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Daff (doff, put off), Much Ado about Nothing, v. 1; Othello, iv. 2.
Daffodils, A Winter's Tale, iv. 3, 4.
Dagger(s), a phantom, Macbeth, ii. 1 ; Hi. 4 ; in thoughts, //.
Henry IV., iv. 4; speak, Hamlet, Hi. 2 ; worn in the mouth, Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Dagonet, Sir, King Arthur's jester, whom he made a knight,
//. Henry IV., Hi. 2.
Daintry (Daventry in Northamptonshire), ///. Henry VI., v. 1.
Daisies, pied, Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2.
Dalliance, The Tempest, iv. 1 ; the primrose path of, Hamlet,
i. 3 ; in time of action, I. Henry IV., v. 2 ; Troilus and Cressida,
iii. 3 ; Othello, i. 3.
Dalmatians, Cymbeline, iii. 1, 7.
Damascus, in Syria, I. Henry VI., i. 3. Damascus was said to
be on the spot where Cain killed Abel.
Damnation, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 2 ; Much Ado about
Nothing, iv. 1 ; King John, iv. 2 ; Othello, iii. 3 ; a more delicate
way than by drowning, Othello, i. 3 ; ancient, Romeo and Juliet, iii.
3 ; by not being at court, As You Like It, iii. 2 ; no warrant can
defend from, Richard III., i. 4 ; of his taking off, Macbeth, i. 7.
Damned, torment for the, The Tempest, i. 2.
Damon, Hamlet, Hi. 2. Applied to Horatio.
Dances, Bergomask, Midsummer Night' s Dream, v. 1. See
BRAWL, CANARY, CINQUE-PACE, CORANTO, HAY, JIG, LAVOLTA, MEASURE, PA VAN, EOUNDEL, SWORD-DANCE, TRIP-AND-Go, UPSPRING.
Dances, of shepherds, A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or 4.
Dancing, Twelfth Night, i. 3 ; A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or 4; Romeo and Juliet, i. 5 ; Venus and Adonis, 1. 146.
Dandy(ies), a, Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1; iv. 3 ; v. 2, "This is
he that," etc. ; Hotspur's description of a, I. Henry IV., i. 3, " He
was perfumed," etc., Hamlet, v. 2 ; Othello, v. 2.
Danes, drinking habits of the, Hamlet, i. 4 ; Othello, ii. 3.
Danger, makes unscrupulous, King John, Hi. 4 / Richard II.,
ii. 1 ; the nettle, /. Henry IV., ii. 3 ; of the great, Richard III., i.
3, " They that stand high," etc. ; subtly taints, Troilus and Cressida,
Hi. 3 ; more dangerous than, Julius Ccesar, ii. 2 ; in, of the scotched
snake, Macbeth, Hi. 2 ; to be too busy is some, Hamlet, Hi. 4; deviseth shifts, Venus and Adonis, I. 690; lurking, /. Henry VI., v. 3;
II. Henry VI., Hi. 1 ; of pride when in power, Troilus and Cressida,
i. 3. See OMENS.
Daniel, a, come to judgment, Merchant of Venice, iv. 1.
Danskers (Danes), Hamlet, ii. 1.
Dante, imagery reminding of, Measure, for Measure, Hi. 1, " To
bathe in fiery floods," etc.
Daphne, the nymph that was changed into a laurel-tree when
flying from Apollo, Taming of the Shrew, induction, 2 ; Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1.
Dardan (Troy, Trojan), Lucrece, 1. 1436 ; Dardanian wives, Merchant of Venice, Hi. 2.
Dardanius, a servant of Brutus in Julius Ccesar. appears in
v. 6.
Daring, becoming a man, Macbeth, i. 7 ; of an adventurous
spirit, /. Henry IV., i. 3 ; damnation, Hamlet, iv. 5.
Darius, King of Persia, Z Henry VI., i. 5.
Darkness, makes hearing more acute, Midsummer Night's
Dream, Hi. 2.
Darlings, curled, Othello, i. 2.
Darnel, Z Henry VI., Hi. 2 ; King Lear, iv. 4; Henry V., v. 2.
Darraign (arrange), ZZ Henry VI., ii. 2.
Dartford, a town in Kent, seventeen miles from London, ZZ.
Henry VI., v. 1.
Datchet-mead (bleaching-place), Merry Wives of Windsor,
Hi. 3. Datchet is a hamlet adjoining Windsor.
Dates, pies of, All's Well that Ends Well, i. 1 ; Troilus and
Cressida, i. 2.
Dates at which the plays were written and published. See ORDER AND DATES.
Daub (keep up the pretence), King Lear, iv. 1.
Daughter(s), still harping on my, Hamlet, ii. 2; unkind, King
Lear, ii. 4; Hi. 4; trust not, Othello, i. 1.
Dauphin, the (afterward Louis VIII.), treachery of, King John,
v. 4. See MELUN.
Dauphin, the, crowned Charles VII., /. Henry VI., i. 1.
David's (St.) Day (March 1st), the leek worn upon, Henry F.,
iv. 7. See LEEK.
Davy, servant of Justice Shallow in 77. Henry IV., first appears
in v. 1.
Dawn, Much Ado about Nothing, v. 3. " The gentle day," etc.
See MORNING.
Day, the time of, I. Henry IV., i. 2; the tell-tale, II. Henry VI.,
iv. 1 ; Lucrece, I. 806 ; prying, Lucrece, I. 1088 ; jocund, Romeo and
Juliet, Hi. 5 ; stirring passage of the, Comedy of Errors, iii. 1 ; who
dares not stir by, King John, i. 1.
Day(s), better, As You Like It, ii. 7 ; Timon of Athens, iv. 2;
an unseasonable, All's Well that Ends Well, v. 3; of reconciliation
of ill omen, King John, iii. 1 ; evil, Sonnets Ixvi. to Ixviii. ; never
such a, since Caesar, II. Henry IV., i. 1.
Day-woman (dairy), Love's Labours Lost, i. 2. Day is supposed to be an old word for milk.
Dead, the, appreciation of, AWs Well that Ends Well, v. 3,
" well excused," etc. ; spirits of, A Winter's Tale, iii. 3 ; indignities
to, J. Henry IV., i. 1; of this year, quit for the next, //. Henry IV.,
iii. 2 ; eulogy on, /. Henry VI., i. 1 ; appeasing of, by vengeance,
Titus Andronicus, i. 1 or 2 ; flowers for the, Henry VIII., iv. 2;
Romeo and Juliet, iv. 5 ; v. 3 ; Hamlet, iv. 5 ; v. 1 ; Cymbeline, iv.
2 ; Pericles, iv. 1; arms hung over the, Hamlet, iv. 5 ; Titus Andronicus, i. 1 ; borne with uncovered face, Romeo and Juliet, iv. 1 ;
Hamlet, iv. 5, song ; among the, Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5 ; base uses
of, Hamlet, v. 1 ; sorrow for, Sonnets xxx., xxxi., Ixxi. ; hair of, Sonnet Ixviii. ; praise of, Sonnet Ixxii.
Dead men's fingers, a plant, Hamlet, iv. 7. Supposed to be
the purple orchis, spoken of in the same sentence as long: purples.
Deafness, a tale to cure. The Tempest, i. 2.
Dear, so bloody and so, Twelfth Night, v. i. Dear and dearth
from dere, to hurt.
Dearn (lonely), Pericles, Hi., prologue.
Death, preparation for, Measure for Measure, ii. 2 ; better than
dishonour, Measure for Measure, ii. 4 ; the fool of, see LIFE ; terrors
of, Measure for Measure, Hi. 1 ; a great disguiser, Measure for Measure, iv. 2 ; life that is past fearing, Measure for Measure, v. 1 ; the
end of woes, Comedy of Errors, i. 1 ; penalty of, for traffic between
cities, Comedy of Errors, i. 1 ; effect of, Much Ado about Nothing,
iv. 1 ; good inspirations at, Merchant of Venice, i. 2 ; sought, As
You Like It, i. 2 ; conceit nearer to it than the powers, As You Like
It, ii. 6 ; and sleep, Taming of the Shrew, induction, 1 ; tests of,
A Winter's Tale, Hi. 2 ; feasts by quarrels of kings, King John, ii.
1 or 2 ; order for Arthur's, King John, Hi. 8 ; welcome, King John,
Hi. 4; effect of report of Arthur's, King John, iv. 2 ; no life achieved
by others', King John, iv. 4 ; truth in, King John, v. 4 ; besieging
the mind, King John, v. 7 ; value of words at, Richard II., ii. 1 ;
prophecy before, Richard II., ii. 1 ; I. Henry IV., v. 4; nothing our
own but an antic throned in the crown, Richard II., Hi. 2 ; owed
to God, /. Henry IV., v. 1 ; counterfeited, I. Henry IV., v.. 4; allusion to the notion that it takes place at ebb-tide, Henry V., ii. 3 ;
friendship in, Henry V., iv. 6 ; the umpire of men's miseries, /. Henry VI., ii. 5 ; like the removal of a court, /. Henry VI., ii. 5 ; the
end of misery, I. Henry VI., Hi. 2 ; thou antic (harlequin), I. Henry
VI., iv. 7 ; signs of a violent, //. Henry VI., Hi. 2 ; fear of, II.
Henry VI., Hi. 3 ; coming of, ///. Henry VI., i. 4, " The sands are
numbered," etc. ; summons to, Troilus and Cressida, iv. 4; defiance
of, Coriolanus, Hi. 2, 3 ; apparent, Romeo and Juliet, iv. 5 ; v. 3 ;
lamentation for, Romeo and Juliet, iv. 5 ; merriment at, Romeo and
Juliet, v. 3 ; beauty in, Romeo and Juliet, v. 3 ; and honour, Julius
Caesar, i. 2 ; fear of, Julius Caesar, ii. 2 ; Hi. 1 ; lament for, Julius
Caesar, Hi. 1 ; time of, the only anxiety, Julius Caesar, Hi. 1 ; a becoming, Macbeth, i. 4 / omens of, Macbeth, ii. 3, see also OMENS ;
peace of, Macbeth, Hi. 2 ; in life, Macbeth, iv. 3, "The quean, etc.;
dusty, Macbeth, v. 5 ; a soldier's, Macbeth, v. 7 ; common, Hamlet,
i. 2 ; without absolution, Hamlet, i. 5 ; what may come after, Hamlet, Hi. 1 ; proud a fell sergeant why should, be shunned, Hamlet,
v. 2, " Not a whit," etc. ; men must await their, King Lear, v. 2 ; suffered hourly, King Lear, v. 3 ; effect of, Antony and Cleopatra, i.
2 ; lament for, Antony and Cleopatra, iv., end; study for an easy, Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2 ; end of fear, Cymbeline, iv. 2, song ;
sought, Cymbeline, v. 3 ; the sure physician the after-inquiry, Cymbeline, v. 4; like a mirror, Pericles, i. 1; apparent, Pericles, Hi. 2;
apostrophe to, Venus and Adonis, lines 931, 997 ; preferred to dishonour, Lucrece, 1. 1723 ; of the childless, Sonnets i., Hi., iv., vi., x., xii.,
xiii., xiv. ; defeated by verse, Sonnets xviii., cvii. ; the churl, Sonnet
xxxii. ; longing for, Sonnet Ixvi. ; knell of, //. Henry IV., i. 1 ; Sonnet Ixxi. ; Venus and Adonis, I. 701 ; a fell arrest. Sonnet Ixxvi. ;
feeds on men, Sonnet cxlvi. ; of a youth, Passionate Pilgrim, x.
Deaths, pangs of three several, Measure for Measure, iii. 5.
Deborah, the sword of, I. Henry VI., i. 2.
Deboshed, in many passages for debauched.
Debts, paid by death, Tempest, iii. 2 ; desperate, Timon of
Athens, iii. 4.
Decay, this muddy vesture of, Merchant of Venice, v. 1.
Deceit, justified, Measure for Measure, iii. 1; iv. 1; of men,
Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 3, song ; under smiles, Merchant of
Venice, i. 3 ; Hamlet, i. 5 ; of a traitor, //. Henry VI., iii. 1 ; steals
gentle shapes, Richard III., ii. 2 ; in a gorgeous palace, Romeo and
Juliet, iii. 2 ; in friendship, Julius Ccesar, iv. 2 ; in prophecy, Macbeth, v. 7, " And be these juggling," etc. ; commended, Othello, i. 1 ;
Macbeth, i. 5, 7 ; in a face, Lucrece, I. 1506 Midsummer Night's
Dream, iii. 2 ; A Winter's Tale, i. 2 ; II. Henry VI., iii. 2 ; III.
Henry VI., iii. 2.
Decimation, and a tithed death, Timon of Athens, v. 5.
Decision. See PROMPTNESS.
Decius Brutus, one of the conspirators in Julius Ccesar, first
appears in i. 2. His real name was Decimus Junius Brutus Albanus. Shakespeare took this form of the name from his English Plutarch.
Decline (incline), Comedy of Errors, iii. 2.
Deed(s), ill, double, Comedy of Errors, iii. 2 ; high and worthy,
Much Ado about Nothing, v. 1 ; light of a good, Merchant of Venice, v. 1; dying tongueless, A Winter's Tale, i. 2 ; without a name,
Macbeth, iv. 1; foul, will rise, Hamlet, i. 2 ; must go with the purpose, Macbeth, iv. 1.
Deep-vow, a prisoner, Measure for Measure, iv. 3.
Deer, killed my, Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1 ; see SHALLOW ;
the killing of, As You Like It, ii. 1 ; let the stricken, go weep, Hamlet, iii. 2 ; the frightened, Lucrece, I. 1149 ; England's timorous, Z
Henry VI., iv. 2. See also HUNTING.
Defeat, everlasting shame, Henry V., iv. 5.
Defeatures (disfigurement), Comedy of Errors, ii. 1 ; v. 1.
Defect(s), influence of one, Hamlet, i. 4,' sometimes prove commodities (advantages), King Lear, iv. 1 ; made perfections, Antony
and Cleopatra, ii. 2.
Defence, in cases of, weigh the enemy more mighty than he
seems, Henry V., ii. 4>
Defiance (refusal), Measure for Measure, Hi. 1.
Defiance, King John, i. 1 ; iv. 3 ; v. 2 ; Richard II., i. 1 ; iv.
1; Henry V., i. 2 ; ii. 4; Hi. 6 ; iv. 3 ; Julius Ccesar, iv. 3; v. 1;
The Tempest, Hi. 3 ; Much Ado about Nothing, v. 1; I. Henry IV.,
i. 3 ; iv. 1; 11. Henry IV., v.2 ; Coriolanus, Hi. 3 ; Macbeth, Hi. 4;
Troilus and Cressida, iv. 1.
Deformed, the, in shape and manners, Tempest, v. 1 ; talk of
one, Much Ado about Nothing, v. 1 ; only ambition left for the, ///.
Henry VI., Hi. 2 ; called stigmatics, //. Henry VI., v. 1 ; III. Henry VI., ii. 2.
Deformity, Richard III., i. 1-3 ; Hi. 1 ; King Lear, iv. 2.
Defuse (disorder), King Lear, i. 4>
Degeneracy, of descendants of the great, Taming of the Shrew,
induction, 2 ; Julius Caesar, i. 3 ; Coriolanus, Hi. 1; I. Henry IV.,
i. 3 ; of the world, Measure for Measure, Hi. 2 ; Richard III., i. 3.
Degree, observance of, Troilus and Cressida, i. 3.
Deign (to honour), Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 1.
Deiphobus, son of Priam, character in Troilus and Cressida, introduced in iv. 1.
Deity, used in the sense of an attribute of deity, ubiquity,
Twelfth Night, v. 1, " Nor can there be that deity," etc.
Delabreth, Charles, Constable of France. See CONSTABLE.
De la Pole. See SUFFOLK.
Delations, close (secret accusations 1), Othello, Hi. 3.
Delay(s), danger of, All's Well that Ends Well, v. 3, " Let's take
the instant by the forward top," etc. ; I. Henry IV., Hi. 2, end ; I.
Henry VI., Hi. 2 ; leads to beggary, Richard III., iv. 3 ; take swift
advantage of the hours, Richard III., iv. 1 ; Troilus and Cressida,
Hi. 3 ; Timon of Athens, v. 1; Julius Ccesar, iv. 8, "We must take
the current," etc. ; Hamlet, iv. 7, " That we would do," etc. ; Henry
VIII., iv. 2 ; Romeo and Juliet, i. 4; the flighty purpose never is
o'ertook unless the deed go with it, Macbeth, iv. 1.
