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

wicked bull; generally used with a reference to cuckoldry"; II. i. 58.

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Host; "lay at h. in," i.e. were

put up at "; V. i. 410. Host, lodge; I. ii. 9. Hoy, a small vessel, a kind of sloop; IV. iii. 39.

Impeach, impeachment; V. i. 269.

Important, importunate; V. i. 138.

Instance, indication; I. i. 65.
Intestine, internal; I. i. II.

Jest upon, trifle with; II. ii. 28. Judgement; "before the J.,” there is perhaps a quibbling allusion in the phrase to what is called mesne-process; IV. ii. 40.

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

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Lapland; Shakespeare's sole reference to Lapland sorcerers (cp. Milton's Lapland witches"); IV. iii. 11. Lash'd, scourged (with per

haps 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.

Mace, a sergeant's club; IV. iii. 28.

Made, barred; III. i. 93. Making, outward form; IV. ii.

22.

Malt-horse;

a dull, heavy horse, like a brewer's, used contemptuously; III. i. 32. Mated; used quibblingly in the

sense of "confounded," and "given as a mate"; III. ii. 54. Mermaid, siren; III. ii. 45. Mickle, much; III. i. 45. Minion, favourite (used contemptuously), darling; IV. iv. 63; pl. II. i. 87. Mome, buffoon; III. i. 32.

Moves, appeals to; II. ii. 182.

Nature, natural affection; I. i. 35. New-apparelled (vide Notes); IV. iii. 14. Nicks; "n. him like a fool," alluding to the old custom of shaving, nicking, or notching the head of a professional buffoon; V. i. 175.

O'er-raught, overcalled, cheated; I. ii. 96.

Duke of Suffolk's fool (temp. Henry VIII). From Brydges's Memoirs of the Peers of England.

Order, measures; V. i. 146.

Other; "no other cause," i.e. "no cause to be otherwise"; II. i. 33.

Owe, own; III. i. 42.

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.

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.

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iii. 25. Soon, nearly; S. at five o'clock," i.e. "about five o'clock"; I. ii. 26. 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

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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.

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.

From a representation taken by Wigstead from an inn in Wales, at the close of the last century.

Understand (used quibblingly with a play upon "understand"=" stand under "); II. ii. 49.

Ungalled, unblemished; III. i.

102.

Unhappy, mischievous; IV. iv.

127.

Untuned, discordant; V. i. 310.

Vain, light of tongue; III. ii.

27.

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

Vulgar, public; III. i. 100.

Waftage, passage; IV. i. 95. Wafts, beckons; II. ii. 11O. Week; perhaps with a play upon "wick" (pronounced like "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.