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wit, as critics have variously conjectured, but simply her spiritual part" (STAUNTON-in a note on Macbeth, act v. sc. 8): Mr. Grant White's explanation of the lady's better part I had rather refer to than quote.

at hand, quoth pickpurse, iv. 225: a proverbial expression.

atomies, atoms, iii. 42, 51; vi. 402 (where the word is used to describe the very diminutive steeds that draw Queen Mab's chariot). atomy (a corruption of anatomy), a skeleton, iv. 398. (So "ottamy." Craven Dialect.)

atone, to reconcile: Since we can not atone you, iv. 110; to atone your fears With my more noble meaning, vi. 575; I would do much T" atone them, vii. 442; the present need Speaks to atone you, vii. 518; I did atone my countryman and you, vii. 644.

atone, to agree, to unite: When earthy things made even atone together, iii. 74; He and Aufidius can no more atone, vi. 214. atonement, reconciliation, iv. 369; v. 364; atonements, i. 346 (Compare, in our authorised version of Scripture, "By whom we have now received the atonement (Tǹv karaλλayhv)," Romans v. 11). attach, to lay hold of, to arrest, to seize: attach you by this officer, ii. 32; attach the hand of his fair mistress, ii. 207; desires you to attach his son, iii. 495; of capital treason I attach you both, iv. 372; attach Lord Montacute, v. 491; Attach thee as a traitorous innovator, vi. 184; attach'd with weariness, i. 214; weariness durst not have attached one, &c. iv. 334; My father was attached, v. 31; hath attach'd Our merchants' goods, v. 487; He is attach'd, v. 497; Troilus be but half attach'd, &c. vi. 88.

attachment, an arrest, a seizure, vi. 63.

attaint, taint, stain: brags of his own attaint, ii. 26; over-bears attaint, iv. 469; nor any man an attaint, vi. 10; poison thee with my attaint, viii. 318.

attaint, attainted: attaint with faults (a passage rejected from the text in the present ed.), ii. 259, note 185; My tender youth was never yet attaint, &c. v. 81.

attask'd, taxed, blamed, vii. 272.

attend, to wait for: who attended him In secret ambush, v. 299; I am attended at the cypress grove, vi. 159; thy intercepter attends thee at the orchard-end, iii. 373.

attent, attentive, vii. 113; viii. 34.

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attorney, an advocate, a pleader: the heart's attorney (the tongue), viii. 250.

attorney, a substitute, a deputy: die by attorney, iii. 57; I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother, v. 444.

attorneyed, &c.-Royally, "Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies, &c." (JOHNSON), iii. 420.

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AUDACIOUS-AWLESS.

audacious, "spirited, animated, confident" (JOHNSON): audacious

without impudency, ii. 207.

audaciously, with proper spirit: speak audaciously, ii. 214.

Audrey, "a corruption of Etheldreda" (STEEVENS), iii. 46, &c. auncient, iv. 460 (three times), 461: Fluellen's Welsh pronunciation of ancient (ensign).

aunt, a good old dame: The wisest aunt, ii. 276.

aunt, a cant term for a loose woman: summer songs for me and my aunts, iii. 463.

aunt whom the Greeks held captive-An old, "Priam's sister, Hesione, whom Hercules, being enraged at Priam's breach of faith, gave to Telamon, who by her had Ajax" (MALONE), vi. 32.

aunt-My sacred: see sacred aunt—My.

author to dishonour you, vi. 295: see note 30, vi. 360.

Autolycus-My father named me, iii. 463: Shakespeare took this
name from Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book xi.;
"Now when she [i. e. Chione] full her time had gon, she bare by Mercurye
A sonne that hight Awtolychus, who proude a wily pye,
And such a fellow as in theft and filching had no peere:

He was his fathers owne sonne right; he could mens eyes so bleare,
As for to make the blacke things white, and white things blacke appeare.”
Fol. 135, ed. 1603.

