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Umbrage, shadow; V. ii. 121. Unaneled, not having received extreme unction; I. v. 77. Unbated, not blunted, without a button fixed to the end; IV. vii. 139. Unbraced, unfastened; II. i. 78. Uncharge, not charge, not accuse; IV. vii. 68. Undergo, bear, endure; I. iv. 34. Uneffectual; u. fire"; i.e. ineffectual, being "lost in the light of the morning"; I. v. 90.

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Unequal, unequally; II. ii. 490. Ungalled, unhurt; III. ii. 283. Ungored, unwounded; V. ii. 253.

Ungracious, graceless; I. iii. 47. Unhousel'd, without having received the Sacrament; I. v. 77.

Unimproved, unemployed, not turned to account (? "unapproved," i.e. "untried "; Quarto 1, "inapproved "); I.

i. 96. Union, fine orient pearl (Quarto 2," Venice"; Quartos 3-6, Onyx" or "Onixe"); V.

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ii. 275.

Unkennel, discover, disclose; III. ii. 86.

Unlimited; " poem u.," i.e. (probably) regardless of the Unities of Time and Place; II. ii. 419.

Unmaster'd, unbridled; I. iii. 32. Unpregnant, unapt, indifferent to; II. ii. 592.

Unprevailing, unavailing, useless; I. ii. 107.

Unproportion'd, unsuitable; I. iii. 60.

Unreclaimed, untamed, wild; II. i. 34.

Unshaped, confused; IV. v. 8. Unsifted, untried; I. iii. 102. Unsinew'd, weak; IV. vii. 10. Unsure, insecure; IV. iv. 51. Unvalued, low born, mean; I. iii. 19.

Unwrung, not wrenched, ungalled; III. ii. 250. Unyoke, your day's work is done; V. i. 55.

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Up; "drink u." (used with intensive force); V. i. 288. Upon; u. your hour," i.e. on the stroke of, just at your hour; I. i. 6.

Upon my sword, i.e. Swear upon my sword (the hilt being in form of a cross); I. v. 147. Upshot, conclusion; V. ii. 387. Up-spring, the wildest dance at the old German merry-makings; I. iv. 9.

Vailed lids, lowered eyelids; I. ii. 70. Valanced,

adorned with a beard; II. ii. 442.

Validity, value, worth; III. ii. 196.

Vantage; "of v.," from an advantageous position, or opportunity (Warburton); III. iii. 33.

Variable, various; IV. iii. 25. Vast, void (so Quarto I; Quarto 2, Folio 1, "wast"; Folios 2, 3, 4, "waste"); I. ii. 198.

Ventages, holes of the recorder; III. ii. 365.

Vice of kings, buffoon, clown

of a king; alluding to the Vice, the comic character, of the old morality plays; III. iv. 98. Videlicet, that is to say, namely;

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Virtue, power; IV. v. 155. Visitation, visit; II. ii. 25. Voice, vote, opinion; V. ii. 252. Vouchers; double v., his recoveries," "a recovery with double voucher is the one usually suffered, and is so denominated from two persons (the latter of whom is always the common cryer, or some such inferior person) being successively vouched, or called upon, to warrant the tenant's title" (Ritson); V. i.

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Wag, move; III. iv. 39. Wake, hold nightly revel; I. iv. 8.

Wandering stars, planets; V. i. 268.

Wann'd, turned pale; II. ii. 577. Wanton; effeminate weakling; V. ii. 302.

wantonly; III. iv. 183. Wantonness, affectation; III. i.

152.

Warranty, warrant; V. i. 239. Wash, sea; III. ii. 163. Wassail, carousal,

bout; I. iv. 9.

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Watch, state of sleeplessness; II. ii. 148.

Water-fly (applied to Osric); "a water-fly skips up and down upon the surface of the water without any apparent purpose or reason, and is thence the proper emblem of a busy trifler" (Johnson); V. ii. 83. Waves,

beckons (Folios, "wafts"); I. iv. 68.

We; "and we," used loosely after conjunction instead of accusation of regard, i.e." as for us"; I. iv. 54.

Weeds, robes; IV. vii. 81. Well-took, well undertaken; II. ii. 83.

Wharf, bank, I. v. 33. What, who; IV. vi. I. Wheel, the burden or refrain of a song (or, perhaps, the spinning-wheel to which it may be sung); IV. v. 172. Whether (monosyllabic); II. ii.

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Which, who; IV. vii. 4.

