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If the king blame me for't, I'll lay ve all

By the heels, and suddenly; and on your heads Clap round fines, for neglect: you are lazy knaves:

And here ye lie baiting of bumbards, when
Ye should do service. Hark, the trumpets sound;
They are come already from the christening:
Go, break among the press, and find a way out
To let the troop pass fairly; or I'll find [months.
A Marshalsea, shall hold you play these two
Port. Make way there for the princess.
Man. You great fellow, stand close up, or I'll
make your head ache.

SCENE IV. THE PALACE.

Port. You i'the camlet, get up o'the rail; I'll pick you o'er the pales else. [exeunt. Enter trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord Mayor, Garter, Cranmer, Duke of Norfolk with his marshall's staff, Duke of Suffolk, two Noblemen bearing great standing-bowls, for the christening gifts; then four Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the Duchess of Norfolk, Godmother, bearing the Child, richly habited in a mantle, &c. Train borne by a Lady; then follows the Marchioness of Dorset, the other Godmother, and Ladies. The troop pass once about the stage, and Garter speaks. Gart. Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous life, long, and ever happy, to the high and mighty princess of England, Elizabeth!

Flourish. Enter King and Train. Cran. [kneeling.] And to your royal grace, and the good queen,

My noble partners, and myself, thus pray :-
All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,
Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,
May hourly fall upon ye!

K. Hen. Thank you, good lord archbishop: What is her name?

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More covetous of wisdom, and fair virtue,
Than this pure soul shall be: all princely graces,
That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,
With all the virtues that attend the good,
Shall still be doubled on her; truth shall nurse her,
Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her:
She shall be lov'd, and fear'd: her own shall
bless her:

Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
And hang their heads with sorrow: good grows
with her:

In her days, every man shall eat in safety
Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours:
God shall be truly known; and those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
And by those claim their greatness, not by blood,
Nor shall this peace sleep with her but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phœnix,
Her ashes new create another heir,
As great in admiration as herself;
So shall she leave her blessedness to one,
(When heaven shall call her from this cloud of
darkness,)

Who, from the sacred ashes of her honour
Shall star-like rise, as great in fame as she was,
And so stand fix'd: Peace, plenty, love, truth,

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Shall see this, and bless heaven.

K. Hen. Thou speakest wonders.

Cran. She shall be, to the happiness of England, An aged princess; many days shall see her, And yet no day without a deed to crown it. 'Would I had known no more! but she must die, She must, the saints must have her; yet a virgin, A most unspotted lily shall she pass

To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her.
K. Hen. O lord archbishop,

Thou hast made me now a man; never, before
This happy child, did I get any thing;
This oracle of comfort has so pleas'd me,
That, when I am in heaven, I shall desire
To see what this child does, and praise my
Maker.-

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ABJECTS, the lowest of subjects.

Aby, to pay dear for, to suffer.

Bases, a kind of loose breeches. Per. Basta, 'tis enough. Ital. and Span.

Abysm, abyss; Tempest, signifying there time long Bastard, a sweet Italian wine. since passed.

Accite, to call or summons.
Aconitum, wolfsbane.

Adam, the name of an outlaw, noted for his skill in archery. Much Ado.

Adam Cupid, an allusion to the same person. R. & J.
Addrest, ready prepared.
Advertising, attentive.
Acry or Aiery, a nest.

Affect the letter, to practise alliteration. Love's Lab.
Affects, affections or passions.

Affeered, a law-term for confirmed.

Afied, betrothed.

Affined, joined by affinity.

Affray, to affright.

Afront, sometimes, to face or confront.

Afy, to betroth in marriage; also, to put trust in.

Aglet-baby, a diminutive being, not exceeding in size

the tag of a point or lace; from aiguillettes. Agnize, acknowledge, confess, avow.

Aiery, a hawk's or eagle's nest. Rich. III.
Airy fame, verbal eulogium.