(J. F. Gronovius, in his Lect. Plautinæ, p. 161, ed. 1740, after citing Martial, viii. 59, observes, "Celebratur autem in fabulis Autolycus maximus furum.")

avaunt-To give her the, To give her the dismissal, "To send her away contemptuously" (JOHNSON), v. 514.

avised, for advised (see second sense of that word), i. 349, 358, 468. away with, to endure, to bear with: She never could away with me, iv. 360.

awful banks, "the proper limits of reverence" (JOHNSON), iv. 367. awful men, men who reverence the laws and usages of society, i. 305.

awkward, distorted: no sinister nor no awkward claim, iv. 447. awkward, adverse: awkward winds, v. 155; awkward casualties, viii. 65.

awless lion-The, The lion standing in awe of nothing, iv. 12 (where Mr. Knight erroneously explains awless "not inspiring awe").

awless throne-The, The throne not regarded with awe, not reverenced, v. 391.

ay me, ah me, alas: This interjection, which occurs many times in Shakespeare, and which his editors generally alter to ah me, is the Italian aimè (e. g. Dante has "Aimè, che piaghe vidi," &c. Inferno, C. xvi. 10).

B.

babes hath judgment shown-So holy writ in, iii. 226: "The allusion is to St. Matthew's Gospel, xi. 25: 'I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. See also 1 Cor. i. 27" (MALONE).

baby, a doll: The baby of a girl, vii. 41.

baccare, iii. 130: A cant exclamation of doubtful etymology, signifying "Go back." (Compare, among numerous passages that might be cited, one of John Heywood's three epigrams upon it;

"Backare, quoth Mortimer to his sow:

Went that sow backe at that bidding, trow you?"

Workes, sig. P 2, ed. 1598.) back'd-Upon his eagle, Seated upon the back of his eagle, vii. 734. badge of fame to slander's livery-A, viii. 317: “In our author's time the servants of the nobility all wore silver badges on their liveries, on which the arms of their masters were engraved" (MALONE). baffle, to treat ignominiously, to use contemptuously (" Baffle.... was originally a punishment of infamy, inflicted on recreant knights, one part of which was hanging them up by the heels. In French baffouer or baffoler." Nares's Gloss.): I will baffle Sir Toby, iii. 358; baffle me, iv. 212; how have they baffled thee! iii. 395; baffled here, iv. 109; shall good news be baffled? iv. 396.

Bajazet's mute, iii. 257: The allusion in this passage (where the original reads "mule") has not yet been explained.

baker's daughter-They say the owl was a: see owl, &c. baldrick, a belt, ii. 80; viii. 187.

bale, sorrow, evil, vi. 139.

balk logic, (according to some) chop logic, wrangle logically, (according to others) give the go-by to logic, iii. 115.

balk'd in their own blood, iv. 209: Here balk'd is explained "piled up in balks or ridges ;" but that reading not appearing satisfactory to Grey and Steevens, they proposed bak'd in its stead.

ballast, the contracted form of ballased or ballaced ballasted, ii. 29. (So in Wilkins's Miseries of Inforst Marriage,

"What riches I am ballast with are yours." Sig. H 2, ed. 1629.)

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BALLOW-BANQUET.

ballow, a pole, a stick, a cudgel, vii. 328.

balm, the oil of consecration: wash the balm from an anointed king, iv. 143; I wash away my balm, iv. 162; Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head, iv. 383; 'Tis not the balm, iv. 476; Thy balm wash'd off, v. 272.

ban, a curse, vii. 160; bans, vi. 548; vii. 283.

ban, to curse, v. 140, 161 (twice); viii. 329, 463; banning, v. 70; viii.

250.

Banbury cheese-You, i. 349: An allusion to the thinness of Slender,-Banbury cheese being a cream cheese, which was proverbially thin ("The same thought occurs in Jack Drum's Entertainment, 1601: 'Put off your cloathes, and you are like a Banbury cheese,— nothing but paring'," STEEVENS).

band, a bond: arrested on a band, ii. 35 (in what immediately follows these words Dromio quibbles on band in the sense of "bond," and band (6 a band for the neck"); that breaks his band, ii. 36; thy oath and band, iv. 105; as my furthest band Shall pass, vii. 539; cancels all bands, iv. 257; die in bands, v. 240; with all bands of law, vii.

