INDEX.

Measure, to tread a, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2; As You Like
It, v. 4. A slow, stately dance.

Meats, influence of, on temper, Tam. of S., iv. 1, 3.
Mecænas, character in A. & C., introduced in ii. 2, a
friend of Cæsar.

Mechanics, to wear the signs of their trades, Jul.
Cæs., i. 1.

Medea, M. of V., v. 1; 2 H. VI., v. 2. Fleeing from
Colchis with her lover Jason, she was pursued by her
father; and to gain time she caused her little brother
Absyrtus to be killed and his limbs to be thrown on the
water, that her father, in stopping to collect them, might
be detained long enough to allow of her escape.

Meddlers, T. of A., iv. 3; Ham., iii. 4, v. 2.

Meddle nor make, Tr. & Cr., i. 1.

Medice, etc., H. VI., ii. 1. Physician, heal thyself.
Medicine, theory and practice of, allusions to: lives
consist of the four elements, Tw. Nt., ii. 3; bleeding,
L.'s L.'s L., ii. 1; R. II., i. 1; diagnosis by urine, Two
Gent., ii. 1; Trew. Nt., iii. 4; 2 H. IV., i. 2; Mac., v. 3; a
miracle in, All's Well, ii. 3; read in Galen, 2 H. IV., i. 2.
See under BLOOD, CIRCULATION OF THE, DIGESTION,
DISEASES, INSANITY, MEDICINES, PHYSICIANS, POISONS,

SURGERY.

Medicine (physician), a, All's Well, ii. 1.

Medicines: narcotics, Oth., iii. 3; A. & C., 1.5; Cymb.,
iv. 2; aqua vitæ, Winter's T., iv. 3; R. & J., iv. 5;
sherris, 2 H. IV., iv. 3; balm, 3 H. VI., iv. 3; Tr. & Cr.,
1. 1; T. of A., iii. 5; liquid gold, Temp., v. 1 (grand
liquor); All's Well, v. 3; 2 II. IV., iv. 4; mummy (a
medicine made from embalmed bodies), Oth., iii. 4; eisel
or vinegar (to prevent contagion), Sonnet cxi.; recipe for,
All's Well, i. 3, ii. 1; plantain-leaf, L.'s L.'s L., iii. 1; R.
& J., 1. 2; parmaceti, 1 II. IV., i. 3; cobweb, M. N. D.,
iii. 1; flax and whites of eggs, Lear, iii. 7; cathartics, As
You Like It, iii. 2; R. II., i. 1; H. VI., 1. 3, iii. 2, iv. 4;
Cor., iii. 1; Mac., v. 3; Sonnet exviii.

Mediterranean Sea, the, L.'s L.'s L., v. 1.

Medlar, the true virtue of the, As You Like It, iii. 2.
Mehercle (by Hercules), L.'s L.'s L., iv. 2.

Meiny (servants), Lear, ii. 4.

Melancholy, kinsman to despair, Com. of Er., v. 1;
Count John's, Much Ado, i. 3, ii. 1; not conducive to
long life, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2; turu, to funerals, M. N. D.,
i. 1; out of a song, As You Like It, ii. 5; kinds of, As
You Like It, iv. 1; nurse of frenzy, Tam. of S., induc-
tion, ii.; trick of, All's Well, iii. 2; a surly spirit, K. J.,
iii. 3; fashion of, K. J., iv. 1; similes for, 1 H. IV., i. 2;
cursed, 1 II. IV., ii. 3; effect of, Ham., ii. 2, iii. 1;
power of, Cymb., iv. 2; constant, Peric., i.

Melford, commons of, 2 H. VI., i. 3.

2.

Melun, a French lord in K. J., introduced in v. 2.
Memorize (make memorable), Mac., i. 2.

Memory, made a sinner, Temp., 1. 2; warder of the
brain, Mac., i. 7; of things precious, Mac., iv. 3; devoted
to one subject, Ham., 1. 5; of old woes, Sonnet xxx.;
of the beloved, Sonnet cxxii.; ventricle of the, see
VENTRICLE.

Memory (memorial), Cor., v. 1.
Memphis, pyramid of, 1 H. VI., 1. 6.

Men, a bill for putting down, Merry Wives, ii. 1;
supremacy of, Com. of Er., ii. 1; why scanted of hair,
Com. of Er., ii. 2; what they dare do, Much Ado, iv. 1;
should be thankful not to be beasts, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 2;
girls dressed like, As You Like It, i. 3; more fickle than
women, The. Nt., ii. 4; not three good, unhanged, 1 IH.
IV., ii. 4; no faith in, R. & J., iii. 2; summer-birds, T.
of A., iii. 6; ranks of, Mac., iii. 1; inconstancy of, Oth.,
iii. 4, "'Tis not a year or two," etc.; marble minds of,
Lucrece, 1. 1240; old, of less truth than tongue, Sonnet
xvii.; best are moulded out of faults, M. for M., V. 1; are
as the time is, Lear, v. 3. See MAN.

