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Owes, owns; I. ii. 407.
Own, "no man was his o.," i.e.,
"master of himself, in his senses";
V. i. 213.

Painful, laborious; III. i. 1.
Pains, tasks; I. ii. 242.
Paphos, a city in Cyprus, one of the
favourite seats of Venus; IV. i. 93.
Pass, thrust (a term of fencing),
sally; IV. i. 244.

Passion, suffering, grief; I. ii. 392. Passion, to feel pain or sorrow ; V. i. 24.

Patch, fool, jester; III. ii. 71.
Pate," pass of pate"="sally of wit";
IV. i. 244.
Paunch, run through the paunch;
III. ii. 98.

Pay, repay; "to pay home"=" to
repay to the utmost "; V. i. 70.
Pertly, briskly; IV. i. 58.
Piece, "perfect specimen"; I. ii. 56.
Pied, motley-coated; III. ii. 71.
Pig-nuts, earth-nuts; II. ii. 172.
Pioned, (?) "overgrown with marsh-
marigold" (still called "peony "in
the neighbourhood of Stratford);
IV. i. 64 (cf. Note).

Plantation, colonisation; interpreted by Antonio in the ordinary sense; II. i. 143.

Play, act the part of; "play the men," i.e., behave like men; I. i. |

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Point, detail; "to point," in every detail; I. ii. 194. Pole-clipt, with poles clipt, or embraced, by the vines; IV. i. 68. Poor-John, a cant name for hake salted and dried; II. ii. 28. Premises, conditions; I. ii. 123. Presented, represented; IV. i. 167. Presently, immediately; I. ii. 125; IV. i. 42.

Princess' (Ff. princesse), princesses; I. ii. 173.

Profess, to make it one's business; II. i. 236.

Profit, to profit; I. ii. 172. Provision, foresight; I. ii. 28. Purchased, acquired, won; IV. i. 14. Putter-out, "p. of five for one," one who invests, puts out, a sum of money before leaving home, on condition of receiving five times the amount on his return, i.e., "at the rate of five for one," (cf.

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put forth some five thousand pounds to be paid me, five for one, upon the return of myself, my wife, and my dog from the Turk's court at Constantinople"; E. Man out of His Humour, II. i.); III. iii. 48.

Quaint, adroit, trim, excellent; I. ii. 317.

Quality, skill; I. ii. 193.
Quick, living, fresh ; III. ii. 75.
Quickens, gives life to; III. i. 6.

Rabble, company, crowd (not used
slightingly); IV. i. 37.
Race, breed; I. ii. 358.
Rack, floating cloud; IV. i. 156.
Rate, estimation;

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ing; II. i. 109. Razorable, ready for shaving; II. i.

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Rear, raise; II. i. 295. Reason, what is reasonable; III. ii. 128.

Reasonable, "reasonable shore," i.c., "shore of reason"; V. i. 81. Recover, restore; II. ii. 71, 79, 97. Reeling-ripe, "in a state of intoxica

tion sufficiently advanced for reeling"; V. i. 279.

Release, "till your release" = till you release them; V. i. 11. Remember, commemorate; I. ii. 405; remind; I. ii. 243. Remembrance, the faculty of remembering; II. i. 232. Remorse, pity; V. i. 76. Requit, requited; III. iii. 71. Resolve, explain to; V. i. 248. Rid, destroy; I. ii. 364.

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Scandal'd, scandalous; IV. i. 90.
Securing, guarding; II. i. 310.
Sedged, made of sedges; IV. i. 129.
Sense, feelings; II. i. 107.
Sensible, sensitive; II. i. 173.
Setebos, the god of Sycorax (said to
be the chief god of the Patagon-
ians); I. ii. 373; V. i. 261.
Sets off, i.e., shows to the best ad-
vantage; III. i. 2.
Several, separate; III. i. 42.
Shak'd, shook; II. i. 319.
Shroud, take shelter; II. ii. 42.

Siege, stool, excrement; II. ii. 110. Single, (1) solitary, (2) feeble; I. ii. 432.

Skilless, ignorant; III. i. 53.

Sociable, companionable, being in close sympathy; V. i. 63. Something, somewhat; I. ii. 414. Sometime, sometimes; I. ii. 198. Sore, (used quibblingly); V. i. 288. Sort, possibly a punning allusion to "sort"="lot"; II. i. 104. Sot, fool; III. ii. 101. Soundly, thoroughly, smartly; II. ii. 81.

South-west, a south-west," i.c., a south-west wind (charged with the noxious breath of the GulfStream); I. ii. 323.

Speak, to proclaim; II. i. 8.
Sphere, orbit; II. i. 183.
Spoon, "long spoon," an allusion to

old proverb that "he must have
a long spoon that must eat with
the devil"; II. ii. 103.

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standing water i.c., water neither ebbing nor flowing; II. i. 221.

Steaded, stood in good stead; I. ii. 165. Still closing, constantly closing

again; III. iii. 64.

