For, after supper, long he questioned
With modest Lucrece.

Questioning-discoursing. A. L. v. 4, n.
Whiles a wedlock hymn we sing,
Feed yourselves with questioning.
Quests-inquisitions. M. M. iv. 1, n.
These false and most contrarious quests
Upon thy doings.

Quick-alive. H v. 1, n.

Be buried quick with her, and so will I.
Quick winds lie still. A. C. i. 2, n.

O, then we bring forth weeds

When our quick winds lie still; and our ills told us,
Is as our earing.

Quiddits quiddities, subtleties. H. v 1, n.
Where be his quiddits now?

Quillet, quodlibet-argument without foundation. L. L. L.
iv. 3, n.

Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.

Quillets-quidlibets, frivolous distinctions. H. v. 1, n.

Where be his quiddits now, his quillets?

Quintain. A. L. i. 2, i.

My better parts

Are all thrown down; and that which here stands up
Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.

Quit (v.)-requite, answer. II. F. iii 2, n.

And I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick occa
sion.

Quits-requites. M. M. v. 1. n.

Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well.

Quiver-nimble. H. 4, S. P. iii. 2, n.

There was a little quiver fellow, and he would manage
you his piece thus.

Quote (v.)-mark. G. V. ii. 4, n.

And how quote you my folly?
Quote-pronounced cote. G. V. ii. 4, n.

I quote it in your jerkin.

Quote (v.)-observe. R. J. i. 4, n.

What curious eye doth quote deformities.
Quote (v.)-observe. Luc. n.

Yea, the illiterate, that know not how

To 'cipher what is writ in learned books,
Will quote my loathsome trespass in my looks

Quoted-observed, noted. H. íi. 1, n.

I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
I had not quoted him.

Quotes-observes, searches through. T. And. iv. 1, n.
See, brother, see; note how she quotes the leaves

R.

Quarrel-arrow. H. E ii. 3, n.

Yet, if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce
It from the bearer.

Quarry-prey. M. i. 2, n.

And fortune, on his damned quarry smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore.

Quart d'ecu-a French piece of money. A. W. iv. 3, n.
Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee simple of his
salvation.

Quarter-staff play. L. L. L. v. 2, i.

I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man.
Quat. O. v. 1, n.

I have rubb'd this young quat alınost to the sense.

Queazy-delicate, ticklish. L. ii. 1, n.

And I have one thing, of a queazy question,
Which I must act.

Quell-murder. M. i. 7, n.

Who shall bear the guilt

Of our great quell?

u

Rabatoes, or neck-ruff. M. A. iii. 4, 1.

Troth, I think your other rabato were better.
Rack (v.)-strain, stretch, exaggerate. M. A. iv. 1, n.
That what we have we prize not to the worth,
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value.

Ruck-small feathery cloud. T. iv. 1, a.

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.

Rack-vapour. So. xxxiii. n.

Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face.

Ragged-broken, discordant. A. Lii. 5, n.

My voice is ragged; I know I cannot please you.
Ragged-contemptible. Luc. n. (See H. 4, P. S. i. 1, n.)
Thy smoothing titles to a ragged name.

Ras'd erased. P. i. 1, n.

Her face the book of praises, where is read
Nothing but curious pleasure, as from thence
Sorrow were ever ras'd.

Raught-reached. L. L. I.. iv. 2, n.

And raught not to five weeks.

Raught-taken away. H. 6, S. P. ii. 3, .

His lady banish'd, and a limb lopp'd off;
This staff of honour raught.

Raught-reached. H. 6, T. P. i. 4, n.

Come, make him stand upon this molehill here,
That raught at mountains with outstretched arms.

Ravin (v.)-devour greedily. M. M. i. 3, n.

Like rats that ravin down their proper bane.
Rayed-covered with mire, sullied. T. S. iv. 1, n.

Was ever man so beaten? was ever man so rayed?
Razed-slashed. H. iii. 2, n.

With two provincial roses on my razed shoes.
Razes-roots. H. 4, F. P. ii. 1, n.

Re, fa.

I have a gammon of bacon, and two razes of ginger.
R. J. iv. 5, n.

I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you, I'll fɑ you.

Read (v.)-discover. H. 4, F. P. iv. 1, n.

For therein should we read

The very bottom and the soul of hope.

Read-counsel, doctrine. H. i. 3, n.

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own read.

Rear-mice-bats. M. N. D. ii. 3, n.

Some war with rear-mice, for their leathern wings.