Menaphon, Duke, mentioned in Com. of Er., v. 1.
Menas, a pirate in A. & C., ii. 1.

Menecrates, a pirate in A. & C., ii. 1.

Menelaus, brother of Agamemnon, the husband of
Helen, character in Tr. & Cr. Spoken of in 3 H. VI., ii. 2.
Menenius Agrippa, character in Cor.

Menteith, Earl of, 1 H. IV., i. 1.

Menteith, a thane of Scotland in Mac., in v. 2.
Me perdonato, Tam. of S., i. 1. Pardon me.

Me pompæ, etc., Peric., ii. 2. Glory leads me on.
Mercade, a lord attending on the princess in La
L.'s L.

Mercatante (merchant), Tam. of S., iv. 2.
Mercatio, the rich, mentioned in Two Gent., i 2
Merchant, a, character in the Com. of Er.
Merchant, a, character in T. of A., 1. 1.

messenger of Jupiter, Tw. Nt., 1.5; K. J., iv. 2:19.
Mercury, god of lying, commerce, and thievery, and
IV., iv. 1; Tr. & Cr., ii. 3; Ham., iii. 4; Winter's T
2; H. V., ii. chorus; R. III., іі. 1.

Mercutio, friend of Romeo in R. & J.

Mercy, assaulted by prayer, Temp., epilogue; oblic
tion to, Temp., v. 1, "And shall not myself," etc.; ES
taken, M. for M., ii. 1, "Mercy is not itself," etc.; becs
M., iii. 1; when made by vice, M. for M., iv. 2; re
mended to Shylock, M. of V., iii. 3, iv. 1; the better part
the great of Heaven, M. for M., ii. 2; devilish, M.j
made, As You Like It, iii. 1; beyond the infinite read
of, K. J., iv. 3; for small and great offences, H. F.,
Cor., v. 3; nobility's badge, Tit. And., i. 1 or 2; to m
a vice of, Tr. & Cr., v. 3; at differences with honor,
derers, R. & J., iii. 1, end; emboldens sin, T. of di
show no, T. of A., iv. 3, "That, by killing," etc.; where
serves, but to confront the visage of offence, Наза,, її.
to the falling, H. VIII., iii. 2.

Mered (limited), A. & C., iii. 10 or 12.

without, Tr. & Cr., ii. 2; often overlooked, on account of
Merit, honours not purchased by, M. of V., ii. 9: valte
Well, iii. 6; men of, sought after, H. IV., iL4; ir
one defect, Ham., i. 4: seldom justly attributed, A
beyond recompense, Mac., i. 4.

Merlin, prophecies of, 1 H. IV., iii. 1; Lear, in

end.

Mermaid, music of a, Com. of Er., iii. 2; M. N. D. i
1; 3 H. VI., iii. 2; Ham., iv. 7; Ven. & Ad., 1. 429,
Merops, son of, Two Gent., iii. 1. Phaethon.
Merriman, a hunting-dog, Tam. of S., induction, i
Messes (grades), Winter's T., i. 2.
Messala, a friend of Brutus and Cassius in Jul. Cas.
Messaline (Mitylene?), Tw. Nt., ii. 1.

Messina, Sicily, scene of Much Ado and a part of A

&C.

Metaphysical (supernatural), Mac., i. 5.
Metaphysics, Tam. of S., i. 1.

Meteors, his heart's, Com. of Er., iv. 2. Allusion to
meteors imagined to look like armies meeting; omino
R. II., ii. 4; 1 H. IV., ii. 4; over a ship, Temp., 12
"To every article," etc.; "R. & J., iii. 5; K. J., V.2
Metellus Cimber, one of the conspirators in Jul. Car.
Mettle, of the English, H. V., iii. 5; undaunted, Mac,
1.7; of a king, K. J., ii. 2.

Michael, Sir, friend of the archbishop in 1 H. IV.
appears only in iv. 4.

Michael, follower of Jack Cade, 2 H. VI., iv. 2, 2
Michaelmas, Merry Wives, i. 1; 1 H. IV., ii. 4.
Micher (truant), 1 H. IV., ii. 4.
Miching mallecho (lurking mischief), Ham., ii. 2
Middle-earth (the natural world), Merry Wires, V.A
at, H. VIII., v. 1; the witching time of night, Ha间。
Midnight, almost fairy-time, M. N. D., v. 1; businest
iii. 2; going to bed after, Tw. Nt., ii. 3.

Midsummer madness, Tw. Nt., iii. 4.
Milan, Duke of, Prospero in Temp.

Milan, Duke of, the father of Silvia in the Taro Gent.
place for sports and musters.
Mile-End Green, All's Well, iv. 3; 2 H. IV., iii. 2. A

Milford-Haven, Wales, Cymb., iii. 2; scene of, iii. 4.
Milk of human kindness, the, Mac., i. 5.

Miller, Yead, mentioned in Merry Wives, i, 1.