Bate, strife or contention. Mer. Wives.

Batlet, the instrument with which linen is beaten.
Batten, to grow fat.

Bavin, brushwood, which, fired, burns fiercely, but is

soon out.

Bawcock, a fondling or coaxing term.
Bay curtal, a bay decked horse.

Bay windows, bow windows.

Beadsmen, chaplains, or persons maintained by charity to pray for their benefactor.

Bear a brain, to have a perfect remembrance.

Beck, a salutation made with the head; in the North, it means curtsying.

Becomed, becoming. Rom. and Jul.
Bedabbled, wetted.

Bchests, commands,

Behowl, to howl at.

Beldame, ancient mother. Hen. IV. 1st Part. Be-lee'd, becalmed.

Belongings, endowments.

Be-mete, bemeasure.

Bemoiled, bedraggled, bemired.

Alder-lie fest, dear above, or preferred to, all things; Benison, blessing.

from leve or lefe, dear, and alder, of all.

A'life, at life.

Almain, a German.

Amazonian chin, a chin without a beard.

Ames-ace, the lowest chance of the dice.

Amort, sunk, dispirited.

Ancient, an ensign, or standard-bearer. Angle, a fishing-rod. Winter's Tale. Anthropophaginian, a man-eater. Antres, caves and dens.

Appeach, to impeach.

Apple-John, species of apple that will keep for two years; in French, deux-ans.

Approof,approbation, or sometimes proof, confirmation
Aqua vite, probably, usquebaugh. Merry Wives.
Arabian bird, the phoenix.

Argal, a corruption of ergo, therefore.
Argentine goddess, regent of the silver moon.
Argier, Algiers.

Arm-gaunt, make thin by use of armour.

Argosies, ships used in the seas of Italy.

Aroint, avaunt, or be gone.

Ascapart, a giant.

Aspersion, sprinkling. Temp.

A scaunt, askew, aside, sideways.

Besmirch, to foul or dirty. Bestraught, distracted.

Beteem, to give or bestow, or to permit, deign, or suffer. Ham.

Bevy, a company, or number, originally applied to larks.

Bewray, betray, discover.

Bezonian, a term of reproach: from bisognoso, a needy person.

Bias cheek, swelling out like the bias of a bowl.
Bid the base, to challenge in a contest. Two Gent.
Biggin, a kind of cap, worn now only by children.
Bilberry, the whurtle-berry.

Bilbo, a Spanish blade, flexible and elastic; the best of which are made at Bilboa.

Bilboes, a bar of iron, with fetters annexed to it, by which refractory or negligent sailors were anciently linked together.

Bill, articles of accusation. Hen. VI. 1st Part

Bill, the old weapon of English infantry, still used by the watchmen in some towns.

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Assay, to take the assay, applied to those who tasted Black-cornered night, night which is as obscure as a

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Blacks, mourning made of stuffs of different colours dyed black.

Blaze, i. c. of youth, the spring of early life. All's Well. Blank, i. e. of the eye, the white, or the white mark

at which arrows are discharged.

Blank and level, mark and aim, terms of gunnery,
Blench, to start off, to fly off.

Blent, blended, mixed together.

Blind-worms, the cæcilia, or slow-worm.

Blood-bolter'd, blood-sprinkled.

Blurted, or blurt, an expression of contempt.

Bobbed, fooled out of, cheated.

Bodge, to botch, or to budge. Hen. VI. 3d Part.
Boitier, a box to hold salve, or simples.

Bolds, emboldens.

Boltered, bedaubed, begrimed.

Bolting-hutch, a wooden receptacle into which the meat is bolted.

Bombard, a barrel. Hen. IV. 1st Part.-Tem.
Bona-robas, ladies of pleasure.

Bores, stabs, or wounds.

Borne in hand, deceived, imposed upon.

Bosky, woody: bosky acres, are fields divided by hedge rows; from boscus and bosquet.