Deliberation. See DELAY.
Delighted spirit, the, Measure for Measure, in. 1.
" A difficult word to explain in this connection. It is variously
understood as referring to the previous condition of the spirit, as
being used in the sense of delightful, as in Othello, i. 3, ' If virtue no
delighted beauty lack ' ; and as meaning de-lighted, deprived of light,
a manner of using the prefix not uncommon among writers of Shakespeare's time." HUDSON.
Delights, the vainest, Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1 ; violent, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 6.
Delirium, King John, v. 7.
Delphos, oracle at, consulted, A Winter's Tale, ii. 1 ; Hi. 1, 2.
It is spoken of as an island in Hi. 1, as it is in the story on which the
play was founded.
Delusion, Hamlet, Hi. 4; Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Demerits (merits), Coriolanus, i. 1.
Demetrius, character in Midsummer Night's Dream, introduced
in i. 1 ; a lover of Hermia at first, afterward of Helena.
Demetrius, son of Tamora in Titus Andronicus; is introduced
in i. 1 ox 2 as a prisoner of the Romans, and is set free by the emperor ; plots against Lavinia, ii. 1, 3, 4. ; is killed, iv. 2. Like his
brother, he is pure brute.
Demetrius, character in Antony and Cleopatra ; introduced in
*. 1, a friend of Antony.
Demon, thy, thy spirit which keeps thee, Antony and Cleopatra,
ii. 3. Demon here is used in the sense of guardian angel.
Demureness, in boys, //. Henry IV., iv. 3.
Denayed (denied), II. Henry VI., i. 3.
Denis, Saint, patron of France, Henry V., v. 2 ; I. Henry VI., Hi. 2.
Denmark, something rotten in, Hamlet, i. 4.
Dennis, one of Oliver's servants in As You Like It, i. 1.
Denny, Sir Anthony, character in Henry VIII. ; introduced in
v.l.
Denny, Lady, the name sometimes given as that of the old lady,
friend to Anne Boleyn, in Henry VIII.
Denunciation, of Leontes by Paulina, A Winter's Tale, ii. 3;
of Perdita and Florizel, iv. 3 or 4.
Denunciation (proclamation), Measure for Measure, i. 3.
Depart (rather part with), Love's Labour's Lost, ii. 1.
Deputy, power entrusted to a, Measure for Measure, i. 1 ; state
of a, Merchant of Venice, v. 1.
Derby, Earl of. See STANLEY, THOMAS, LORD.
Dercetas, character in Antony and Cleopatra ; introduced in iv,
14, friend of Antony ; his desertion, iv. 12 or 14.
Derivative (inheritance), A Winter's Tale, in. 2.
Descant (part added to a song), Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 2.
Descent, poor, hated by women, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 2.
Desdemona, wife of Othello, first appears in i. 3 ; described, ii.
1 ; the story of her marriage, iii. 1 ; she intercedes for Cassio, iii. 3,
4; is murdered, v. 2.
" In Desdemona we cannot but feel that the slightest manifestation of intellectual power or active will would have injured the dramatic effect. She is a victim consecrated from the first ' an offering without blemish,' alone worthy of the grand final sacrifice ; all harmony, all grace, all purity, all tenderness, all truth ! " MRS. JAMESON. See also IMOGEN.
Desert, an inaccessible, As You Like It, ii. 7.
Desert, your, speaks loud, Measure for Measure, v. 1 ; used after
one's, Hamlet, ii. 2.
Desertion, remorse for, Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 6, 9 ; in misfortune, Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 10 or 12.
Desire, gratified, without content, Macbeth, iii. 2 ; Cymbeline,
i. 7.
Desolation, King John, ii. 2 ; Richard II., i. 2 ; Henry VIII.,
iii. 1 ; Cymbeline, iii. 3.
Despair, King John, iii. 4 ; iv. 3 ; Hamlet, i. 2, " That this too,
too solid flesh would melt," etc. ; trifling with, to cure, King Lear,
iv. 6 ; Cymbeline, i. 1 ; Antony and Cleopatra, iii., end ; iv. 10 or
12, 12 or 14 ; Comedy of Errors, v. 1 ; Richard II., ii. 2 ; Richard
III., v. 3 ; Titus Andronicus, iii. 1 ; Macbeth, v. 5 ; Merchant of
Venice, iii. 2.
Desperate (magic) studies, As You Like It, v. 4.
Desperation, Macbeth, iii. 1; v. 7 ; III. Henry VI., i. 4 ; King
John, iii. 4 ; Romeo and Juliet, v. 3 ; Othello, v. 2 ; Julius Caesar, v.
5 ; Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 9 ; iv. 13.
Despondency, Richard II., iii. 2 ; Richard III., v. 3 ; Timon
of Athens, iv. 3.
Destiny, The Tempest, iii. 3 ; Richard III., iv. 4,' Othello, iii.
3 ; hanging and wiving go by, Merchant of Venice, ii. 9.
Determination. See RESOLUTION.
Detraction. See CALUMNY, SLANDER.
Detractions, they that hear their, Much Ado about Nothing,
ii. 3.
Deucalion, A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or 4. The Noah of Greek
mythology.
DeVere, John. See OXFORD.
Devil, the, will not have me damned, Merry Wives of Windsor,
v. 5 ; a cunning enemy, Measure for Measure, ii. 2; write good
angel on his horn (that is, give a false seeming), Measure for Measure, ii. 4 ; crest of, Measure for Measure, ii. 4 / seek redemption of
the, Measure for Measure, v. 1; his burning throne, Measure for
Measure, v. 1 ; a long spoon to eat with the, Comedy of Errors, iv.
3 ; can cite Scripture, Merchant of Venice, i. 3 ; in the likeness of
a Jew, Merchant of Venice, Hi. 1 ; All's Well that Ends Well, iv. 5;
lead the measure (of fashion), All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 1; thy
master, All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 3; possession by, Twelfth
Night, Hi. 4 ; treated with courtesy, Twelfth Night, iv. 2 ; in likeless of a bride, King John, Hi. 1; selling the soul to due of, Z
Henry IV., i. 2 ; Glendower's league with, I. Henry IV., ii. 2 ; command tell truth and shame the, /. Henry IV., Hi. 1 ; seem a saint
and play the, Richard III., i. 3 ; mistake of, Timon of Athens, iii.3 ;
Julius Ccesar, i. 2 ; " can the, speak true ? " Macbeth, i. 3 ; a painted,
Macbeth, ii. 2 ; sold to, for Banquo's children, Macbeth, Hi. 1 ; hath
power to assume a pleasing shape, Hamlet, ii. 2 ; with visage of devotion, Hamlet, Hi. 1 ; prince of darkness, King Lear, Hi. 4 >' in the
voice of a nightingale, King Lear, Hi. 6 ; reference to the cloven
foot of, Othello, v. 2, " I look down toward his feet," etc.
Devil(s), a born, The, Tempest, iv. 1 ; speaking, The Tempest, v. 1 ;
a demi-devil, The Tempest, v. 1 ; crime too inhuman for a, A Winter's
Tale, Hi. 2 ; affect sanctity, Othello, ii. 3 ; names of, King Lear, Hi.
4. See FIENDS.
Devotion, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 7 ; Henry VIII., iv. 1 ;
pretence of, Merchant of Venice, ii. 2; Othello, ii. 3 ; the devil sugared over with the visage of, Hamlet, Hi. 1.
Dew, from Bermuda's wicked, The Tempest, i. 2; tears of flowers, Midsummer Night's Dream, Hi. 1; the, Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 1 ; falling, King John, ii. 1 ; the air doth drizzle, Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 5 ; honey-dew, Titus Andronicus, Hi. 1. Pliny
says that honey-dew is the saliva of the stars, or a liquid produced
by the purgation of the air.
Diana, the goddess, introduced in Pericles, v. 1 (or 2\ where she
appears to the king in a vision. Her livery, ii. 5 ; in the fountain,
As You Like It, iv. 1. Dianas at fountains were not uncommon ; one
set up in 1596 at West Cheap, London, poured water from the
breasts; seemed as, Much Ado about Nothing, iv. 1; chaste as,
Merchant of Venice, i. 2 ; bud of (Agnus Castus, chaste tree), Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 1; knights of, All's Well that Ends Well, i. 3; from thy altar fly, AIVs Well that Ends Well, ii. 3; her foresters, /. Henry IV., i. 2; the stars her waiting-women, Troilus and Cressida, v. 2.
Diana, a young girl, daughter of a widow in Florence, character
in All's Well that Ends Well, introduced in Hi. 5.
Dice, Henry V., iv., prologue ; King Lear, Hi. 4 ; Antony and
Cleopatra, ii. 3. See GOURD.
Dick, a butcher, follower of Jack Cade in II. Henry VI., iv. 2, 3.
Dickens, the, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 2.
Dickon (Richard III.)> Richard III., v. 3.
Dictator, a, Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 6.
Dictynna (Diana), Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 2.
Dido, Queen of Carthage, The Tempest, ii. 1 ; Merchant of Venice, v. 1; Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1 ; II. Henry VI., iii. 2 ;
Titus Andronicus, ii. 3 ; Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 12 or 14.
Die, to, is to be a counterfeit, I. Henry IV., v. 4 ; without a sign,
II. Henry VI., iii. 3 ; when the brains were out, the man would,
Macbeth, iii. 4*
Dieu vous garde, etc. (God guard you, sir, and you also your
servant), Twelfth Night, iii. 1.
Di faciant, etc. (the gods grant this may be the last triumph),
III. Henry VI., i. 3.
Difficulty, as great as for a camel, etc., Richard II., v. 5.
Diffused (wild, elf-like), Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 4>
Digest (? dissolve or receive), King Lear, i. 1.
Digestion, described, Coriolanus, i. 1, fable ; of unquiet meals,
Comedy of Errors, v. 1 ; Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3 ; wait on appetite, Macbeth, iii. 4.
Dighton, John, a murderer, Richard III., iv. 3.
Dignity(ies), of office, //. Henry IV., v. 3 ; Henry V T TI., iii.
1 ; clay and clay differ in, Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Dildos and fadings, refrains of songs, A Winter's Tale, iv.Sor 4*
Dilemmas (plans), All's Well that Ends Well, iii. 6.
Diluculo surgere, etc. (to rise early is most healthful), Twelfth
Night, ii. 3, from Lily's Latin Grammar.
Dimples, A Winter's Tale, ii. 3 ; Venus and Adonis, I. 84%.
Dinner, a man is unforgiving before, Coriolanus, v. 1; haste
for, King Lear, i. 4.
Diomedes, Grecian general, character in Troilus and Cressida,
introduced in ii. 3. Cressida deserts Troilus for him, and they fight
in v. 6. Alluded to in JZJ. Henry VI., iv. 2.
Diomedes, an attendant of Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra,
introduced in iv. 14.
Dion, one of the lords sent to consult the oracle in A Winter's
Tale, ii. 1 ; Hi. 1, 2.
Dionyza, wife of Cleon, in Pericles, introduced in i. 4; plots
against Marina, iv., prologue, 1, 3 or 4 ; burned in the palace, v. 3.
Dirges, Cymbeline, iv. 2, " Notes of sorrow out of tune."
Dis, The Tempest, iv. 1 ; wagon of, A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or 4.
Pluto, god of the realms of the dead.
Disappointment, in one beloved, Sonnets xxxiv. to xlii.
Disasters, attributed to planets, King Lear, i. 2 ; Hamlet, i. 1;
Julius Ccesar, Hi. 1 ; in lofty actions, Troilus and Cressida, i. 3.
Discipline, of war, Henry V., Hi. 2 ; iv. 1; Richard III., v. 3 ;
Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3.
Discomfort, from the seeming spring of comfort, Macbeth, i. 2.
Discontent, brows full of, Richard II., iv. 1 ; with the present,
II. Henry IV., i. 3 ; popular, King John, Hi. 4; Henry VIII., i. 2 ;
winter of, Richard III., i. 1 ; in poverty, Richard III., iv. 2 ; with
one's talents, Sonnet xxix. ; Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 3.
Discord, civil, II. Henry IV., i. 1.
Discord, gives strength to the enemy, Troilus and Cressida,
i.3.
Discretion, the better part of valour is, /. Henry IV., v. 4,' want
of, in age, King Lear, ii. 4) " You are old," etc. ; honourable not to
outsport, Othello, ii. 3.
Discrimination, of man, Cymbeline, i. 6.
Discussion, keen encounter of wits, Richard III., i. 2.
Disdain, Lady, applied to Beatrice by Benedick, Much Ado about
Nothing, i. 1.
Disease(s), Measure for Measure, i. 2 ; worst before cure, King
John, Hi. 4 ; vanity of sickness, King John, v. 7 ; (anxiety) I. Henry
VI., ii. 5 ; King Lear, i. 1; turn to commodity of not listening,
//. Henry IV., i. 2; of the mind, Macbeth, v. 3 ; concealed, Hamlet,
iv. 1; desperate, need desperate remedies, Hamlet, iv. 3 ; bestow the
fee upon the, King Lear, i. 1 ; Venus and Adonis, I. 739.
Diseases, rotten,-of the south, Troilus and Cressida, v. 1 ; list
of, Venus and Adonis, 1. 739; ague, The Tempest, ii. 2; King John,
Hi. 4; Richard II., ii. 1; I. Henry IV., Hi. 1; Henry VIII., i. 1 ;
Troilus and Cressida, Hi. 3 ; Macbeth, v. 5 ; apoplexy, allusions to,
II. Henry IV., i. 2; iv. 4; II. Henry VI., Hi. 2 ; Coriolanus, iv. 5;
cataract, or pin-and-web, A Winter's Tale, i. 2 ; King Lear, Hi. 4; consumption, Timon of Athens, iv. 3 ; King Lear, iv. 6 ; dropsy,
The Tempest, iv. 1; J. Henry IV., ii. 4> epilepsy, the, allusions to,
Julius Ccesar, i. 2 ; Othello, iv. 1 ; fevers, Comedy of Errors, v. 1 ;
Measure for Measure, v. 1 ; King John, v. 3 ; II. Henry I V., iv. 1 ;
Henry V., ii. 1 ; Julius Ccesar, i. 2 (see ague, above) ; fistula, All's
Well that Ends Well, i. 1; green-sickness, II. Henry IV., iv. 3 ;
Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 5 ; Antony and Cleopatra, Hi. 2 ; Pericles,
iv. 6 ; gout, As You Like It. Hi. 2 ; Cymbeline, v. 4; heart-break,
.A Winter's Tale, Hi. 2; Richard III., i. 3; Macbeth, iv. 3; hysteria, King Lear, ii. 4 ,' indigestion, The Tempest, ii. 2, " My stomach is not constant ; " Comedy of Errors, v. 1 ; Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1; Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2; iv. 1, "Like a sickness," etc.; jaundice, Troilus and Cressida, i. 3; leprosy (see measles);
malady of France, Measure for Measure, i. 2 ; Henry V., v. 1; Pericles, iv. 2, 6 ; measles (leprosy), Coriolanus, Hi. 1 ; Timon of Athens,
iv. 1,3; nightmare, King Lear, Hi. 4 ; palsy, allusions to, Richard II.,
ii. 3 ; II. Henry VI., iv. 7 ; Troilus and Cressida, i. 3 ; plague or
pestilence, Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2 ; Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3 ;
Coriolanus, i. 4 >' w-1 i Romeo and Juliet, v. 2 ; King Lear, ii. 4 ;
plurisy (plethora), Hamlet, iv. 7 ; rheumatism, Midsummer Night's
Dream, ii. 1 ; Julius Ccesar, ii. 1 ; sciatica, the, Measure for Measure, i. 2 ; Timon of Athens, iv. 1; scrofula or king's evil, Timon of
Athens, iv. 3, " Consumptions sow," etc. ; Macbeth, iv. 3 ; serpigo,
Measure for Measure, Hi. 1 ; Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3 ; swooning,
Measure for Measure, ii. 4> As You Like It, iv. 3 ; toothache, Much
Ado about Nothing, Hi. 2 ; v. 1 ; Othello, Hi. 3 ; Cymbeline, v. 4*
Disedged, satiated, a term in falconry, Cymbeline, Hi. 4>
Disguise, wickedness of, Twelfth Night, ii. 2.