Milliner, Winter's T., iv. 3 or 4.

counters.
Mill-sixpences, Merry Wives, i. 1. They were used as

Millstones, wept, R. III., 1. 3, 4; Tr. & Cr., 1.2
Milo, Tr. & Cr., ii. 3. An athlete of Crotona, a Greek
city of Southern Italy.

Mind, the, affected by food, L.'s L.'s L., 1.1; makes
the body rich, Tam, of S., iv. contempt for the work
fected, diseased, Mac., v. 1, 3; a noble, o'erthrown,

Mephistopheles, Merry Wives, i. 1. Here used for an of the, Fr. Crom. 3; tempest in the, Lear, ii. 4; in-

ugly fellow.

Mirth, a man of, L.'s L.'s L., ii. 1; tears of, M. N. D.,
v. 1; goes all the day, Winter's T., iv. 2; rather have a
fool to make, As You Like It, iv. 1; away from home,
H. V., i. 2; exhortations to, M. of V., i. 1, ii. 2; M. N. D.,
i. 1; Tam. of S., induction, ii.; Winter's T., iv. 3; 1 Η.
IV., ii. 4; Mac., iii. 4; a light heart lives long, L.'s L.'s
L., i. 2; all, from the crown of the head to the sole of
the foot, Much Ado, iii. 2; of a child, Winter's T., i. 2.
Misenum, Italy, scene of a part of A. & C.

Misers, H. V., ii. 4; like whales, Peric., ii. 1; gold of,
Ven. & Ad., 1. 767; Lucrece, 1. 855.

Misery, makes strange bedfellows, Temp., ii. 2; parts
the flux of company, As You Like It, ii. 1; willing, T. of
A., iv. 3; sees miracles, Lear, ii. 2; of one's betters, Lear,
iii. 6, end; trodden on, Ven. & Ad., 1. 707; makes sport
to mock itself, R. II., ii. 1. See also ADVERSITY.

Misfortunes, come not singly, Ham., iv. 5, 7; Peric., i. 4.
Mislike (dislike), M. of V., ii. 1; 2 H. VI., i. 1.
Misprise (mistake), M. N. D., iii. 2; (despise), As You
Like It, i. 1.

Miss (dispense with), Temp., i. 2.
Missive (messenger), A. & C., ii. 2.
Mistletoe, baleful, Tit. And., ii. 3.

Mistress (the jack at bowls), Tr. & Cr., iii. 2.
Mithridates, of Comagene, A. & C., iii. 6.

Mitylene, in Lesbos, scene of a part of Peric.

Mob(s), a London, H. VIII., v. 4; Roman, Cor., i. 1,
ii. 1, iii. 1, 3, iv. 1, 2, 6; 4. & C., v. 2; the fool multitude,
M. of V., ii. 9.

Mobled, Ham., ii. 2. Hastily dressed, or, perhaps,
hooded or muffled.

Mockery, made serious, H. V., i. 2; of Beatrice, Much
Ado, iii. 1; returned, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2; solemn, Ham.,
iii. 4; of a man by his own achievements, Tr. & Cт.,
iv. 2.

Modern (trivial or ordinary), As You Like It, ii. 7;
All's Well, ii. 3; A. & C., v. 2; K. J., iii. 4.

Modesty, may more betray our sense, etc., M. for M.,
ii. 2; the witness of excellence, Much Ado, ii. 3; shown
in the face, 3 H. VI., iii. 2; too great, Cor., i. 9; of a girl,
Oth., i. 3; an excellent touch of, Tw. Nt., ii. 1; the crim
son of, H. V., v. 2; of women in men's apparel, Two
Gent., v. 4; Cymb., iii. 4.

Modesty (moderation), Tam. of S., induction, i.
Modo, a fiend, Lear, iii. 4, iv. 1.

Module (model, outward show), All's Well, iv. 3; K. J.,

v. 7.

Moe (more), Winter's T., 1. 2, v. 2; (to mow), Temp.,

ii. 2.

Moldwarp (mole), 1 H. IV., iii. 1.

Mole, the blind, Temp., iv. 1; Winter's T., iv. 3; Ham.,

1. 5.

Mole(s) (marks), Tre. Nt., v. 1; K. J., iii. 1; Ham., i. 4;
Cymb., ii. 2, 4, v. 5.

Mome (fool), Com. of Er., iii. 1.

Momentany (old form of momentary), M. N. D., i. 1.
Monarcho, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 1. The nickname of an
Italian, a fantastic character of the time.

Money, all ways lie open for, Merry Wives, ii. 2;
marrying for, Merry Wives, iii. 4; Tam. of S., 1. 2; love
of, All's Well, iv. 3, "Sir, for a quart d'ecu," etc.; R. II.,
ii. 2, "Their love lies in their purses," etc.; raised by
farming the realm, R. II., i. 4; gained by vile means,

Jul. Cæs., iv. 3; power of, T. of A., iv.
purse, Oth., i. 3; despised, Cymb., iii. 6.
Monks, are not made by hoods, Tw. Nt.
iii. 1.

