destroy. Cf. Hamlet, iv. 5. 20, "So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt".

stelled (iii. 7. 60), starry, stellate. Lat. stellatus, stella, a star. Schmidt and Craig take it to mean "fixed": cf. Sonnets, xxiv. 1,"Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form", and Lucrece, 1444, To find a face where all distress is stell'd".

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suggestion (ii. 1. 73), under hand action: the usual meaning of the word in Shakespeare. Cf. suggest, to prompt, incite criminally. M.E. suggesten, from p. part. of Lat. suggerere, literally 'to carry or lay under', sub+gerere. Suggest and suggestion are commonly used in a bad sense in E.E.

tell (ii. 4. 52), count. M.E. tellen, O.E. tellan, to count, narrate.

tithing (iii. 4. 124), district. Originally a district containing ten families. O.E. teada, a tenth.

treachers (i. 2. 115), traitors. M.E. trecchour, trychor, O.Fr. trecher, to cheat; ultimately of Teutonic origin: cognate with trick. This is the only instance

of the word in Shakespeare, but it was common in E.E.

trowest (i. 4. 117), believest. M.E. trowen, O.E. treówian, to have trust in, treówa, trust.

tucket (ii. 1, stage direction), a flourish on a trumpet or cornet. Cf. Henry V, iv. 2, 35, "Then let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount". It. toccata, from toccare, to touch.

vaunt-couriers (iii. 2. 5), forerunners. Fr. avant-coureur (see avaunt). Cf. the contraction in van, vanguard (Fr. avant-garde).

villain (iii. 7. 77), servant. O. Fr. vilein, Low Lat. villanus, a farm-servant; villa, a farmhouse. The word has here its original sense, but the current degraded sense 'scoundrel' is the more common in Shakespeare (e.g. i. 2. 149).

whiles (ii. 3. 5; iv. 2. 58), strictly the genitive of while, time, used adverbially. Cf. twice, from twi-es. This old genitive survives in whilst.

worships (i. 4. 257), dignities, credit. M.E. worschip, wurdscipe, O.E. weordscipe, wyrdscipe, honour: a contraction of worthship, the th being lost in the fourteenth century.

fork, the, i. I. 137.

Frateretto, iii. 6. 6; iii. 4. 106.
frontlet. . 4. 179.

sliver, iv. 2. 34.
sauffs, iii. 1. 26.
some year, i. 1. 13.
soothe, iii. 4. 165.

sop o' the moonshine, ii. 2. 28.
spherical predominance, i. 2.
115.

square of sense, the most
precious, i. 1. 67.
squiny, iv. 6. 121.
subscribed, i. 2. 19.
subscription, iii. 2. 18.
succeed, i. 2. 129.

success, v. 3. 194.
sumpter, ii. 4. 213.
super-serviceable, ii. 2. 16.

Abbott, Shakespearian Gram-
mar, i. 1. 204; i. 2. 80; i. 4.
24, 206, 225, 240; i. 5. 32;
ii. 1. 75; iii. 1. 23, 24; iii. 2.12.
abstract used for concrete,
iv. 7. 7.
adjective, adverbial use of the,
i. 4. 329; iv. 6. 3.
adjective, substantival use of
the, ii. 1. 59; iii. 7. 64.
Esop's Fables, allusion to,
i. 4. 153.

antecedent, omission of the,

ii. 1. 123.

as, omission of, i. 1. 204.
auxiliary, omission of the, ii. 1.
75; iv. 2. 2.

Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jon-
son's, iii. 4. 94.
bastards' legal inability to in-
herit, ii. 1. 67.

be in Early English, uses of,
i. 5. 32.

Bell-man of London, Dekker's,
ii. 3.

brains used in the singular,
example of, i. 58.

Capell, i. 4. 16, 17.
Chapman, i. I. 110.
Coleridge, i. I. 100, 101, 166;
i. 5. 38; ii. 1. 67, 101; ii. 4.
261; iii. 4.
comparative and superlative,

double, i. 1. 71.
constructions, confusion of, iv.
6. 33, 34.

contractions, euphonic, i. 4. 99;
i. 5. 19.

Craig, W. J., i. 1. 110; i. 2. 134;
i. 4. 252.

Declaration of Popish Impos-

tures, Harsnet's, ii. 4. 53, 54;
iii. 4. 51; iii. 4. 106; iii. 6. 30.
Dekker's Bell-man of London,
ii. 3.

-ed in past participles, i. 1. 253;
i. 4. 291; iv. 6. 21; iv. 6.
251.

ellipsis, examples of, i. 1. 204;
ii. 4. 41; v. 1. 68.
English Grammar, Ben Jon-
son's, ii. 2. 58.

ethic dative, example of, i. 2.

90, 91.

Euphues, Lyly's, ii. 2. 155, 156.
Ex nihilo nihil fit, i. 1. 83.

fish on Fridays, the Roman
Catholic custom of eating,
i. 4. 16, 17.
Furness, iii. 2. 27.

Gargantua and Pantagruel,
Rabelais, iii. 6. 6, 7.

gerundial infinitive, ii. 4. 107.
Guillim's Heraldry, ii. 1. 67.
Gunpowder Plot, allusion to
the, i. 2. 96.

Hanmer, ii. 2. 155, 156.
Harsnet's Declaration of
Popish Impostures, ii. 4. 53,