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vizaments (in Sir Hugh's dialect=advisements), considerations,

i. 362.

voice, to nominate, to vote: to voice him consul, vi. 188.

voice, to rumour, to report, to proclaim: th' Athenian minion, whom the world Voic'd so regardfully? vii. 67.

void, to quit: void the field, iv. 498.

void, to emit : void your rheum, ii. 349; spit and void his rheum, iv. 461.

'voided, avoided, vi. 229.

voiding-lobby, a lobby that receives those who are voided (see second void) from the apartments of the house, v. 180.

Volquessen, iv. 32: "This is the ancient name for the country now called the Vexin, in Latin, Pagus Velocassinus. That part of it called the Norman Vexin was in dispute between Philip and John" (STEEVENS): "This and the subsequent line (except the words, 'do I give') are taken from the old play [The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn, &c., see vol. iv. 3]” (Malone).

voluntary, a volunteer: Ajax was here the voluntary, vi. 36; fiery voluntaries, iv. 16.

votarist, a votary, vii. 65; viii. 222; votarists, i. 471.

vouchers-Double: see double vouchers, &c.

VOX-You must allow, iii. 394: "The Clown, we may presume, had begun to read the letter in a very loud tone, and probably with extravagant gesticulation. Being reprimanded by his mistress, he justifies himself by saying, 'If you would have it read in character, as such a mad epistle ought to be read, you must permit me to assume a frantic tone'" (MALONE).

voyage, a course, an attempt, an enterprise: If he should intend this voyage toward my wife, &c., i. 386; if you make your voyage upon her, &c., viii. 400.

vulgar, common: 'tis a vulgar proof, iii. 357; the vulgar air, iv. 28 ; any the most vulgar thing to sense, vii. 308; Most sure and vulgar (of common report), viii. 100, &c.

vulgarly, publicly, openly, i. 543.

vulgars, the common people, iii. 425.

vulture of sedition Feeds, &c.—The, v. 70: "Alluding to the tale of Prometheus" (JOHNSON).

waft, to beckon: who wafts us yonder? ii, 21; Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her, vii. 7.

waft, to turn, to direct: Wafting his eyes to the contrary, iii. 418. waft, wafted: Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er, iv. 17. waftage, a passage by water, ii. 41; vi. 58.

wafture, the act of waving, a motion, vii. 134.

wag, to go, to pack off: let them wag, i. 370; shall we wag? i. 388; let him wag, i. 399; Let us wag, then, i. 400; Bid sorrow wag, ii. 135. wag, to stir, to move the empress never wags But, &c., vi. 354.

wage, to pay wages to, to remunerate: He wag'd me with his countenance ("the countenance he gave me was a kind of wages," Nares's Gloss.), vi. 265.

wage, to stake in wager: as a pawn To wage against thine enemies, viii. 11; I will wage against your gold, gold to it, viii. 399.

wage, to be opposed as equal stakes in a wager: His taints and honours Wag'd equal with him ("Were opposed to each other in just proportions, like the counterparts of a wager," (STEEVENS), viii. 363; nor the commodity wages not with the danger (“¿.e. is not equal to it," STEEVENS), ix. 69.

wage, to prosecute, to continue to encounter: To wake and wage a danger profitless, viii. 143.

wage, to contend, to strive: To wage against the enmity o' th' air, viii. 55.

wagon, a chariot : Dis's wagon, iii. 465; thy vengeful wagon, vi. 353; wagon-wheel, ibid.; wagon-spokes, vi. 392.

wagon, a travelling wagon, such as was formerly used even by nobility: Our wagon is prepar'd, iii. 286.

wagoner, a charioteer, vi. 353, 392, 430.

waist, "that part of a ship which is contained between the quarterdeck and forecastle," &c. (Falconer's Marine Dict., ed. 1815): Now in the waist, the deck, i. 206.

wake, to hold a late revel: The king doth wake to-night, vii. 320 (So, in poets of a much earlier date, we find the words watch and watching employed as equivalent to "debauch at night;"

"Hatefull of harte he was to sobernes,

Cherishyng surfetes, watche, and glotony," &c.