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3; put, in thy
See also GOLD.
i. 5; H. VIII.,

Monmouth, Henry of. See HENRY V.
Monmouth, compared to Macedon, H. V., iv. 7.

Monster(s), a shallow, weak, credulous, Temp., ii. 2;
of the sea, M. of V., iii. 2; Cor., iv. 2; in love with a,
M. N. D., iii. 2.

Montacute. See SALISBURY.

Montacute, Henry Pole, Lord, H. VIII., i. 1. Son-in-
law of Abergavenny, brother of Cardinal Pole.

Montague, John Neville, Marquis of, character in 3 II.

VI.

Monument, a, in verse, Sonnets lv., lxxxi., cvii.; a
living, Ham., v. 1; goodness and he shall fill up one, H.
VIII., ii. 1.

Monument, the, at Alexandria, A. & C., iv. 11 and 13,
or 13-15, v. 2.

Moon, the, the man in, Temp., ii. 2; controlled by a
witch, Temp., v. 1; like a silver bow, M. N. D., i. 1;
diseases caused by, M. N. D., ii. 1; creep through the
earth's centre, M. N. D., iii. 2; the watery star, Winter's
T., i. 2; the sea governed by, 1 H. IV., i. 2; envious, R.
& J., ii. 2; change like, T. of A., iv. 3; a drop from, dis-
tilled by witchcraft, Mac., iii. 5; eclipse of, portentous,
Mac., iv. 1; A. & C., iii. 13; Ham., 1. 1; to revisit the
glimpses of, Ham., i. 4; error of (lunacy caused by), Oth.,
v. 2; mistress of melancholy, A. & C., iv. 9; visiting,
A. & C., iv. 13 or 15; fleeting, A. & C., v. 2; eclipses of,
Lear, i. 2; conjuring, Lear, ii. 1; age of, L.'s L.'s L.,
iv. 2.

Moon-calf, Temp., ii. 2, iii. 2. A monster supposed to
be formed under the moon's influence.

Moonshine, a character in the interlude in M. N. D.,
v. 1, taken by Starveling, the tailor.

Moorditch, 1 H. IV., 1. 2. A part of the ditch about
London, an unwholesome morass.

Moorfields, H. VIII., v. 4. The train-bands were
drilled there.

Mopsa, a shepherdess in Winter's T., iv. 4.
Mordake, Earl of Fife, mentioned in 1 H. IV.

More, Sir Thomas, H. VIII., iii. 2. Lord Chancellor of
England, born 1480, executed 1535. Beatified 1888.
Morgan. See BELARIUS.

Morisco, H. VI., iii. 1. Name applied to the Moors
left in Spain after the fall of Granada.

Morning, Temp., v. 1; Much Ado, v. 3; M. N. D., iii.
2, "For night's swift dragons," etc.; 1 H. VI., ii. 2; 3 H.
VI., ii. 1; R. III., v. 3; R. & J., i. 1, ii. 3, iii. 5; Ham.,
i. 1, 5; song on, Cymb., ii. 3; Ven. & Ad., lines 2, 853;
Sonnet xxxiii.; Passionate Pilgrim, xv.; K. J., iii. 3;
Tr. & Cr., iv. 2; Jul. Cæs., ii. 1; A. & C., iv. 4.

Morocco, the Prince of, one of the suitors of Portia in
the M. of V.

Morris, All's Well, ii. 2; H. V., ii. 4. A dance, in
which the characters were generally Robin Hood, Maid
Marian, Little John, Scarlet, Stokesley, the Fool, and
Tom the Piper.

Morris, nine men's, M. N. D., ii. 1. A plat of ground
marked into squares like a chess-board for a game.
Morris-pike (Moorish pike), Com. of Er., iv. 3.
Mort Dieu! (God's death), 2 H. VI., i. 1.

Mortimer, Edmund, Earl of March, Glendower's son-
in-law in 1 H. IV.

Mortimer, Edmund, Earl of March, character in 1 H.

VI.

Mortimer, Lady, daughter of Owen Glendower in 1
H. IV.

Mortimer of Scotland, Lord, 1 H. IV., iii. 2.

Mortimer, Sir Hugh and Sir John, uncles of York in
3 H. VI.

Mortimer, John, the Duke of York's plan for having
Jack Cade assume the name of, H, VI., iii, 1,

Mortimers, claim of the, to the throne, 1 H. VI., ii. 5. prayer, Ham., iii. 3; no place should sanctuarize, Ham.,

Mother, grief of a, K. J., iii. 4; 3 H. VI., v. 5; ambi. Arthur, K. J., iv. 2; of the king, R. II., v. 6; denuncia

tion of a, Cor., i. 3; one, pleading for her son, Tit. And.,
1. 1 or 2; and her child, R. 11., iii. 2; 1 H. VI., iii. 3;
Jul. Cæs., iii. 1; Mac., i. 7.