Disguises, of Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona ; of Portia, Merchant of Venice ; of Rosalind and Celia, As You Like It ; of Viola,
Twelfth Night, i. 2; of Feste, Twelfth Night, iv. 2; of Edgar, King
Lear, ii. 3 ; of Kent, King Lear, i. 4; of Falstaff, Merry Wives of
Windsor, iv. 4,' of Imogen, Cymbeline, Hi. 6.
Dishonour, compared with death, Measure for Measure, Hi. 1 ;
Lucrece, 1. 1723; unconsciousness of one's own, Othello, iv. 1. See
HONOUR.
Dislike (displease), Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2. See MISLIKE.
Disloyalty, rebuke of, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 2, 4.
Dismes (tens), Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2.
Disobedience, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hi. 1 ; Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1; Merchant of Venice, in. 1.
Disparity, of years, Passionate Pilgrim, xii. ; Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1 ; Othello, i. 3.
Dispatch. See PROMPTNESS.
Display, aversion to, Measure for Measure, i. 1. 4*
Displeasure, rash, All's Well that Ends Well, v. 3.
Disposer (attendant or handmaid), Troilus and Cressida, Hi. 1.
Dissemble (disguise), Twelfth Night, iv. 2.
Dissembling, allowable, Coriolanus, Hi. 2.
Dissensions, civil, 1. Henry VI,, Hi. 1; iv. 1, end ; between
army leaders, I. Henry VL, iv. 3, 4 ; should be healed, III. Henry
VL, iv. 6.
Dissimulation. See DECEIT, FALSEHOOD.
Dissolution, of the earth, The Tempest, iv. 1 ; a man of continual dissolution, and thaw, Merry Wives of Windsor, Hi. 5.
Distaff, give the, to my husband, King Lear, iv. 2 ; turned to a
lance, Cymbeline, v. 3.
Distain (eclipse), Pericles, iv. 3 (or 4).
Distress, makes uncivil, As You Like It, ii. 7.
Disunion, Troilus and Cressida, i. 3 ; King Lear, ii. 4.
Disvouched (contradicted), Measure for Measure, iv. 3.
Dive-dapper, a small bird, Venus and Adonis, I. 86.
Dives (Luke xvi. 19), allusion to, Z Henry IV., Hi. 3.
Divine, a, that follows his own instructions. Merchant of Venice,
i. 2 ; needed more than the physician, Macbeth, v. 1.
Divine (immortal) soul, my, Richard II., i. 1.
Divinity, the, that doth hedge a king, Hamlet, iv. 5 or 2 ; that
shapes our ends, Hamlet, v. 2 ; in odd numbers, Merry Wives of
Windsor, v. 1 ; reasoning in, Henry V., v. 1.
Division (variations), Z Henry IV., iii. 1.
Divorce, Henry VIII., ii. 1, 2, 4.
Divorced, doubly, Richard II., v. 1.
Dizzy, a prisoner, Measure for Measure, iv. 3.
Doctor, death will seize the, Cymbeline, v. 5.
Doctors, two, characters in Macbeth : one, an English doctor,
appears in iv. 3; the other, Scotch, attending Lady Macbeth, v. 1, 3.
Document (lesson), Hamlet, iv. 5 (or 2}.
Dog, Launce's, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 3, 5 ; iv. 4.
Dog(s), spirits in form of, The Tempest, iv. 1 ; dank as a, Z
Henry IV., ii. 1 ; howling of, ominous, JZ Henry VI., i. 4 ; ZZZ
Henry VI., v. 6 ; rather be a, Julius Ccesar, iv. 3 ; various kinds of,
Macbeth, Hi. 1; will have his day, Hamlet, v. 1; obeyed in office, King Lear, iv. 6; not a word to throw at a, As You Like It, i. 8; of war, Julius Ccesar, in. 1.
Dogberry, a blundering and conceited constable in Much Ado
about Nothing, introduced in Hi. 3. " It is a charming incongruity
to find, while Leonato rages and Benedick offers his challenge, that
the solemn ass, Dogberry, is the one to unravel the tangle of threads."
DOWDEN.
Dog-days, Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 1, " For now, these hot days,"
etc. ; Henry VIII., v. 3.
Doing, if doing were as easy as knowing what to do, Merchant
of Venice, i. 2.
Doit, John, II. Henry IV., Hi. 2.
Doit, Merchant of Venice, i. 3. Equal to about half a farthing.
Dolabella, a friend of Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra, introduced in Hi. 12 ; his message to Cleopatra, v. 2.
Dole (portion, lot), happy man be his, Merry Wives of Windsor,
Hi. 4; A Winter's Tale, i. 2, and elsewhere.
Dole (wailing), As You Like It, i. 2.
Doll Tearsheet, a low woman, character in II. Henry IV., first
appears in ii. 4. In Henry V., ii. 1, Pistol recommends her to Nym.
It has been suggested that her name is corrupted from Tear-Street,
which would explain the remark of the prince, " This Doll Tearsheet
should be some road " (//. Henry IV., ii. 3).
Dolphin, the. See DAUPHIN.
Dolphin chamber, the, //. Henry IV., ii. 1.
Domineer (bluster), Taming of the Shrew, Hi. 2.
Donalbain (Donald Bane), younger son of King Duncan in Macbeth. He escapes to Ireland after the murder of his father. He succeeded his brother Malcolm on the throne of Scotland in 1093.
Don Pedro. See PEDRO.
Doom, the crack of, Macbeth, iv. 1 ; the general, Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 2.
Doomsday, Richard III., v. 1 ; Julius Ccesar, Hi. 1 ; is near, I.
Henry IV., iv. 1, end; Hamlet, ii. 2.
Dorcas, a shepherdess, introduced in A Winter's Tale, iv. 4.
Doricles, name assumed by Florizel, A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or 4.
Dorset, Thomas Grey, first Marquis of, character in Richard
III., son of Queen Elizabeth, first appears in i. 3. He joined Buckingham's rebellion, but escaped to Brittany after its failure. His
marriage with the daughter of William Bonville, Lord Harrington, is spoken of in III. Henry VI., iv. 1. Lady Jane Grey was his great-granddaughter.
Double meanings, Macbeth, v. 7, " Keep the word of promise
, to our ear and break it to our hope."
Doublet and hose, courage due from, As You Like It, ii. 4 ;
in my disposition, As You Like It, Hi. 2.
Doubt, beacon of the wise, Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2; worse
than certainty of evil, Cymbeline, i. 6.
Doubts, are traitors, Measure for Measure, i. 5.
Doubts (suspicions), the noble cast away, Henry VIII., Hi. 1.
Dough, the cake is, Taming of the Shrew, i. 1 ; v. 1.
Douglas, Archibald, Earl of, character in /. Henry IV., introduced in iv. 1. His defeat at Holmedon or Homildon Hill, September 14, 1402, by Hotspur, is described in i. 1. He afterward became
the ally of the Percys when they rebelled against Henry IV. On the
field of Shrewsbury, July 23, 1403, he kills Lord Stafford and Sir
Walter Blunt, mistaking them for the king. When he meets the
king at last, the prince comes to his father's rescue, and Douglas
flies. Taken prisoner afterward, he is set free by the prince, v. 5.
He is brave, fearless, and faithful.
Dove(s), allusions to : Modest as, Taming of the Shrew, ii. 1 ;
A Winter's Tale, iv. 4 (turtles) ; spirit of peace, II. Henry IV., iv.
1 ; Mahomet's, /. Henry VI., i. 2 (see MAHOMET) ; like a pair of, 1.
Henry VI., ii. 2 ; innocence of, II. Henry VI., Hi. 1 ; faithfulness
of, Troilus and Cressida, Hi. 2 (turtle) ; love and, Romeo and Juliet,
ii. 1; young of, Hamlet, v. 1; doves of Venus, The Tempest, iv. 1;
presents of, Merchant of Venice, ii. 2 ; Midsummer Night's Dream,
i. 1 ; Venus and Adonis, I. 1190 ; of Paphos, Pericles, iv., prologue.
Paphos is on the island of Cyprus, where Venus was worshipped.
Dover, England, scene of part of King Lear ; cliffs of, King
Lear, iv. 1, end ; iv. 6.
Dowland, John, an English musician (1562-1626), who called
himself a " lutenist," and published song-books, Passionate Pilgrim,
viii. Wood says, "We are assured that John Dowland was the
rarest musician that his age did behold."
Dowry, a curse for a, King Lear, i. 1 ; Hamlet, Hi. 1.
Dowsabel, name applied to a fat woman, Comedy of Errors,
iv. 1.
Drachma (about sevenpence), Julius Ccesar, Hi. 2.
Draft, of soldiers, /. Henry IV., iv. 2.
Dragon(s), on the chariot of night, Midsummer Night's Dream t
Hi. 2; Cymbeline, ii. 2 ; St. George and the, on sign-boards, King
John, ii. 1 ; spleen of fiery, Richard III., v. 3 ; like to a lonely,
Coriolanus, iv. 1 ; between a, and his wrath, King Lear, i. 1.
Dreams, The Tempest, Hi. 2 ; such stuff as, The Tempest, iv. 1 ;
of money-bags, Merchant of Venice, ii. 5; if, be thus, Twelfth
Night, iv. 1 ; are toys, A Winter's Tale, Hi. 3 ; of war, /. Henry IV.,
ii. 3 ; of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, //. Henry VI., i. % ;
of Clarence, Richard III., i. 4 ,' of Stanley, Richard III., Hi. 2 ; of
Richard and Richmond, Richard III., v. 3 ; of Andromache, Troilus
and Cressida, v. 3 ; Queen Mab in substance of, Romeo and Juliet,
i. 4 ; presaging, Romeo and Juliet, v. 1 ; of Caesar's wife, Julius
Caesar, ii. 2 ; evil suggestions in, Macbeth,, ii. 1; bad, Hamlet, ii.
2 ; Cymbeline, v. 4 ; iv. 2, " 'Twas but a bolt of nothing," etc. ; of
one loved, Sonnet xliii. ; that may come in the sleep of death, Hamlet, in. i.
Dress, of a bridegroom, Taming of the Shrew, Hi. 2; women's,
Taming of the Shrew, iv. 3 ; unimportance of, Taming of the Shrew,
iv. 3; devotion to, All's Well that Ends Well, i. 2, "Whose judgments are," etc. ; neat and trim, I. Henry IV., i. 3 ; extravagance
in, Henry VIII., i. 1, " Manors on their backs," etc. ; rule for, Hamlet, i. 3 ; Cymbeline, Hi. 4; iv. 2 ; Richard III., i. 2.
Drink, Twelfth Night, i. 3; Macbeth, ii. 3; an enemy in the
mouth, Othello, ii. 3.
Drinking, the English experts in, Othello, ii. 3. See DRUNKENNESS.
Drinking-scenes, The Tempest, ii. 1; Hi. 2 ; Twelfth Night,
H. 3 ; Othello, ii. 3 ; Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 7.
Drinking-song, Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 7.
Dromios, the two, of Ephesus and Syracuse, twin brothers, servants of the twin Antipholuses in the Comedy of Errors, introduced
in i. 2 and Hi. 1. Dromio of Syracuse is described by his master as
" A trusty villain, sir, that very oft,
When I am dull with care and melancholy,
Lightens my humour with his merry jests."
Drop, one, seeks another, Comedy of Errors, i. 2.
Drop-Heir, a prisoner, Measure for Measure, iv. 3.
Drowned, not born to be, The Tempest, i. 1 ; Two Gentlemen of
Verona, i. 1.
Drowning, longing of the, for land, The Tempest, i. 1, end;
dream of, Richard III., i. 4; death by, Hamlet, iv. 7 or 4; suicide
by, Othello, i. 3.
Drowning-mark, The Tempest, i. 1 ; v. 1.
Drum, let him fetch off his, AW a Well that Ends Well, iii. 6.
Drum, John, entertainment of (a beating), All's Well that Ends
Well, in. 6.
Drunk, in godly company, Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1.
Drunkard, one loves another, Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 3.
Drunken man, what like, Twelfth Night, i. 5.
Drunkenness, The Tempest, iii. 2 ; iv. 1; v. 1 ; folly of, Othello, ii. 3; Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1, 2; Taming of the Shrew,
induction, 1 ; Much Ado about Nothing, Hi. 3.
Dry-beat (beat soundly), Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1.
Dry-foot, draws (follows the scent), Comedy of Errors, iv. 2.
Ducats, gild myself with, Merchant of Venice, ii. 6 ; my daughter and my, Merchant of Venice, ii. 8 ; fourscore spent, Merchant
of Venice, iii. 1.
Ducdame, As You Like It, ii. 5. Of uncertain meaning. Some
read it Due ad me, lead to me.
Duck, swim like a, The Tempest, ii. 2.
Dudgeon (handle), Macbeth, ii. 1.
Duel(s), contemplated, Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 4; ii. 1, 3 ;
iii. 1; Much Ado about Nothing, v. 1; Twelfth Night, iii. 4;
threats of a, All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 3 ; between Horner and
Peter, //. Henry VI., ii. 3 ; Hamlet, i. 1. See CHALLENGES.
Duelling, causes for, Love's Labour's Lost, i. 2, end ; satire on
rules of, As You Like It, v. 4. The passage is supposed to have been
suggested by a book on the punctilio of duelling, by Vincentio Saviolo, published in 1596. Terms of, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4; iii. 1;
Taming of the Shrew, iii. 5.
Duke, the, in As You Like It, who is living in the Forest of
Arden. his brother having usurped his place. He is introduced in
11. 1. He is just and moderate, unembittered by the wrong he has
suffered, and as happy in the forest as at the court.
Duke of Dark Corners, the, Measure for Measure, iv. S.
Dull, a stupid constable in Love's Labour's Lost, introduced in
t,l.
Dulness, Hamlet, iv. 1.
Dumbleton, a merchant spoken of in II. Henry IV., i. 2.
Dumain, one of the lords attending on the king in Love's Labour's Lost, introduced in the first scene
" For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,
And shape to win grace though he had no wit."
102 INMR TO' SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS.
Dumain, Captain, slanderously described by Parolles in All's
Well that Ends Well, iv. 3.
Dumps (sad music), Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hi. 2 ; Lucrece,
I. 1127, and elsewhere.
Dun, if thou art, Romeo and Juliet, i. 4. Allusion to the game
Dun-is-in-the-Mire. Dun was a log of wood, which stood for a horse
and was said to be in the mire. Two of the company tried to pull
him out, calling one after another of the rest to their assistance,
until all were helping, and Dun was at length pulled out.
Dunbar, George, Earl of March, in Scotland called Lord Mortimer, letter from, I. Henry IV,, ii. 3 ; Hi. 2. His title March led
to the mistake of calling him Mortimer.
Duncan, King of Scotland, character in Macbeth, described by
Macbeth in i. 7. He first appears in i. 2, visits Macbeth's castle, i.
6, and is murdered, ii. 1. The circumstances of the murder are
taken from the account of the assassination of King Duff. In other
respects, the play follows the traditionary story, as told in Holinshed,
quite closely. The real Duncan, whose death took place by the
treachery of Macbeth, Mormaer of Moray, in 1040, is said to have
been an unjust and somewhat weak sovereign. The gracious character ascribed to him in the play is according to the chronicle.
Duns, of creditors, Timon of Athens, ii. 1, 2 ; iii. 4.
Dunsinane, a hill nine miles northeast of Perth, Macbeth, iv. 1,
scene of act v. ; battle of, v. 6, 7, 8.
Dunsmore, ///. Henry VI., v. 1.
Dunstable, Henry V1IL, iv. 1.
Dupe, an easy, King Lear, i. 2.
Duplicity. See DECEIT, FALSEHOOD.
Duty, to make virtue known, Measure for Measure, i. 1 ; service
sweat for, As You Like It, ii. 3 ; promptings of, Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 1 ; did never want his meed, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. J^; unswerving, Henry VIII., iii.2; Hamlet, ii. 2 ; cannot be silent, King Lear, i. 1, 4.
Eagle(s), the sight of, Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 3 ; III. Henry
VL, ii.l; flight of, Timon of Athens, i. 1; age of, Timon of Athens,
iv. 3 ; suffer little birds to sing, Titus Andronicus, iv. 4> omens of
victory, Julius Ccesar, v. 1 ; Cymbeline, i. 1 ; iv. 2 ; a hungry, Venus
and Adonis, I. 55 ; eye of, Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5 ; Richard //.,
iii. 3 ; England the, Henry V., i. 2 ; the holy, Cymbeline, v. 4.
Ear (to plough), Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2, 4.
Ear(s), what fire is in my, Much Ado about Nothing, Hi. 1. Allusion to the supposed burning of the ears when one is talked of.
