Lod. You muft forfake this room, and go with us; That can torment him much and hold him long, Oth, Soft you; a word or two before you go. I took by th' throat the circumcised dog, Gra. All that is spoke is marr'd. [Stabs bimfelf. Oth. I kift thee, ere I kill'd thee. No way but this, Killing my felf, to die upon a kiss. [Dies. Caf. This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon; For he was great of heart. Lod. Oh Spartan b dog! [To Iago. More (a) Meaning Herod who flew his wife Mariamne whom he pasionately loved. Warburton. (b) The Dogs of Spartan race were reckon'd among those of the most fierce and favage kind. : Indian,... old edit. Warb, emend. More fell than anguish, hunger, or the fea! [Exeun The End of SHAKESPEAR's Plays. A GLOS A GLOSSARY EXPLAINING The obfolete and difficult WORDS in the Plays of SHAKESPEAR. Note. That when a Word is ufed but once, or in a Senfe which is fingular; the Volume and the Page are noted down, where the fame is to be found. And When a Word is not properly English, but borrowed from a foreign Language, and not familiarized by Ufe into our own; the Original Word in fuch foreign Language is fet down. T A O ABY, (Vol. 1. 115.) to fuffer for, to pay dear for. To ACCITE, to call, to fummon or fend for. Lat. Accire. To AFFEER, to confirm, to afcertain: A Law-term used in CourtLeets, and fignifying to confirm or fix by Perfons properly chofen the Mulets there impofed upon fuch as have committed faults arbitrarily punishable, and which have no exprefs penalty annexed to them by any Statute. Fr. Affeurer. To AFFIE, to affiance, to betroth; alfo, to confide. To AFFRONT, to front, or confront, or face. An AGLET, the Tag of a Lace, or of the Points formerly ufed as Ornaments in drefs, and which (for the greater finery) were often cut in the fhape of little Images. Fr. Aiguillette. To AGNIZE, (Vol. 6. 456.) to acknowledge, to avow. Lat. Ag. nofcere. A GOOD, (Vol. 1. 201.) Much, a great deal. An AIERY, the Neft of an Hawk, and fometimes the brood of Hawks belonging to a particular neft. M m AL ALDER, of all. ALDER-LIEFEST, dearest of all. ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN, (Vol. 1. 281.) a Man-eater. An ANTRE, (Vol. 6. 453.) a Cave or Cavern. Fr. Antre, Lat Antrum. To APPEACH, (Vol. 2. 354.) to impeach. To APPEAL, to accufe. APPROOF, the fame as proof. An ARGOSIE, a Ship; from Argo the fhip of the Argonauts. AROINT thee! avaunt! ftand off! this word feems to come from the Latin Dii averruncent! ASCAUNCE, awry. An ASSINEGO, (Vol. 6. 32.) an Afs-driver, or Afs-keeper. Ital. Afinaio. ATE, the Goddefs of Mifchief. ATTAINTS, (Vol. 3. 331.) the fame as Taints: ftains, blemishes, any ftrokes or touches of infection either in a natural or moral fenfe. Fr. Atteintes. To ATTONE, to appeafe, to reconcile; alfo, to be reconciled, to agree. B BACCALA'R E (Vol. 2. 282.) a felf-conceited pretending Spark. An Italian word. To BAIT, a Term in Falconry, when the Hawk spreads and claps her wings. BALDRICK, a Belt. Fr. Baudrier. BALE, Misfortune, Sorrow. BALK'd, (Vol 3. 281.) Floated: from the Italian Verb Valicare. BAN-DOGS, (Vol. 4. 111.) Dogs kept in bands, tied up. To BANDY, to canvafs, to difpute, to quarrel, moft efpecially by retorting angry and provoking words: a metaphor taken from ftriking the balls at Tennis which is the primary sense of the word. Fr. Bander. BAR BASON, (Vol. 3. 490.) the Name of a Devil or Fiend. See Vol. 1. 245. BARBED, fee UNBAR BED. BASE, Country-bafe, (Vol. 6. 200.) a fport ufed amongst Country people call'd Prifon-base, in which fome purfue to take others Prifoners. And therefore "I bid the bafe" (Vol. 1. 151.) is by ufing the language of that fport to fay, "my business is to take "prifoners." BASE COURT, (Vol. 3. 243.) a back Yard. Fr. Baffe-conr. A BAT A BATLET, a flat piece of Wood, with which Washer-Women beat coarse Linnen. To BATTEN, to feed, to pasture. BAVEN, brush wood, faggot wood. BAWCOCK, a coaxing term: probably from the French Bas coque. BEARNS, Children. BEHESTS or HESTS, Commands. A BERGOMASK-DANCE, (Vol. 1. 137.) a Dance after the manner of the Peasants of Bergomafco a Country in Italy belonging to the Venetians. All the buffoons in Italy affect to imitate the ridiculous jargon of that People, and from thence it became a Custom to mimick alfo their manner of dancing. BESHREW! an Imprecation, as "befhrew my Heart!" ill betide my Heart! To BESMIRCH or SMIRCH, to befmear, to foul, to dirty. BESTRAUGHT, Mad, distracted. To BETEEM, (Vol. 1. 79.) to yield, to deliver. Spen. A BEVER, that part of the Helmet, which lets down over the face, with a grate of iron bars before the Eyes. Span. Bavera. To BEWRAY, to difcover, to reveal. BEZONIAN,, a beggarly fcoundrel. Ital. Bifognofo. A BIGGEN, a Cap or Coif of Linnen like thofe worn by Children with a stay under the Chin. Fr. Beguin. A BILBERRY, the fruit of a small shrub, of a blue Colour. BILBO," like a good Bilbo" (Vol. 1. 267.) a fword-blade of Bilbo which will bend almoft round in a circle without breaking. BISSON or BEESEN, blear-eyed. A BLANK, (Vol. 3. 10.) a white or mark to fhoot at. Fr. Blanc. To BLENCH, to boggle or turn afide with fear. BLENT, the fame as blended, mingled. To BOLT or BOULT, to fift as they do Meal thro' a fieve. To BOLTER, as Blood-bolter'd, (Vol. 5. 526.) to welter, to wallow. Fr. Veaultrer. Lat. Volutare. A BOMBARD or BUMBARD, (Vol. 1. 34.) a Mortar-piece or great Gun. Fr. Bombarde: but in other places, as Vol. 3. 319. and Vol. 4. 498. the word is used for a drinking veffel: and there is still in ufe in the Northern parts of England a kind of flagon without a cover, and of the fame bignefs from top to bottom, which retains the name of a Gun. A BORNE, a limit or boundary. Fr. Borne. This hath been falfely printed Bourn, which fignifies another thing, namely, a brook or ftream of water. A BOW, (Vol. 2. 220) a Yoke. A BRACH. The Italian word Bracco, from which this is derived, is understood to fignify any kind of Beagle, Hound or Setting-dog: but Jo. Caius, in his book of British Dogs, fays, that with us it moft properly belongs to Bitches of the hunting kind, and in that fenfe Shakespear ufes it. Mm 2 To |