Wood, or wode (wild, frantic), M. N. D., ii. 1; Ven. & Ad., 1. 740.
Woodbine, Much Ado, iii. 1; M. N. D., ii. 2, iv. 1. Woodcock (a gullible or cowardly fellow), Much Ado, v. 1; Tam. of S., i. 2; L.'8 L.'8 L., iv. 3; All's Well, iv. 1; Tu. Nt., iv. 2.
Woodville, Richard, Lieutenant or Constable of the Tower, afterward Earl Rivers, character in 1 H. VI. His daughter Elizabeth became the wife of Edward IV., and his son Anthony is the Earl Rivers of R. III. Being taken by the insurgents after the battle of Edgecote (July 26, 1469), he and his son, Sir John Woodville, were beheaded, without trial, at Coventry.
Woodville, Anthony. See RIVERS.
Wooing, by a figure, Two Gent., ii. 1; an odd, Tam, of S., ii. 1; in haste, Tam. of S., iii. 2; in rhyme, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2; a king's, H. V., v. 2; an unique, R. III., i. 2; love sweeter in, Tr. & Cr., i. 2, end; idle, Ham., i. 3; a soldier's, Oth., i. 3; women were not made for, M. N. D., ii. 1 or 2; wedding and repenting, Much Ado, ii. 1.
Woolward, go, for penance, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2. Go clothed in wool instead of linen, sometimes imposed as a penance.
Worcester, burial of John at, K. J., v. 7.
Worcester, Thomas Percy, Earl of, character in 1
Word(s), crammed into the ears. Temp., ii 1; his, are bonds, Two Gent., ii. 7; evil, double deeds, Com. of Er., iii. 2; ill, empoison liking, Much Ado, iii. 1; high, to low matter, L.'s L.'s L., i. 1; pronunciation of certain- longest of all, L.'s L.'s L., v. 1; an army of good, M. of I., iii. 5; a man of (Parolles, which means words), All's Well; dallying with, Tw. Nt., iii. 1; bethumped with, K. J., ii. 2; like a woman's, 1 H. IV., i. 3; of the dying, R. IÍ., ii. 1; windy attorneys, R. III., iv. 4; mere, Tr. & Cr., v. 3; and strokes, Jul. Cos., v. 1; unpack the heart with, Ham., ii. 2; without thoughts, Ham, iii. 3; to grief, Oth., i. 3; to tire the hearer with a book of, Much Ado, i. 1; an exchequer of, but no other treasure, Two Gent., ii. 4; a soldier-like, 2 H. IV., iii. 2; have put to flight when blows could not, Cor., ii. 2; unprofitable, Lucrece, 1. 1016; wind of, Lucrece, 1. 1330.
World, on wheels, a, Two Gent., iii. 1; an oyster, Merry Wives, ii. 2; delights of the, renounced, L.'s L.'s L., i. 1; weariness of the, M. of V., i. 2; bought with care-a stage, M. of V., i. 1; As You Like It, ii. 7; what a, is this, As You Like It, ii. 3; how wags-the infected,
As You Like It, ii. 7; a, to see (a wonder to see), Tam, of S., ii. 1: go to the (to marry), All's Well, i. 3; turned by commodity, or interest, K. J.. ii., end; doffed aside, 1 H. IV., iv. 1; to bustle in the, R. III., i. 1; all, to nothing, R. III., i. 2; vain pomp and glory of the, H. VIII., iii. 2; slippery turns of the, Cor., iv. 4; to do harm in the, often laudable, Mac., iv. 2; weariness with, Mac., v. 5; all uses of it, weary, stale, etc., Ham,, i. 2; mutations of the, Lear, iv. 1; a stage of fools, Lear, iv. 6; this tough, Lear, v. 3; the future, A. & C., iv. 12 or 14; renouncing the, different from being in ignorance of the, Cymb., iii. 3; deceit of the, R. III., iii. 1; praise of the,
Worldlings, testaments of, As You Like It, ii. 1.
Worm(s), that hath eat a king, Ham., iv. 3; man a, Lear, iv. 1; the word is often used for serpent. as A. & C., v. 2; allusion to the notion that toothache was caused by a, Much Ado, iii. 2; food for, 1 H. IV., v. 4; the only emperors for diet-politic, Ham., iv. 3, or v. 7.
Worthies, the Nine, L.'s L.'s L., v. 1; 2 H. IV., ii. 4. They were: three heathens-Hector, Alexander, and Cæsar; three Jews-Joshua, David, and Judas Macca- bæus; and three Christians-Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon. Shakspere includes Pompey and Hercules
Worts, quibble on, Merry Wives, i. 1. A general name for vegetables of the cabbage kind.
Wound(s), one, to be healed by many, K. J., v. 2; notion that they open in presence of the murderer, R III., i. 2; the custom of showing, when seeking an election, Cor., ii. 3; he that never felt a, jests at scars, R. & J., ii. 2; one not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door, R. & J., iii. 1; Cesar's, Jul. Cœs., iii. 1, 2; a, Ven. & Ad., 1. 1052.
Wren(s), the youngest of nine, Tu. Nt., iii. 2. The wren was said to lay nine eggs, and the last bird hatched was the smallest; and as Maria was very small, she was eagles dare not perch, R. III., i. 3; parental love of called the youngest wren of nine; may prey where
Wrest (an active power), Tr. & Cr., iii. 3.