Locks worn by the, Much Ado about Nothing, Hi. 3 ; v. 1 ; biting
the, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4 ; thy fair, large, Midsummer Night's
Dream, iv. 1 ; ear of man hath not seen, Midsummer Night's Dream,
iv. 1; deaf to counsel, not to flattery, Timon of Athens, i. 2 ; promise kept to the, Macbeth, v. 8 ; give every man thine, Hamlet, i. 3 ;
light of (ready to hear scandal), King Lear, Hi. 4.
Early rising, Twelfth Night, ii. 3.
Early training, 77. Henry VL, Hi. 1, " Now 'tis the spring,"
etc. ; Hamlet, i. 3, " The canker galls," etc.
Earth, the, I task (throw down my gage), Richard II., iv. 1 ;
curse on, Timon of Athens, iv. 3, " That nature," etc. ; mother and
tomb of nature, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3 ; a sterile promontory, Hamlet, ii. 2; a girdle round the, Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1;
nothing lives on, but crosses, Richard II., ii. 2 ; more things in
heaven and, Hamlet, i. 5.
Earthquake(s), As You Like, It, iii.2 ; explanation of, I. Henry
IV., Hi. 1; Romeo and Juliet, i. 3. Perhaps an allusion to one felt
in England, April 6, 1580. The earth feverous, Macbeth, ii. 3.
Eastcheap, in London, scene of parts of I. and II. Henry IV.,
and Henry V., which are at the Boar's Head Tavern, kept by Mrs.
Quickly. A tavern with that sign stood near Blackfriars Play house. Eastcheap was near the mansion assigned to the Prince of
Wales.
Easter, allusion to the custom of wearing new clothes at, Romeo
and Juliet, Hi. 1, " Wearing his new doublet before Easter."
Eater, a hearty, Much Ado about Nothing, i. 1, "A valiant
trencher-man."
Eating. See APPETITE, DIGESTION, DINNER.
Ebony, black as, Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 3.
Eaves, made of reeds, The Tempest, v. 1.
Eaves-dropper, play the, Richard III., v. 3.
Ecce signum (behold the sign), /. Henry IV., ii. 4.
Echo (eke), Pericles, Hi., prologue.
Echo, babbling gossip, Twelfth Night, i. 5 ; cave of, Romeo and
Juliet, ii. 2 ; Taming of the Shrew, induction, 2 ; Titus Andronicus, ii. 3.
Echo, name of a dog, Taming of the Shrew, induction, 1.
Eclipses, ominous, Macbeth, ii. 3 ; iv. 1 ; Hamlet, i. 1 ; King
Lear, i. 2; Othello, v. 2 ; Antony and Cleopatra, Hi. 13. . .
Ecstasy (madness), The Tempest, Hi. 3; Hamlet, Hi. 4, and
elsewhere.
Edgar, son of Gloucester in King Lear, introduced in i. 2 ; his
brother's plot against him, i. 2 ; ii. 1; his flight, ii. 1; his feigned
madness, ii. 3; Hi. 4, 6 ; iv. 1 ; fights with Oswald, iv. 6 ; is restored
to his place, v. 3. The character of Edgar is contrasted with that of
Edmund ; both are able, but Edgar's uprightness and unsuspiciousness make him at first an easy prey to his brother's scheme ; yet he
carries out his own designs with patience and skill.
Edmund, Earl of Rutland. See RUTLAND.
Edmund, an important character in King Lear, illegitimate son
of Gloucester, introduced in the first scene. He is able, bold, and
wicked, his wickedness finding some excuse in the fact that he is embittered by the stain upon his birth, and the consequent injustice
which he feels he labours under, and some mitigation in the fact that
he is not a hypocrite to his own conscience, but writes himself down
"plain villain." His plot against Edgar, i. 2; ii. 1; his double-dealing with Regan and Goneril, iv. 5, 6 ; v. 1, 3.
Education, for a gentleman, As You Like It, i. 1. See GRAMMAR.
Edward, the Confessor (1004-1066), Macbeth, Hi. 6.
Edward III. (1312-1377), Henry V., ii.4; at Crecy, i. 2.
Edward, the Black Prince (1330-1376), Richard II., ii. 1, " In
war was never," etc. ; Henry V., i. 2 ; ii. 4*
Edward, Prince of Wales (1453-1471), son of Henry VI., character in ///. Henry VI., introduced in i. 1; disinherited, ii. 2;
knighted, ii. 2 ; captured and killed, v. 5. It is not certain whether
he fell in battle or was put to death afterward.
Edward IV. (1442-1483), character in II. and III. Henry VL,
and Richard III. In the first he appears as Edward, son of the
Duke of York, only in v. 1. In III. Henry VI. he is introduced
in i. 1, as Earl of March. On the death of his father at Wakefield,
i. 4, he becomes Duke of York and claimant to the throne. He defeats the Lancastrians at Mortimer's Cross, ii. 1. This scene gives
the traditional origin of his device of the three suns. He went to
London and was proclaimed king, then went north and won the
battle of Towton (March 29, 1461), ii. 4, and returning to London
was crowned king. His marriage with Lady Grey gives offence in
France and turns the Earl of Warwick against him, Hi. 3 ; iv. 1.
His capture and rescue are in iv. 3, 5,6; in v. 2, the battle of Barnet
(April 14, 1471), where Warwick was killed, and in v. 4 that of Tewksbury (May 4, 1471), where Margaret's forces were defeated. These victories and the death of Henry VI. made him secure on the throne.
The profligate character attributed to him in the play is matter of
history. In Richard III. he is introduced in ii. 1 ; his remorse for
the fate of Clarence, ii. 1 ; his death, ii. 2.
Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward V.), son of Edward IV.,
character in Richard III., appears first in iii. 1, where he is sent to
the Tower. His beauty, iii. 1, 2 ; declared illegitimate by Buckingham, iii. 7 ; his death, iv. 2, 3 ; his ghost, v. 3. In the mere hints
given of his character he appears as having a delicate tact, with
precocity of discretion and caution, quite in contrast with the saucy
wit of his younger brother, little Richard of York (1470-1483).
Eels, King Lear, ii. 4. Allusion to the opinion that they were
roused by thunder, Pericles, iv. 3.
Effeminacy, loathed, Troilus and Cressida, iii. 3 ; of Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra, i. 4.
Egeus, father of Hermia, in Midsummer Night's Dream, introduced in i. 1.
Eggs, to steal, from a cloister, All's Well that Ends Well, iv. 3 ;
for money (proverb), A Winter's Tale, i. 2.
Eglamour, a character in the Two Gentlemen of Verona, who
helps Silvia to escape, iv. 3.
Egypt, name applied to Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra.
Egyptian fog, Twelfth Night, iv. 2.
Egyptian thief, Twelfth Night, v. 1. Thyamis, chief of a band
of robbers, who killed his mistress when surprised by a stronger
band, that he might have her company in the other world.
Eisel (vinegar), Sonnet cxi. See also ESILL.
Elbow, rub the, I. Henry IV., v. 1. Allusion to the notion that
an itching elbow was a precursor of change.
Elbow, an ignorant and amusing constable in Measure for Measure, introduced in ii. 1, whose use of English is much like Dogberry's.
He arrests " two notorious benefactors " who are " void of all profanation in the world that good Christians ought to have."
Elder-tree, allusion to the belief that it grows where blood has
been shed, Titus Andronicus, ii. 4 ,' emblem of grief, Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Judas was said to have hanged himself on an elder, Love's Labour's
Lost, v. 2.
Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, in Richard II. See GLOUCESTER.
Eleanor, wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. She was the
daughter of Reginald, Lord Cobham, and celebrated for her beauty
and bad morals. She is a character in II. Henry VI., introduced in i. %, where her ambition to become queen is expressed, and her determination to resort to witchcraft ; her meeting with the witch, i. 4;
charge against her, ii. 1; sentenced to banishment, ii. 8 ; led barefoot through the streets, ii. 4. It was charged that she or her accomplices melted before the fire a waxen image of the king, that his life
might waste away as the wax melted. Her trial took place in 1441,
and Queen Margaret did not arrive in England till 1445, so that
their meeting in i. 3 is by dramatic license. The " Hall of Justice "
is St. Stephen's Chapel, "Westminster. Eleanor was imprisoned in
Chester Castle, and afterward in Kenilworth, where she died in 1454.
Election, the doctrine of, Measure, for Measure, i. 3, " On whom
it will, it will," etc.
Elements, a word over-worn, Twelfth Night, Hi. 1 ; the four,
Twelfth Night, ii. 3; Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2; Sonnets xliv.,
xlv. ; so mixed, Julius Ccesar, v. 5 ; alluding to the idea that the
body is composed of the four elements, and that health and ability
depend on their due proportion ; Lear's appeal to the, King Lear,
in. 2.
Elephant, the, an inn, Twelfth Night, Hi. 3.
Elephant, the, Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3. Alluding to the
notion that the elephant had no joints, and could not bend its knees
or lie down. Betrayed with holes (pitfalls), Julius Ccesar, ii. 1.
Elf-locks, Romeo and Juliet, i. 4. Fairies were supposed to
mat and tangle the manes of horses into " elf-locks."
Elinor of Aquitaine, widow of King Henry II., character in
King John, introduced in the first scene. She is the inspirer of the
worst deeds of her son John. Constance, whom she hates and torments through Arthur, calls her an offence to morality. She had
before incited her sons against their father, Henry II. (1123-1204).
Elizabeth Woodville (Lady Grey), queen of Edward IV., character in Richard III., introduced in i. 3. In iv. 4, she entertains the
proposal for her daughter's hand, of the king, the enemy of her house,
and the one responsible for the murder of her sons. She was the
daughter of Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers, and the first English
woman that was raised from the rank of subject to that of royalty
after the Conquest. Her first husband was Sir John Grey, who was
slain at St. Albans fighting for the House of Lancaster. His estate
was confiscated when the Yorkists came into power. Tradition says
that she first met Edward IV. in a forest near Grafton, her father's
residence, where he was hunting, and where she sought him to petition for the restoration of her husband's estate to her and her children. The tree under which they were said to have met was known for centuries as the Queen's Oak. For other members of her family, see EDWARD V., ELIZABETH, RICHARD, RIVERS, and SCALES.
Elizabeth, the princess, daughter of Edward IV. Richard III.
resolves to marry her, iv. 2, 3, and proposes it to her mother, iv. 4,
who professes to entertain the proposal while secretly planning to
marry her to Richmond in case of his success. She is betrothed to
Richmond, v. 5. This united the title of the House of York to that
of Henry VII., which was very slight.
Elizabeth, Queen, her birth, Henry VIII., v. 1; christening, v.
%, 3, 4 ; Cranmer's prophecy concerning her, v. 4. In Hi. 2, Suffolk
makes something like a prophecy of her reign when speaking of her
mother, " There's order given," etc. See BOLEYN. The passage in
Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1, beginning "That very time I
saw," is supposed to be an allusion to Elizabeth (1533-1603).
Elm and vine, figure of the, Comedy of Errors, ii. 2 ; Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 1.
Elopements, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4 > *"**' 1 ; v. 2 ;
Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 6 ; v. 5 ; Merchant of Venice, ii. 6, 8 ;
Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1; iv. 1; A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or
4; Othello, i. 1-3.
Eloquence, Love's Labour's Lost, ii. 1, "Aged ears play truant," etc. ; Henry V., i. 1, " The air, a chartered," etc. ; Lover's Complaint, I. 120 ; a tapster's, I. Henry IV., ii. 4.
Elsinore, in the island of Seeland, Denmark, scene of a part of
Hamlet; cliff at, *. 4.
Elves, offices of, The Tempest, v. 1. See FAIRIES.
Elvish-marked, Richard III., i. 3. Allusion to the notion that
deformity was due to evil fairies.
Ely, John Fordham, Bishop of, from 1388 to 1425, character in
Henry V., enters in scene first in conference with the Archbishop of
Canterbury, to whom he plays second throughout.
Ely, John Morton, Bishop of, character in Richard III., first
appears in Hi. 4; the strawberries in his garden, Hi. 4. In iv. 3 he
flees to Richmond. He was made Bishop of Ely in 1478, and of
Canterbury in 1486, and Lord Chancellor in 1487. The marriage of
Richmond and Elizabeth was his suggestion. Sir Thomas More was
a member of the bishop's household in his youth, and doubtless used
information received from him in the life he afterward wrote of
Richard in Latin, which furnished the chroniclers with a part of
their material regarding his reign,
Ely House, London, scene' of a part of Richard II.
Elysium, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 7 ; Twelfth Night, i.2;
1L Henry VI., i. 2 ; Cymbeline, v. 4.
Emballing, Henry VIII., ii. 3. Receiving the ball given to
sovereigns at coronation.
Emblems, at coronation, Henry VIII., iv. 1. See ROSES.
Embossed (foaming at the mouth from hard running hence,
run nearly to death), Taming of the Shrew, induction, 1 ; All's Well
that Ends Well, Hi. 6 ; Antony and, Cleopatra, iv. 13.
Embowelled (embalmed), I. Henry IV., v. 4.
Embrace, before battle, I. Henry IV., v. 2, end.
Emilia, an attendant of the queen in A Winter's Tale, ii. 2.
Emilia, lago's wife, in Othello, introduced in ii. 1.
" Emilia is a perfect portrait from common life, a masterpiece in
the Flemish style : and though not necessary as a contrast, it cannot
be but that the thorough vulgarity, the loose principles of this plebeian woman, united to a high degree of spirit, energetic feeling,
strong sense, and low cunning, serve to place in brighter relief the
exquisite refinement, the moral grace, the unblemished truth, and
the soft submission of Desdemona." MRS. JAMESON.
Emmanuel, clerk of Chatham, II. Henry VI., iv. 2, " They use
to write it on the top of letters." The name was written at the head
of public papers.
Emmew (keep in a cage or mew by terror, as a falcon does a
fowl), Measure for Measure, Hi. 1, " And follies doth emmew."
Emotions, All's Well that Ends Well, Hi. 2; silent, Much Ado
about Nothing, ii. 1; Henry VIII., v. 1; conflicting, A Winter's
Tale, v. 2 ; King Lear, iv. 3 ; of joy, Pericles, v. 1.
Empericeutic (empiric), Coriolanus, ii. 1. In some old texts it
is " empyric qutique."
Emperor of Rome, candidates for the office of, Titus Andronicus, i. 1 or 2.
Empirics, All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 1, " We thank you."
Employment, affects nature, Sonnet cxi.
Empress, station of an, Titus Andronicus, ii. 1.
Emulation (rivalry). Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2, end ; hath a
thousand sons, Troilus and Cressida, iii. 3 ; virtue cannot live out
of the teeth of, Julius Ccesar, ii. 3.
Enceladus, Titus Andronicus, iv. 2. The fabled giant under
Mount -
End, the, justifies the means, Lucrece, I. 528; crowns all, King
John, i. 1 ; Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.
Endurance. See FORTITUDE.
Endymion, a beautiful shepherd, beloved by Diana, Merchant
of Venice, v. 1.
Enemy(ies), at my mercy, The Tempest, iv. 1 ; during a truce,
Troilus and Cressida, iv. 1 ; dearest, /. Henry IV., iii. 2 ; praise of
an, Z Henry IV., iv. 1, "No more," etc. ; wisdom of accounting him
strong, Henry V., ii* 4; combination against, King Lear, v. 1;
union before a common, Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 1, 2 ; folly of
imitating an, Henry V., iv. 1; causeless, Henry VIII., ii. 4; drink
is an enemy in the mouth, Othello, ii. 3.
Engaged (held as a hostage), I. Henry IV., iv. 4 ; v. 2.
Engine (instrument of torture), King Lear, i. 4.
Engineer, hoist with his own petar, Samlet, iii. 4, end.
England, curiosity in, The Tempest, ii. 2; Comedy of Errors,
iii. 2 ; white-faced shore of, King John, ii. 1 ; if only true to itself,
King John, v. 7 ; praise of evil times in, Richard II., ii. 1 ; an untended garden, Richard II., iii. 4 ; claim of kings of. to France,
Henry V., i. 2 ; a little body with a mighty heart, Henry V., ii.,
chorus ; the defence of, ///. Henry VI., iv. 1 ; in Elizabeth's time,
Henry VIII., v. 5. See BRITAIN.
