Bear-herd

keeper of a tame

bear. I. ii. p. 43.

Bear in hand: flatter and beguile with false hopes. I. ii. p. 87. Beavers: movable front-pieces of helmets. IV. i. p. 114. Bed-hangings: a contemptuous designation of 'tapestries.' II. i. p. 58.

Beeves: oxen. III. ii. p. 108. Being you are: since you are appointed. II. i. p. 60. Beseek: beseech. II. iv. p. 78. Besonian: base fellow. V. iii. p. 166.

Bestow: behave. II. ii. p. 68. Bestowed: spent. V. v. p. 169. Big: pregnant. Induc. p. 24. Biggin nightcap (properly a coarse head-band worn by the Béguines, an order of nuns in Flanders). IV. v. p. 140. Bloody: headstrong, fullblooded, impetuous. IV. i. p.

110.

Break: become bankrupt. Epil. p. 175.

Bruited: rumoured. I. i. p. 31. Buckle: bend. I. i. p. 82. Bung: sharper. II. iv. p. 77. Burst: banged, broke. III. ii. p. 108.

Busses: kisses. II. iv. p. 83, By yea and nay: beyond a doubt. III. ii. p. 95. Caliver: a light musket. ii. p. 105.

III.

Calm: qualm. II. iv. p. 78. Candle mine: tallow catch, overflow of tallow. II. iv. p. 85. Cankered: polluted. IV. v. p. 142.

Cannibals: Hannibal's. II. iv. p. 79.

Capable: susceptible. I. i. p. 34. Carat: purity, quality. IV. v. p. 146.

Caraways: a kind of sweetmeat in which caraway seeds were the principal ingredient, usually eaten with apples at dessert. V. iii. p. 161.

Cast: reckoned up. I. 1. p. 83. Cavaleros: cavaliers, gentlemen. V. iii. p. 163. Chambers: a large kind of ordnance. II. iv. p. 74. Channel: gutter. II. i. p. 54. Chapped: worn, wrinkled. III. ii. p. 106.

Charge: pledge. II. iv. p. 77; "in in position for charging. IV. i. p. 114. Cheater: "a tame a low gamester, a sharper; understood by the Hostess to mean 'escheator,' an officer of the exchequer. II. iv. p. 76. Civil: well-ordered, law-abiding. IV. i. p. 111.

Clapped i' the clout: hit the white mark or pin in the centre of the target. III. ii. p. 96. Close: come to agreement, prove conciliatory. II. iv. p. 86. Coherence: accord. V.i. p. 158. Cold: calm, dispassionate. V. ii. p. 159.

Condition: capacity as commander. IV. iii. p. 129. Confirmities: Mistress Q.'s blunder for 'infirmities.' II. iv. p. 74.

Confound exhaust, destroy. IV. iv. p. 134.

Conger: conger-eel (regarded as a provocative of passion). II. iv. p. 82. Consent: agree. I. iii. p. 48; agreement. V. i. p. 153. Consigning to: confirming. V. ii. p. 160.

Consist upon insist upon, demand. IV. i. p. 117.

Contagious: abominable. V. v. p. 170. Continuantly: Mistress blunder for 'continually.' i. p. 53. Conversations: habits. V. v. p. 174.

II.

Corporate Bullcalf's blunder

for corporal.' III. ii. p. 103. Corpse: corpses. I. i. p. 84. Cost: costly enterprise, object of expenditure. I. iii. p. 49. Costermonger: peddling, avaricious. I. ii. p. 43. Cotsol' man : an athlete renowned in the periodical games and sports held on the Cotswold Hills. III. ii. p. 95. Court'sy: curtsey. Epil. p. 175. Cover: set the table. II. iv. p.

72.

Crack: pert little boy. III. ii.

Crafty sick: feigning illness. (This has no historical support.) Induc. p. 25. Crosses: coins stamped with a cross; quibbling on troubles,' 'afflictions.' I. i. p. 45. Crudy crude; nebulous. IV. iii. p. 130.

Current: genuine, punning on 'sterling. II. i. p. 57. Curry: curry favour. V. i. p. 153. Cuttle: cut-purse. II. iv. p. 77. Dear and deep: heartfelt and lacerating. IV. v. p. 145. Debate: conflict. IV. iv. p. 132. Defensible: able to inspire resistance. II. iii. p. 70.