109.

ban-dogs, properly band-dogs, so called because on account of their fierceness they required to be bound or chained, and used more particularly for baiting bears; considered by Pennant as mastiffs, and by Gifford as "large dogs of the mastiff kind"), v. 125.

bank'd their towns, iv. 67: Means most probably "sailed past their towns on the banks of the river," rather than "thrown up entrenchments before their towns;" compare the old play, The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn, &c. (see iv. 3);

"Your city, Rochester, with great applause,
By some diuine instinct laid armes aside;
And from the hollow holes of Thamesis

Eccho apace repli'd, Viue le Roy:

From thence along the wanton rowling glade
To Troynouant, your faire metropolis,
With lucke came Lewis," &c.

Sec. Part, sig. 1 4 verso, ed. 1622:But Mr. Staunton sees here an allusion to card-playing, and (from the context) would understand bank'd their towns to mean won their towns, put them in bank or rest." banquet, what we now call a dessert, a slight refection, consisting of cakes, sweetmeats, and fruit, and generally served in a room to which the guests removed after dinner: My banquet is to close our stomachs up, After our great good cheer, iii. 174 (A passage overlooked by Nares when he said, "Banquet is often used by Shakespeare, and there seems always to signify a feast, as it does now." Gloss.); Servants, with a banquet, vii. 532.

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banquet ere they rested—Should find a running, v. 500; besides the running banquet of two beadles, v. 569: On the first of these passages Steevens observes; "A running banquet, literally speaking, is a hasty refreshment, as set in opposition to a regular and protracted meal. The former is the object of this rakish peer; the latter perhaps he would have relinquished to those of more permanent desires:" and Malone; "A running banquet seems to have meant a hasty banquet. 'Queen Margaret and Prince Edward (says Habington in his History of King Edward IV.), though by the Earle recalled, found their fate and the winds so adverse that they could not land in England to taste this running banquet to which fortune had invited them.' The hasty banquet, that was in Lord Sands's thoughts, is too obvious to require explanation:" on the second passage Steevens remarks; "A banquet, in ancient language, did not [generally] signify either dinner or supper, but the dessert after each of them. . . . To the confinement therefore of these rioters a whipping was to be the dessert."

bar and royal interview-Unto this, "To this barrier, to this place of congress, &c." (JOHNSON), iv. 499.

Barbason, i. 372; iv. 436: The name of a demon: he would seem

to be the same as "Marbas, alias Barbas," who, as Scot informs us, "is a great president, and appeareth in the forme of a mightie lion; but at the commandement of a coniuror commeth vp in the likenes of a man, and answereth fullie as touching anie thing which is hidden or secret," &c. The Discouerie of Witchcraft, &c. p. 378, ed. 1584. barbed steeds, steeds equipped with military trappings and ornaments, iv. 151; v. 351 (Cotgrave has "Bardé : Barbed or trapped as a great horse." Fr. and Engl. Dict.: Barbed is said to be a corruption of barded).

barbermonger, "a fop who deals much with barbers, to adjust his hair and beard" (MASON), vii. 279.

barber's chair, that fits all buttocks-Like a, a proverbial simile, iii. 228: Ray gives "Like a barber's chair, fit for every buttock." Proverbs, p. 51, ed. 1768.

bare Christian—Which is much in a, i. 298: "Launce is quibbling on. Bare has two senses; mere and naked. Launce uses it in both, and opposes the naked female to the water-spaniel covered with hairs of remarkable thickness" (STEEVENS).

barful strife—A, "A contest full of impediments" (STEEVENS), iii.

335.

barge stays-My, v. 500: "The speaker is now in the king's palace at Bridewell, from which he is proceeding [about to proceed] by water to York-place (Cardinal Wolsey's house), now Whitehall" (MALONE).