English, the, bravery of, Henry V., iii. 5, 6 ; French opinion of,
Henry V., iii. 7 ; iv. 1, 2 ; diet of, I. Henry VI., i. 2 ; Froissart's account of, I. Henry VI., i. 2; tenacity of, I. Henry VI., i. 2, "Kather
with their teeth," etc. ; have angels' faces, Henry VIII., iii. 1; epicures, Macbeth, v. 3 ; drinking habits of, Othello, ii. 3 ; dress of one
of the, Merchant of Venice, i. 2.
English (language), the king's, Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 4 >
a fellow that frights it out of his wits, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 1 ;
let them hack our, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 1; makes fritters of,
Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5 ; a lesson in, Henry V., iii. 4.
Enlarge (set at liberty), Twelfth Night, v. 1, and elsewhere.
Enmity. See HATRED.
Enobarbus, Domitius, character in Antony and Cleopatra, introduced in i. 2 ; his desertion, iv. 5 ; remorse, iv. 6, 9 ; death, iv. 9.
" Enobarbus, who sees through every wile and guile of the queen,
is, as it were, a chorus to the play, a looker-on at the game ; he stands
clear of the golden haze which makes up the atmosphere around Cleopatra ; and yet he is not a mere critic or commentator (Shakespeare
never permitting the presence of a person in his drama who is not a
true portion of it). Enobarbus himself is under the influence of the
charm of Antony, and slays himself because he has wronged his master." DOWDEN.
Enskied (in heaven), Measure for Measure, i. 5.
Enterprise(s), want of, All's Well that Ends Well, i. 1; a desperate, /. Henry VI., ii. 1 ; failure of great, by irresolution, Hamlet,
Hi. 1.
Entertain (take into service), Julius Ccesar, v. 5.
Entrails, as if, were hairs, Henry V., Hi. 7. Alluding to the
bounding of a tennis-ball, which was stuffed with hair.
Envoy (a stanza, first or last, conveying the moral of a poem, or
addressing it to some person), Love's Labour's Lost, Hi. 1.
Envy (generally in the sense of malice), Merchant of Venice, iv.
1 ; As You Like It, i. 2 ; of the world. As You Like It, ii. 3; of a
father, I. Henry IV., i. 1; Richard III., iv. 1; Henry VIIL, Hi. 2,
"Follow your envious courses," etc.; v. 2; lean-faced, II. Henry
VI., in. 2 ; Troilus and Cressida, ii. 1 ; Lucrece, I. 39.
Ephesians (slang for carousers), II. Henry IV., ii. 2.
Ephesus, scene of the Comedy of Errors. Its quarrel with
Syracuse and its bad name for sorcery adapted it for the scene of the
extravagant incidents of the play. It is also the scene of a part of
Pericles.
Epicurean, Cassius an, Julius Ccesar, v. 1.
Epidamnum, in Illyria, Comedy of Errors, i. 1, 2 ; v. 1.
Epidaurus, Comedy of Errors, i. 1.
Epilepsy, or falling-sickness, Julius Ccesar, i. 2; Othello, iv. 1.
Epilogues, to The Tempest (not by Shakespeare, probably, perhaps
by Ben Jonson); to As You Like It; to All's Well that Ends Well,
probably not by Shakespeare; to II. Henry IV., probably not by
Shakespeare; to Henry V.; to Henry VIIL, probably not by Shakespeare.
Epitaph(s), on Hero, Much Ado about Nothing, v. 3 ; on the deer,
Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 2 ; lying, All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 3,
" And these breed honour," etc. ; on Timon, Timon of Athens, v. 4.
This is made up of two, one said to have been written by Timon
himself, the other by the poet Callimachus. Better have a bad, than,
etc., Hamlet, ii. 2.
Epitheton (epithet), Love's Labour's Lost, i. 2.
Epithets, sweetly varied, Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2 ; pretty,
fond, adoptious Christendoms, All's Well that Ends Well, i. 1.
Equality, of man, A Winter's Tale, iv. 3, " Once or twice I was
about to speak," etc. ; Henry V., iv. 1, " The king is but a man," etc. ;
Richard III., i. 4, " Princes have but," etc. ; Coriolanus, i. 1, " The
gods sent not corn," etc.
Equinox, storms at the vernal, Macbeth, i. 2, " As whence the
sun," etc.
Equinox (opposite, counterpart), Othello, ii. 3.
Equipage (slang for stolen goods), Merry Wives of Windsor,
ii. 2.
Equivocator, here's an, Macbeth, ii. 3. Supposed allusion to
the doctrine of equivocation, as professed by the Superior of the
Jesuits, on trial for complicity in the gunpowder plot, in 1606.
Ercles (Hercules), Midsummer Nights Dream, i. 2.
Erebus (the passage to Hades), Merchant of Venice, v. 1 ; Julius
Caesar, ii. 1.
Eringo, the (held to be an aphrodisiac), Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5.
Eros, friend of Antony, introduced in Hi. 5 of Antony and Cleopatra. In iv. 12 or 14 he kills himself rather than be the instrument of Antony's death.
Erpingham, Sir Thomas, mentioned, Richard II., ii. 1.
Erpingham, Sir Thomas, character in Henry V., first appears
in iv. 1, an old man, treated with great reverence by the king. It
was he who set the English army in order for battle at Agincourt,
and gave the signal for the attack by throwing his truncheon in the
air, calling, " Now strike ! " He built the Erpingham Gate at Norwich. He was a Lollard. The first mention of him is in Richard
II., ii. 1, where he is mentioned among the companions of Bolingbroke.
Error, melancholy's child, Julius Ccesar, v. 3 ; translated to truth,
Sonnet xcvi ; unavoidable, A Winter's Tale, i. 2 ; popular, King
Lear, iv. 1.
Errors, of men. See FAULTS.
Escalus, an ancient lord, character in Measure for Measure, introduced in the first scene. He is wise, moderate, and merciful in
his unregarded counsel to Angelo.
Escalus, Prince of Verona, character in Romeo and Juliet, introduced in i. 1, where he appears in the scene of the quarrel and disperses the combatants, and in iii. 1 banishes Romeo.
Escanes, a lord of Tyre, in Pericles, introduced in i. 3.
Escapes, hair-breadth, Othello, i. 3.
Escoted (paid), Hamlet, ii. 2.
Esher House, or Asher House, residence of the bishops of Winchester, once occupied by Cardinal Wolsey, who is ordered to retire
to it in Henry VIII., iii. 2. Esher is in Surrey, southwest of London, on the river Mole. An old Gothic building on Esher Place, with a
castellated gateway, is known as " Wolsey's Tower." It was tenanted,
but not built by the cardinal, and is said to have been erected by a
bishop of Winchester nearly a century before Wolsey's time.
Esill (or eisel), Hamlet, v. i. A word not understood ; by some
supposed to be the river Yesel, by others vinegar.
Esperance (hope), /. Henry IV., ii. 3; King Lear, iv. 1, and
elsewhere. It was the motto of the Percys.
Countess of. See MAIDENHOOD.
:, Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, Earl of, a character in King John,
introduced in the first scene.
Essex, Robert Devereaux, Earl of, allusion to his expedition to
Ireland, Henry V., v., prologue. He was sent over in April, 1599, to
suppress Tyrone's rebellion. For his conduct of the war, and the
terms on which he made peace, he was tried and dismissed from all
offices. He formed a conspiracy to force his way to the queen's
presence and remove his enemies by force of arms, for which he was
tried and condemned for high treason, and executed February 25,
1601. This passage was written, of course, during the summer, before
his failure in Ireland.
Estate (bestow), The Tempest, iv. 1 ; dispute his own (debate
about his property), A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or 4>
Estimate, is the worth in the, Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2.
Estimation (conjecture), /. Henry IV., i. 3.
Estridges (ostriches), I. Henry IV., iv.l; Ant. and Cleo., Hi. 13.
Et bonum, etc., the older the better, Pericles, i., prologue.
Ethiop, a swarthy, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 6 ; jewels of
an, Romeo and Juliet, i. 5.
Et tu, Brute ? Julius Ccesar, iii., and thou, too, Brutus ? There
is no record that Caesar uttered these words ; but Suetonius, who wrote
about one hundred and seventy-five years later, has it that tradition
reported him as saying in Greek, " Thou too, my son ? "
Euphonius, character in Antony and Cleopatra, introduced in
iii. 10 or 12, where he is called Antony's schoolmaster.
Euphuisms, Hamlet, v. 2, speech of Osric ; Love's Labour's Lost.
Europa, daughter of Agenor, Taming of the Shrew, i. 1 ; Merry
Wives of Windsor, v. 5 ; Much Ado about Nothing, v. 4.
Evans, Sir Hugh, a Welsh parson and schoolmaster, character in the Merry Wives of Windsor, introduced in the first scene. " The title Sir was applied to the inferior clergy ; such as had it were not graduates at the university, being in orders, not in degrees." His bad English and his simplicity, which is not without a touch of shrewdness, make him a very amusing character. He is challenged by Doctor Caius, and prepares to meet him, in a very funny scene, the first of Act III.
Evasion, /. Henry IV., ii. 4; iv. 1; exhausted, All's Well that
Ends Well, ii. 2; FalstafFs, with the chief justice, //. Henry IV.,
i. 2; ii. 4, " I dispraised him before the wicked," etc.
Eve, Richard II., iii. 4; the legacy of, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hi. 1 ; our grandmother, Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1.
Even-Christian (fellow-Christian), Hamlet, v. 1.
Evening, Venus and Adonis, I. 529 ; Macbeth, iii. 2, 3.
Evidence, circumstantial, Cymbeline, ii. 2, 4.
Evil, to allow, is to order, Measure for Measure, i. 4 ; the beauteous, Twelfth Night, iii. 4; the sight of means for, King John, iv.
2 ; some soul of goodness in, Henry V., iv. 1 ; lives in brass, Henry
VIII., iv. 2 ; doing, for good, Troilus and Cres-sida, v. 3 ; some good
in, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3, " Nought is so vile," etc. ; none wholly
free from, Othello, iii. 3 ; playing with, Othello, iv. 1 ; mending evil
by, Othello, iv. 3, end ; that men do lives after them, Julius Ccesar,
iii. 2 ; attributed to a divine thrusting on, King Lear, i. 2.
Evils, of age and hunger, As You Like It, ii. 7 ; worst before
departure, King John, iii. 4,' of the age, Sonnet Ixvi.
Examination, an, Hamlet, iii. 4 ; of Prince Hal, I. Henry IV.,
ii. 4.
Example, of our virtues, Measure for Measure, i. 1; powerlessness of, All's Well that Ends Well, iii. 3 ; and precept, Hamlet,
i. 3, " Do not, as some ungracious pastors," etc. ; of vice, Measure for
Measure, ii. 2.
Excellence, modesty a witness of, Much Ado about Nothing,
ii. 3 ; attributed, Tempest, iii. 1 ; Cymbeline, v. 5.
Except before excepted (an unmeaning use of a law-term),
Twelfth Night, i. 3.
Excess, Measure for Measure, i. 3, " From too much liberty,"
etc. ; Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 3, " A surfeit of the sweetest
things," etc. ; in ornamentation, King John, iv. 2 ; advice concerning, Richard II., ii. 1 ; Henry VIII., i. 1, Norfolk to Buckingham ;
Romeo and Juliet, ii. 6 ; iii. 3 ; consequences of, King Lear, iv.
1, near end ; allow not nature more than nature needs, King Lear,
ii. 4.
Exclamations. See OATHS and EXCLAMATIONS.
Excommunication, King John, iii. 1.
Excuses, often make faults worse, King John, iv. 2.
Executioner, Measure for Measure, iv. 2 ; the common, As You
Like It, Hi. 5.
Exempt (separated), Comedy of Errors, ii. 2.
Exeter, Thomas Beaufort, Duke of, character in Henry V., entering in i. 2, and in /. Henry VI., entering in the first scene. He
was uncle of Henry V., and was appointed governor of Henry VI.
after his father's death. He was Earl of Dorset only, and not Duke
of Exeter, until after Agincourt, and was not present at that battle,
being at that time Governor of Harfleur, Hi. 3, where he displayed
great prowess in defending the place in two attacks by the French.
He died in 1427.
Exeter, Henry Holland, Duke of, character in III. Henry VI.,
introduced in i. 1. He was a son of the Earl of Huntingdon, mentioned in Henry V., v. 2, was a faithful Lancastrian, and served at
the battles of Wakefield, Towton, and Barnet. He was attainted in
1461 under Edward IV., and became so poor that Commines saw
him, as he says (Memoirs, Hi. 4), begging for bread. He was found
dead in the Straits of Dover in 1473.
Exeter, Peter Courtenay, Bishop of, mentioned in Richard III.,
iv. 4'
Exeter, castle at, Richard III., iv. 2. Built in the time of William I., destroyed in the Civil War.
Exhalations (meteors or flashes of lightning), Henry Vlll., Hi.
% ; Julius Ccesar, ii. 1.
Exhibition (allowance of money, still used for pensions allowed
to scholars in English colleges), Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 3 ;
King Lear, i. 2; Othello, i. 3.
Exile, As You Like It, ii. 1 ; a speechless death, Richard, II., i.
3 ; worse than death, Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 3. See BANISHMENT.
Exorcisms (summoning spirits), //. Henry VI., i. ,. Exerciser
and exorcist used in a like sense, All's Well that Ends Well, v. 3 ;
Julius Ccesar, ii. 1; Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Expectation, mistaken, All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 1; of
evil, disappointed, /. Henry IV., i. 2, end ; to a child, Romeo and
Juliet, Hi. 2 ; in war-time, Troilus and Cressida, prologue ; Othello,
ii. 1.
Expedience (expedition), Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2.
Expedient (expeditious), King John, ii. 1.
Experience, achieved by industry, Two Gentlemen of Verona,
i. 3; & jewel, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2 ; want of, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2, " He jests at scars," etc. ; must be schoolmaster to the wilful, King Lear, ii. 4 ; learning by others', Lover's Complaint, I. 155.
Experiments, deep, /. Henry IV., Hi. 1.
Expiate (expired, or, to end), Richard III., Hi. 3 ; Sonnet xxii.
Explosion, a threatened, Hamlet, iii. 4.
Expression, in the whole body, Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5,
" There's a language," etc. See FACES, LANGUAGE, WORDS.
Expulsed (expelled), /. Henry VI., iii. 3.
Exsufflicate (swollen), Othello, iii. 3.
Extended, extent (seized, attachment, a law-term), As You Like
It, iii. 1 ; Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2.
Extenuation, begged for youthful errors, 1. Henry IV., iii. 2 ;
intention of, disclaimed, Othello, v. 2.
Extirped (extirpated), /. Henry VI., iii. 3.
Ext on, Sir Pierce of, character in Richard II., first appears in
v. 4 ; murders Richard, v. 5 ; and is condemned for it by Henry, v.
6. Some historians are of opinion that Richard was starved to death
in captivity, others that he starved himself in grief, though many
follow the story as Shakespeare has it. Henry IV. executed several
who said that Richard had escaped. A remarkable resemblance between him and his chaplain, Mandelain, led some to believe that it
was the chaplain who suffered death and whose body was shown.
Extravagance, Timon of Athens, ii. 1, 2.
Extravagant (wandering), Othello, i. 1.
Extremes, As You Like It, iv. 1.
Eyas, or eyas-musket (a young hawk), Merry Wives of Windsor,
iii. 3.
Eye(s), a blue and sunken, As You Like It, iii. 2 ; blueness about
the eyes was thought a sign of being in love ; all senses locked in
the, Love's Labour's Lost, ii. 1, near the end ; a still-soliciting, King
Lear, i. 1 ; the evil eye, referred to in the word " o'erlook," which
means to cast the evil eye upon, in Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5 ;
Merchant of Venice, iii. 2 ; like Mars, Hamlet, iii. 2 ; doth not
behold itself, Troilus and Cressida, iii. 3 ; spies, The Tempest, v. 1 ;
coward gates of, As You Like It, iii. 5 ; woman's, Love's Labour's
Lost, iv. 3; crystal, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4; to be put out,
King John, iv. 1 ; King Lear, iii. 7 ; praise of, Romeo and Juliet,
ii.2; green (hazel), Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5, the nurse's speech;
closing in death, Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2 ; blue, Venus and
Adonis, I. 48! ; like the moon in water, Venus and Adonis, I. 491 ; darkened, Venus and Adonis, 1. 1037 ; beauty of, Sonnet xvii.;
hearing with, Sonnet xxiii. ; the painter, Sonnet xxiv. ; dark, Sonnets cxxvii., cxxxii. ; in distraction, Lover's Complaint, I. 22.
Eyebrows, ladies', A Winter's Tale, ii. 1.