Motion, things in, catch the eye, Tr. & Cr., iii. 3.

Motion (puppet-show), Two Gent., ii. 1; Winter's T.,

Ν.

Navarre, a province of Spain, once a kingdom, scene
of L.'s L.'s L.

Nay-word, or aye-word (watch-word, countersign),
Merry Wives, ii. 2; by-word, Tw. Nt., ii. 3.

Nazarite, the, M. of V., i. 2. Nazarene, Jesus.

Neapolitan Prince, one of the suitors of Portia, men-
tioned in the M. of V., i. 2.

Near-legged (starting with the left, or interfering),
Tam, of S., iii. 2.

Neb (beak), Winter's T., i. 2.
Nebuchadnezzar, All's Well, iv. 5.

Necessity, virtue of, Two Gent., iv. 1; honour hidden
in, Merry Wives, ii. 2; the fairest grant, Much Ado, i. 1;
plea of, L.'s L.'s L., i. 1; All's Well, i. 3, "He must needs
go," etc.; no virtue like, R. II., i. 3; sworn brother to,
R. II., ,v. 1; Ham., v. 1, "The cat will mew," etc.; sharp
pinch of, Lear, ii. 4; can make vile things precious,
Lear, iii. 2.

Nedar, father of Helena in M. N. D., iv. 1.

Neeld (needle), M. N. D., iii. 2.

Neif (fist), M. N. D., iv. 1; 2 H. IV., ii. 4.

Tro. Nt., iii. 4; A. & C., iv. 8; Lear, iii. 6; Passionate
Pilgrim, xxi.; allusion to the belief that she sings with
her breast against a thorn, Lucrece, 1. 1135.

Night-mare, the, Lear, iii. 4.

Night-raven, Much Ado, ii. 3.

Nile, the, serpent of old, A. & C., i. 5; overflowing of,
A. & C., ii. 7; presageth famine, A. & C., i. 2.
Ninny (Ninus), tomb of, M. N. D., iii. 1, v. 1.

Niobe, all tears, Ham., i. 2; Tr. & Cr., v 2. She wept

herself into stone for the loss of her children.

Noble (half a mark, or 68. 8d.), R. II., 1. 1.

Nobleman, a, 3 H. VI., iii. 2. The king was taken by
the servants of Sir James Harrington.

Nobody, picture of, Temp., iii. 2. A common sign.
No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Sonnet 1xxi.
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done,
Sonnet xxxv.

No more dams I'll make for fish, song, Temp., ii. 2.
Nook-shotten (shut into a nook, or diversified with
nooks), H. V., iii. 5.

Ne intelligis (do you not understand?), L.'s L.'s L., v. 1. panions of Bolingbroke, R. II., ii. 1.

Norbury, Sir John, mentioned as one of the com-

Nell, the fat cook in Com. of Er., described in iii. 2.

Norfolk, Robert (correctly Roger) Bigot, Earl of, char-

Nemean lion, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 1; Ham., i. 4.

acter in K. J.

Nemesis, avenging goddess, 1 II. VI., iv. 7.
Neoptolemus, Tr. & Cr., iv. 5. Incorrectly used as a
name of Achilles, whose son he was.

Neptune, Temp., i. 2, v. 1; Winter's T., iv. 3 or 4; 3 H.
IV., iii. 1; Ham,, iii. 2; A. & C., iv. 12 or 14; M. N. D.,
ii. 2; would not flatter him for his trident, Cor., iii. 1;
England his park, Cymb., iii. 1.

Nerissa, waiting-maid of Portia in M. of V.
Nero (Emperor of Rome, born 37, died 68 A.D.), K. J.,
v. 2; 1 H. VI., i. 4; 3 H. VI., iii. 1; the soul of, Ham.,
iii. 2; an angler in the lake of darkness, Lear, iii. 6.

Neroes, ye bloody, K. J., v. 2.

Nervii, a tribe of the Belgw, Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

Nessus, All's Well, iv. 3; A. & C., iv. 10 or 12. A

Neville. See WARWICK.

Neville, Ralph. See WESTMORELAND.
New, nothing, Sonnet lix.

Newness, in authority, zeal of, M. for M., i. 3.
News, good and bad, Two Gent., iii. 1; resentment
toward the bearer of, Much Ado, ii. 1; the bearer of ill,
K. J., iii. 1; 2 H. IV., i. 1; Mac., iv. 3; A. & C., i. 2, ii.
5; fitting to the night, K. J., v. 6; bearer of good, 2 H.
IV., iv. 4, "Thou art a summer bird," etc.; impatience
for, R. & J., ii. 5, iii. 2; bad, Cymb., iii. 4; of war, 2 H.
IV., i. 1, ii. 4; of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Ham., v. 2; K. J., iv. 2; Jul. Cæs., v. 3; wonderful,
Winter's T., v. 2; fresh, every minute, A. & C., iii. 7; the
bearer of strange, Mac., i. 2; stale, Ham.; 1.5; old (great),
Tam. of S., iii. 1.