Bots, worms in the stomach of a horse.-A bots light upon, an imprecation.

Bottled spider, a large, bloated, glossy spider.
Boulted, sifted, or refined.

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Break up, to carve.

Breakwith, to break the matter to.

Breast, voice. Twel. Night.

Carpet knight, a term of reproach, spoken of one knighted in time of peace. Twel. Night.

Carriage, import. Ham.

Case, skin. Twel. Night. Outside; to case, to run a fox down. All's Well.

Breath, speech. K John Timon-Exercise, Troilus and Case of lives, a set of lives, or pair of any thing.

Cress-A slight exercise of arms, ibid.

Breathing-courtsy, verbal compliment.

Breeched, foully sheathed, or mired. Mac.
Breed-bats, a breeder of strife.

Breeching, liable to school discipline.
Bribe-buck, a buck sent for a bribe.

Tam. Shrew.

Bridal, a nuptial feast; a word yet used in the North.
Brief, a short account, a contract hastily performed.-Now-
born brief, is the breve originale of the feudal times.
Well.

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Caddises, worsted lace.

Cade, a barrel.

Cadent, falling.

Cage, a prison. Hen. VI. 2d Part.

All's

Cased lion, a lion irritated by confinement. K. John
Casques, or casks, helmets.

Cassock, a loose outward coat.

Cast, to empty. Mea. for Mea. To throw or reject.
Cest lips, let-off lips.

Cast the water, to find out disorders by inspecting the urine.
Mac,

Cataian, a liar, a romancer; the first adventurers who
visited Cathay, in China, were notorious liars; as, Paulo
and Mandeville.

Catling, a small lute-string made of catgut.

Cavalero-justice, a cant term.

Cavalero, an airy, sprightly, irregular fellow.

Caviare, too good for, or foreign to; the pickled roe of sturgeon.

Cautel, subtlety, deceit, treachery.

Cautelous, artful, or insidious.

Cauterizing, burning, or blistering.

Cearment, the wrapping of an embalmed body.

Cease, decease, die. All's Well.

Censer, an incense-dish.

Censure, opinion. Hamlet.

Certes, certainly, surely, verily

Cess, measure, tax, or subsidy.

Chaliced, i. e. flowers, with cups, from calix.

Challenge, law-term, the right of refusing a juryman. Bn.
VIII

Chamber, London was anciently called the king's chamber.
Rich. 111.

Chamber, a picce of ordnance. Hen. IV. 2d Part.

Chamberers, men of intrigue.

Changeling, a child substituted for one stolen.

Channel, kennel. Hen. VI. 3d Part.

Chantry, little chapel in a cathedral.

Character, hand-writing. Much Ado. Lear.

Characts, characters.

Charactery, the matter of which characters are made.

Chare, household office.

Charge-house, free-school

Chariest, from chary, the most cautious.

Chariness, caution.

Charles-wain, vulgar name for the constellation called the

Bear.

Charneco, a kind of sweet wine.

Chases, a term in tennis. Hen V.

Chaudron, entrails.

Cheater, for escheatour, an officer in the Exchequer,

Check, command, control. Cym. Troil, and Cres.
Cheer, countenance. Midsum, Night, and others.
Cherry-pit, pitching cherry-stones into a little hole.

Cain-coloured, yellow; Cain was represented of that colour Cheveril, kid skin, soft leather.

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Camelot, a place where king Arthur is supposed to have Chopping, jabbering, talking glibly.

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Chuck, chicken, a term of endearment.
Chuffs, rich, avaricious people.

Cinque-pace, a dance so called.
Circummured, walled round.

Circumstance, circumlocution, evasion. Oth

Canvas-climber, one who climbs the mast to furl the canvas, Cital, recital, accusation.

a ship-boy.

Ciack-dish, a beggar's dish.

Camour, a term in bell-ringing; making the bells cease, | Crack, a child. Hen. IV. 2d Part. Cor.
which is called clamouring them. Wint. Tale.

