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... ffer for it.” </p. 230></para> <sigla>(<i>Prolegomena and Notes on Shakespeare</i> [BL ADD. MS. 24495 ] : pp. 219-46)</sigla> </cn> <cn> <sigla> ...
... d. 1987): “i.e. where my honour is concerned ((<i>OED term sb.</i> 10)). Shakespeare is rather addicted to this periphrastic use of <i>terms of</i>. See, ...
... r</b>] 10. <i>pl.</i> Condition, state, situation, position, circumstances; (in Shakes.) vaguely or redundantly: relation, respect (rarely in sing.)1382 WYCLIF ...
... I've spent to write it over, The <i>precedent</i> was full as long a doing.' <i>Shakespeare</i>. ‘A reason mighty, strong and effectual, A pattern, <i>pre ...
... ecedent</i> and lively warrant. For me, most wretched, to perform the like.' <i>Shakesp</i>. ‘No pow'r in Venice Can alter a decree established: ‘Tw ...
... ystems, the validity of a previous decision may be reconsidered by a court.1600 Shakespeare <i>Merchant of Venice</i> IV. i. 217 There is no power in Venice can ...
... he figures, an excellent impersonated satire upon those empty gallants of whom shakespeare saw so many specimens in the fashionable circles of his day.” ...
... ck off. <i>intr.</i> and <i>trans.</i> To show to advantage. <i>Obs.</i> 1602 SHAKES. Ham. V. ii. 168 Ile be your foile Laertes, in mine ignorance, Your Skill ...
... ts against any odds, That (in his charge) his lips haue bled with feruor. a1616 SHAKESPEARE <i>As you like It </i> (1623) I. ii. 148 You wil take little delight ...
... ords. In the Cranach <i>Hamlet</i> and in my Introduction to an edition for the Shakespeare Association of Silve's <i>Paradoxes of Defence</i> (pp. xiv=xv) I su ...
... erb, ‘to better', is a favourite one </p. 284> <p. 285> with Shakespeare, and is moreover one most unlikely to have occurred to a prompter or ...
... lizabeth's reign (in the year 1579) for the length of swords and daggers, which Shakespeare might probably allude to. See Strype's Annals of Queen Elizabeth , v ...
... . “ </p. 230></para></cn> <cn> <sigla>(<i>Prolegomena and Notes on Shakespeare</i> [BL ADD. MS. 24495 ] : pp. 219-46)</sigla> </cn> <cn> <sigla> ...
... “<b>ordinance</b> [is] military stores or supplies (<i>OED sb </i>1). By Shakespeare's time, ordinance [as in F1] (now ‘ordnance') denoted cannon o ...
... ay ‘cannon' to denote the heavy guns of the sieges and pitched battles in Shakespearean warfare.</para> <para>“‘Ordinance' is a particularly ...
... rfare.</para> <para>“‘Ordinance' is a particularly useful word for Shakespeare, as it could be pronounced with two syllables, as in Claudius's [quo ...
... ll>, and <i>union</i> , as the name of an expensive pearl, occurs repeatedly in Shakespeare's contemporaries. The first Q has <i>unice</i>, from which the later ...
... hanging>Furnivall</hanging><para>3732 <b>union</b>] <sc>Furnivall</sc> (<i>New Shakespeare Society's Transactions 1877-9</i>, p.106): <p. 106> “Se ...
... '/'Onixe' in the inner forme of sheet N is illuminating in a different fashion. Shakespeare's word, as we learn from f1 and Q1 was ‘Union', i.e. a large s ...
... the appearance of an ‘e', while if, as we have seen frequently happened, Shakespeare did not count his minim-strokes and wrote four instead of three mini ...
... a pearl </i>is that told of Cleopatra (Holland's Pliny, ix. 35). Another which Shakespeare presumably knew is that of Sir Thomas Greshman, who was fabled to ha ...