Abandoned. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. T. of Shr. Induc. 2. He hath abandoned his physicians. All's Well, i. 1. If she be so abandoned to her sorrow. Tw. Night, i. 4. Abate. O weary night, O long and tedious night, Abate1 thy hours. Mid. N. Dr. iii. 2. Abated. Deliver you as most abated captives. Cor. iii. 3.

Abatement. There's a great abatement of kindness. Lear, i. 4.

Abbeys. Our abbeys and our priories shall pay This expedition's charge. K. John, i. 1. Abbots. And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags Of hoarding abbots. K. John, iii. 3. Abel. Which blood like sacrificing Abel's cries. Rich. ii. i. 1.

Abet. And you that do abet him in this kind Cherish rebellion, and are rebels all. Rich. ii. ii. 3.

Abhorred. It is I That all the abhorred things o' the earth amend, By being worse than they. Cymb. v. 5.

Abhorring. Let the water-flies blow me into abhorring. Ant. & Cleo. v. 2.

Abhors. O how my heart abhors to hear him named. Rom. & Ful. iii. 5.

Abide (s). Abide me if thou dar'st. Mid. N. Dr. iii. 2.-There's no virtue whipped out of the court: they cherish it to make it stay there; and yet it will no more but abide. Wint. Tale, iv. 2.- -Let no man abide this deed,3 But we the doers. Jul. Cæs. iii. 1.-If it be found so, some will dear abide it. Ibid. iii. 2.-Your provost knows the place where he abides. Mea. for Mea. v. 1. -Our separation so abides. Ant. & Cleo. i. 3.

Abilities. Your abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone. Cor. ii. 1.But altogether lacks the abilities That Rhodes is dressed in. Oth. i. 3.I will do all my abilities in thy behalf. Ibid. iii. 3.

Ability. Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something. Tw. Night, iii. 5.Anything, my lord, That my ability may undergo, and nobleness impose. Wint. Tale, ii. 3.

Abject (s). His eye reviled me as his abject ob

1 Abate=cut short, limit.

2 That is, remain for a limited period. 3 No man take the consequences of it,

-We are the queen's abRich. iii. i. 1.

ject. Hen. viii. i. 1.jects, and must obey. Abjure (d). I .. here abjure the taints and blames I laid upon myself, For strangers to my nature. Macb. iv. 3. -No, rather I abjure all roofs. Lear, ii. 4.- -For whose dear love They

say, she hath abjured the company And sight of Tw. Night, i. 2.

men.

Able. None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em. Lear, iv. 6.

Abode. Your patience for my long abode. Mer. of Ven. ii. 6.

Aboded. That this tempest, Dashing the garment
of this peace, aboded The sudden breach on't.
Hen. viii. i. 1.
Abodements.

Abodements 2 must not now affright us. 3 Hen. vi. iv. 7. Abortive. Why should I joy in any abortive birth? Love's L. Lost, i. 1.- -If ever he have child, abortive be it. Rich. iii. i. 2.-Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. 2 Hen. vi. iv. I.

About. Falstaff: My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about. Pistol: Two yards, and more. Falstaff: No quips now, Pistol! indeed, I am in the waist two yards about: but I am now about no waste; I am about thrift. M. Wives of Wind. i. 3.I will go about with him. Much Ado Ab. Noth. iv. 2.- There has been much throwing about of brains. Hamlet, ii. 2.-And 'a would about and about, and come you in, and come you in. 2 Hen. iv. iii. 2.

Abraham. O father Abraham, what these Christians are! Mer. of Ven. i. 3.-Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom Of good old Abraham! Rich. ii. iv. 1.-The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. Rich. iii. iv. 3. Abridge (d). Staying will abridge thy life. Two G. of Ver. iii. 1.- -So are we Cæsar's friends That have abridged his time of fearing death. Jul. Cæs. iii. 1.

Abridgement. What abridgement have you for this evening? Mid. N. Dr. v. 1.-This fierce abridgement Hath to it circumstantial branches, which Distinction should be rich in.✩ Cymb. v. 5.- -Look where my abridgement comes. Hamlet, ii. 2.

