20 ARTICULATE—ASSOCIATE. articulate, to enter into articles: with whom we may articulate, vi. 163. articulate, to exhibit in articles: These things, indeed, you have articulated, iv. 283. artificial, ingenious, artful: like two artificial gods, ii. 297. Ascanius did, &c.—As, v. 165; see note 108, v. 165. Asher-house, my Lord of Winchester's, v. 534: "Shakespeare forgot that Wolsey was himself Bishop of Winchester, unless he meant to say, you must confine yourself to that house which you possess as Bishop of Winchester. Asher [the old form of Esher], near Hampton-Court, was one of the houses belonging to that bishoprick" (MALONE): "Fox, Bishop of Winchester, died Sept. 14, 1528, and Wolsey held this see in commendam. Esher therefore was his own house" (REED). askance their eyes, turn aside their eyes, ix. 290. aspersion, a sprinkling, i. 252. aspire, to aspire to, to mount to: That gallant spirit hath aspir'd the clouds, vi. 427. a-squint-That eye that told you so look'd but, viii. 112: Ray gives "Love being jealous makes a good eye look asquint." Proverbs, p. 13, ed. 1768. "as's" of great charge, vii. 424: Here, as Johnson was the first to observe, a quibble is intended between as the conditional particle, and ass the beast of burden." ass on thy back o'er the dirt-Thou borest thine, viii. 29: An allusion to Æsop's celebrated fable of the Old Man and his Ass. assay of arms—To give th’, “to attempt or assay anything in arms or by force" (SINGER), vii. 338. assemblance, semblance, external aspect, iv. 360. assinico, a silly, a stupid fellow ("Asnico. A little ass." Connelly's Span. and Engl. Dict., Madrid, 4to), vi. 35. (This word is usually spelt by our early writers assinego, and so I spelt it in my former editions; but since the old eds. of Shakespeare's play have "asinico," I have now printed "assinico," as a form nearer to the Spanish word.) assistance, "assessors" (JOHNSON): affecting one sole throne, Without assistance, vi. 236. associate me—One of our order, to, vi. 471 : "Each friar has always a companion assigned him by the superior when he asks leave to go out; and thus, says Baretti, they are a check upon each other" (STEEVENS). ASSUM’D—ATONE. 21 assum'd this age—He it is that hath, viii. 507: assum'd "I believe is the same as reached or attained" (STEEVENS): "Assum'd this age' has a reference to the different appearance which Belarius now makes in comparison with that when Cymbeline last saw him” (HENLEY). assurance of a dower in marriage—To pass, iii. 166: “To pass assurance means to make a conveyance or deed. Deeds are by law-writers called 'The common assurances of the realm,' because thereby each man's property is assured to him. So, in a subsequent scene of this act, 'they are busied about a counterfeit assurance' [iii. 176]" (MALONE). assurance in that-Seek out, vii. 415: "A quibble is intended. Deeds, which are usually written on parchment, are called the common assurances of the kingdom" (MALONE). assured, affianced, ii. 36; iv. 33. Atalanta's better part, iii, 48: Here the meaning of better part (a common enough expression, and used by Shakespeare in two other places—“my better part of man,” Macbeth, act v. sc. 8—“ My spirit is thine, the better part of me," Sonnet LXXIV.) has been much disputed: "Cannot Atalanta's better part mean her virtue or virgin chastity? . . . . Pliny's Natural History, b. xxxv. c. iii. mentions the portraits of Atalanta and Helen, utraque excellentissima forma, sed altera ut virgo; that is both of them for beauty incomparable, and yet a man may discerne the one [Atalanta] of them to be a maiden, for her modest and chaste countenance,' as Dr. P. Holland translated the passage" (TOLLET): "I suppose Atalanta's better part is her wit, i.e. the swiftness of her mind” (FARMER) : "After all, I believe that 'Atalanta's better part' means only the best part about her, such as was most commended" (STEEVENS): "Atalanta's better part was not her modesty, nor her heels, nor her 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. 223: a proverbial expression. atomies, atoms, iii. 50, 62; vi. 392 (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. 403. (So "ottamy." Craven Dialect.) atone, to reconcile: Since we cannot atone you, iv. 107; to atone your fears With my more noble meaning, vii. 100; I would do much T" atone them, viii. 214; the present need Speaks to atone you, viii. 279; I did atone my countryman and you, viii. 397. atone, to agree, to unite: When earthly things made even atone together, iii. 91; He and Aufidius can no more atone, vi. 238. 