A=on; II. 1. 185.
Abuse, deceive; V. 1. 112.
Achës, (dissyllabic, pronounced
"aitches," like the letter H); I.
ii. 370.

Admire, wonder; V. i. 154.
Advance, raise, lift up; I. ii. 408.
Adventure, to risk; II. i. 187.
After, afterwards; II. ii. 10.
Again, again and again; I. ii. 390.
A-hold; "to lay a ship a-hold," i.e.,
"to bring a ship close to the wind
so as to hold or keep her to it";
I. i. 49.

Attached, seized; III. iii. 5. Avoid, begone; IV. i. 142.

Backward, distant, past; I. ii. 50. Badges; "household servants usually wore on their arms, as part of their livery, silver badges' whereon the shield of their masters was engraved"; V. i. 267.

Barefoot (used adjectively); II. ii.

Amazement, anguish, I. ii. 14.
Amen, used probably in the sense of
"again!" or perhaps merely with
the force of "many"; others ren-
der it "hold, stop!" II. ii. 98.

An, if; II. i. 181.
Angle, corner; I. ii. 223.
Argier, Algiers; I. ii. 261.
As, as if; II. i. 121.

Aspersion, sprinkling of rain or dew (with an allusion perhaps to the ceremony of sprinkling the marriage-bed with holy water); IV. i. 18.

Beak, bow (of a ship); I. ii. 196. Bear up, i.e., take your course, sail up; III. ii. 3.

Bermoothes, i.e., Bermudas ; " said and supposed to be inchanted and inhabited with witches and deuills, which grew by reason of accustomed monstrous thunder, storme, and tempest," &c. Stow's Annals; I. ii. 229.

Berries, see Notes; I. ii. 334. Blue-eyed, with blueness about the eyes, with livid eyelids; I. ii. 269. Boil'd (ff. boile,' Pope's correction), frenzied; V. i. 60.

Bombard, "black jack" of leather; II. ii. 21.

From a specimen (no longer extant) at
Flixton Hall, Suffolk.

Bootless, profitless; I. ii. 35.
Bosky, wooded; IV. i. 81.
Bourn, boundary; II. i. 152.
Brave, fine; I. ii. 411.

Bring to try; "to lay the ship with her side close to the wind, and lash the tiller to the lee side"; I. i. 35.

Broom-groves, rich copses of broom (Spartium scoparium); or perhaps woods overgrown with genista, pathless woods; IV. i. 66.

Budge, stir; V. i. 11.

Burthen, undersong; I. ii. 381. But, except that; I. ii. 414; otherwise than, I ii. 119.

By and by, immediately; III. ii. 156.

Can, is able to make; IV. i. 27. Candied, converted into sugar, (?) con

gealed; II. i. 279 (v. Notes). Capable, retentive; I. ii. 353. Capering, jumping for joy; V. i. 238. Carriage, burden; V. i. 3. Case, condition; III. ii. 29. Cast, to throw up; perhaps with a play upon "cast" in the sense of "to assign their parts to actors"; II. i. 251.

Cat (with reference to the old proverb that "good liquor will make a cat speak"); II. ii. 86. Catch, a part-song; III. ii. 126. Certes, certainly; III. iii. 30.

Chalked forth, i.e., chalked out; V. i. 203.

Cherubin, a cherub; I. ii. 152.
Chirurgeonly, like a surgeon; II. i. 140.
Clear, blameless; III. iii. 82.
Closeness, retirement; I. ii. 90.
Cloudy, gloomy; II. i. 142.
Cockerel, the young cock; II. i. 31.
Coil, turmoil; I. ii. 207.
Come by, to acquire; II. i. 292.
Confederates, conspires; I. ii. III.
Constant, self-possessed; I. ii. 207;
"my stomach is not c.," i.e. "is
qualmish"; II. ii. 119.
Content, desire, will; II. i. 269.
Control, contradict; I. ii. 439.
Coragio, courage; V. i. 258.
Corollary, a supernumerary, a surplus;
IV. i. 57.

Correspondent, responsive, obedient; I. ii. 298.

Courses, the largest lower sails of a ship; I. i. 52.

Crabs, crab-apples; II. ii. 171. Crack, to burst (with reference to magic bands, or perhaps to the crucibles and alembics of magicians); V. i. 2,

Dear, zealous; I. ii. 179. Dearest, most precious object; II. i. 135.

Deboshed, debauched; III. ii. 29. Decked, sprinkled; I. ii. 155. Deep, profound, wise; II. i. 266. Deliver, relate; V. i. 313. Demanded, asked; I. ii. 139. Dew-lapped, having flesh hanging from the throat (a reference probably to the victims of " goitre"), see "wallets of flesh"; III. iii. 45. Dis, Pluto; IV. 1. 89.

Discase, undress; V. i. 85. Discharge, performance, execution; used probably as a technical term obably of the stage; II. i. 254. Distempered, excited; IV. i. 145. Distinctly, separately; I. ii. 200. Ditty, words of a song; I. ii. 405. Doit, the smallest piece of money; eighty doits went to a shilling; II. ii. 33.

Dollar, used quibblingly with "dolour"; II. i. 18.

Dowle, a fibre of down; III. iii. 65. Drawn, having swords drawn; II. i. 308; having taken

a

good

draught; II. ii. 150.

Dregs (with reference to the "

"liquor

of the bombard," I. 21); II. ii. 42.