Nice (foolish or trivial), Tam. of S., iii. 1; R. & J., v. 2.
Nicholas, Saint, Two Gent., iii. 1; clerks of (robbers),
1 H. IV., ii. 1.

Nick (reckoning made by notches in sticks), out of all,
Two Gent., iv. 2.

Nicks, like a fool (cuts his hair like a jester's), Com. of
Er., v. 1.

Night, beauty of a, M. of V., v. 1; makes the ear more
quick, M. N. D., iii. 2; time for fairies and ghosts, M. N.
D., v. 2, "Now the hungry lion," etc.; for plotting crime,
K. J., iii. 3; crimes in the, R. II., iii. 2; the tragic, 2 H.
VI., iv. 1; sober-suited, R. & J., iii. 2; a dark, Mac., ii. 1,
"There's husbandry in heaven;" an unruly, Mac., ii. 3, 4;
description of, Mac., iii. 2; is long that, Mac., iv. 3; the
witching time of, Ham., iii. 2; Lucrece, lines 117, 162,
764, 1081; wakefulness in the, Sonnet 1xi.; imagination
at, Sonnets xxvii., xxviii.; unwelcome, Passionate Pil-
grim, xv.; the dragon-wing of, Tr. & Cr., v. 9. See also

MIDNIGHT.

Night-crow, 3 H. VI., v. 6.
Nightingale, the, Two Gent., v. 4; M. of V., v. 1; R.
& J., iii. 5; M. N. D., 1. 2; Tam. of S., induction ii., ii. 1;

Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, Duke of, character in R. II.
Norfolk, John Mowbray, Duke of, character in 3 H. VI.
Norfolk, John Howard, Duke of, character in R. III.
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, character in H.
VIII. There were two Dukes of Norfolk during the time
of this play. The first was the Surrey of R. III., son of
the Norfolk who fell at Bosworth. He died in 1524, and
was succeeded by his son of the same name, the Earl of
Surrey in this play.

Normandy, the loss of, to England, 2 H. VI., iv. 7.
Normans, the English, called, H. V., iii. 5.
Northampton, scene of a part of K. J.

Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of, character in

R. II., and in the two parts of II. IV.

Northumberland, Lady, a character in 2 H. IV., ap-
pears in ii. 3 only. She was Hotspur's step-mother, the
Lady Mand Lucy, widow of the Earl of Angus before she

married Northumberland.

Northumberland, third Earl of, character in 3 H. VI.
Northumberland, the melancholy, R. III., v. 3.

Norweyan lord, the (Sweno, King of Norway), Mac., i. 2.
Nose(s), an embellished, Com. of Er., iii. 2; a good, is
requisite, Winter's T., iv. 3; twenty of the dog-days in a,
H. VIII., v. 3; why it is in the middle of the face, Lear,
i. 5; liberty (license) plucks justice by the, M. for M., i.
4; to be led by the, Oth., i. 3; Heaven stops the, Oth.,
iv. 2; Alexander's, see ALEXANDER.

Nose-bleed, the, ominous, M. of V., ii. 5.

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck, Sonnet
xiv.

Nothing, an infinite deal of, M. of V., i. 1; prologue
to, All's Well, ii. 1, "Thus he his special nothing ever
prologues;" all the world is, Winter's T., i. 2; can come
of nothing, Lear, i. 1.

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change,
Sonnet cxxiii.

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments, Sonnet lv.
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul, Sonnet

cvii.

Nott-pated (crop-headed), 1 H. IV., ii. 4.

Novelty, in request, M. for M., iii. 2; H. VIII., i. 3;
Tr. & Cr., iii. 2, "All praise new-born gauds."

Novem, or novum (a game at dice), L.'s L.'s L., v. 2.
Novi hominem, etc., L.'s L.'s L., v. 1. I know the
man as well as you.

Nowl (head), M. N. D., iii. 2.

Nuns, life of, M. N. D., i. 1; M. for M., i. 5; Lover's
Complaint, 1. 232; As You Like It, iii. 4.
Nurse, character in Tit. And.
Nurse, Juliet's, in R. & J.

Nuthook (used by thieves to take things out of win-
dows), M. for M., i. 1; (slang for bailiff), 2 H. IV., v. 4.
Nutmeg, a gilt, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2.

Nym, a character in the Merry Wives and in H. V., a
corporal under Falstaff. In H. V. he appears in i. 1.
Nymphs, cold, Temp., iv. 1.

O, this wooden, II. IV., chorus to act i. This was the
Globe Theatre, which was circular inside. This little O, the
earth, A. & C., v. 2; an O without a figure, Lear, i. 4; the
stars, fiery Oes, M. N. D., iii. 2; so deep an, R. & J., iii. 3.