Rear of our birth. W. T. iv. 3, n.

My good Camillo,

She is as forward of her breeding, as
She is i' the rear of our birth.

Rearly early. T. N. K. iv. 1, n.

Brother.

I'll bring it to-morrow.

Daugh. Do, very rearly.
Reason (v.)-converse. R. T. ii. 3, n.

You cannot reason almost with a man
That looks not heavily and full of dread.
Reason'd-discoursed. M. V. ii. 8, n.

I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday.
Rebeck-three-stringed violin. R. J. iv. 5, n.
What say you, Hugh Rebeck?

When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from the entire point.

Regiment. R. T. v. 3, n.

The earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment.
Regiment-government, authority. A. C. iii. 6, n.
And gives his potent regiment to a trull.
Regreets-salutations. M. V. ii. 9, n.

From whom he bringeth sensible regreets.
Reguerdon-recompense. H. 6, F. P. iii. 1, n.
And in reguerdon of that duty done,

I girt thee with the valiant sword of York.
Relapse of mortality. H. F. iv. 3, n.

Break out into a second course of mischief,
Killing in relapse of mortality.
Remember'd-reminded. So. cxx. n.

O that our night of woe might have remember'd
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits!
Remiss-inattentive. H. iv. 7, n.

He, being remiss,
Most generous, and free from all contriving.
Remorse-compassion. A. L. i. 3, n.

It was your pleasure, and your own remorse.
Remorse-pity, tenderness. J. C. ii. 1, n.

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
Remorse from power.

Remorse-tenderness. V. A. n.

'Pity,' she cries, some favour-some remorse."
Remorseful-compassionate. G. V. iv. 3, n.

Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd.
Remov'd-distant. M. N. D. i. 1, n.

From Athens is her house remon'd seven leagues.
Removed-remote. A. L. iii. 2, n.

Your accent is something finer than you couki pr
chase in so removed a dwelling.

Removes stages. A. W. v. 3, n.

Here's a petition from a Florentine,

Who hath, for four or five removes, come short
To tender it herself.

Render (v.)-represent. A. L. iv. 3, n.

O, I have heard him speak of that same brother,
And he did render him the most unnatural
That liv'd 'mongst men.

Reneagues-renounces. A. C. i. 1, m.

His captain's heart,

Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breast, rencagues all temper.
Renege (v.)-deny. L. ii. 2, n.

Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks.
Renew me with your eyes. Cy. iii. 2, n.

Justice, and your father's wrath, should he take me ir
his dominion, could not be so cruel to me, an you, Ou
dearest of creatures, would even renew me with your eye

Report, to his great worthiness-my report compared to his great worthiness. L. L. L. ii. 1, n.

And much too little of that good I saw,
Is my report, to his great worthiness.
Reproof-disproof. H. 4, F. P. iii. 2, n.
Yet such extenuation let me beg,
As, in reproof of many tales devis'd.
Repugn (v.)-resist. H. 6, F. P. iv. 1, n.

When stubbornly he did repugn the truth,
About a certain question in the law.

Reserve (v.)-preserve. So. xxxii. n.

Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme.

Reserve (v.)-preserve. So. lxxxv. n.

While comments of your praise, richly compil'd,
Reserve their character with golden quill.

Reserve (v.)-preserve. P. iv. 1, n.

Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve
That excellent complexion which did steal
The eyes of young and old.

Resolve-be firmly persuaded. H. 6, F. P. i. 2, n.
Resolve on this: Thou shalt be fortunate

If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.
Respect-circumspection. V. A. n.

Like the proceedings of a drunken brain, Full of respect, yet nought at all respecting. Respect-prudence. Luc. n.

Respect and reason wait on wrinkled age! Respective-having relation to. G. V. iv. 4, n.

What should it be, that he respects in her, But I can make respective in myself. Respective-regardful. M. V. v. 1, n.

You should have been respective, and have kept it.

Respectively-respectfully. T. Ath. iii. 1, n.

You are very respectively welcome, sir.
Resty-rusty, spoiled for want of use. Cy. iii. 6, n.
Resty sloth

Finds the down pillow hard.
Retail'd-retold. R. T. iii. 1, n.

Methinks, the truth should live from age to age,
As 't were retail'd to all posterity.

Retires-retreats. H. 4, F. P. ii. 3, n.

And thou hast talk'd

Of sallies and retires.

Retiring-used in the sense of coming back again. Luc. n. One poor retiring minute in an age

Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
Revolution-change of circumstances. A. C. i. 2, a.
The present pleasure,

By revolution lowering, does become
The opposite of itself.