Drollery, puppet-show; III. iii. 21.

Dry, thirsty; I. ii. 112.

Dulness, stupor; I. ii. 185.

Estate, to grant as a possession; IV. i. 85.

Eye, tinge; II. i. 55.

Fall, to let fall; II. i. 296.
Fearful, timorous; I. ii. 468.
Feater, more becomingly; II. i. 273.
Featly, deftly; I. ii. 380.
Fellows, companions; II. i. 274.
Few, 'in few,' in few words, in
short; I. ii. 144.

Fish, to catch at, to seek to obtain;
II. 1. 104.

Flat, low level ground; II. ii. 2. Flat-long, as if struck with the side of a sword instead of its edge; II. i. 181.

Flesh-fly, a fly that feeds on flesh and

deposits her eggs in it; III. i. 63. Flote, flood, sea; I. ii. 234. Foil, disadvantage; III. i. 46. Foison, plenty; II. i. 163. Founder'd, disabled by overriding, footsore; IV. i. 30.

Forth-rights, straight paths (cf. Notes);
III. iii. 3.

Fraughting, freighting; I. ii. 13.
Freshes, springs of fresh water;

ii. 75.

III.

Frippery, a place where old clothes are sold; IV. i. 225.

Earth'd, buried in the earth; II. i. 234.

Ebbing, "ebbing men," i.e., “men whose fortunes are declining"; II. i. 226.

Ecstasy, mental excitement, madness; III. iii. 108.

Endeavour, laborious effort; II. i. 160. Engine, instrument of war, military machine; II. i. 161. Entertainer, perhaps quibblingly interpreted by Gonzalo in the sense of " inn-keeper"; II. i. 17.

Envy, malice; I. ii. 258.

From a print dated 1587. Frustrate, frustrated; III. iii. 10

i. 194.

Help, cure; II. ii. 97.
Hests, behests; I. ii. 274
Hint, theme; I. ii. 134; occasion,

cause; II. i. 3. His, its; II. i. 120.

Hoist, hoisted (past tense of "hoise" or "hoist"); I. ii. 148. Hollowly, insincerely; III. i. 70. Home, to the utmost, effectively; V. i. 71.

Honeycomb, cells of honeycomb; I. ii. 329.

Ignorant, appertaining to ignorance; "i. fumes"="fumes of ignorance"; V. i. 67.

Invert, change to the contrary; III. i. 70.

Jack, " played the Jack," i.e., the

knave = "deceived"; IV. i. 198. Jerkin, a kind of doublet ; IV. i. 236. Justify, prove; V. i. 128

Key, tuning-key; I. ii. 83.
Kibe, heel-sore; II. i. 276.
Knot, (folded arms); I. ii. 224.

Lakin, "Ladykin," or the Virgin

Mary; III. iii. 1. Land, laund, lawn; IV. i. 130. Lass-lorn, forsaken by his lass; IV. i. 68.

Laughter, possibly used with a double meaning; "lafter" was perhaps the cant name of some small coin; still used provincially for the number of eggs laid by a hen at one time; II. i. 33. Learning, teaching; I. ii. 366. Lieu, " in lieu of," i.e., in consideration of; I. ii. 123. Life, "good life," i.e., "life-like truthfulness"; III. iii. 86. Like, similarly; III. iii. 66. Lime, bird-lime; IV. i. 246. Line, lime-tree (with punning reference to other meanings of "line" in subsequent portion of the scene); IV. i. 235; of. Note; and

"UNDER THE LINE.

Line-grove, lime-grove; V. i. 10.

Liver, regarded as the seat of passion;
IV. i. 56.
Loathness, reluctance, II. i. 130.
Lorded, made a lord; I. ii. 97.
Lush, luscious, luxuriant; II. 1. 52.
Lusty, vigorous; II. i. 52

Impertinent, irrelevant; I. ii. 138. Inch-meal, inch by inch; II. ii. 3. Infest, vex; V. i. 246.

Influence (used in its astrological

sense); I. ii. 182.

Infused, endowed; I. ii. 154.

Maid, maid-servant, III. i. 84.
Main-course, the main sail; I. i. 35.

Inly, inwardly; V. i. 200.

Inquisition, enquiry; I. ii. 35.

Make a man, i.e., make a man's fortune; II. ii. 32.

From the title-page of the comedy of "No-body and Some-body, with the true Chronicle Historie of Elidure" (before 1600).

Nook, bay; I. ii. 227.
Note, information; II. i. 248.
Nothing, nonsense; II. i. 170.

Observation, attention to detail; III. iii. 87.

Occasion, critical opportunity; II. i. 307.

Odd, out-of-the-way; I. ii. 223. O'er, over again; "trebles thee o'er," i.e., "makes thee three times as great"; II. i. 221.

O'erprized, surpassed in value; I. ii. 92.

Of, as a consequence of; or=on, i.e., "of sleep" = "a-sleep"; V. i. 230.

Omit, neglect; I. ii. 183; II. 1. 194. On, of; I. ii. 87; IV. i. 157.

Ooze, bottom of the sea; I. ii. 252. Or, ere; " or ere" (a reduplication);

I. ii. 11.

Out, completely; I. ii. 41. Overblown, blown over; II. ii. 114. Overtopping, outrunning; I. ii. 81. Orved, owned; III. i. 45.