1881 Whittier: The King's Missive. 1881 D. G. Rossetti: Ballads and

1888

A Humble 1887 Stevenson: The Merry Mer

("Markheim," etc.).

Whitman: November Boughs. 1888 Kipling: Plain Tales from

a Mediterranean port with which Complexion: color.
England carried on a large trade.

—I. i. 9; I. iii. 18; III. i. 109.
-IV. i. 422.

Attempt: tempt.

-I. iii. 80.

-II. ix. 3.

Discharge: pay.

-IV. i. 209. | Gleaned: separated. -II. ix. 46.
Gramercy: a conventional excla-
mation from the French grand
mercie, great thanks. II. ii. 131.
Gratify: requite. -IV. i. 407.

Doublet: the quilted or wadded coat
of the period.
-I. ii. 82.
Drive: bring, commute. -IV. i. 373.

Eaning: bearing.

-I. iii. 84. Guarded: trimmed, ornamented, or

Eánlings: lambs just born.

Election: choice.

Enow: a form of enough, properly
plural. -III. v. 22; IV. i. 29.

dress.

-III. iv. 60.

Entertain: keep up.

Envious: malicious.
Envy: malice.

-I. i. 90.
-III. ii. 278.
-IV. i. 10, 126.

III. ii. 232, 312.

-I. ii. 83.

rank, dignity.
Estimation: worth.
respect.
Excrement: beard.

humanity.

-III. i. 74.

-IV. i. 164. Husbandry: stewardship.

-III. ii. 87.

-III. iv. 25.

Heaviness: sadness.
Heavy: sorrowful.

II. viii. 52.

Faithless: unbelieving. II. iv. 38. Impeach: disparage, cast doubt

-I. i. 142. Kept: dwelt. Cf. Macbeth V. iv. 9.
-III. iii. 19.
Knapped: snapped, broken into
pieces or perhaps nibbled,
gnawed.
-III. i. 10.

Gear: matter.-I. i. 110; II. ii. 179. | Likely: pleasing.

-I. iii. 70; IV. i, 434, 440. | Pent-house: a shed sloping from a

Mind: desire, intention. Mind of
feasting forth, desire to sup
abroad. -II. v. 37; IV. i. 434.
Miscarried: perished.

-II. viii. 29; III. ii. 312; V. i. 242.
Moe: more.
-I. i. 108.

Moiety: part. Cf. Lear I. i. 6.

Mortifying: in its
causing death.
Mutual: common.

Naughty: wicked.

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building.

Pied: spotted.

Pleasure: do a favor.
Plots: plans.

Port: bearing, state.
importance.

Possessed: informed.

-II. vi. 1.
-I. iii. 80.

-I. iii. 7.

-I. i. 134.

-I. i. 125.

-III. ii. 277.

-I. iii. 65; IV. i. 35.

literal sense of Posy: the verse inscribed in a ring.

-IV. i. 26.

-I. i. 82.

-V. i. 146.

-V. i. 77. Preferment: promotion.

-II. ii. 158.

Preferred: recommended.

-II. ii. 158.

-III. ii. 18; iii. 9; V. 91.
Neat's: horned animals.-I. i. 112. Presently: immediately.
Nominated: appointed.

-IV. i. 33.

—I. i. 184; IV. i. 282.
Prest: ready, French pret.-I. i. 161.
Prevented: anticipated. Cf. Ham-
let II. ii. 305. "So shall my antici-
pation prevent your discovery."
-I. i. 61.
Prize: contest for a prize.

-III. ii. 141.

O'er-looked: bewitched.-III. ii. 15. Purse: put in a purse. —I. iii. 171.
Offices: deeds.
Old: used intensively, like
"great" or "fine." -IV. ii. 15.
Opinion: reputation. -I. i. 91, 102.
Ostent: external show.

Pageants: the great wagons used
to transport stage and actors
through the streets in the primi-
tive days of the drama. The
word came to be applied to the Quiring: singing in concert.

speech.
talk with.

-IV. i. 70.

-V. i. 62.

Respective: considerate. V. i. 154.

Rib: inclose. Cf. Cymbeline III. i.
19.
-II. vii. 51.
Riping: ripening, maturing.
-II. viii. 40.
-I. i. 19.

Road: port.

—I. i. 17; I. i. 137; I. iii. 106; III.

ii. 74.

Straight: straightway.

-I. i. 31; I. iii. 171.
Strained: constrained. IV. i. 184.
Stratagems: dreadful deeds.-V. 85.
Studied: practiced. -II. ii. 208.
Substance: gross weight.-IV. i. 329.

Sad: grave. -I. i. 1, 40; II. ii. 208. Sufferance: patience.
Sadness: soberness.

-I. i. 6; II. ii. 54.
Sand-blind: partly blind as if with
sand in the eyes. The original
may have been sam-blind, i. e.,
-II. ii. 39, 81.

half blind.

Scant: moderate.

-I. iii. 107; III. i. 76.
Suited: appareled. -I. ii. 82.
arranged. -III. v. 59.

Supposition: conjecture.-I. iii. 18.

Thought: anxiety.

Thrift: success.

-III. ii. 112; V. i. 141.
Scanted: limited.
-II. i. 17.
Scarfed: adorned with flags.

—I. i. 36.

-I. i. 176.

profit. Cf. "Where thrift

may follow fawning," Hamlet III.
ii. 67.
Thrive: prosper.

-I. iii. 51, 87.

v. dispose.

-I. ii. 117.
-V. i. 132.
Sped: dispatched. Cf. Romeo and
Juliet III. i. 94. -II. ix. 72.
Squandered: scattered.-I. iii. 22.