Abroach. Alack, what mischiefs might be set abroach In shadow of such greatness. 2 Hen. iv. iv. 2.The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I

lay unto the grievous charge of others. Rich. iii. i. 3. Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? Rom. & Ful. i. 1.

Abrogate. So it shall please you to abrogate scurrility. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.

Abrook. Ill can thy noble mind abrook The abject people gazing on thy face. 2 Hen. vi. ii. 4. Abruption. What makes this pretty abruption? Troi. & Cress. iii. 2.

We

Absence, Absent. I will not pe absence at the grace. M. Wives of Wind. i. 1.- -The husband will be absence from his house. Ibid. ii. 2.His absence, sir, lays blame upon his promise. Macb. iii. 2.- -An absent argument of my revenge. As You Like It. iii. 2. Absolute. How absolute the knave is! must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. Hamlet, v. 1.An absolute gentleman. Ibid. v. 2.Be absolute for death;1 either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Mea. for Mea. iii. 1.- -Most absolute, sir. Cor. iv. 5.- -I am absolute, 'twas very Cloten. Cymb. iv. 2.

Temp. i. 2.

He needs will be absolute Milan.

to be much abused Than but to know 't a little.

Ibid. iii. 3. -I would not have your free and noble nature, Out of self-bounty,1 be abused. Ibid.

-The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave. Ibid. iv. 2.- -Though all the world could see, None could be so abused in sight as he. As You Like It, iii. 5.-You are a great deal abused in too bold a persuasion. Cymb. i. 4. -Why hast thou abused So many miles with a pretence? Ibid. iii. 4. -It cannot be But that my master is abused. Ibid. -Being apt to have his ear abused. Lear, ii. 4. Then Edgar was abused. Ibid. iii. 7. Cure this great breach in his abused nature. Ibid. iv. 7.I am mightily abused. Ibid. -Thy face is much abused with tears. Rom. & Jul. iv. 1.

Abuses. If these be good people in a common weal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses, I know no law. Mea. for Mea. ii. 1. The poor abuses of the time want countenance. I Hen. iv. i. 2.-Cries out upon

abuses, seems to weep O'er his country's wrongs. Ibid. iv. 3.- -As I confess, it is my nature's plague To spy into abuses. Oth. iii. 3.

patience and the king's English. M. Wives of Wind. i. 4.

engenders maladies. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Abstract (s). You shall find there A man who is the abstract o. all faults That all men follow. Ant. & Cleo. i. 4.—They (the players) are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. Hamlet, ii. 2. He hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places. M. Wives of Wind. iv. 2.—This little abstract doth contain that large, Which died in Geffrey. K. John, ii. 1.

Absurd. To conquer their most absurd intents. Ant. & Cleo. v. 2.

Absyrtus. Into as many gobbets will I cut it, As wild Medea 2 young Absyrtus did. 2 Hen. vi.

V. 2.

Abundant (scarce). Which short-armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant scarce. Troi. & Cress. ii. 3.

Abuse (d). Nor aught so good, but, strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Rom. & Jul. ii. 3. -Do not abuse me. Lear, iv. 7. -This is a strange abuse.3 Mea. for Mea, v. I. -Lend him your kind pains To find out this abuse. Ibid.I shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse. 2 Hen. iv. ii. 4. -In thine own person answer thy abuse. 2 Hen. vi. ii. 1.—Did I let pass the abuse Done to my niece. 3 Hen. vi. iii. 3. To abuse C.hello's ear, That he is too familiar with his wife. Oth. i. 3.- -Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom. Ibid. iv. 2.-Dost thou in conscience think, That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind? Ibid. iv. 3.-That thou hast .. Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals That waken motion.5 Oth. i. 2.I swear 'tis better

1 That is, resolved to die; abandon all hope of life.

2 When Medea fled from Colchis with Jason, after assisting him to recover the golden fleece, she slew her brother Absyrtus, and cut his body into several pieces, so as to prevent her father from immediately pursuing her. OVID. Tristia, lib. iii. eleg. 9.

3 Abuse deception, imposture. 4 Abuse-impose upon. 5 Impair the faculties.

Abutting. Whose high-upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. Hen. v. (Prol.).