Depart: quit. IV. v. p. 148. Derives itself: passes in rightful succession. IV. v. p. 141.

Descension: decline. II. ii. p. 68. Determined: ended. IV. v. p. 143. Devil's book: the register of those sold to the devil. II. ii. p. 63. Discharge: dismiss. IV. ii. p.

Doubt: fear. Epil. p. 175. Draw: withdraw. II. i. p. 58. Draw our numbers: muster our forces. I. iii. p. 51. Drollery: probably a painting of some ludicrous incident. II. i. p. 58.

Duer: more properly. III. ii. p. 107.

Dull: soothing, soft, dulcet. IV. v. p. 139.

Easy: of little movement, a trivial matter. V. ii. p. 157. Ebon: black. V. v. p. 171. Effect: "in the

of," in a

P. 95.

p. 58.

Element: "cinders of the the stars. IV. iii. p. 128. Endeared: deeply bound. II. iii. p. 69.

Ending father: the father who is approaching death. IV. v. p. 142. Engagéd: committed, pledged. I. i. p. 34.

Engrosséd: amassed. IV. v. p. 142.

Engrossments: "yield his "his accumulations yield. IV. v. p. 142. Ephesians: a cant term for boon companions. II. ii. p. 67. Equal: match, cope. Î. iii. p. 49. Ever among ever and anon,' an old phrase, used by Chaucer (Romaunt of the Rose, 1. 3771). V. iii. p. 162.

Exclamation: outcry. II. i. p.

55.

Exion: Mistress Q.'s blunder for 'action.' II. i. p. 53. Extraordinarily: Mistress Q.'s blunder for ordinarily.' II. iv. p. 73. Face-royal: the face stamped upon a royal,' a coin worth ten shillings (quibbling on a 'royal face"). I. i. p. 37. Faitors: evil-doers. II. iv. p. 78. Familiarity: Mistress Q.'s blunder for familiar.' II. i. p. 56. Fancies Good-nights: common titles of little poems. III. ii. p. 107. Fantasy: imagination. V. ii. p.

155.

Fear: a dreadful thing. I. i. p.

80; alarm. IV. iv. p. 138. Fearful: terrifying. Induc. p. 24. Fennel: a herb, regarded as proVocative of passion. II. iv. p. 82.

Fetch off: fleece. III. ii. p. 107. Few: "in -," briefly, in short.

I. i. p. 31. Fig me: insult me, by putting the thumb out between the fore and middle fingers, originally a Spanish gesture. V. iii. p. 166.

Flap-dragon: small pieces of
burning substance set afloat in
wine and swallowed flaming.
II. iv. p. 82.
Flaws:" small blades of ice
which stick on the edges of the
water on winter mornings," and
are soon melted by the sun.
IV. iv. p. 133.

Fleet: the debtors' prison. V.
v. p. 173.
Fleshed: made fierce. I. i. p. 33.
Foin: thrust. II. i. p. 52.
Fond: foolish. I. iii. p. 50.
Fondly: fatuously, irrationally.
IV. ii. p. 125.

·

Foolish-compounded: made up of follies. I. ii. p. 36. Forehand-shaft: an arrow intended to be shot straight forward and requiring a bigge breste, to bere the great myghte of the bowe.' III. ii. p. 96. Forgetive: inventive. IV. iii. p. 130.

Forms of hope: hopeful possibilities. I. iii. p. 48.

Forspent: exhausted. I. i. p. 27. Fourteen and a half: (score): = 290 yards. The farthest range of the sixteenth-century archers being 300 yards. III. ii. p. 96. Foutre a coarse expression of contempt. V. iii. p. 165. Frank: sty. II. ii. p. 67. French crown: of about five

shillings value. III. ii. p. 103. Fubbed off: put off with specious pretexts. II. i. p. 53. Full points: a full stop. II. iv. p. 79.

Fustian: ridiculous. II. iv. p. 80. Fustilarian: an abusive epithet coined by Falstaff (reminiscent of 'fusty' and 'fustian'). II. i. p. 54.

Galloway nags: common hackneys. II. iv. p. 80. Gan: began. I. i. p. 32. Garland: crown. V. ii. p. 158. Gave them out: calculated them to be. IV. i. p. 110.

