STATION, attitude in standing; III. SWADDLING CLOUTS, Swaddling clothes; iv. 58. STATISTS, statesmen; V. ii. 33. STATUTES, "particular modes of recognizance or acknowledgement for securing debts, which thereby become a charge upon the party's land" (Ritson); V. i. 113. STAY, wait for; V. ii. 24. STAY'D, waited; I. iii. 57. STAYS, waits for me; III. iii. 95. STAY UPON, await; III. ii. 112. STICK FIERY OFF, 'stand in brilliant relief"; V. ii. 268. STIFFLY, strongly; I. v. 95. STITHY, Smithy; (F. 1, "Stythe"; 66 (FL. 2, 3, 4 Styth"; Theobald, "Smithy"); III. ii. 89. STOMACH, Courage; I. i. 100. STOUP, drinking cup; V. i. 68. STRAIGHT, straightway; II. ii. 451. STRANGER; as a s i.e. without doubt or question; I. v. 165. STREWMENTS, strewing of flowers over the corpse and grave; V. i. 256. STRIKE, blast, destroy by their influence; I. i. 162. STUCK, thrust; an abbreviation of stoccato; IV. vii. 162. SUBJECT, subjects, people; I. i. 72. (Ff."swathing"); II. ii. 401. SWEET, sweetheart; III. ii. 235SWINISH; "with s. phrase", by calling us swine; (a pun on Sweyn" has been found in the phrase); I. iv. 19. SWITZERS, Swiss guards; "Swissers"); IV. v. 97. SWOOPSTAKE, sweepstake; (the term is taken from a game of cards, the winner sweeping or drawing the whole stake); IV. v. 142. 'SWOUNDS, a corruption of God's wounds; an oath; II. ii. 604. SWOUNDS, Swoons, faints; (Qq. 2-5 Ff. 1, 2, "sounds"); V. ii. 319. TABLE, tablet; I. v. 98. TABLES, tablets, memorandum-book; 1. v. 107. TAINTS, stains, blemishes; II. i. 32. TAKE ARMS AGAINST A SEA; an allusion to a custom attributed to the Kelts by Aristotle, Strabo, and other writers; "they throw themselves into the foaming floods with their swords drawn in their hands," etc. (Fleming's trans. of Aelian's Histories, 1576); III. i. 59. TAKES, affects, enchants; (Ff. 1, 2, "talkes"; Ff. 3, 4, "talks"); 1. i 163. TENDERS, promises; I. iii. 106. THAT, that which; II. ii. 7. THEWS, sinews, bodily strength; I. iii. 12. THIEVES OF MERCY, merciful thieves; THINKS'T THEE, seems it to thee; THRIFT, profit; III. ii. 67. TOO TOO, (used with intensive force); I. ii. 129, TOPP'D, overtopped, surpassed. (Ff. "past"); IV. vii. 89. TOUCH'D, implicated; IV. v 207. TOWARD, forthcoming, at hand; I. i. 77. TOY IN BLOOD, a passing fancy; I. iii. TRAVEL, stroll, go on tour in the pro- TRISTFUL, sorrowful; III. iv. 50. TWELVE FOR NINE; this phrase, UMBRAGE, shadow; V. ii. 125. UNDERGO, bear, endure; I. iv. 34. UNEQUAL, unequally: II. ii. 493. UNGORED, unwounded; V. ii. 261. UNGRACIOUS, graceless; I. iii. 47. UNHOUSEL'D, without having received the Sacrament; I. v. 77. UNIMPROVED, unemployed, not turned to account; "unapproved," ie., "untried"; Q. 1, inapproved"); I. i. 96. UNION, fine orient pearl; (Q. 2, "Vnice" ; Qq. 3-6, "Onyx" or "Onixe"); V.ii. 283. 66 UNKENNEL, discover, disclose; III. ii. 86. UNLIMITED; "poem u.", i.e. (probably) UNPREVAILING, unavailing, useless; I. ii. 107. UNPROPORTION'D, unsuitable; I. iii. 60. UNRECLAIMED, untamed, wild; II. i. 34. UNSHAPED, confused; IV. v. 8. UNSIFTED, untried; I. iii. 102. UNSINEW'D, weak; IV. vii. 1o. UNSURE, insecure; IV. iv. 51. UNVALUED, low born, mean; I. iii. 19. UNWRUNG, not wrenched, ungalled; III. ii. 253. UNYOKE, your day's work is done; V. i. 59: Ur, "drink u." (used with intensive force); V. i. 299. UPON; u. your hour', i.e., on the stroke of, just at your hour; I. i. 6. UPON MY SWORD, i.e. Swear upon my sword, (the hilt being in form of a cross); I. v. 147. UPSHOT, Conclusion; V. ii. 395. UP-SPRING, the wildest dance at the old German merry-makings; I. iv. 9. VAILED LIDS, lowered eyelids; I. ii. 70. VALANCED, adorned with a beard; II. ii. 442. VALIDITY, value, worth; III. ii. 199. VANTAGE; "of v.", from an advantageous position, or opportunity (Warburton); III. iii. VARIABLE, various; IV. II. 25. VAST, void; (so Q. I; Q. 2, F. 1, 'wast'; Ff. 2, 3, 4, waste'); I. ïï. 198. VENTAGES, holes of the recorder; III. ii. 372. VICE OF KINGS, buffoon, clown of a king; alluding to the Vice, the comic character, of the old morality plays; III. iv. 98. VIDELICET, that is to say, namely; II. i. 6r. VIGOUR: "sudden v.", rapid power: I. v. 68. VIOLET, emblem of faithfulness; IV. v. 184. VIRTUE, power; IV. v. 155. VISITATION, visit; II. ii. 25. VOICE, vote, opinion; V. ii. 260. VOUCHERS; "double v., his recoveries", "a recovery with double voucher is the one usually suffered, and is so denominated from two persons (the latter of whom is always the common cryer, or some such inferior person) being successively vouched, or called upon, to warrant the tenant's title " (Ritson); V. i. 114. WAG, move; III. iv. 39. WAKE, hold nightly revel; I. iv. 8. WANDERING STARS, planets; V. i. 279. WANN'D, turned pale; II. ii. 580. WANTON; effeminate weakling; V ii. 310. -, wantonly; III. iv. 183. WANTONNESS, affectation; III. i. 152. WARRANTY, warrant; V. i. 250. WASH, sea; III. ii. 166. WASSAIL,carousal, drinking bout; I.iv.9. 