Aby. Lest, to thy peril, thou aby2 it dear. Mid. N. Dr. iii. 2.- If thou dost intend Never so little show of love to her, Thou shalt aby 3 it. Ibid.

Abysm. My good stars, that were my former guides, Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires Into the abysm of hell. Ant. & Cleo. iii. 13. -What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? Temp. i. 2.

Academes. They [women's eyes] are the ground, the books, the Academes From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

Accent (s). (Players) neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man. Hamlet, iii. 2.-Throttle their practised accent in their fears. Mid. N. Dr. v. 1.-Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. As You Like It, iii. 2.And with an accent tuned in self-same key Re-chides to chiding fortune. Troi. & Cress. i. 3.If not as well, I other accents borrow That can my speech diffuse. Lear, i. 4.He that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave. Ibid. ii. 2.- -These new tuners of accent. & Ful. ii. 4.

Rom.

Accept. If you accept them, then their worth is great. T. of Shr. ii. 1.

Accepted. Her presence Shall quite strike off all service I have done, In most accepted pain. Troi. & Cress. iii. 3.

Accessible. Accessible is none but Milford way. Cymb. iii. 2.

Accident (s). Oh ! 'tis an accident that heaven provides! Mea. for Mea. iv. 3.- -This is an accident of hourly proof. Much Ado Ab. Noth. ii. 1. But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do. Wint. Tale,

iv. 4.

-Prizes of accident as oft as merit. Troi.

& Cress. iii. 3.- -Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Oth. i. 3.—I'll resolve you... Of every these happened accidents. Temp. v. 1. And the particular accidents gone by, Since I came to this isle. Ibid.

Accite (d). Our coronation done, we will accite, As I before remembered, all our state. 2 Hen. iv. v. 2. And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so? Ibid. ii. 2. He by the Senate is accited home. Tit. And. i. 1. Accommodated. A soldier is better accommodated than with a wife. 2 Hen. iv. iii. 2. -Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby, he may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing. Ibid. Accomplished. In such a habit, That they shall think we are accomplished With that we lack. Mer. of Ven. iii. 4.

Accomplishing. Accomplishing 2 the knights. Hen. v. iii. (Chorus).

Accomplishment. Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour glass. Hen. v. i. (Prol.).

Accord (s). For your father's remembrance, be at accord. As You Like It, i. 1.- -You to his love must accord, Or have a woman to your lord. Ibid. V. 4. You must buy that peace, With full accord to all our just demands. Hen. v. v. 2.-And Jove's accord,3 nothing so full of heart. Troi. & Cress. i. 3.This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart. Hamlet, i. 2.-Men, more divine, the masters of all these, Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas, Indued with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords. Com. of Err. ii. 1.

Accordant, According. If he found her accordant. Much Ado Ab. Noth. i. 2. -As she agree, within her scope of choice Lies my consent and fair according voice. Rom. & Jul. i. 2. Accordingly. He is very great in knowledge, and accordingly valiant. All's Well, ii. 5. Accost. Good mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance. Tw. Night, i. 3.- -Accost in, front her, board her, woo her, assail her. Ibid. Account. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? Much Ado Ab. Noth, ii. 1. Claudio shall render me a dear account. Ibid. iv. 1.-That, only to stand high in your account, I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, exceed account. Mer. of Ven. iii. 2.—Sir, their speed hath been beyond account. Wint. Tale, ii. 3.- The princes both make high account of you. Rich. iii. iii. 2. When he shall come to his account, he knows not What I can urge against him. Cor. iv. 7.And about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes. Rom. & Jul. v. 1.No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Hamlet, i. 5. Accountant. Though peradventure I stand accountant for as great a sin. Oth. ii. 1. Accoutred. Upon the word, Accoutred as I

1 The word "accommodate " being of recent introduction was much ridiculed by the Elizabethan wits.

2 Completing their equipment.

With Jove's assent, or Jove agreeing.

was, I plunged in, And bade him follow. Jul. Cæs. i. 2.