Still-vexed, ever troubled; I. ii. 229. Stock-fish, dried cod; III. ii. 79. Stomach, courage, I. ii. 157; appetite, inclination; II. i. 107.

Stover, fodder for cattle; IV. i. 63. Strange, rare; III. iii. 87. Strangely, wonderfully; IV. i. 7. Study, to give thought and attention to, to wonder; II. i. 81. Substitution, deputyship; I. ii. 103. Subtilties, the word "subtilty" was borrowed from the language of cookery, and

denoted a device in pastry, hence "illusion"; V. i. 124. Sudden, swift; II. i. 306. Suffered, i.e., suffered death; II. ii. 38. Suggestion, prompting, hint (cf. villainy); II. i. 288.

Sustaining, bearing (them) up; I. ii. 218. Swabber, one who

sweeps or swabs the deck of a ship; II. ii. 48.

Tabor and pipe, from Brit. Mus. MSS., Add. 12228.

Tabor, a small drum used for festivities; IV. i. 175.

Taborer, a player on a tabor; III. | Trifle, phantom; V. i. 112.

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Troll, run glibly over (perhaps

"sing irregularly"); III. ii. 126. Twilled (?) covered with reeds or sedges; IV. i. 64. (cf. Note). Twink, a twinkling; IV. i. 43.

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Tend, attend; I. i. 6. Trash, to check the speed of hounds when too forward; I. ii. 81. Trebles, "tr. thee o'er," i.c., "makes thee thrice what thou art"; II. i. 221.

Trembling, the "tremor" which is represented to be a sign of being possessed by the devil; II. ii. 83.

Trencher, (first Folio, trenchering, due to the previous words ining); II. ii. 187.

Trice, on a tr.," i.e., " in an instant"; V. i. 238. Tricksy, sportive; V. i. 226.

MSS. Brit. Mus., Add. 11390. Unstanched, incontinent; I. i. 48. Up-staring, standing on end; I. ii.

213. Urchins, hedgehogs, hobgoblins; I. ii. 326.

Urchin-shows, elfin apparitions; II. ii. 5.

Use, to be accustomed; II. i. 175.

Vanity, illusion; IV. i. 41. Vast, silent void, or vacancy (of night); I. ii. 327. Verily, true; II. i. 321. Virgin-knot; alluding to the girdle worn by maidens in ancient times; IV. i. 15.

Visitation, affliction (as of a plague); III. i. 32.

Visitor, priestly visitant, "consolator"; II. i. 11.

Vouched, warranted; II. i. 60.

Waist, the part of a ship between

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When (an exclamation of impatience); I. ii. 316.

While-ere, short time since; III. ii.

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Whist, hushed, silent; I. ii. 379.
Wicked, baneful; I. ii. 321.
Wide-chapped, opening the mouth
wide; I. i. 56.

Windring (not found elsewhere) (?) "winding' or "wandering ";

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Wink, the act of closing the eye, II. i. 285; (a short distance measured by a "wink"; II. i. 242). Wink, to close the eyes; II. i. 216. Wisest, "after the wisest,' i.e., "in the wisest fashion "; II. ii. 77. Woe, sorry; V. i. 139. Works, affects; IV. i. 144. Wound, twined about; II. ii. 13. Wrangle, contend, quarrel; V. i.

174. Wrong; "to do oneself wrong," i.c., "to be much mistaken " ; I. ii. 443.

rare, ready! I. i. 6; I. i. 34. rarely, alertly; I. i. 3. Yond, there; I. ii. 409. Your (subjective genitive); V. i.

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Zenith, the highest point of one's fortune; I. ii. 181.

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Notes.

I. i. 68. long heath, brown furze;' so the folios; Hanmer's emendation has been generally accepted:-'ling, heath, broom, furze.'

I. ii. 24. my magic garment: the magician's mantle, circle, and book (ep. Act V.) are well illustrated by the following woodcut:

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I. ii. 100. Who having into truth;' into,' used in the sense of unto,' and so emended in most editions; the sentence though very involved is intelligible without any alteration; into truth' depends upon a sinner'; and 'it' refers vaguely to his own lie'; ' to credit'=' as to credit.'

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I. ii. 169. Now I arise;' probably derived from astrology; now my star is in the ascendant;' it should be noted that the stage direction 'Resumes his mantle' is not in the folios.

I. ii. 266. for one thing she did;' Shakespeare does not tell us what he refers to here; perhaps he merely added the point in order to account for her preservation, or the incident may have been mentioned in his original. I am, however, strongly inclined to suggest that there is no mystery about the passage; the one thing she did' probably anticipates hither brought with child'; for that reason alone her life was spared.

I. ii. 333.stroakst me and made,' so Folios; Rowe, strokedst me and madest,' so Camb. Ed. and Mod. Edd. generally.

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I. II. 334. Water with berries in't;' Mr W. G. Gosling quotes the following striking parallel from Strachey's Narrative :-"They are full of shaws of goodly cedars. . . The berries whereof our men straining, and letting stand some three or four daies, made a kind of pleasant drink."

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