Eyelids, fringed curtains, The Tempest, i. 2 ; advanced, The
Tempest, iv. 1.
Fabian, a witty fellow, servant in the house of Olivia, in Twelfth
Night, introduced in ii. 5.
Fable, of the fox and the grapes, All's Well that Ends Well,
ii. 1 ; of the belly and the other members, Coriolanus, i. 1.
Face (to pretend), /. Henry VI., v. 3.
Face(s), jest on a, Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2, " A cittern head,''
etc. ; was this the, Richard II., iv. 1 ; a red, /. Henry IV., Hi. 3 ; a
royal, //. Henry IV., i. 2 ; commanding, Coriolanus, iv. 5 ; of Paris,
Romeo and Juliet, i. 3 ; no art to read the mind in, like a book, Macbeth, i. 4, 5 ; round, are foolish, Antony and Cleopatra, Hi. 3 ; expression of, Sonnets xciii., xciv; of men and of women, Antony and
Cleopatra, ii. 6 ; judgment of, Othello, Hi. 3 ; pleasant, Pericles, i. 1.
Facinorous (atrocious), All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 3.
Fact, those of your (of the same deed as you), A Winter's Tale,
Hi. 2.
Factions, cause weakness, Troilus and Cressida, i. 3.
Faculties, use of, Measure for Measure, i. 1, " Heaven doth with
us," etc. ; Hamlet, iv. 4, " What is a man," etc. ; Othello, i. 3, " Our
bodies are our gardens," etc.
Fadge (to fit, or be suitable), Love's Labour's Lost, v. 1 ; Twelfth
Night, ii. 2.
Fadings. See DILDOS.
Failure, the result of striving for better than well, King John,
iv. 2 ; of a soldier to prosper in time of peace, Coriolanus, iv. 7 ; possible, Macbeth, i. 7.
Fair, was the morn, Passionate Pilgrim, vii. ; is my love, ix.
Fairies, forms assumed by, and pranks of, The Tempest, i. 2;
ii. 2 ; v. 1 ; Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1 ; Romeo and Juliet, i.
4; offices of, The Tempest, v. 1; rings made by the dances of, The
Tempest, v. 1 ; see KINGLETS ; superstitions regarding, Merry Wives
of Windsor, iv. 4 ; a personation of, Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 4,
5; death the penalty of speaking to, Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5;
land of, Comedy of Errors, ii. 2 ; malevolent, Comedy of Errors, iv.
2; introduced as characters in the Midsummer Night's Dream ; lore of, Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1 ; swiftness of offices of, Midsummer Night's Dream, Hi. 1; gold of, A Winter's Tale, Hi. 3; changelings of, 1. Henry IV., i. 1 ; description of Queen Mab her chariot, Romeo and Juliet, i. 4,' allusion to their office in keeping
away worms from the dead, Cymbeline, iv. 2 ; Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2.
Faith, plural, in love, Two Gentlemen of Verona, v. 4; a charm
against witchcraft, Comedy of Errors, Hi. 2 ; worn as the fashion,
Much Ado about Nothing, i. 1 ; speaks from need, not from faith,
King John, Hi. 1 ; want of, see FRIENDS, LOVERS, TREACHERY.
Faitours (traitors), II. Henry IV., ii. 4.
Falconry, or hawking, allusions to, sometimes called birding,
Merry Wives of Windsor, Hi. 3, 5 ; iv. 2 ; the staniel (kestrel-hawk),
Twelfth Night, ii. 5 ; the tercel-gentle or tassel-gentle, Romeo and
Juliet, ii. 1; this is a male goss-hawk, which is gentle and easily
tamed; the gentle astringer (hawk-tamer), All's Well that Ends
Well, v. i; the falcon's bells, As You Like It, Hi. 3; III. Henry VI.,
i. 1 ; Lucrece, 1. 511 ; jesses (straps on the falcon's legs by which it
was held), Othello, Hi. 3 ; hood my unmanned blood, Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 2 ; an unmanned hawk, one not used to man, was hooded to
prevent fright ; haggards (wild hawks), Much Ado about Nothing,
Hi. 1, end ; Twelfth Night, Hi. 1 ; Othello, Hi. 3 ; a hooded valour,
Henry V., Hi. 7; to check (start away from the lure), Twelfth Night,
in. 1 ; Hamlet, iv. 7 ; the method of taming hawks, Taming of the
Shrew, iv. 1; to seel up the eyes, as was done to the hawk in training by sewing the eyelids up, II. Henry IV., Hi. 1 ; Macbeth, Hi. 2 ;
Othello, i. 3 ; Hi. 3 ; imp, Richard II., ii. 1 ; to imp a hawk was to
mend broken feathers by grafting or piecing them out ; mailed up
(wrapped), //. Henry VI., ii. 4 ; mew up or emmew, Measure for
Measure, Hi. 1 ; Taming of the Shrew, i. 1 ; Romeo and Juliet, Hi.
4 ; to tower, //. Henry VI., ii. 1 ; Macbeth, ii. 4 / Lucrece, I. 506 ;
baiting (fluttering), Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 2 ; to tire (feed ravenously), III. Henry VI., i. 1 ; Timon of Athens, Hi. 6 ; Cymbeline,
Hi. 4; disedged (satiated), Cymbeline, Hi. 4; whistle her off and let
her down the wind, Othello, Hi. 3 ; will coast (hover about) my crown,
III. Henry VI., i. 1; quarry, Coriolanus, i. 1; Macbeth, iv. 3;
Hamlet, v. 2.
Fall (let fall), Comedy of Errors, ii. 2, and elsewhere.
Fall, of Caesar, the, Julius Caesar, Hi. 2, Antony's speech ; of
Percy, /. Henry IV., v. 4; of a queen, Richard III., iv. 4; of a king,
Richard II., Hi. 2 ; of man, Henry V., H. 2; of Wolsey, Henry VIII., in. % ; of the great, Macbeth, ii. 4> Antony and Cleopatra,
Hi. 10 ; iv. 10, 13.
Falling, the, cruelty to, Henry VIII., Hi. 2 ; v. 2.
Falling-sickness. See EPILEPSY, under DISEASES.
Falsehood, caused by trust, The Tempest, i. 2; hated by women,
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hi. 2 ; in love, Two Gentlemen of Verona,
iv. 2; goodly outside of, Merchant of Venice, i. 1; cures falsehood,
King John, Hi. 1 ; hidden, Richard III., ii. 1 ; Cressida a name
for, Troilus and Cressida, Hi. 2 ; of Diomed, Troilus and Cressida, v. 1.
Falsity, of women, A Winter's Tale, i. 2, " Were they as false
as o'er dyed blacks."
Falstaff, Sir John, appears in the two parts of HenryJLV. and
the Merry Wives of Windsor. He is the leader of the dissolute band
that surround the Prince of Wales. In /. Henry IV. he first appears in *'. 2. This scene and ii. 4 are full of bantering epithets and
allusions to his size, directed against him by his companions. His
adventure at Gadshill, ii. 2; takes the character of Henry IV., ii. 4;
his account of his soldiers, iv. 2 ; he counterfeits death at the battle of
Shrewsbury, v. 4. In the Merry Wives of Windsor he is introduced
in the first scene. His character in this play appears much more degraded than in Henry IV. The time is probably shortly before the
death of the king. His wit, or at least his shrewdness, seems to have
deserted him, and he is~outwitted by simple people whom he despises.
Gervinus, who finds a moral design in everything, thinks that Shakespeare exhibited the deterioration of his character, and threw it into
contrast with the ennoblement of the prince's, to show his essential
baseness, and do away with whatever bad impression may have been
made by the glamour that his wit throws over his moral qualities.
However that may be, the reader is prepared by this play for the disgrace that overtakes him, which otherwise would seem cruel and
not altogether deserved. His hypocrisy and inconsistency, ii. 1;
ridicule of his size, ii. 1; Hi. 5; iv. 4, 5 ; his honour, ii. 2; epithets
applied to him, i. 3 ; Hi. 1; v. 5 ; his adventure in the buck-basket,
Hi. 3; in a woman's clothes, iv. 2 ; at Herne's oak with the fairies,
v. 5. See MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. He is introduced in II. Henry IV., in i. 2, where he talks with the chief justice ; arrested at the
instance of Mrs. Quickly, ii. 1 ; overheard by the prince in disguise,
ii. 4 ,' ridiculed, ii. 2, 4 ,' iv* 3 ; his recruits for the army, Hi. 2 ; his
expectations from the prince^ v. 3; disappointed, v. 5 ; banished
from the prince, v. 5. His death is described by Mrs. Quickly in Henry V., ii. 3, and he is spoken of by Fluellen in iv. y of the same play. The name of this character was at first Sir John Oldcastle, q. v.
" Falstaff, not a degraded man of genius, like Burns, but a man
of degraded genius, with the same consciousness of superiority to his
companions [as lago and .Richard III.], fastened himself on a young
prince, to prove how much his influence on an heir-apparent would
exceed that of a statesman. With this view he hesitated not to adopt
the most contemptible of all characters, that of an open and professed
liar ; even his sensuality was subservient to his intellect : for he appeared to drink sack that he might have occasion to show off his wit.
One thing, however, worthy of observation, is the perpetual contrast
of labour in Falstaff to produce wit with the ease with which Prince
Henry parries his shafts ; and the final contempt which such a character deserves and receives from the young king, when Falstaff exhibits the struggle of inward determination with an outward show of
humility." COLERIDGE.
Fame, all men hunt after, Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1 ; anticipated, Henry T 7 "., iv. 3 ; living in, Richard III., Hi. 1 ; of heroes,
Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2, end; best gained in second place, Coriolanus, i. 1, end; fold in this orb, Coriolanus, v. 6 ; of good and evil
deeds, Julius Ccesar, Hi. 2 ; danger of acquiring too high a, Antony
and Cleopatra, Hi. 1 ; undying, Measure for Measare, v. 1 ; Richard
III., Hi. 1 ; brevity of, Much Ado about Nothing, v. 2 ; effect of,
Troilus and Cressida, i. 3 ; I. Henry IV., v. 4 ; Henry VIII., iv., 2 ;
would be exchanged for a pot of ale, Henry V., Hi. 2.
. Familiarity, with an inferior, Comedy of Errors, ii. 2 ; too
great, Hamlet, i. 3.
Family pride, of Sly, Taming of the Shrew, induction, 1.
Famine, Pericles, i. 4 ; makes valiant, Cymbeline, Hi. 6.
Fancies, the humour of forty, stuck for a feather in an old hat,
Taming of the Shrew, Hi. 2.
Fancy, where bred, Merchant of Venice, Hi. 2, song ; sweet and
bitter, As You Like It, iv. 3 ; (love) followers of, Midsummer Night's
Dream, i. 1 ; full of shapes, Twelfth Night, i. 1 ; nature wants stuff
to vie with, Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2 ; every one to his own, All's
Well that Ends Well, iv. 1.
Fancy-free, Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2.
Fang, one of the sheriff's officers in II. Henry IV., who appears
in ii. 1.
Fangled (capricious), Cymbeline, v. 4.
Fap (tipsy), Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1.
Farewell(s), to greatness, Henry VIII., Hi. 2; Troilus and Cressida, iv. 4; an everlasting, Julius Ccesar, v. 1; Antony and Cleopatra, Hi. 2 ; Sonnet Ixxxvii. See PARTING.
Farmer, the, that hanged himself, Macbeth, ii. 3.
Farthingale, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 7 ; Merry Wives of
Windsor, Hi. 3 ; Taming of the Shrew, iv. 3.
Fashion, wears out more apparel than the man a deformed
thief, Much Ado about Nothing, Hi. 3; infected with, Taming of
the Shrew, Hi. 2; following the, All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 1;
from Italy, Richard II., ii. 1, common in Shakespeare's time but not
at time of the play; of France, Henry VIII., i. 3; behind the,
Julius Ccesar, iv. 1, Antony speaking on Lepidus ; the glass of,
Hamlet, Hi. 1; in speech, Hamlet, v. 2; garments out of, Cymbeline,
Hi. 4; less without, and more within, a new, Cymbeline, v. 1.
Fast and Loose, Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 10 or 12, a game
played by gypsies. A belt was folded and knotted up and placed on
a table, and the victim made a wager that he could hold it fast to
the table ; he would then place a skewer through what seemed to be
the central fold, when the gypsy would take hold of the two ends
and pull it away.
Fastidiousness, the extreme of, I. Henry IV., i. 3, Hotspur's
description.
Fasting 1 , oath concerning, Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1; effect of,
on the disposition, Coriolanus, v. 1.
Fastolfe, Sir John, character in Z Henry VI. He was lieutenant-general to Bedford in Normandy, and deputy regent. His cowardice at the siege of Orleans is spoken of in i. 1, and Talbot execrates him in *. 4. He first appears in Hi. 2, and is deprived of the
garter and banished in iv. 1. He died in 1469.
Fat, to be, to be hated, I. Henry IV., ii. 4; men, Merry Wives
of Windsor, ii. 1 ; men, not dangerous, Julius Ccesar, i. 2 ; woman,
description of a, Comedy of Errors, Hi. 2.
Fatality, Measure for Measure, " The words of heaven," etc. ;
Hamlet, v. 2, " There's a divinity," etc. ; King Lear, i. 2, " This is
the excellent foppery," etc. See also FREE WILL.
Fate, The Tempest, Hi. 3; no escape from, Love's Labour's Lost,
iv. 3, " The sea will ebb," etc. ; malignancy of, Twelfth Night, ii. 1 ;
the book of, JJ. Henry IV., Hi. 1; no resisting, III. Henry VI., iv.
3 ; men masters of their, Julius Ccesar, i. 2 ; unavoidable, Julius
Ccesar, ii. 2 ; Othello, v. 2; Hamlet, Hi. 2 ; v. 2 ; in an auger-hole,
Macbeth, ii. 3 ; challenge to, Macbeth, Hi. 1 ; makes desperate, Hamlet, i. 4 >' bewailing one's, Sonnet xxix.
Father, praise by a, The Tempest, iv. 1 ; an angry, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hi. 1 ; shame of a, Much Ado about Nothing, iv. 1 ;
that knows his child, Merchant of Venice, ii. 2 ; right of a, Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1 ; at his son's nuptial, A Winter's Tale, iv.3 ; anger of a, A Winter's Tale, iv. 4 ; vote of, against a son, Richard II., i. 8 ; judgment on a, 1. Henry IV., Hi. 2 ; desperation of a, //. Henry IV., i. 1 ; cares of a, 77. Henry IV., iv. 4 ; grief of a, Titus Andronicus, Hi. 1 ; anger of a, King Lear, i. 1 ; in rags, King
Lear, ii. 4 ; who would be a, Othello, i. 1 ; an infirm, Sonnet xxxvii ;
duty to a, and to a husband, Othello, i. 3.
Fauconberg, mentioned, Henry V., Hi. 5 ; iv. 8.
Faulconbridge, an English baron, one of the suitors of Portia,
mentioned in Merchant of Venice, i. 2.
Faulconbridge, Philip, half-brother of Kobert F., in King John,
and natural son of Richard I., enters in the first scene. His name is
changed by John to Richard Plantagenet. He is cynical, coarse, and
skeptical in conversation, but brave, straightforward, and patriotic
in action. He revolts at the murder of Arthur, iv. 3, but will not on
that account turn against his country as Salisbury does.
Faulconbridge, Robert, son of Sir Robert Faulconbridge, char, acter in King John, first appears in i. 1.
Faulconbridge, Lady, character in King John, introduced in
the first scene.
Faulconbridge, William Neville, Lord, mentioned in the third
part of King Henry VI.
Fault, sometimes used for misfortune.
Fault(s), condemn the, Measure for Measure, ii. 2 ; best moulded out of, Measure for Measure, v. 1; hearing one's, Much Ado about
Nothing, ii. 3 ; excuses make worse, King John, iv. 2; turned to
good, //. Henry I V., i. 2, " I will turn diseases to commodity " ; of
the rich, Timon of Athens, i. 2 ; one, Hamlet, i. 4; truth about,
Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2; made glaring by virtues, Antony and
Cleopatra, i. 4 ; punishment of, Cymbeline, v. 1, " You snatch some
hence," etc. ; all men make, Sonnet xxxv. ; made graces, Sonnet xcvi ;
his worst is, that he is given to prayer, Merry Wives of Windsor,
i. 4 ; abundance of, As You Like It, Hi. 2 ; of men, Much Ado about
Nothing, iv. 1 ; Coriolanus, i. 1 ; a headstrong, Twelfth Night, Hi.