Clap in, fall to. Mea. for Mea.

Clapped i'the clout, hit the white mark,

Claw, to flatter.

Clean kam, awry.

Clearest, purest. Lear.

Clepe, to call

Clerkly, like a scholar.

Cling, to dry or shrink up. Mac. Clinquant, glittering, shining.

Crack of doom, dissolution of nature. Mac.

Cranking, crankling, applied to the rush of a river. Cranks, windings.

Crare, a small trading vessel.

Crash, to be merry over.

Craven, a degenerate, dispirited cock; cowardly, to make cowardly.

Credent, probable, credulous.

Cressets, a light set upon a beacon, from croissette, French Crisp, curling, winding; or for crypt, vaulted. Tim.

Temp. Ant. and Cleo. &c. Crone, old worn-out woman.

Clipt, twined around, embraced.
Clout, the white mark at which archers shoot.
Clouted, strengthened with clout nails.
Clutch, to clasp, or grasp.

Coasting, conciliating, inviting. Troil, and Cres.
Cob-lonf, a crusty, uneven, lumpy loaf.
Cock and pye, a popular adjuration.
Cocker'd, fondled, dandled.

Cockshul-time, twilight.

Cockle, a weed which grows up with corn.

Cockled, like the fish called a cockle.

Cockle-hat, cockle-shell-hat, such as pilgrims wore.

Cross-gartered, an article of puritanical dress.
Crow-keeper, a scare-crow.

Crownet, last purpose. Ant. and Cleo.
Cruel, worsted. Lear, applied to garters.
Crush, to drink. Rom. and Jul.

Crusado, a Portuguese coin.

Cry, a pack, or troop. Cor. Ham.

Cub-drawn, i. e. bear, one whose dugs are drawn dry.

Cuisses, armour for the thighs, cuisses, French.

Cunning, knowing, skilful, in a good meaning. Curb, to bend and truckle, from courber. Ham.

Cockney, a vulgar term of reproach for a person bred in the Curled, ostentatiously dressed. Oth. Ant. and Cleo. city.

Codding, amorous.

Codpiece, a piece of dress.

Curious, scrupulous. Tam. Shrew, Ant, and Cleo.
Currents, occurrences. Hen. VI, 1st Part.
Curst, shrewd, mischievous.

Coffin, ancient term for the raised crust of a pie. Tam. Curtail-dog, one which misses the game.

Shrew. Tit. And.

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Collection, consequence or corollary. Cym. Ham.

Collied, black, smutted with coal, discoloured.

Curtle-are, a cutlass, broadsword.

Customer, a common woman. Oth. &c. or one who visita such.

Cut, horse. Twel. Night. Hen IV. 1st Part.

Cut and long-tail, a phrase from dogs, poor or rich.
Cuttle, a knife used by sharpera

Daff, or Doff, to put off.

Collier, a term of reproach, from the impositions of coal. Damn, condemn. Jul. Cas.

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Coster-monger, a dealer in costers, or costards, a kind of Diet, to put under a regimen, to oblige to fast, or to loath

Counter-caster, one who reckons by counters.

Countercheck, an old term in the game of chess.
Counterfeit, sometimes used for a portrail.
Counterpoints, counterpanes.

County, ancient term for a nobleman. Much Ado. Rom. and Jul.

Courser's-hair, alluding to the notion that the hair of a horse, dropt into corrupted water, will turn to an animal. Ant. and Cleo.

Courses, the mainsail and foresail Temp.

Court-cupboard, sideboard.

Cowed, restrained, or made cowardly.

Cower, to sink by bending the hams.

Cowlstaff, a staff for carrying a large tub or basket with two handles.

Coyed, condescended reluctantly.

Coystril, a coward cock, a paltry fellow.

Conker, a tailor, from cousu; or a cobbler, or sowter.