Reworded-echoed. L. C. n.

From off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale.

Rhodope's, or Memphis. H. 6, F. P. i. 6, n.
A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear,
Than Rhodope's, or Memphis, ever was.

Rialto, the. M. V. i. 3, i.

What news on the Rialto?

Richard Coeur-de-Lion and the lion, combat of. J. i. 1, t. The awless lion could not wage the fight,

Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

Richest coat-highest descent. L. C. n.

For she was sought by spirits of richest coat.

Rides the wild mare-plays at see-saw. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, n. And rides the wild mure with the boys.

Rigol-ringed circle. H. 4, S. P. iv. 4, n.

This is a sleep,

That from this golden rigol hath divore'd
So many English kings.

Rigol-circle. Luc. n.

About the mourning and congealed face
Of that black blood a watery rigol goes.

Rim. H. F. iv. 4, n.

For I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat. Ringlets, green sour-fairy-rings. T. v. 1, n. You demi-puppets that

By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites.

Rites. H. v. 1, n.

Yet here she is allow'd her virgin rites.
Rivage shore. H. F. iii. Chorus, z.

You stand upon the rivage, and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing.
Rivals-partners, companions. H. i. 1, n.
If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
The rivals of my watch.

Road-open harbour. G. V. ii. 4, n.

I must unto the road to disembark.

Roaming. H. i. 3, n. Tender yourself more dearly;
Or, (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Roaming it thus,) you 'll tender me a fool.
Roaring devil i' the old play. H. F. iv. 4, n. (See H. 4, S
P. iii. 2, i.)

Bardolph and Nym had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i' the old play.

Roasted pig in Bartholomew fair. H. 4, S. P. ii. 4, i.
Bartholomew boar-pig.

Robe of durance. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, n.

And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance? Romage. H. i. 1, n.

This post haste and romage in the land.

Roman law, Shakspere's acquaintance with. A. L. ii. 5, t.
Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me nothing.
Romances of chivalry. L. L. L. i. 1, i.

In high-born words, the worth of many a knight
From tawny Spain, lost in the world's debate.

Romans. H. 4, S. P. ii. 2, n.

I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity. 'Romaunt of the Rose,' antithetical peculiarities of. i. 1, i.

O brawling love! O loving hate!

Rome pronounced room. J. iii. 1, n.

O, lawful let it be,

That I have room with Rome to curse awhile!

Rondure-circumference. So. xxi. n.

With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare
That heaven's air in his huge rendure hems.

Ronyon. M. i. 3, n. (See A. L. ii. 2, n.)
The rump-fed ronyon cries.

Roof of the theatre. H. 6, F. P. i. 1, i.
Hung be the heavens with black.

R.J.

Rose-check'd Adonis-an expression found in Marlowe's poem of Hero and Leander.' V. A.

Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chase.

Rosemary, for remembrance. H. iv. 5, n.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance.

Round-a piece of music printed in 1609. T. S. iv. 1, i.
Jack, boy! ho, boy!

Round with you-in two senses: 1. plain-spoken; 2. in allusion to the game of football. C. E. ii. 1, n.

Am I so round with you, as you with me,
That like a football you do spurn me thus ?

Rounded-surrounded. T. iv. 1, n.

We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Rounding-telling secretly. W. T. i. 2, n.

They're here with me already; whispering, rounding. Royal faiths-faiths due to a king. H. 4, S. P. iv. 1, n. That were our royal faiths martyrs in love.

Royal merchant. M. V. iv. 1, n.

Enough to press a royal merchant down. Roynish-mangy, scurvy. A. L. ii 2, n.

My lord, the roynish clown.

Rub your chain with crumbs. T. N. ii. 3, n.
Go, sir, rub your chain with crumbs.

Ruff-top of a loose boot, turned over. A. W. iii. 2, n.
Why, he will look upon his boot, and sing; mend the
ruff, and sing.

Sad pause and deep regard beseem the sage. Sadness-seriousness. H. 6, T. P. iii. 2, n.

Safe

But, mighty lord, this merry inclination
Accords not with the sadness of my suit.
M. i. 4, n.
And our duties

Are to your throne and state, children and servants;
Which do but what they should, by doing everything
Safe toward your love and honour.

Safe (v.)-render safe. A. C. i. 3, n.

And that which most with you should safe my going,
Is Fulvia's death.

Saf d-made safe. A. C. iv. 6, n.