4 ; a man is the abstract of all, Antony and Cleopatra, i. 4>
Fauste, precor, etc. (Faustus, I pray when the herd chews the
cud in the cool shade), Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 2. A quotation
from Battista Spagnolus, of Mantua.
Faustus, Dr., Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 5.
Favour, of the great, Richard III., Hi. 4 ; Cymbeline, v. 4.
Favour, defeat thy (disguise thy face), Othello, i. 3.
Favourites, that abuse their privilege, //. Henry IV., iv. 2;
Much Ado about Nothing, Hi. 1.
Fawning, Julius Ccesar, i. 2; iii.l; Richard II., ii. 3; " Grace
me no grace," etc.
Fay (faith), Hamlet, ii. 2.
Fear (to frighten), Taming of the Shrew, i. 2, and elsewhere.
Fear, gives the foe strength, Richard II., Hi. 2 ; this living,
Richard II., v. 4 ; not spoken of in Scotland, /. Henry IV., iv. 1 ;
of death, Julius Ccesar, ii. 2 ; Hamlet, i. 4; impostors to true, Macbeth, Hi. 4; pale-hearted, Macbeth, iv. 1; v. 3 ; expression of, Gymleline, Hi. 4; extreme, Lucrece, I. 230 ; most accursed of all base
passions, /. Henry VI., v. 2 ; a sin in war, Cymbeline, v. 3 ; leads
to hate, Antony and Cleopatra, i. 3 ; led by reason, Troilus and
Cressida, Hi. 2.
Fear no more the heat of the sun, song, Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Fears, of a woman, King John, Hi. 1 ; make devils of cherubins,
Troilus and Cressida, Hi. 2 ; make traitors, Macbeth, iv. 2 ; taste of,
forgotten, Macbeth, v. 5.
Feast(s), beginning of, suits a keen guest, 7. Henry IV., iv. 2 ;
to false friends a, Timon of Athens, Hi. 6 ; must be given with welcome, Macbeth, Hi. 4 ; a good man's, As You Like It, v. 1 ; sheep-shearing, A Winter's Tale, iv. 4 ; Capulet's, Romeo and Juliet, i. 2.
Feated (moulded), Cymbeline, i. 1.
Feather, life tested by a, King Lear, v. 3 ; II. Henry IV., iv. 4.
Federary (confederate), A Winter's Tale, ii. 1.
Feeble, a recruit in II. Henry IV., appears in Hi. 2.
Feeders (dependents), Antony and Cleopatra, Hi. 11 or 13.
Feeding (pasture tract), A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or 4>
Feint, a, Othello, i. 3.
Fellow-feeling, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2, " Sir, I hear,"
etc. ; Measure for Measure, ii. 2 ; Hi. 2.
Fencing, allusions to, and terms of, Merry Wives of Windsor, i.
1; ii. 3 ; Hi. 2 ; Love's Labour's Lost, i. 2 ; v. 1; description of,
Hamlet, iv. 7 or 4. " Feney " or " venue " and " staccato " signify a
quick, sharp stroke ; " montant " or " montanto," an upward thrust ; "punto reverse," a backward, and " passado," a forward thrust.
Fennel, II. Henry IV., ii. 4 ; Hamlet, iv. 5. Fennel was hot,
and therefore deemed exciting ; it was also emblematic of a flatterer.
Fenton, a gentleman in the Merry Wives of Windsor, a suitor
and afterward the husband of Anne Page. He has formerly been
one of the prince's roguish companions, but through the influence of
Anne Page, whom he at first seeks for her money, his character is
transformed. He first appears in i. 4.
Feodary (companion), Measure for Measure, ii. 4; Cymbeline,
Hi. 2.
Ferdinand, son of the King of Naples in The Tempest, introduced in i. 2, and the lover of Miranda.
Ferdinand, King of Navarre, character in Love's Labour's Lost,
introduced in the first scene; He has set up a " little Academe," a
school of culture for himself and three companions. That for women
in Tennyson's " Princess " is somewhat after the same plan.
Fere (mate), Titus Andronicus, iv. 1 ; Pericles, i., prologue.
Fern-seed, I. Henry IV., ii. 1. It was supposed to render one
invisible.
Ferrers, Walter, Lord, his death, Richard III., v. 5.
Feste, the fool in Twelfth Night, introduced in i. 5, one of
Shakespeare's airiest and most delicate clowns.
Festinate, -ly (speedy, speedily), Love's Labour's Lost, Hi. 1;
King Lear, Hi. 1.
Festival, a Roman, Julius Ccesar, i. 2.
Fet (fetched), Henry V., Hi. 1.
Fettle (prepare), Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 5.
Feuds, between Somerset and Plantagenet, I. Henry VI., ii. 4 >
between their adherents, Hi. 4 / *^ !> & > between Gloucester and
Winchester, I. Henry VI., i. 3; Hi. 1; v. 1; II. Henry VI., i. 1;
ii. 1; between Wolsey and Buckingham, Henry VIII., i. 1; of
Montague and Capulet, Romeo and Juliet, i. 1, 5 ; Hi. 1; v. 3.
Fever, a fit of madness, Comedy of Errors, v. 1 ; sensations of,
King John, v. 7.
Fewness (few words), Measure for Measure, i. 5.
Fickleness, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4 ; Twelfth Night, ii.
4. See INCONSTANCY.
Fico (fig), Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 3 ; Henry V., Hi. 6.
Fidelity. See CONSTANCY, FAITH, LOYALTY.
Fie on sinful fantasy, song, Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5.
Field of the Cloth of Gold, expense of, Henry VIII., i. 1.
Fiend(s), temptations of, Merchant of Venice, ii. 2 ; summoned
by Joan, /. Henry VI., v. 3 ; lies like truth, Macbeth, v. 5 ; description o.a, JTw# Lear, iv. 6. See MAHU
Fife, the wry-necked, Merchant of Venice, ii. 5.
Fife, in Scotland, scene of a part of Macbeth. Macduff was
Thane of Fife.
Fife, Mordake, Earl of, spoken of in I. Henry IV., i. 1, as son
of Douglas, was son of the Duke of Albany. The mistake was occasioned by an ambiguity in Holinshed, caused by defective punctuation.
Fifteens (fifteenths of the personal property), one-and-twenty,
II. Henry VI., iv. 7.
Fighting, by book, Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1.
Fights (pieces of cloth hung around a ship to keep men out of
sight during an engagement), Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2.
Fights, As You Like It, i. 1; Twelfth Night, iv. 1; v. 1; Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.
Filberts, The Tempest, ii. 2.
File (number), Measure for Measure, iii. 2.
File, the valued (list with estimates of value), Macbeth, iii. 1.
Filed (polished), Love's Labour's Lost, v. 1.
Filial love and duty, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1; A
Winter's Tale, iv. 4; King Lear, i. 4; ii. 1, 4; iv. 2, 7.
Fineless (endless), Othello, iii. 3.
Finsbury, I. Henry I V., iii. 1. Then open fields and a favourite
resort, now a part of London.
Fire, that's closest kept, Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 2; shunned,
Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 3 ; cannot melt out of me, Much Ado
about Nothing, i. 1 ; drives out fire, Coriolanus, iv. 7 ; a mighty, Julius CcBsar, i. 3 ; a wheel of, King Lear, iv. 7.
Fire-drake (variously explained as the Will o' the wisp, a sort of
firework, and a mild form of lightning), Henry VIIL, v. 4.
Fire-new (brand-new), Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1, and elsewhere.
Fire out, Sonnet cxliv.
Fires (a disease like the strangles), Taming of the Shrew, iii. 2.
Firmament, the, Hamlet, ii. 2, " I will tell you why," etc.
Firmness, Julius Caesar, iii. 1.
Fish, to eat no, King Lear, i. 4i of fortune's buttering, All's
Well that Ends Well, v. 2 ; finless, Comedy of Errors, iii. 1; I.
Henry IV., iii. 1.
Fishermen, moralizing by, Pericles, ii. 1.
Fishes, the great eat the little, Pericles, ii. 1.
Fishing, nothing to be got nowadays except by, Pericles, ii. 1.
Fistula, disease of the king, All's Well that Ends Well, i. 1.
Fitchew (pole-cat), Othello, iv. 1, and elsewhere.
Fitzwalter, a character in Richard II., introduced in iv. 1.
Flaminius, a servant of Timon of Athens, introduced in ii. 2.
Owing to confusion in the original copy, where the steward is sometimes known as Flavius, and that name is also given to this servant,
later editions vary. See FLAVIUS.
Flannel, made in Wales, Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5.
Flap-dragons, Love's Labour's Lost, v. 1 ; A Winter's Tale, Hi.
3 ; II. Henry IV., ii. 4* Substances set on fire and placed on the
top of liquor, skill being required to drink without being burned.
Sometimes they were candle-ends.
Flatterers, of a king, Richard II., ii. 1 ; of the rich, Timon of
Athens, i. 1, 2 ; ingratitude of, Timon of Athens, ii. 2 ; Hi. 2, 5;
all men are, Timon of Athens, iv. S ; Julius Ccesar, ii. 1; iv. 3 ; v,
1 ; Passionate Pilgrim, xx.
Flattery, of Falstaff, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2 ; Hi. 3 ;
of Evans, Merry Wives of Windsor, Hi. 1 ; of Mrs. Ford, Merry
Wives of Windsor, Hi. 3 ; conquers strife, Comedy of Errors, Hi. 2 ;
Love's Labour's Lost, ii. 1 ; of Hero, Much Ado about Nothing, Hi. 4 ;
As You Like It, ii. 1; of a king, Richard II., i. 1 ; Hi. 2 ; thought
truth, I. Henry IV., iv. 1; of King James I., Henry VIII., v. 5;
poured on Ajax, Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3 ; of the people, Coriolanus, ii. 2 ; Hi. 2 ; contempt for, Coriolanus, Hi. 1, "Neptune for
his trident," etc. ; men deaf to counsel, but not to, Timon of Athens,
i. 2 ; Hi. 3 ; necessity for, Macbeth, Hi. 2 ; profitable, Hamlet, Hi. 2,
to Horatio; Othello, iv. 2, "I grant, indeed," etc.; King Lear, i, 1;
fault contrary to sarcastic, King Lear, ii. 2; Cymbeline, i. 6;
Pericles, i. 2 ; iv. 4 / which melteth fools, Julius Ccesar, Hi. 1.
Flavius, a gentleman, mentioned in Measure for Measure,
iv. 5.
Flavius, one of the tribunes in Julius Ccesar, first appears in i. 1.
See MARULLUS.
Flavius, steward of Timon of Athens, introduced in i. 2. In
some editions he is mentioned simply as the steward, and those copies
have the name Flavius for the servant Flaminius. The difference
arises from some confusion in the original copy. The steward remained faithful and disinterested after Timon's false friends had
deserted him, iv. 3, end.
Flaws (sudden gusts of wind), //. Henry IV., iv. 4; II. Henry
VI., Hi. 1 ; Venus and Adonis, I. 456.
Fleance, son of Banquo, in Macbeth, first appears in **. 1. In iii. 3, he escapes from the murderers that are set upon him and his father.
Fleece, hair like a golden, Merchant of Venice, i. 1 ; iii. 2.
Fleet, description of a, Henry V., iii., chorus.
Fleet (the prison), //. Henry IV., v. 5.
Flemish drunkard, a, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 1.
Flesh, the pound of, Merchant of Venice, i. 3 ; iii. 1, 3, 5; iv.
1 ; as regards the original story, see under MERCHANT OF VENICE ;
and blood, my own, Merchant of Venice, iii. 1 ; more, more frailty,
1. Henry IV., iii. 3 ; this too solid, Hamlet, i. 2.
Fleur-de-lys. See FLOWER-DE-LUCE.
Flew'd (with flews or large chaps), Midsummer Night's Dream,
iv. 1.
Flibbertigibbet, a fiend, King Lear, iii. 4 ; iv. 1. See MAHU.
Flight, of Hotspur's soldiers, II. Henry IV., i. 1 ; of Antony at
Actium, Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 8 or 10, 11 or 13 ; Macbeth, v. 3.
Flint Castle, in Wales, scene of Richard II., iii. 3.
Flirtation, Hamlet, i. 3, " The trifling of his favours," etc.
Flood, the great, Julius Ccesar, i. 2. Deucalion's (q. v.).
Flood, loss by, King John, v. 6, 7. John once lost his baggage
and treasure by a flood while on his way from Lynn to Lincolnshire.
Florence, Italy, scene of a part of All's Well that Ends Well.
Florence, Duke of, an unimportant character in AlVs Well that
Ends Well, introduced in iii. 1.
Florentius, Taming of the Shrew, i. 2. Allusion to an old story
told by Gower in " Confessio Amantis." Florentius bound himself
to marry a deformed hag if she would solve for him a riddle on which
his life depended.
Florizel, character in A Winter's Tale, first appears in iv. 4.
He is the son of the King of Bohemia and lover of Perdita, to whom
he is first known as Doricles. His character is pure, disinterested,
and romantic.
Flote (wave), The Tempest, i. 2.
Flout 'em and scout 'em, song, The Tempest, iii. 2.
Flower-de-luce, A Winter's Tale, iv. 3 or 4 ; I. Henry VI., i.
2; II. Henry VI., v. 1; cropped on the, I. Henry VI., i. 1, alluding
to the losses in France ; the three fleurs-de-lis of France were on the
arms of England until the beginning of this century. It is a corruption of " Fleur de Louis," from Louis VII., who chose it for his emblem when about to start on his crusade.
Flower(s), Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii.4; Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1,2; A Winter's Tale, iv. 4; significance of, Hamlet, iv.
5 (or 2}; Romeo and Juliet, iv. 5 ; Hamlet, v. 1; for the dead, Cymleline, iv. 2 ; Pericles, iv. 1 ; from the blood of Adonis, Venus and
Adonis, I. 1168.
Fluellen, a Welshman, character in Henry V., introduced in
Hi. 2. He talks with an affectation of learning, but is in reality
straightforward, simple, true, and serious. In iv. 1 the king says of
him:
" Though it appear a little out of fashion,
There is much care and valour in this Welshman."
The name is found among those of contemporaries of Shakespeare at
Stratford.
Flute, Francis, a bellows-mender, character in Midsummer Night's Dream, introduced in i. 2. He takes the part of Thisbe in
the play before the duke.
Fly, killing of a, Titus Andronicus, Hi. 2. Perhaps an allusion
to the belief that evil spirits sometimes took the form of a fly.
Foe, a furnace heated for a, Henry VIII., i. 1; my dearest,
Hamlet, i. 2.
Foes, profit by, in self-knowledge, Twelfth Night, v. 1.
Foil, use of a, I. Henry IV., i. 2, end.
Foins (passes in fencing), Much Ado al)out Nothing, v. i ; King
Lear, iv. 6.
Foison (abundance), The Tempest, iv. 1 ; Macbeth, iv. 3.
Foix, a French lord, killed at Agincourt, mentioned, Henry V.,
Hi. 5 ; iv. 8.
Folly, of love, Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 1; ii. 1; of the
wise, As You Like It, ii. 7 ; Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2 ; waited on
by wisdom, AIVs Well that Ends Well, i. 1; of fools and wise,
Twelfth Night, Hi. 1.
Food, influence of, Comedy of Errors, ii. 2 ; Love's Labour's
Lost, i. 1. See BEEF.
Fool, of King Lear, the, introduced in i. 4, of the play.
" The fool is no comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh.
... He is as wonderful a creation as Caliban ; his wild babblings
and inspired idiocy articulate and gauge the horrors of the scene."
COLERIDGE.
Fool-begg'd patience, Comedy of Errors, ii. 1. Supposed
allusion to the custom of begging the king for the guardianship of
rich idiots.
Foolhardiness, Cymbeline t iv. 2, " Being scarce made up," etc.
Fooling, Twelfth Night, ii. 3 ; Troilus and Cressida, v. 2;
Hamlet, iii. 2.
Foolishness, monopoly of, King Lear, i. 4.