Accurst. I am accurst to rob in that thief's company. 1 Hen. iv. ii. 2. Accusation. We come not by the way of accusation, To taint that honour every good tongue blesses. Hen. viii. iii. 1.-Be thou constant in that accusation. Much Ado Ab.Noth. ii. 2. Accuse. By false accuse doth level at my life. 2 Hen. vi. iii. 1.

Accused. For, as she hath been publicly accused, So shall she have a just and open trial. Wint. Tale, ii. 3.

Accuser. My accuser is my prentice. 2 Hen. vi. i. 3.

Accusing. Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully. Much Ado Ab. Noth. iv. 2.

Ace. Dem.: No die, but an ace for him; for he is but one. Lys.: Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is nothing. Mid. N. Dr. v. 1. Ache (s). Charm ache with air, and agony with words. Much Ado, v. 1. -Fill all thy bones with aches. Temp. i. 2.- -Aches contract and starve your supple joints! Tim. of Ath. i. 1. Tell them that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them. Ibid. v. 1. My soul aches To know. Cor. iii. 1. Acheron. At the pit of Acheron meet me in the morning. Macb. iii. 5.-I'll dive into the burning lake below, And pull her out of Acheron by the heels. Tit. And. iv. 3. -The starry welkin cover thou anon With drooping fog as black as Acheron. Mid. N. Dr. iii. 2.

Achieve (s). I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio, If I achieve not this young modest girl. T. of Shr. i. 1.—She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. All's Well, i. 1.—Bid them achieve

me, and then sell my bones. Hen. v. iv. 3.

To achieve The silver livery of advisèd age. 2 Hen. vi. v. 2.- -And does achieve as soon as draw his sword. Cor. iv. 7.-A thousand deaths Would I propose to achieve her whom I love. Tit. And. ii. 1.

Achieved. Provided that your fortune achieved her mistress. Mer. of Ven. iii. 2.- -No certain life achieved by others' death. K. John. iv. 2.

Rich.

-Basely yielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows. 22. ii. 1.Heaps of strange achievèd gold. 2 Hen. iv. iv. 4.- -How achieved you these endowments? Pericles, v. 1.-He hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame. Oth. ii. 1.

Achievement(s). For all the soil of the achieve. ment goes With me into the earth. 2 Hen. iv. iv, 4. He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear, And, for achievement, offer us his ransom.2 Hen. v. iii. 5.-Therefore this maxim out of love I teach,-Achievement is command; ungained, beseech. Troi. & Cress. i. 2.- -How my achieve. ments mock me! Ibid. iv. 2.-It takes from our achievements. Hamlet, i. 4. Achiever. A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. Much Ado Ab. Noth. i. I.

Achilles. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. 2 Hen. vi. v. I. Aconitum. The united vessel of their blood. Shall never leak, though it do work as strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. 2 Hen. iv. iv. 4. Acorn. You minimus of hind'ring knot grass made; You bead, you acorn. Mid. N. Dr. ii. 2. Acquaintance. I desire more acquaintance of you. M. Wives of Wind. ii. 2.- -Balk1logic with acquaintance that you have. T. of Shr. i. 1.

-I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves, So long as I could see. Tw. Night, i. 2.—I will wash off gross acquaintance. Ibid. ii. 5.Many of mine old acquaintance are dead. 2 Hen. iv. iii. 2.- -What sorrow claims acquaintance at my hand, That yet I know not. Rom. & Ful. iii. 3.

Acquittance. Now must your conscience my acquittance seal. Hamlet, iv. 7.

Acres. And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown, My bosky2 acres and my unshrubbed down. Temp. iv. 1. In those holy fields, O'er whose acres walked those blessed feet Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. 1 Hen. iv. i. 1.

Act(s). Be great in act, as you have been in thought. K. John, v. 1.- -A furtherer in the act. Temp. v. 1. If I do not act it, hiss me. M. Wives of Wind. iii. 3.- -Now puts the drowsy and neglected acts Freshly on me. Mea. for Mea. i. 2.And an act hath three branches : it is, to act, to do, and to perform. Hamlet, v. 1.Let us assay our plot, which, if it speed, Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed, And lawful meaning in a lawful act. All's Well, iii. 7.-So I should be a great deal of his act. Ibid. iv. 3.It shall become thee well to act my woes. Tw. Night, 4. Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deed, That all your acts are queens. Wint. Tale, iv. 4.- -The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings and princes; for by such was it acted. Ibid. v. 2.