148. a WATCH, state of sleeplessness; II.ii. WATER-FLY (applied to Osric); water-fly skips up and down upon the surface of the water without any apparent purpose or reason, and is thence the proper emblem of a busy trifler" (Johnson); V. ii. 84. WAVES, beckons; (Ff. "wafts"); I. iv. 68. WE; "and we", used loosely after conjunction instead of accusation of regard, i.e. "as for us;" I. iv. 54. WEEDS, robes; IV. vii. 8r. WELL-TOOK, well undertaken; II.ii. 83. WHARF, bank; I. v. 33. WHAT, who; IV. vi. 1. WHEEL, the burden or refrain of a song, (or, perhaps, the spinningwheel to which it may be sung); IV. v. 172. WHETHER, (monosyllabic); II. ii. 17. WHICH, Who; IV. vii. WHOLESOME, III. ii. 328. WILDNESS, madness; III. i. 40. WILL; "virtue of his will," i.e. his virtuous intention; I. iii. 16. WIND; "to recover the w. of me," a hunting term, meaning to get to windward of the game, so that it may not scent the toil or its pursuers; III. ii. 361. reasonable, sensible; WINDLASSES, winding, indirect ways; II. i. 65. WINKING; "given my heart a w.", closed the eyes of my heart; (Qq. 25,"working"); II. ii. 137. WINNOWED, (vide" Fond)." WIT, wisdom; II. ii. 90. WITHAL, with; I. iii. 28. WITHDRAW; to w. with you," speak a word in private with you' (Schmidt); III. ii. 360. WITHERS, the part between the shoulder-blades of a horse; III. ii. 253. WITHIN'S, within this; III ii. 135. 99 66 'to WITTENBERG, the University of Wit. tenberg (founded 1502); I. ii. 113. WONDER-WOUNDED, struck with surprise; V. i. 280. WOODCOCKS, birds supposed to be brain- WORD, watch-word; I. v. 110. WRETCH, here used as a term of endearment; II. ii. 168. WRIT; "law of w. and liberty", probably a reference to the plays written with or without decorum, i.e. the supposed canons of dramatic art,= classical" and "romantic" plays; (according to some," adhering to the text or extemporizing when need requires "); II. ii. 421. YAUGHAN; "get thee to Y." (so F. 1; Q. 2, "get thee in and "); probably the name of a well-known keeper of an ale-house near the Globe, perhaps the Jew, "one Johan," alluded to in Every Man out of his Humour, V. iv.; V. i. 68. YAw, stagger, move unsteadily; (a nautical term); V. ii. 120. 46 YEOMAN'S SERVICE, good service, such as the yeoman performed for his lord; (Qq. 2, 3, 4, yemans"); V. ii. 36. YESTY, foamy; V. ii. 198. YORICK, the name of a jester, lamented by Hamlet; perhaps a corruption of the Scandinavian name Erick, or its English equivalent; (the passage possibly contains a tribute to the comic actor Tarlton); V. i. 198. YOURSELF; "in y.", for yourself, personally; II. i. 71. Notes. I. i. 63. He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice'; Q. 1, Q. 2, F. 1, ' pollax,' variously interpreted as ‹ Polacks,' ' poleaxe,' &c.; there is very little to be said against the former interpretation, unless it be that 'the ambitious Norway' in the previous sentence would lead one to expect the sledded Polack,' a commendable reading originally proposed by Pope. I. i. 108-125. These lines occur in the Qq., but are omitted in Ff. I. i. 167. 'eastward,' so Qq.; Ff., 'easterne'; the latter reading was perhaps in Milton's mind, when he wrote :— "Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime I. ii. 9. 'to'; the reading of Qq.; Ff., ‘of.' I. ii. 58-60. Omitted in Ff. I. iii. 12. 'this temple'; so Qq.; Ff., 'his temple' I. iii. 16. 'will,' so Qq.; Ff., 'fear.' L iii. 18. Omitted in Qq. Par. Lost, v. I. I. iii. 26. ‘particular act and place, so Qq.; Ff., 'peculiar sect and force.' I. iii. 59. Polonius' precepts have been traced back to Euphues' advice to Philautus; the similarity is certainly striking (vide Rushton's Shakespeare's Euphuism); others see in the passage a reference to Lord Burleigh's 'ten precepts,' enjoined upon Robert |