Sanctuary (96), a church or sacred
spot to which people could fly
for refuge in danger.
Sand, sandbank.

Sanguine (222), red-faced.
Scabbed (26), worthless.

Scandal (119), to speak evil of.
Scant (180), to cut short.
Schedule, paper.

Scrip, written document.

Scrivener, a writer, especially of legal documents. Scrubbed, scrubby. Scur, fly, scurry. 'Scuse, excuse.

Sealed up (56), fully settled, confirmed.

Secure, securely, free from care.
Security, carelessness.

Seduce, to mislead, draw away
from the right path.
Self (151), same.
Self-glorious, boastful.

Semblance, likeness, resemblance. Senator, a member of the chief council.

Senses (132), powers of the mind.
Sensible (208), having feeling.
Sensibly (107), in a way that
touches the feelings.
Servile, slavish.
Servitude, slavery.

Setter (217), a cross between a spaniel and a pointer, trained to mark the position of a bird; comically said of Bardolph, who has marked the movements of the travellers.

Several (139), separate.

Shadow (119), reflection.
Shaft, arrow.

Shotten, that has shed its roe, worthless.

Shrewd, spiteful.

Shrewdly, sharply.

Signed, marked.

Significants, signs, tokens.
Signior, Mr.

Singular, standing alone, rare.

Sinister, on the left hand.
Sirrah, you there!
Skirr, scurry.

Sledge, sledge-hammer.
Slighted off, ignored, thrown aside
with contempt.

Slips, nooses in which the dogs were held until started for the game.

Slovenry, slovenliness.
Smatch, smack, taste.

Snuff, to be in (210), to be annoyed (because snuff tickles the nose; there is also a joke about the candle).

Soft, gently, stop, no hurry!
Soil (58, 118), stain, blemish.
Solemnize, to carry out in a legal
or religious manner.
Solicit, to ask.

Sort (180), to put straight, arrange for the best.

Sparkling of the body (23), scattering, breaking up the main body of the troops. 'Spect, to suspect. Spectacle, sight. Spleen, spite.

Split, a part to make all (199), a raging and roaring part. (A metaphor for a ship going to pieces in a storm.) Spruce, dashing.

Squander, to make money fly. Squandered (152), scattered. Stars, O my (42). In old days people thought that the stars acted on their lives and fortunes. We still talk of a 'lucky star', and say that an unlucky man is 'ill-starred'.

Starting-pole, a loophole, way of escape.

Statue, a statue.

*Statues (193). D. means' statutes', the laws of the land.

Staves (92), shafts of spears.
Stead, to help.

Sternage of, to, astern of. (Fol-
low the ships in their course.)
Stock-fish, dried cod.
Stomach (79), appetite.
Straightway, at once.

Sufferance, by his (66), by your allowing him to go unpunished. *Suffigance (195). D. means 'suffisance', or enough.

Supposition, in (152), not actually in hand, only supposed. All right, if they come home safe. Surety, one who is bound for a debtor, and has to pay if the debtor cannot.

Suspect (49), suspicion. *Suspect (197). D. means respect'.

Suspire, to breathe.

Sustenance, food.
Swayed, moved.

Swelling (63), growing greater, rising.

Taint (19, 21), to dishonour.
Tale, in a (196), to agree.
Tallow-keech, a mass of tallow
rolled into a lump for the chand-
ler.

Tardy-gaited, moving slowly.
Target, small round shield.
Tarry, wait.

Tedious, tiresome.
Teeming, fruitful.

Temporal (171), earthly (the opposite of 'spiritual' or heavenly).

Tench, stung like a (214). A nonsense phrase: a 'tench 'is a freshwater fish.

Tendance, attention.

Tending to (135), referring to, aiming at.

Tenement, land or a house held of a superior.

Testament, a will.

Testy, fretful, irritable.
That (73, 132), so that.
Theme, a thing to talk about.
Thorough (128), through.
Thread and thrum (211), good
and bad together, all alike.
Thrum is the loose end of a
weaver's warp, and so any coarse
yarn.