Best you saf'd the bringer

Out of the host.

Sage-grave, solemn. H. v. 1, n.

We should profane the service of the dead,
To sing sage requiem, and such rest to her,
As to peace-parted souls.

Sagg (v.)-sink down. M. v. 3, n.

And the heart I bear

Shall never sagg with doubt, nor shake with fear.

Sagittary-the arsenal. O. i. 1, n.

Lead to the Sagittary the raised search. Sagittary, description of, by Lydgate. T. C. v. 5, i. The dreadful Sagittary

Appals our numbers.

Sallet-helmet. H. 6, S. P. iv. 10, n.

Many a time, but for a sullet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown-bill.

Sallet-salad, herb which is eaten salted. H. 6, S. P. iv. 10, n. And now the word sallet must serve me to feed on. Sallets-ribaldry. H. ii. 2, n.

One said, there were no sallets in the lines, to make the matter savoury.

Salt-cellars. G. V. iii. 1, i.

The cover of the salt hides the salt.

Same-heap, mass. T. C. ii 2, n.

Nor the remainder viands We do not throw in unrespective same. Samphire. L. iv. 6, i. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Sand-blind-having an imperfect sight. M. V. ii. 2, n. Who, being more than sand-blind.

Satyrs' dance. W. T. iv. 3, i.

Made themselves all men of hair

Savoy Palace. R. S. i. 2, i.

Duke of Lancaster's palace.

Sawn-sown. L. C. n.

For on his visage was in little drawn,

What largeness thinks in paradise was sawn.

I shall tell you

Scale't. Cor. i. 1, n.
A pretty tale; it may be you have heard it;
But since it serves my purpose, I will venture
To scale 't a little more.

Scales-used as a singular noun. R. J. i. 2, n.

But in that crystal scales, let there be weigh 1.
Scaling. Cor. ii. 3, n. (See Cor. i. 1, n.)
But you have found,

Scaling his present bearing with his past,
That he's your fixed enemy.

Scaligers, family of the. R. J. v. 3, i.
Some shall be punished.

Scall-scald. M. W. iii. 1, n.

This same scall, scurvy, cogging companion. Scambling-disorderly. H. F. i. 1, n.

But that the scambling and unquiet time
Did push it out of further question.

Scamels. T. ii. 2, n.

And sometimes I'll get thee
Young scamels from the rock.

M. V. iii. 6,

Scarfed bark-vessel gay with streamers.
The scarfed bark puts from her native bay.
Scarre-rock, precipitous cliff. A. W. iv. 2, n.
Men make ropes, in such a scarre.

Scath-harm. H. 6, S. P. ii. 4, n.

And had I twenty times so many foes,

And each of them had twenty times their pov er,
All these could not procure me any scath.

Scath (v.)- injure. R. J. i. 5, n.

This trick may chance to scath you. Scathful-harmful, destructive. T. N. v. 1, n.

With which such scathful grapple did he make. Sconce-fortification. H. F. iii. 6, n.

At such and such a sconce, at such a breach.

Scope of nature. J. iii. 4, n.

No natural exhalation in the sky,

No scope of nature, no distemper'd day,
No common wind, no customed event,
But they will pluck away his natural course.
Scotland, contests of, with England. C. E. iii. 2, i.
Where Scotland ?

Scrimers-fencers. H. iv. 7, n.

The scrimers of their nation, He swore, had neither motion, guard, nor eye. Scrip a written paper. M. N. D. i. 2, n.

Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.

Scroyles-persons afflicted with king's evil. J. ii. 2, n.

By Heaven, these scruyles of Angiers flout you, kings 1 Sculls- shoals of fish. T. C. v. 5, n.

And there they fly, or die, like scaled sculls,
Before the belching whale.

Sea of wax. T. Ath. i. 1, n.

My free drift
Halts not particularly, but moves itself
In a wide sea of wax.

Seal, method of attaching to a deed. R. S. v. 2, n.
What seal is that that hangs without thy bosom ?

Seal of my petition. T. C. iv. 4, n.

Grecian, thou dost not use me courteously,
To shame the seal of my petition to thee
In praising her.

Sings psalms to hornpipes.

Security-legal security, surety. M. M. iii. 2, n.

There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies
secure; but security enough to make fellowships accursed.

Seeing used as a noi. W. T. ii. 1, n.

That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation,
But only seeing.

Seel with wanten dulness. O. i. 3, n.

No, when light-wing'd toys

Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dulness
My speculative and offic'd instrument.

Seeling blinding. M. iii. 2, n.