Wrestling, allusions to: on the hip, M. of V., i. 3; Oth., ii. 1; a wrestling-match, As You Like It, i. 2.
Wrinkles, of age, All's Well, ii. 4; likened to kingly sepulchres, 3 H. VI., v. 2; let them come with mirth and laughter, M. of V., i. 1.
Writhled (wrinkled), 1 H. VI., ii. 3.
Writing, comes by nature, Much Ado, iii. 3; let it be held treacherous, Cymb., iv. 2; a baseness to write fair, Ham., v. 2; in a martial hand, Tw. Nt., ii. 3.
Wroath (ill fortune), M. of V., ii. 9.
Wrong(s), it is dishonourable to remember, Cor., v. 3; to Brutus and Cassius, Jul. Cos., iii. 2; pocketing up of H. V., iii. 2; humanity must prey upon itself, Lear, iv. fears attend the steps of, K. J., iv. 2; flattery a, R. II, 2; to do a great right, do a little wrong, M. of V., iv. 1; iii. 2; to wear wrongs like raiment, T. of A., iii. 2. Wrying (swerving), Cymb., v. 1.
Wye, the, river, 1 H. IV., iii. 1; H. V., iv. 7.
Yare, yarely (quick, speedy, active, skilfully), Temp., i. 1, v. 1; M. for M., iv. 2; Tu. Nt., iii. 4; A. & C., ii. 2. Yaw, Ham., v. 2. A sailor's word, meaning not to obey the helm; to move unsteadily.
Yclep'd (called, from clepe), L.'s L.'s L., i. 1, v. 2. Yead (Edward), Merry Wives, i. 1.
Yearn (to grieve), H. V., ii. 3, iv. 3; Jul. Cœs., ii. 2; R. II., v. 5; Merry Wives, iii. 5. Yellowness (colour of jealousy), Merry Wives, i. 3, end; Winter's T., ii. 3, No yellow in't," etc.; Cymb., ii. 5. Yellows (jaundice in horses), Tam. of S., iii. 2.
Yeoman (subordinate), 2 H. IV., ii. 1. Yeoman-service, Ham., v. 2. Yeomen, of England, H. V., iii. 1. Yesterday(s), 0, call back, R. II., iii. 2; all our, have lighted fools, the way to dusty death, Mac., v. 5.
Yew, double-fatal (so called because it was used for bows, and the leaves were poisonous), R. II., iii. 2; alla sion to the custom of placing sprigs of it in the shroud, Tw. Nt., ii. 4, song; used by witches when slivered in the moon's eclipse, Mac., iv. 1; in churchyards, R. & J.,
Yield (requite), Mac., i. 6; A. & C., iv. 2. Yorick, the king's jester, skull of, Ham., v. 1.
York, scene of 2 H. IV., i. 3, and of 3 H. VI., iv. 7; mayor of, 3 H. VI., iv. 2.
York, Archbishop of, mentioned in 3 H. VI., iv. 3. George Neville, brother of Warwick. See ROTHERHAM and SCROOP.
York, Duchess of, a character in R. II. The mother of Aumerle, the Duchess Isabel, daughter of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile and Leon, died four or five years earlier than the time of the play; and the Duchess at this time was his step-mother, Joan Holland, daughter of the Earl of Kent. But Shakspere evidently intends the character for Aumerle's own mother.
York, Cicely Neville, Duchess of, wife of Richard, Duke of York, and mother of Edward IV., and Richard III., a character in R. III.
York, Edmund of Langley, Duke of, a character in R. II. York, Edward Plantagenet, Duke of, character in H. V. The Aumerle of R. II.
York, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of (1410-1460), charac- ter in the three parts of H. VI. Of his four sons, Ed. mund, Duke of Rutland, was killed by Clifford, 3 H. VI., i. 3, just before his father's death; George, Duke of Clarence, was murdered in the Tower; and Edward and Richard reigned as Edward IV. and Richard III. (q.v.).
York, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of, the younger of the two sons of King Edward IV., character in R. III. York, sun of, R. III., i. 1. Edward IV., whose cogniz
York-place, name of, changed to Whitehall, H. VIII., iv. 1.
Yorkshire, Gualtree Forest in, scene of 2 H. IV., iv. 1-3.
Young, so, and so villainous, As You Like It, i. 1; the wise die, R. III., iii. 1; so, and so untender, Lear, i. 1; so, and so unkind, Ven. & Ad., 1. 187.
Your love and pity doth the impression fill, Sonnet cxii.
You spotted snakes, song, M. N. D., ii, 2.
Youth, home-keeping, Two Gent., i. 1; salt of, left, Merry Wives, ii. 3; men moved by, M. for M., i. 3, near the end; aims and ends of, M. for M., i. 4; wants of, M. for M., iii. 1; blaze of, All's Well, v. 3; a stuff will not endure, Tw. Nt., ii. 3, song; is easily amused, 2 H. IV., v. 1; advice for, Ham., i. 3; wild oats of, Ham., ii. 1; becomes its careless livery, Ham., iv. 7; salad-days of, 4. & C., i. 5; one's, in his friends, Sonnet xxii.; cannot live with age, Passionate Pilgrim, xii.; aptness of, T. of 4., i. 1; truth of, not to be trusted, Cymb., v. 5; friend- ship of, Winter's T., i. 2; melancholy in, M. of V., i. 2; uncurbed, 2 H. IV., iv. 4.
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