Lydgate's Fall of Prynces, B. ii. fol. L. ed. Wayland :

WALK-WAPPEN'D.

"Withdraw your hand fro riotous watchyng."

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Id. B. ix. fol. xxxi. verso:

"His hede was heuy for watchynge ouer nyghte."

Skelton's Bowge of Courte, Works, vol. i. p. 43, ed. Dyce:

so, too, in a tract of later date than Hamlet, "Late watchings in Taverns will wrinckle that face." The Wandering Jew, 1640, sig. D). walk, a district in a forest: the fellow of this walk, i. 445; My parks, my walks, my manors that I had, v. 316.

walks my estate in France!-How wildly, then, iv. 66: "¿.e. How ill my affairs go in France!-The verb to walk is used with great license by old writers. It often means to go, to move" (MALONE). wall-ey'd, having eyes with a white or pale-gray iris,—glaring-eyed, fierce-eyed, iv. 74; vi. 347 (“A Whall, ouer-white eye. Oeil de cheere." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.: "In those parts of the North with which I am best acquainted, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white of the eye is very large, and to one side. On the borders 'sic folks' are considered unlucky. The term is also occasionally applied to horses with similar eyes, though its more general acceptation seems to be when the iris of the eye is white, or of a very pale colour. A wall-eyed horse sees perfectly well." Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, &c.: Horses perfectly white, or cream-coloured, have the iris white and the pupil red. When horses of other colours, and that are usually pied, have a white iris and a black pupil, they are said to be walleyed. Vulgar opinion has decided that a wall-eyed horse is never subject to blindness; but this is altogether erroneous.' "The Horse, by Youatt, p. 131, ed. 1848: The author of The Dialect of Craven, &c., under "Wall-een, White or grey eyes," cites from the first of the passages of Shakespeare referred to in this article the words "wall-ey'd wrath," and observes, "It frequently happens that when a person is in an excessive passion, a large portion of the white of the eye is visible. This confirms the propriety and force of the above expression").

walls are thine-The, viii. 113: see note 120, viii. 113.

wanion- With a, With a vengeance, with a plague, ix. 26 (The origin of this common phrase has not, I believe, been ascertained).

wann'd, turned pale, vii. 353.

wanting, not possessing, not skilled in: Wanting the manage of unruly jades, iv. 159.

wanton, a childish, feeble, effeminate person: A cocker'd silken wanton, iv. 80; you make a wanton of me, vii. 433 (With the second of these passages compare "Mignoter. To . . . handle gently. vse tenderly, make a wanton of." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.). wappen'd, over-worn, vii. 66 (See Harman's Caueat or Warening

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WARD 'WARE.

for Common Cursetors, &c., 1573, last sentence of p. 69, reprint 1814; Dekker's English Villanies, &c., ed. 1632, 2 [3]d stanza of the Canters' Song, sig. o verso; and Grose's Class. Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue in v. “Wap ").

ward-To whom [i.e. his majesty] I am now in, iii. 199: The heirs of great estates, by a feudal custom, were under the wardship of the sovereign, who had the power even of giving them in marriage. ward, custody, confinement: ere they will have me go to ward, v. 210. ward, a guard in fencing, a posture of defence (used metaphorically in some of the following passages): come from thy ward, i. 216; the ward of her purity, i. 395; beat from his best ward, iii. 406; Thou knowest my old ward, iv. 237; at what ward you lie, vi. 19; Omit a ward, ix. 209; what wards, what blows, iv. 210; at all these wards I lie, vi. 19.

ward, to defend, to protect: God will, in justice, ward you as his soldiers, V. 454; a hand that warded him From thousand dangers,

vi. 320.

warden-pies, pies made of wardens, large baking-pears, iii. 458. warder, a guard, a sentinel: memory, the warder of the brain, vii.