Fool(s), let me play the, Merchant of Venice, i, 1 ; whetstones
of wit, As You Like It, i. 2 ; wit of, As You Like It, i. 2 ; to call,
As You Like It, ii. 5 ; a motley, As You Like It, ii. 7 ; liberty of,
As You Like It, ii. 7 ; thinks he is wise, As You Like It, v. 1 ;
made better by infirmity, Twelfth Night, i. 5; wise men that crow
at, Twelfth Night, i. 5 ; no slander in, Twelfth Night, i. 5 ; wit required for playing the, Twelfth Night, iii. 1 ; Troilus and Cressida,
ii. 3 ; livery of, white and green, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2 ; old, King
Lear, i. 3 ; constancy for, King Lear, ii. 4 ; of fortune, King Lear,
iv. 6 ; to suckle, Othello, ii. 1 ; a son of a crafty devil, Cymbeline,
ii. 1; bolt of, soon shot (proverb), Henry V., iii. 7 ; paradise of,
Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4; let him play the fool nowhere but in his
own house, Hamlet, iii. 1.
Football, allusions, Comedy of Errors, ii. 1 ; King Lear, i. 4.
Foot land-rakers (footpads), /. Henry IV., ii. 1.
Footsteps, light, Venus and Adonis, I. 1028.
Fop, a, All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 5, " The soul of this man
is in his clothes." See DANDY.
Fopp'd (fooled), Othello, iv. 2.
Forbid (bewitched, set apart), Macbeth, i. 3.
Ford, Frank, a character in the Merry Wives of Windsor, introduced in ii. 1. Pistol arouses his jealousy toward Falstaff, and he
disguises himself, and is introduced to the knight as Mr. Brook.
Ford, Mistress, one of the Merry Wives of Windsor. Incensed
by Falstafl's outrageous love-making, she and Mrs. Page, to whom
he had sent the " twin brother " of the love-letter he sent to her,
combine to punish him, and their scheme forms the plot of the play.
Fordham, John. See ELY, BISHOP OF.
Fordoes (undoes), Hamlet, ii. 1; Othello, v. 1.
Foreboding, A Winter's Tale, iii. 3, " The skies look grimly ; "
Richard II., ii. 2, " Some unborn sorrow is coming toward me ; "
Henry V., iv. 1, " Even as wrecked men ; " Romeo and Juliet, i. 4,
" Some consequence yet hanging in the stars ; " iii. 5, " I have an
ill-divining soul ; " Macbeth, ii. 1, " A heavy summons lies like lead
upon me." See OMENS.
Foreheads, low, The Tempest, iv. 1 ; Two Gentlemen of Verona,
iv.4; Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 3; armed and reverted, Comedy
of Errors, iii. 2.
Forester, a character in Love's Labour's Lost, introduced in iv. 1.
Forfeit, all souls were once, Measure, for Measure, ii. 2.
Forfeits (fines on loungers), Measure for Measure, v. 1.
Forgery (imagination), Hamlet, iv. 7 (or 4).
Forgetfulness, like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part,
Coriolanus, v. 3.
Forgiveness, Tempest, v. 1; All's Well that Ends Well, v. 3;
Hamlet, Hi. 3; Cymbeline, v. 5 ; Two Gentlemen of Verona, v. 4;
All's Well that Ends Well, v. 3. It was an old custom for the executioner to ask forgiveness of the condemned before inflicting the
penalty. See also MERCY and PARDON.
Formal (normal), Comedy of Errors, v. 1 ; Antony and Cleopatra,
ii. 5; Twelfth Night, ii. 5.
Forms, effect of changing old, King John, iv. 2.
Forres, a town about twenty-five miles from Inverness, on the
Moray Frith, scene of a part of Macbeth.
Forrest, Miles, a murderer, Richard III., iv. 3.
Forslow (delay), III. Henry VI., ii. 3.
Forthcoming (in custody), //. Henry VI., ii. 1.
For shame ! deny that thou bear'st love, Sonnet x.
Forthright, a prisoner, Measure for Measure, iv. 3.
Fortinbras, King of Norway, slain by Hamlet, i. 1, father of
the prince of that name in the play.
Fortinbras, Prince, nephew of the King of Norway, Hamlet, i.
2 ; character in Hamlet, appears in iv. 4 (or 1), and v. 2.
Fortitude, Timon of Athens, Hi. 5, " He's truly valiant," etc. ;
Troilus and Cressida, i. 3, " In the reproof of chance," etc. ; Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 12, " Nay, good my fellows," etc.
Fortune, all is but, The Tempest, v. 1 ; girl that flies her, Two
Gentlemen of Verona, v. 2 ; with her wheel, As You Like It, i. 2 ;
III. Henry VI., iv. 3 ; King Lear, ii. 2, end ; v. 3; Lucreee, I. 952 ;
out of suits with, As You Like It, i. 2 ; railed on, As You Like It,
ii. 7, " Call me not fool till," etc. ; play upon thy helm, All's Well
that Ends Well, Hi. 3 ; displeasure of, All's Well that Ends Well, v.
2; a good lady, All's Well that Ends Well, v. 2; accident and flood of,
Twelfth Night, iv. 3 ; fickleness of, King John, Hi. 1 ; Macbeth, i. 2 ;
Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 5 ; Passionate Pilgrim, xxi. ; most threatening before favoring, King John, Hi. 4 ; never has both hands full,
II. Henry IV., iv. 4 ; the blind goddess, Henry V., Hi. 6 ; proves
men, Troilus and Cressida, i. 3 ; men fallen out with, Troilus and
Cressida, Hi. 3 ; blows of, to the noble, Coriolanus, iv. 1; fool of, Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 1 ; King Lear, iv. 6 ; changes of, Timon of
Athens, i. 1 ; every step (grise) of, Timon of Athens, iv. 3 ; at odds
with, Timon of Athens, iv. 3 ; in a merry mood, Julius Ccesar, Hi.
2 ; a tide that leads to, Julius Ccesar, iv. 3 ; we are not the button
on the cap of, Hamlet, ii. 2 ; turn Turk, Hamlet, Hi. 2 ; men that
are not a pipe for, Hamlet, Hi. 2 ; a good man's, King Lear, ii. 2 ;
ne'er turns the key to the poor, King Lear, ii. 4 > friends in good,
King Lear, ii. 4; the worst, King Lear, iv. 1; tame to blows of,
King Lear, iv. 6 ; two loved and hated by, King Lear, v. 3 ; mark
of harsh, Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 6 ; laughed away, Antony and
Cleopatra, ii. 6; scorned most, Antony and Cleopatra, Hi. 9 or 11;
and Antony part, Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 10 or 12 ; false house-wife, Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 13 or 15 ; knave of, Antony and
Cleopatra, v. 2 ; uncertainty of, Cymbeline, Hi. 3 ; brings in boats
not steered, Cymbeline, iv. 3 ; spite of, Sonnets xxxvii., xc.; responsibility of, Sonnet cxi.
Fortune-hunter, not a, Twelfth Night, ii. 4>
Fortune, my foe, an old song, alluded to, Merry Wives of Windsor, Hi. 3.
Fortune-telling, Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2 ; Comedy of
Errors, v. 1; Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2 ; allusions to the use of a
glass in, Measure for Measure, ii. 2 ; Macbeth, iv. 1.
Forum, Roman, scene of Coriolanus, ii. 3.
Fountain, a warm, Sonnets cliii., cliv.
Fowling, allusions to, stale (decoy), The Tempest, iv. 1; stalk
on, Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 3 ; limed a bush, II. Henry VI.,
i. 3 ; ii. 4 / dare with his cap like larks, Henry VIII., Hi. 2. Larks
were " dared by small mirrors on scarlet cloth, which dazed them
while the net was thrown over them." The allusion here is to the
cardinal's red hat.
Fox, a drawn, /. Henry IV., Hi. 3, drawn from cover ; never
trusted, /. Henry IV., v. 2 ; thou diest on point of, Henry V., iv. 4*
The last alludes to a sword with the figure of a fox on it, originally
used by Ferrara as a trade-mark. Allusions to the cunning of the,
II. Henry VI., Hi. 1; III. Henry VI., iv. 7; Henry V1IL, i. 1;
Timon of Athens, iv. 3 ; Lear, Hi. 4 ; this lion is a fox for his valour,
Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 1.
Fox and grapes, the, All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 1.
Frailty, of women, Measure for Measure, ii. 4,' Hamlet, i. 2 ;
human, Henry VIII., v. 3 ; we are devils to ourselves when we
tempt the frailty of our powers, Troilus and Cressida, iv. 4.
Frampold (uncomfortable), Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2.
France, scene of parts of King John, Henry V., I. and III.
Henry VI., All's Well that Ends Well. Allusion to the war in, in
1589, against Henry IV., Comedy of Errors, Hi. 2 ; the Salique law
in, Henry V., i. 2. The errors in the passage where the bishop states
the case, are taken, with all the other statements, from Holinshed.
Besides the evident mistake in the number of years, Charlemain is
spoken of instead of Charles the Bald as father of the Lady Lingare,
and Louis X. is mentioned in place of Louis IX., St. Louis. English claim to the crown of, Henry V., i. 1; ii. 4; boasting in the
air of, Henry V., Hi. 6 ; English losses in, /. Henry VI., i. 1 ;
wounds of, /. Henry VI., in. 3 ; compact of, with England, I. Henry VI., v. 4; English wars and losses in, II. Henry VI., i. 1; Hi. 1;
better using than trusting, III. Henry VI., iv. 1; following the
fashions of, Henry VIII., i. 3.
France, King of, a fine and noble character in All's Well that
Ends Well, introduced in the second scene.
France, King of, character in King Lear, introduced in i. 1, as
a suitor for Cordelia, afterward her husband.
France, Kings of. See CHARLES VII., Louis XI.
France, Princess of, one of the principal characters in Love's
Labour's Lost, introduced in ii. 1. She comes to ask Aquitaine from
the young King of Navarre in his " Academe." She and her ladies
are lively if not altogether refined, full of drollery and mischief.
Francis, a friar in Much Ado about Nothing, introduced in iv.
1, "a near spiritual kinsman of Friar Laurence in Romeo and
Juliet."
Francisca, a nun, character in Measure for Measure, appears in
i.5.
Francisco, a lord, character in The Tempest, introduced in
ii. 1.
Francisco, a soldier in Hamlet, introduced in *. 1, as a sentinel.
Frank (stye), //. Henry IV., ii. 2.
Franked (penned), Richard III., i. 3 ; iv. 5.
Frateretto, a fiend, King Lear, Hi. 6. See MAHU.
Frederick, brother of Mariana in Measure for Measure, who
had been shipwrecked with his sister's dowry in his charge, mentioned in Hi. 1.
Frederick, the usurping duke in As You Like It, first appears
in *. 2. He " is called, even by his daughter, a man of harsh and
envious mind ; he appears to be perpetually actuated by gloomy fancies, by suspicion and mistrust, and to be urged on by covetousness.* He repents in the end, and becomes a hermit.
Free (pure), Twelfth Night, ii. 4; A Winter's Tale, ii. 3.
Freedom, with foppery, Measure for Measure, i. 3 ; of spirit,
Julius Ccesar, i. 3 ; real, King Lear, i. 1.
Freetown, Romeo and Juliet, i, 1. Literal translation of Villa
Franca.
Free will, of men, All's Well that Ends Well, i. 1, " Our remedies oft in ourselves," etc. ; Julius Ccesar, i. 2, " Men at some time
are masters," etc. ; Othello, i. 3, " 'Tis in ourselves," etc.
Frencli, the, IL Henry IV., i. 3. A large French force was
sent over during this rebellion to Milford Haven in aid of Glendower. Defeat of, Henry V., iv. 5 ; those killed at Agincourt, iv. 8 ;
inconstancy of, /. Henry VL, Hi. 3 ; supposed fear of Henry V. of,
I. Henry VI., i. 1 ; fashions from, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4 ; characteristics of, Merchant of Venice, i. 2 ; lack language to deny if girls
of Italy demand, All's Well that End's Well, ii. 1.
Frencli language, scenes or parts of scenes in, Henry V., Hi.
4; iv. 4> v- %
Frenzy, humours his, Comedy of Errors, iv. 4; melancholy the
nurse of, Taming of the Shrew, induction, 2.
Frets, the stops on lutes, guitars, and viols, Taming of the
Shrew, ii. 1 ; Hamlet, Hi. 2.
Friar, the duke disguised as a, Measure for Measure, ii. 3.
Friars, not allowed to go alone, Romeo and Juliet, v. 2.
Friend remembered not, song, As You Like It, ii. 7.
Friend(s), must needs be proportion in, Merchant of Venice, Hi.
4; keep thy, All's Well that Ends Well, i. 1; in misery, As You
Like It, ii. 1 ; abused by praise of, Twelfth Night, v. 1; happiness in
remembering, Richard IL, ii. 3 ; backing of, /. Henry IV., ii. 4 /
desertion of, Henry VIII., ii. 1 ; Troilus and Cressida, Hi. 3, " 'Tis
certain greatness," etc. ; praise of, Coriolanus, v. 2 ; need the opportunity of, Timon of Athens, i. 2 ; an over-generous, Timon of Athens,
ii. 1; reliance on, Timon of Athens, ii. 2 ; false, Timon of Athens,
i. 1 ; Hi. 1, 3 ; iv. 2, 3 ; " Not by his breath," etc. ; old and new,
Hamlet, i. 3 ; who needs not shall never lack a, Hamlet, Hi. 2, speech
of the player king ; in misfortune, Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 10 or
12;' be not last to desert a, Sonnet xc.; a true, Passionate Pilgrim,
xxi.; duty of a, Othello, Hi. 3 ; Julius Ccesar, iv. 3 ; description of,
Hamlet, Hi. 2 ; Merchant of Venice, Hi. 2 ; As You Like It, i. 3.
Friendship, of Valentine and Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona; treachery to, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 6 ; Hi. 1; v. 4>
constant in all but, Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 1 ; of Helena and
Hermia, Midsummer Night's Dream, Hi. 2 ; of Rosalind and Celia,
As You Like It, i. 2, 3; of the kings, A Winter's Tale, i. 1; of York
and Suffolk, Henry V., iv. 6 ; not knit by wisdom, Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3 ; needs no ceremony, Timon of Athens, i. 2 ; coolness in,
Julius Ccesar, i.2; iv. 2; caution and constancy in, Hamlet, i. 3;
brittleness of, Coriolanus, v. 4; falsehood to, Sonnet xxxiv.
Friendship is feigning, song, As You Like It, ii. 7.
Frieze, made in Wales, Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5.
Fright, appearance of, Hamlet, Hi. 4, "Alas! how is't?"
Frippery (a second-hand shop), The Tempest, iv. 5.
Frogmore, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 3. Frogmore House
is half a mile east of Windsor.
Froissart, Jean, /. Henry VI., i. 2. Author of the "Chronicles," who lived from 1337 to 1410.
Frontiers (forts on the frontiers), I. Henry IV., ii. 3.
From east to western Ind, love-verses, As You Like It, Hi. 2.
Froth, a foolish man in Measure, for Measure, introduced in ii.
1, where he is under arrest, but is discharged on account of his evident incapacity.
Froth and lime, let me see thee, Merry Wives of Windsor, i.
3. Froth beer and lime sack, to make it sparkle.
Frown, a, Henry VIII., ii. 2; v. 1; of majesty, King John, iv.2.
Frush (break to pieces), Troilus and Cressida, v. 6.
Full fathom five, song, The Tempest, i. 2.
Fullam. See GOURD.
Full many a glorious morning, Sonnet, xxxiii.
Fulvia, Antony's first wife, spoken of in Antony and Cleopatra,
i. 1, 2 ; ii. 2.
Function (ability to act), Macbeth, i. 3.
Funeral(s), of Henry V., /. Henry VI., i. 1; of Cassar, Julius
Ccesar, Hi. 1, 2 ; followed by marriage, Hamlet, i. 2 ; of Ophelia,
Hamlet, v. 1; of Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2 ; of the sons
of Titus, Titus Andronicus, i. 1 ; music for a, the Phoenix and the
Turtle ; song for a, Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Furs, of foxes, and lamb-skins, significance of, Measure for
Measure, Hi. 2.
Fury, Henry V., iv. 4; III. Henry VI., i. 4; Troilus and
Uressida, ii. 3; fire-eyed, Romeo and Juliet, Hi. 1; I understand a
iury in your words, Othello, iv. 2 ; a noble, Cymbeline v. 5.
Fury, the apparition of a hound, The Tempest, iv. 1.
Furze, The Tempest, i. 1.
Fust (mould), Hamlet, iv. 4 (or 1).
Future, the, if it were known, //. Henry IV., Hi. 1; Julius
Ccesar, v. 1 ; if you can look into, Macbeth, i, 3 ; dread of, Hamlet,
Hi. 1 ; Measure for Measure, Hi. 2 ; we know not, Hamlet, v. 5. See
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