Acteon. Prevent, or go thou, Like Sir Actæon he, with Ringwood at thy heels. M. Wives of Wind. ii. 1.--Divulge Page himself, for a secure and wilful Actæon. Ibid. iii. 2.- -Thy temples should be planted presently with horns, As was Actæon's. Tit. And. ii. 3. Acted. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn and accents yet unknown. Jul. Cæs. iii. 1. Acting. Or that the resolute acting of your blood. Mea. for Mea. ii. 1.

Action (s). They are actions that a man might play. Hamlet, i. 2.Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. Ibid. iii. 2.— What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason !'how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! Ibid. ii. 2. With devotion's visage And pious action We do sugar o'er The devil himself. Ibid. iii. 1.

-Yea, though our proper son stood in your action. Oth. i. 3.They have used Their dearest action in the tented field. Ibid.-If such actions may have passage free, Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. Ibid. i. 2.—A lily-livered action, taking whores on. Lear, ii.

1 Balk a puzzle. "Chop logic," as we sometimes say. 2 Bosky woody.-So Milton, "And every bosky burn from side to side,' 3 Distinctive, characteristic.

2.

Tw.

-If he took you a box o' the ear, you might have your action of slander too.1 Mea. for Mea. ii. 1. -When you went onward on this ended action. Much Ado Ab. Noth. i. 1.-I'll bring mine action on the proudest he That stops my way in Padua. T. of Shr. iii. 2.-This action I now go on, Is for my better grace. Wint. Tale, ii. 1. -Start not; her actions shall be holy as You hear my spell is lawful. Ibid. v. 3. -I'll have an action of battery against him. Night, iv. 1.-Who hath read or heard Of any kindred action like to this? K. John, iii. 4. To give us warrant from the hand of Heav'n, And on our actions set the name of right, With holy breath. Ibid. v. 2.-There is not A dangerous action can peep out his head, But I am thrust upon it. 2 Hen. iv. i. 2. -Have you entered the action? Ibid. ii. 1. -The wearing out of six fashions, which is four terms, or two actions. Ibid. v. 1. So may a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose. Hen. v. i. 2.For in such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears. Cor. iii. 2. But his whole action grows, not in the power on't. Ant. & Cleo. iii. 7.-Checks and disasters grow In the veins of actions highest reared. Troi. & Cress. i. 3.- -Sith every action that hath gone before, Whereof we have record, trial did draw Bias and thwart, not answering the aim. Ibid.As if The passage and whole carriage of this action Rode on his tide. Ibid. ii. 3.

-If you will make 't an action, call witness to 't. Cymb. ii. 3.- -How can I grace my talk, Wanting a hand to give it action? Tit. And. v. 2. Active. He is simply the most active gentleman of France. Hen. v. iii. 7.

As

Actor(s). Bring us to see this sight, and you shall say, I'll prove a busy actor in their play. As You Like It, iii. 4.A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. All's Well, ii. 3.if the tragedy were played in jest, By counterfeiting actors. 3 Hen. vi. ii. 3.- Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. Cor. v. 3.- But bear it as our Roman actors do, With untired spirits and formal constancy. Jul. Cæs. ii. 1.—Then came each actor on his ass. Hamlet, ii. 2.-The actors are at hand. Mid. N. Dr. v. 1. (Prol.).

-As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a wellgraced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. Rich. ii. v. 2.

Acute. But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.

Acutely. I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee acutely. All's Well, i. 1. Adam. Have you got the picture of old Adam new apparelled. Com. of Err. iv. 3. -Not that

Adam that kept the Paradise, but that Adam that keeps the prison. Ibid. Let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam. Much Ado Ab. Noth. i. 1. Adam's sons are my brethren. Ibid. ii. 1.- -Though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed. Ibid. -Had he been Adam he had tempted Eve. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.—Here feel we not the penalty of Adam. As You Like It, ii. 1.

-Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden, How dares thy harsh, rude tongue 1 One who, f beaten, would bring an action for the assault. 2 Is not founded on his real strength.