Gibbets-on: slings the buckets on to the hook of the yoke on which they are carried in transferring the beer from the vats into barrels. III. ii. p. 105. Giddy unstable, hot-headed. IV. v. p. 148. Gird: gibe, jeer. I. ii. p. 36. Good case: comfortable circumstances. II. i. p. 56. Graffing: grafting. V. iii. p. 161. Grate on: irritate, harass. IV. i. p. 113.

Green: fresh in mind. IV. v. p. 148.

Groat: a fourpenny piece. I. ii. p. 45.

Grows to: is natural to. p. 39.

I. ii.

Guarded adorned, trimmed. IV. i. p. 110.

Half-kirtles: probably, short skirts or petticoats attached to a jacket. V. iv. p. 168. Handling: (trisyllabic).

p. 116.

Hands: "of my

IV. i.

"9 for my

proportions. II. ii. p. 63. Hangs: suspends. IV. i. p. 118. Haply perhaps, very likely. I. i. p. 27.

Haunch: the latter part. IV. iv. p. 136.

Hautboy: a wood-wind instrument (the modern oboe). III. ii. p. 109.

Have at him: I'm his man. I. ii. p. 44. Head: "make

"take arms, gather an army. I. i. p. 33. Headland the strip of unploughed land left at the end of the furrows. V. i p. 151. Heat: pursuit. IV. iii. p. 127. Heavy: mourning. V. ii. p. 155. Hence: henceforth. V. v. p.

172.

Hilding: base, slavish. I. i. p. 28. Hinckley : a market-town in Leicestershire. V. i. p. 151. History: relate, chronicle. IV. p. 118.

Hold: stronghold. Induc. p. 25; carry out. IV. i. p. 118.

Hold sortance: accord, be in keeping with. IV. i. p. 109. Holland linen, with quibble on 'Holland' (in allusion to Poins's illegitimate children, swaddled in his old shirts). II. ii. p. 62.

Honey-seed: Mistress Q.'s blunder for 'homicide.' II. i. p. 54. Honeysuckle: Mistress Q.'s blunder for 'homicidal.' II. i. p. 54. Hopes: prospects. I. iii. p. 46. How: what's the selling price of. III. ii. p. 96.

Humorous: capricious. IV. iv. p. 133.

Humours of blood: caprices of nature II. iii. p. 70. Hunt-counter: are on the wrong scent. I. ii. p. 39. Hurly: hurly burly, uproar. III. i. p. 90.

Husband: husbandman. V. iii. p. 161.

Ill-sorted: given a low suggestion. II. iv. p. 78. Imbrue: draw blood. II. iv. p. 80.

Immediate: next in blood. IV. V. p. 140.

Imp: scion, youngster. V. v. p. 171. Indeed: (?) induced (Mason). I. iii. p. 48. (See Notes.) Indifferency: reasonable proportions. IV. iii. p. 126. Indited Mistress Q.'s blunder for 'invited.' II. i. p. 53. Infer: suggest. V. v. p. 170. Infinitive: Mistress Q.'s blunder for 'infinite.' II. i. p. 53. Insinewed: allied. IV. i. p.

116.

Investments: vestments. IV. i. p. 111.

Iron man: clad in armour. IV. ii. p. 119.

Jade: worn-out horse. I. i. p. 28. Joint-stools: folding chairs. II. iv. p. 83.

Juvenal: youth. I. ii. p. 36. Keech the spare fat of an animal rolled up by a butcher for the tallow merchant; hence a cant term for a butcher. II. i. p. 56.

Kickshaws: trifles, light dishes. V. i. p. 151.

Kindly natural, filial. IV. v. p. 143.

II.

Kirtle: a kind of tunic with a short petticoat attached. iv. p. 84.

Lavish: licentious.

135.

IV. iv. p.

Lay: dwelt. III. ii. p. 106. Leather-coats: russet apples. V. iii. p. 163.

Leman: sweetheart, lover. V. iii. p. 163.

Lethe: the river of oblivion in Hades, of whose water all souls were compelled to drink, after leaving Tartarus, that they might entirely forget the past. V. ii. p. 158.

Lie: lodge. IV. ii. p. 124. Lighten: enlighten. II. i. p. 60. Like should probably will. I. iii. p. 50.

Like well: appear to be 'fit.' (Folios, look well.) III. ii. p.

98.