Wholesome, reasonable, sensible: III. ii. 323.

Wildness, madness; III. i. 40.

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Withers, the part between the

shoulder-blades of a horse; III. ii. 250.

Within's, within this; III. ii. 132.

Wittenberg, the University of Wittenberg (founded 1502); I. ii. 113.

Wonder-wounded, struck with surprise; V. i. 269. Woodcocks, birds supposed to be brainless; hence proverbial use; I. iii. 115.

Woo't, contraction of wouldst thou; V. i. 287.

Word, watch-word; I. v. 110. Worlds; "both the w.," this world and the next; IV. v. 134.

Would, wish; I. ii. 235.

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Critical Notes.

BY ISRAEL GOLLANCZ.

I. i. 63. He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice'; Quarto I, Quarto 2, Folio 1, 'pollax,' variously interpreted as 'Polacks,' poleaxe, etc.; there is very little to be said against the former interpretation, unless it be that the ambitious Norway' in the previous sentence would lead one to expect 'the sledded Polack,' a commendable reading originally proposed by Pope.

I. i. 108-125. These lines occur in the Quartos, but are omitted in Folios.

I. i. 167. eastward,' so Quartos; Folios, 'easterne'; the latter reading was perhaps in Milton's mind when he wrote:

"Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearls.”

Par. Lost, v. I.

I. ii. 9. 'to'; the reading of Quartos; Folios' of."'

I. ii. 58-60. Omitted in Folios.

I. iii. 12. this temple'; so Quartos: Folios, 'his temple.'
I. iii. 16. 'will,' so Quartos; Folios, ' fear.'

I. iii. 18. Omitted in Quartos.

I. iii. 26. particular act and place, so Quartos; Folios, 'peculiar sect and force.'

I. iii. 59. Polonius' precepts have been traced back to Euphues' advice to Philautus; the similarity is certainly striking (vide Rushton's Shakespeare's Euphuism); others see in the passage a reference to Lord Burleigh's 'ten precepts,' enjoined upon Robert Cecil when about to set out on his travels (French's Shakespeareana Genealogica, v. Furness, Vol. II., p. 239).

I. iii. 65. comrade' (accented on the second syllable), so Folio I; Quartos (also Quarto 1), 'courage.'

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I. iii. 74. Are of a most select and generous chief in that'; so Folio ; Quarto I, are of a most select and general chiefe in that'; Quarto 2, Or of a most select and generous chiefe in that'; the line is obviously incorrect; the simplest emendation of the

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many proposed is the omission of the words 'of a,' and 'chief,' which were probably due to marginal corrections of 'in' and 'best' in the previous lines:—

"Are most select and generous in that."

(Collier' choice' for chief'; Staunton' sheaf,' i.e. set, clique, suggested by the Euphuistic phrase "gentlemen of the best sheaf"). I. iii. 109. Running,' Collier's conj.; Quartos, 'Wrong'; Folio 1, 'Roaming'; Pope, 'Wronging'; Warburton, 'Wronging'; Theobald, Ranging,' etc.

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I. iii. 130. bawds'; Theobald's emendation of 'bonds,' the reading of Quartos and Folio 1.

I. iv. 17-38. Omitted in Folio 1 (also Quarto 1).

I. iv. 36-38.

'the dram of eale

Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
To his own scandal';

this famous crux has taxed the ingenuity of generations of scholars, and some fifty various readings and interpretations have been proposed. The general meaning of the words is clear, emphasizing as they do the previous statement that as a man's virtues, be they as pure as grace, shall in the general censure take corruption from one particular fault, even so 'the dram of eale' reduces all the noble substance to its own low level.

The difficulty of the passage lies in (i.) 'cale' and (ii.) 'Doth of a doubt'; a simple explanation of (i.) is that 'cale': e'il,' i.e. 'evil' (similarly in Quarto 2, II. ii. 627, 'deale' = 'de'ile'=' devil'). The chief objection to this plausible conjecture is that one would expect some rather more definite than 'dram of evil'; it is said, however, that 'eale' is still used in the sense of ' reproach' in the western counties. Theobald proposed 'base,' probably having in mind the lines in Cymbeline (III. v. 88) :—

"From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
A dram of worth be drawn."

As regards (ii.), no very plausible emendation has been proposed; ‘of a doubt' has been taken to be a printer's error for often dout,'' oft endoubt,'' offer doubt,'' oft work out,' etc. To the many questions which these words have called forth, the present writer is rash enough to add one more:-Could, perhaps,

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