16. Claim; 'my heaven's claim," i.e. "all that I claim from heaven hereafter "; III. ii. 64.

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Compact of, wholly composed of; III. ii. 22. Companion (used contemptuously), fellow; IV. iv. 64. Conceit, conception; III. ii. 34. apprehension; IV. ii. 65. Confiscate, confiscated; I. i. 21. Confounds, destroys; I. ii. 38. Confusion, ruin; II. ii. 181. Consort, to keep company with; I. ii. 28.

Countermands, stops one going through; IV. ii. 37. Cozenage, cheating; I. ii. 97. Credit, credulity; III. ii. 22. Curtal, having a docked tail; III. ii. 148 (cp. “turn i̇' the wheel"). Customers (used contemptuously), visitors, guests; IV. iv. 63.

Cuts; papers cut of unequal lengths, of which the longest was usually the prize; hence, "to draw cuts to draw lots"; V. i. 422.

Dankish, dampish; V. i. 247. Deadly, deathly; IV. iv. 96. Death; the death," i.e. " death by judicial sentence "; I. i. 147.

Debted, indebted; IV. i. 31. Deciphers, distinguishes; V. i. 334.

Decline, incline; III. ii. 44.

Declining, inclining; III. ii. 136.

Defeatures, disfigurements; II. i. 98; V. i. 299.

Deformed, deforming; V. i. 298.

Demean, conduct; IV. iii. 82. Denied (followed by a tauto

logical negative) ; IV. ii. 7. Despite of; "in d. of mirth,” i.e. "though I feel despiteful towards mirth "; III. i. 108. Detain, withhold; II. i. 107 Dilate, narrate; I. i. 123. Disannul, annul; I. i. 145. Discharged, paid; IV. i. 32. Dispense with, put up with; II. i. 103.

Dispose, disposal; I. i. 21.
Disposed, disposed of; I. ii. 73.
Distain'd, sullied, disgraced;
II. ii. 147.
Distemperatures,
V. i. 82.

distempers;

Distract, distracted; IV. iii. 41. Diviner, sorceress; III. ii. 142. Dowsabel, a poetic name, used

occasionally in Elizabethan writers generically for a beautiful lass (douce et belle); ironically applied by Dromio of Syracuse to the wench whose real name is Nell; IV. i. 110.

Draws dry-foot, traces the scent of the game; "perhaps so called because, according to sportsmen, in water the scent is lost"; IV. ii. 39.

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faith ("flint has been adopted by some editors, but there is not sufficient reason for the change; by faith men resisted a witch's power); III. ii. 148.

Fall, let fall; II. ii. 127. Falsing, (?) apt to be falsified; II. ii. 95.

Fine and recovery; a legal term, said to be "the strongest assurance known to English law"; II. ii. 74. Finger; "to put the f. in the eye," i.e. "to weep in a childish way"; II. ii. 205. Fly pride; "a proverbial phrase, by which Dromio rebukes the woman, whom he thinks a cheat, for accusing his master of cheating"; IV. iii. 80.Folded, concealed; III. ii. 36. Fond, doting; II. i. 116.

Fondly, foolishly; IV. ii. 57.

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Genius, attending spirit; V. i. 332.

Get within, close with, grapple with; V. i. 34.

Gillian Juliana; III. i. 31.
Ginn Jenny; III. i. 31.

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Good now good fellow now (others explain the phrase as equivalent to well now"); IV. iv. 22. Gossip, make merry; V. i. 407. Gossiping, merry-making (with

a probable reference to original sense, a sponsors' feast); V. i. 419.

Gossips, sponsors; V. i. 405. Grain; “in grain,” i.e. “ingrained, deeply dyed"; III. ii. 107.

Grained, furrowed (like the grain of wood); V. i. 311. Growing, accruing; IV. i. 8. Guilders; Dutch coins of the value of about two shillings; used in a general sense for 'money"; I. i. 8.

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Harlots, lewd fellows; V. i. 205.

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