Oak, Jove's tree, Temp., v. 1; As You Like It, iii. 2;
an ancient, As You Like It, ii. 1, iv. 3; garland of, Cor.,
1. 3, ii. 1, 2; Herne's, Merry Wires, iv. 4; strength of,
M. for M., ii. 2; Jul. Cæs., 1. 3; to hew down with rushes,
Cor., i. 1. See HERNE.

Oatcake, Hugh, mentioned in Much Ado, iii. 3.

Ο.

Oath(s), weakness of, Temp., iv. 1; his, are oracles,
Two Gent., ii. 7; lose our, to find ourselves, L.'s L.'s L.,
iv. 3, near end; Celia's, to make restitution, As You Like
It, i. 2; not the many that make the truth, All's Well,
iv. 2; administered, Winter's T., iii. 2; never to marry,
Winter's T., v. 1; obligation of, K. J., iii. 1; of ven-
geance, K. J., iv. 3; of enemies not to be reconciled, R.
11., i. 3; of the king, 1 II. IV., v. 1; a sin to keep sin-
ful, 2 H. VI., v. 1; 3 H. VI., v. 1, "To keep that oath
were more impiety than Jephthah's," etc.; binding, 3 H.
17., i. 2; Henry's, 3 H. VI., ii. 2; needlessness of, Jul.
Cors., ii. 1; on a sword, Ham., i. 5; no better than the
word, Peric., i. 2; deep, Sonnet clii.; are straws, H. V.,
ii. 3; are in heaven, M. of V., iv. 1; stronger than Her-
cules in breaking, All's Well, iv. 3. See also Vows and

PERJURY.

Oaths (exclamatory), face the matter out with, Tam.
of S.. ii. 1; approve manhood, The, Nt., iii. 4, "Go, Sir

Andrew," etc.; the right kind of, 1 IH. IV., iii. i.

Oaths and Exclamations: Richard III. swears by St.
Paul, his favourite oath according to tradition (R. III.,
1. 2, 3, iii. 4, v. 3), and "by my George" (iv. 4), that is,
the figure of St. George on the badge of Knights of the
Garter, though that was first used in the reign of Henry
VII. A favourite exclamation with Henry VIII. was
"Ha!" frequently used in the play; Hamlet swears by
St. Patrick (i. 5), by our lady (ii. 2), and by the rood
(iii. 4); Polonius, by the mass (Ham., ii. 1); Parson
Evans, by God's lords and his ladies, 'od's (God's) plessed
will, and the teevil and his tam (Merry Wives, i. 1); Mrs.
Page, by the dickens (Merry Wives, iii. 2); Nym, by
welkin and her star (i. 3); Dr. Cains, by gar (i. 4, iii. 3);
Shallow and Page, by cock and pie (Merry Wires, i. 1;
H. IV., v. 1), possibly referring to the cock and mag.
pie, a common alehouse sign; by cock, Tam, of S., iv. 1;
Ham, iv. 5; perdy (par Dieu), Com, of Er., iv. 4; H. V.,
ii. 1; 's lid (by God's lid), Merry Wives, iii. 4; Tw. Nt.,
iii. 4; 'od's lifelings (God's dear life), Tre. Nt., v. 1; by
my halidom (holy dame, or holy dom, salvation?), Two
Gent., iv. 2; Tam, of S., v. 2; II. VIII., v. 1; R. & J.,
1. 3; holy Mary, II. VIII., v. 2; 's death (God's death),
Cor., i. 1; by God's sonties (? sanctities), M. of V., ii. 2;
's blood (God's blood), 1 H. IV., i. 3; zounds (God's
wounds), K. J., ii. 2; 1 H. IV., 1. 3, ii. 3, iv. 1; bodikins
(little body), Merry Wives, ii. 3; marry (supposed cor-
ruption of Mary), in numberless passages; rivo, a drink-
ing exclamation of unknown meaning, 1 H. IV., ii. 4;
by my hood (? manhood), M. of V., ii. 6; by the rood,
L.'s L.'s L., iv. 3; mort du vinaigre (a nonsensical ex-
pression, literally, death of the vinegar), All's Well, ii. 3;
darkness and devils-life and death, Lear, i. 4; ven-
geance, plague, death, confusion-my breath and blood-
death on my state, O the blest gods, Lear, ii. 4; by
Cheshu (Jesu), H. V., iii. 2; by Chrish (Christ), H.
iii. 2; by Apollo, Lear, i. 1; by Jupiter, by Juno, Lear,
ii. 4; by two-headed Janus, M. of V., i. 1; by Pluto and
hell, Cor., 1. 4; O immortal gods, Tam. of S., v. 1; Me-
hercle (? Hercules), L.'s L.'s L., iv. 2; the good year, I
Merry Wires, i. 4; by St. Jeronimy, Tam. of S., induction,
gramercies, Tam, of S.,
L.'s L., v. 2; 'i fecks

i.