Come, seeling night,

Skarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.
Seeming-specious resemblance. M. A. iv. 1, n.
Hero. And seem'd lever otherwise to you?
Claud. Out on the seeming.

Seeming-seemly. A. L. v. 4, n.

Bear your body more seeming.

Seen-versed. T. S. i. 2, n.

Well seen in music.

Seen with mischief's eyes. P. i. 4, n.

O my distressed lord, ev'n such our griefs are;
Here they 're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes,
But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise.
Self king. T. N. i. 1, n. -

All supplied, and fill'd,

(Her sweet perfections,) with one self king!
Self-sovereignty-self-sufficiency. L. L. L. iv. 1, n.

Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty ?

Selling a bargain. L. L. L. iii. 1, i.

The boy hath sold him a bargain.

Seniory-seniority. R. T. iv. 4, n.

If ancient sorrow be most reverent,
Give mine the benefit of seniory.

Sense-sensibility. O. ii. 3, n.

I had thought you had received some bodily wound;
there is more sense in that than in reputation.
Sense-impression upon the senses. O. iii. 3, n.

What sense had I in her stolen hours of lust?

Separable-separating. So. xxxvi. n.

In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite.

Sere-affection of the throat, by which the lungs are tickled.
H. ii. 2, n.

The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are
tickled o' the sere.

Serious hours-private hours. C. E. ii. 1, n.

And make a common of my serious hours.

Servant. G. V. ii. 1, i.

Sir Valentine and servant.

Sesey. L. iii. 4, n.

Set (v.)-in two senses: 1. compose; and, used with by, make
account of. G. V. i. 2, n.

Give me a note: your ladyship can set.

Julia. As little by such toys as may be possible.

Set-term used at tennis. L. L. L. v. 2, n.
A set of wit well play'd.

Set a watch. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, n.

Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a watch.

Set her two courses. T. i. 1, n.

Set her two courses; off to sea again, lay her off.

Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms.
L. iii. 4, n.

Serving-man.

A serving-man, proud in heart and mind.
Shadow of poor Buckingham. H. E. i. 1, n.
I am the shadow of poor Buckingham;

Whose figure even this instant clouds put on,
By dark'ning my clear sun.

Shakspere and Hogarth, Lamb's parallel between. T. Ath.
i. 1, i.

Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance.
Shakspere's Cliff. L. iv. 1, i.

There is a cliff, whose high an bending head
Looks fearfully in the confined deep.

Shakspere's grammar, objections to. R. J. ii. 3, i.
Both our remedies

Within thy help and holy physic lies.

Shakspere's knowledge of art. Cy. v. 5, i.
Postures beyond brief nature.

Shall be thought-where shall be thought. R. T. iii. 1, n.
Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:
Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit
For your best health and recreation.

Shame- decency. O. i. 1, n.

For shame put on your gown.

Shapes our ends. H. v. 2, i.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.

Shard, meaning of. Cy. iii. 3, i.
The sharded beetle.

Shard-borne beetle-beetle borne on its shards, or scaly wing-
cases. M. iii. 2, n. (See Cy. iii 3, i.)

The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums.

Shards-rubbish. H. v. 1, n.

She to scant her duty-she knows to scant her duty. L. ii. 4, n.
You less know how to value her desert,

Than she to scant her duty.

Sheav'd-made of straw. L. C. n.

For some, untuck'd, descended her sheav'd hat,
Hanging her pale and pined check beside.

Sheep-pronounced ship. G. V. i. 1, n.

And I have play'd the sheep, in losing him.

Sheep-pronounced ship. C. E. iv. 1, n.

Why, thou peevish sheep,

What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?

Sheer-pure. R. S. v. 3, n.

Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain.
Shent-roughly handled. M. W. i. 4, n.

We shall all be shent.

Shent-reproved. T. N. iv. 2, n.

I am shent for speaking to you.

Shent-rebuked, hurt. H. iii. 3, n.

How in my words soever she be shent.
Shent-rebuked. T. C. ii. 3, n.

He shent our messengers.

Shent-rebuked. Cor. v. 2, n.

Do you hear how we are shent for keeping vour great-
ness back?

Sheriff's post. T. N. i. 5, i.

He says he'll stand at your door like a sheriff's post.
Sherris-sack. H. 4, F. P. i. 2, i.

Sir John Sack-and-Sugar.

Ships of Antony and Cæsar,-from North's Plutarch A.C.
iii. 7, i.

Your ships are not well mann'd.