224; Where be these warders, v. 16; castles topple on their warders' heads, vii. 261.

warder, a sort of truncheon; the throwing down of which, as

appears from the following passages (and from passages in other writers), was a solemn mode of prohibiting a combat: the king hath thrown his warder down, iv. 113; the king did throw his warder down, iv. 367.

Ware-The bed of, iii. 360: This celebrated bed, made of oak richly carved, is still preserved: it measures seven feet six inches in height, ten feet nine inches in length, and ten feet nine inches in width. At what inn in Ware it was kept during Shakespeare's days is uncertain: but, after being for many years at the Saracen's Head, it was sold there by auction in September 1864, and knocked down at a hundred guineas (the newspapers erroneously adding that Mr. Charles Dickens was the purchaser).

'ware pencils, ho! .... My red dominical, my golden letter

so full of O's, ii. 224: “Rosaline says that Biron had drawn her picture in his letter; and afterwards, playing on the word letter, Katharine compares her to a text B. Rosaline in reply advises her to beware of pencils, that is, of drawing likenesses, lest she should retaliate; which she afterwards does by comparing her to a red dominical letter, and calling her marks of the small-pox oes" (MASON): It must be remembered that Rosaline was a darkish beauty, Katharine a fair one. (I may notice that our early writers are fond of alluding, in comparisons, to the Dominical Letter: e.g.

WARM-WASHFORD.

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"she sweares a lookes for all the world like the Dominicall Letter in his red coate." Cupid's Whirligig, sig. c 2, ed. 1611: "Especially that at large, if you can, in red, like a Dominicall letter." Dekker's If it be not good, the Diuel is in it, 1612, sig. C 3.)

warm sun!-Thou out of heaven's benediction com'st To the: see heaven's benediction com'st To the warm sun, &c.

warn, to summon to warn them to his royal presence, v. 350; to warn us at Philippi here, vii. 184; warn'd us to the walls, iv. 21; That warns my old age to a sepulchre, vi. 481.

warp-Though thou the waters, iii. 43: In this passage warp has been

variously interpreted: the following explanation by Whiter is probably the right one; "The cold is said to warp the waters, when it contracts them into the solid substance of ice, and suffers them no longer to continue in a liquid or flowing state" (According to Johnson,-whom Steevens pronounces to be "certainly right,”—warp means here nothing more than "changed from their natural state: " and Nares would understand it as equivalent to weave"). warrior-0 my fair, viii. 162; unhandsome warrior (“unfair assailant," JOHNSON) as I am, viii. 205: "This phrase [warrior] was introduced by our copiers of the French Sonnetteers. Ronsard frequently calls his mistresses guerrieres; and Southern, his imitator, is not less prodigal of the same appellation. Thus, in his Fifth Sonnet;

And, my warrier, my light shines in thy fayre eyes.
Again, in his Sixth Sonnet;

'I am not, my cruell warrier, the Thebain,' &c.

Again, ibid.;

'I came not, my warrier, of the blood Lidian.'

Had not I met with the word thus fantastically applied, I should have concluded that Othello called his wife a warrior because she had embarked with him on a warlike expedition, and not in consequence of Ovid's observation-' Militat omnes amans, et habet sua castra Cupido'" (STEEVENS).

wash'd a tile, laboured in vain, ix. 165: a Latinism, Laterem lavare, to lose one's labour.

Washford-Earl of, v. 78: "It appears from Camden's Britannia and Holinshed's Chronicle of Ireland, that Wexford was anciently called Weysford. In Crompton's Mansion of Magnanimitie it is written as here, Washford. This long list of titles is taken from the epitaph formerly fixed on Lord Talbot's tomb in Roüen in Normandy. Where this author found it, I have not been able to ascertain, for it is not in the common historians. The oldest book in which I have met with it is the tract above mentioned, which