St. Jamy, induction, ii.;

V.

i.; by
St. Denis to St. Cupid, L.'s 1;
(? in effect)-grace to boot, Winter's T., i. 2; by my fay
(faith), Tam. of S., induction, ii,

Oats, wild, Ham., ii. 1.

Ob (obolus, halfpenny), 1 H. IV., ii. 4.

Oberon, king of the fairies in M. N. D. The name is

French, from Alberon or Alberich, a fairy dwarf in old
German poems. In French it became Auberich and

Auberon. See FAIRIES.

Obidicut, a fiend, Lear, iv. 1.

Obsequious (funereal), Ham,, i. 2.

1

O call not me to justify the wrong, Sonnet xxxix.
Octavia, Antony's wife, character in A. & C.
Odd numbers, superstition about, Merry Wives, v. 1.
Ods pittikins (God's dear pity), Cymb., iv. 2.
Oeillades (glances), Merry Wires, i, 3; Lear, iv. 5.
O'erlooked (bewitched), Merry Wires, v. 5.

O'erraught (overreached), Com. of Er., i. 2; (overtook,
Ham., iii. 1.

O for my sake do you with fortune chide, Sonnet exi.
Sonnet cl.
O from what power hast thou this powerful might,

O how I faint when I of you do write, Sonnet 1xxx.
O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem.

Sonnet liv.

xxxix.
O how thy worth with manners may I sing, Sonnet

Falstaff, as it was the name of the character in the old
Oldcastle, Sir John, was the name first given to
play that furnished the hint for him. It was changed
because it was taken to be intended for Sir John Old-
castle, who had been page to the Duke of Norfolk (said
of Falstaff in 2 H. IV., iii. 2), and was afterward, as
Lord Cobham, a Lollard or Wickliffite, who fell a martyr
epilogue to 2 H. IV. says, speaking of Falstaff, "hor
to his faith. Shakspere changed the name, and in the
Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man. In
1 II. IV., i. 2, the prince calls him "my old lad of the
castle."

lxxii.
O lest the world should task you to recite, Sonnet

Oliver, elder brother of Orlando in As You Like It.
Olivers, 1 IH. VI., 1. 2. Oliver was one of Charle
magne's twelve peers.

Olivia, character in Tw. Nt.

Olympian games, 3 II. VI., ii. 3; Tr. de Cr., iv. 5.
Olympus, Ham., v. 1; Cor., v. 3; Tit. And., ii. 1. The

mountain of the gods.

K. J., iv. 2: of anarchy, R. 11., ii. 4; night-owls, R. II.
Omens, unnatural reasons, M. N. D., ii. 2; five moons,
iii. 3; at Glendower's birth, 1 H. IV., iii. 1; of evil, H.
IV., iv. 4; Gloucester's dream, 2 H. VI., i. 2; at Richards
birth, 3 H. VI., v. 6; Stanley's dream, R. III., iii. 2; a
stumbling horse, R. III., iii. 4; a tempest after a treaty
of peace, H. VIII., i. 1; irregularity of planets, Tr
Cr., i. 3; Andromache's dream, Tr. & Cr., v. 3; stumbling
at graves, R. & J., V. 3; dreams, Jul. Cas., 1. 3, ii. 2,
1; the raven is hoarse that croaks, Mac., i. 5; the owl
Mac., ii. 2, 3; of death, Mac., ii. 3, 4: the ghost-f
Cæsar's death, Ham., i. 1; swallows' building, A. & C.,
iv. 10 or 12; should have shown the death of Antony. A.
& C., v. 1; of success, Cymb., iv. 2, "Last night the very
gods," etc.; fear caused by, Ven. & Ad., 1. 924; the three

suns. See SUNS. See also DREAMS and PORTESTS,

O me what eyes hath love put in my head, Sonnet

exlviii.

O mistress mine, song, Tw. Nt., ii. 3.
Omittance, is no quittance, As You Like It, iii. 5.
Omne bene (all well), L.'s L.'s L., iv. 2.

On a day, alack the day, Passionate Pilgrim, xvii.
One fair daughter, Ham., ii. 2. Part of an old ballad

on Jephthah's daughter.

One, the number, R. & J., 1. 2; Sonnet exxxvi., "One
is no number."

O never say that I was false of heart, Sonnet cix.
Oneyers (bankers), 1 H. IV., ii. 1.

Well, v. 3, near end; A. & C., i. 3, iv. 2.
Onions, to draw tears, Tam. of S., induction, i.; Alls
Ooze, of the Nile, A. & C., ii. 7.

Opal, thy mind is a very, Tw. Nt., ii. 4.
Ophelia, heroine of Ham.

jerkin, Tr. Cr. i. 3; if I bleed for my, 1 H. VI., i. 4;
Opinion, may be worn on both sides, like a leather
sovereign mistress of effects, Oth., i. 3; fool's gudgeon,
M. of V., i. 1; a fool, Peric., ii, 2; (dogmatism), L. L.
L., v. 1, "Learned without opinion;" (reputation), lost,
1 H. IV., v. 4.