22 ATONEMENT-AUNT. atonement, reconciliation, iv. 370; v. 350; atonements, i. 362 (Compare, in our authorised version of Scripture, "By whom we have now received the atonement (TMǹv Kataλλayýv),” Romans v. 11). attach, to lay hold of, to arrest, to seize: attach you by this officer, ii. 40; attach the hand of his fair mistress, ii. 218; desires you to attach his son, iii. 497; of capital treason I attach you both, iv. 374; attach Lord Montacute, v. 477; Attach thee as a traitorous innovator, vi. 198; attach'd with weariness, i. 246; weariness durst not have attached one, &c., iv. 329; My father was attached, v. 38; hath attach'd Our merchants' goods, v. 472; He is attach'd, v. 486; Troilus be but half attach'd, &c., vi. 111. attachment, an arrest, a seizure, vi. 80. attaint, taint, stain: brags of his own attaint, ii. 32; over-bears attaint, iv. 472; nor any man an attaint, vi. 12; poison thee with my attaint, ix. 304. attaint, attainted: attaint with faults (a passage rejected from the text in the present ed.), ii. 251, note 185; My tender youth was never yet attaint, &c., v. 99. attask'd, taxed, blamed, viii. 35. attend, to wait for: who attended him In secret ambush, v. 304; 1 am attended at the cypress grove, vi. 165; thy intercepter . attends thee at the orchard-end, iii. 370. attent, attentive, vii. 311; ix. 46. .... attorney, an advocate, a pleader: the heart's attorney (the tongue), ix. 234. attorney, a substitute, a deputy: die by attorney, iii. 69; I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother, v. 447. attorneyed, &c.-Royally, "Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies, &c." (JOHNSON), iii. 404. audacious, "spirited, animated, confident" (JOHNSON): audacious without impudency, ii. 218. audaciously, with proper spirit: speak audaciously, ii. 227. Audrey, "a corruption of Etheldreda" (STEEVENS), iii. 56, &c. auncient, iv. 462 (twice), 463 (twice): Fluellen's Welsh pronunciation of ancient (ensign). aunt, a good old dame: The wisest aunt, ii. 271. aunt, a cant term for a loose woman: summer songs for me and my aunts, iii. 457. 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. 40. AUNT-BACCARE. aunt-My sacred: see sacred aunt—My. author to dishonour you, vi. 299: see note 30, vi. 292. 23 Autolycus-My father named me, iii. 457: 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 Autolychus, 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, (J. F. Gronovius, in his Lect. Plautinæ, p. 161, ed. 1740, after citing avaunt-To give her the, To give her the dismissal, "To send her away contemptuously" (JOHNSON), V. 505. avised, for advised (see second sense of that word), i. 365, 377, 487. away with, to endure, to bear with: She never could away with me, iv. 358. awful banks, "the proper limits of reverence" (JOHNSON), iv. 368. awful men, men who reverence the laws and usages of society, i. 332. awkward, distorted: no sinister nor no awkward claim, iv. 446. awkward, adverse: awkward winds, v. 164; awkward casualties, ix. 91. awless lion-The, The lion standing in awe of nothing, iv. 13 (where Mr. Knight erroneously explains awless "not inspiring awe"). awless throne-The, The throne not regarded with awe, not reverenced, v. 383. 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 I Cor. i. 27" (MALONE). baby, a doll: The baby of a girl, vii. 253. 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; 24 BACK'D-BAND. "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, viii. 511. badge of fame to slander's livery—A, ix. 303: “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. 351; baffle me, iv. 207; how have they baffled thee! iii. 396; baffled here, iv. 106; shall good news be baffled? iv. 401. Bajazet's mute, iii. 267: 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. 79; ix. 190. bale, sorrow, evil, vi. 139. balk logic, (according to some) chop logic, wrangle logically, (according to others) give the go-by to logic, iii. 112. balk'd in their own blood, iv. 203: 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. ballad us, make ballads on us, viii. 374. = ballast, the contracted form of ballased or ballaced ballasted, ii. 36. (So in Wilkins's Miseries of Inforst Marriage, "What riches I am ballast with are yours." Sig. H 2, ed. 1629.) ballow, a pole, a stick, a cudgel, viii. 101. balm, the oil of consecration: wash the balm from an anointed king, iv. 147; I wash away my balm, iv. 171; Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head, iv. 386; 'Tis not the balm, iv. 481; Thy balm wash'd off, v. 272. ban, a curse, vii. 370; bans, vii. 61; viii. 48. ban, to curse, v. 145, 172, 173; ix. 315, 438; banning, v. 85; ix. 234. Banbury cheese-You, i. 364: 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. 44 (in what immediately follows these words Dromio quibbles on band in the sense of "bond," and |