Diffused, wild, irregular, extravagant. Digression, transgression. Love's Lab. Dildos, the burthen of a song.

Directitude, discreditude, or discredit. Disable, undervalue. As you.

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Diverted, turned out of the course of nature. Division, phrase in music, the parts of it. Hen. IV. 1st Part.

Daff, See Daff

Dole, alms, or distribution.

Don, to do on, put on.

Dout, do out, extinguish.

Dowl, a feather.

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Execute, sometimes for to use, or employ

Executors, executioners. Hen. V.

Exempt, independent, not under the control of Com. E. Exercise, exhortation, lecture. Rich. III.

Exhale, breathe your last. Hen. V.

Down gyved, hanging down like the loose cincture which Exhibition, allowance. Two. Gent, Uth. Lear. confines the fetters round the ancle.

Draught, the jakes. Tim.

Draw, sometimes used for with-draw.

Drawn, swords drawn. Temp. A drawn for, one which is trailed over the ground, and deceives the hounds. Dressings, semblances or habiliments of virtue. Mea. for Mea.

Driven bed, one for which the feathers are selected by driving with a fan.

Drumble, to act as confused and stupid.

Dudgeon, the haft or handle of a dagger.

Dull, gentle soothing. Hen. IV. 2d Part

Dullard, a person stupidly unconcerned.

Dumbs, makes silent.

Dump, a mournful elegy.

Exigent, end,

Exorcism, in Shakspeare, generally means the raising of spirits.

Expect, expectation. Troll. and Cres.

Expedience, expedition. Hen. IV. 1st Part. &c.
Expedient, often for expeditious.
Expediently, expeditiously

Expostulate, inquire or discuss. Ham.
Exsufflicate, bubble-like.

Extacy, a degree of madness. Ham.
Extend, to scize. Ant. and Cleo.
Extent, violence. Twel. Night.
Extern, outward.

Extremity, calamity. Per. Lear.

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Eyas-musket, a troublesome puppy, infant Lilliputian.

Dung, an obscene word, probably part of a proverb. Rom. Eyas and musket, are young hawks. and Jul.

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Elvish marked, marked by elves.

Eyases, young nestlings. Ham.

Eye, a shade. Temp.

Eyliads, eyes; from illades. Fr.
Eyne, eyes.

Face-royal, a face not to be meddled with. Hen. IV. 2d
Part.

Faced, turned up with facings. Tam. Shrew.

Facinorous, wicked.

Factious, active. Jul. Cæs.
Faculty, exercise of power. Mac.
Fadge, to suit or fit.
Fadings, a dance.

Fain, fond. Hen. VI. 2d Part.
Fair, sometimes for fairness, beauty.
Failors, traitors, rascals.

Fall, often used as an active verb: At fall, at an ebb. Tim.
Falsing, a thing that's falsified, or false. Com. Er.

Falsely, illegally, illegitimately, Mea. for Mea. Dishonestly, treacherously.

Familiar, a demon. Hen. VI. 2d Part.

Emballing, being distinguished by the ball, the emblem of Fancies and Goodnights, little poems so called

royalty.

Embare, expose, display to view.

Embarquements, impediments, hindrances. Cor.

Embossed, inclosed; when a deer is run hard, and foams at

the mouth, he is said to be embossed. All's Well. Swollen, puffy.

Empericutick, of an empirical kind, quackish.

Empery, dominion, sovereign command.

Emulous, often used in a bad sense for envious.
Enactures, laws.

Encave, hide.

End, still an end, generally.

Enfeaff, to invest with possession.

Engaged, delivered as an hostage. Hen. IV. 1st Part.

Engross, to fatten or pamper. Rich. III.

Engrossments, accumulations. Hen. IV. 2d Part. Enkindle, or kindle, to stimulate. Mac. As you.

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Enmesh, inclose them all, from taking birds or fishes with Fee-farm, a kiss in fee-farm, a long and unbounded kiss,

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