Threaden, made of thread.
Three-man's song, a song for three

Tongue-tied, not able to speak freely.

Topless, so high that you cannot see the top.

Toward (203), ready to begin. Tragedy, a play dealing with the ruin of a great man; (48) a king's death.

Train, snare, lure. *Tranquillity (215), quietness. G. means people who live at ease, and do not go in for the excitement of highway robbery; he is trying to talk grandly and mysteriously. Transgress (25), to disobey. Transitory, lasting only for a time, passing away.

Translated (204), changed into another creature. Trash (19), to handicap. When a hound was too quick and got ahead of the pack, the huntsman tied on its neck a long strap which dragged along the ground and checked the hound's pace. Tretably (225), moderately, not

too fast.

Tribute (177), something due and given as a token of friendship or gratitude.

Triumphant, victorious and rejoicing. With G.'s use (50), compare p. 35, 11. 15-26. B.'s use (203) is nonsensical; he means 'flaring', 'flaunting its red colour'.

Trivial, slight, unimportant.
Trophy, the honour of victory.
Troth, truth.

Trunk (169), the body without the
head, arms, and legs.
Tucket, a slight flourish on a
trumpet.

Turmoil, uproar and worry.

Umbered (72), dusky yellow in the firelight.

Unblown (33), still in the bud, like a flower which has not opened.

Unbreathed, unpractised. Unburthen, to unload, make no secret of.

Uncapable of (149, 166), not able to receive or feel.

Unchecked (156), not contradicted. Uncolted (217), without a horse. Undeaf (49), to free from deafness, make him hear.

Underling, an inferior, a slave. Undervalued, nothing (151), not a bit less worthy than.

Unguided (52), with no king worthy of the name to lead the people.

Unraised (63), dull, not rising to the subject as the Muse of fire' would do.

Unseasonable, coming at the wrong time.

Unstaid, unsteady.
Untendered, unpaid.
Untruss, to untie the breeches.
Unvalued (89), that cannot be
valued, invaluable.
Upbraid, to reproach.
Upreared, raised up.
Usance, interest on money.
Usher forth (116), to lead out in
state, like a court official intro-
ducing visitors to the king.
Utterance, at (36), to the death.

Vagrom, homeless, vagrant.
Vanity, worthless pleasure.
Varlet, scoundrel.
Vasty, vast.

Vaunt, vaunting, boast.
Vehement, strong, furious.
Vesture, dress.

Videlicet, namely, ' viz.'

Vigil, the eve of a saint's day.
Vigilant, wide awake.

*Vigitant (193). B. means 'vigilant'.

Visitation, visit, especially to the sick.

Vizard, mask. Void, empty.

Void (82), to leave empty; (154) to empty, spit out. Voluntarily, willingly.

Vouchsafe, to allow graciously.

Wait ye (107), wait upon you, attend you.

Wanton, playful, sportive. Wantonness for (37), for no real reason, just to humour their fancy. Ward, guard.

War-proof, of, proved in war, tried soldiers.

Warranty, guarantee, security. Watch (92), a guard. Compare p. 191.

Wawling, squalling, caterwauling.
Weeds, clothes.

Weigh (45), to consider.
Well-appointed, well equipped,

fitted out.

Well-favoured, good-looking. Welsh hook (42), an old weapon,

with a cutting blade, and a hook at the back.

What (39, 1. 75), why? Whenas, while all the time, while on the contrary.

Where (166, 1. 21), whereas, where on the contrary, although. Whiffler, an officer who headed a procession to clear the way. While, time.

While, God help the (219), God help us meanwhile. Whilom, formerly.

Withal, (1) with this, (2) also. Wit's regard (50), what the mind knows to be right.

Wooden O (63), the wooden theatre, circular inside.

Aeneas, a mythic warrior who
survived the fall of Troy, es-
caping from the ruined and
burning city, and carrying his
aged father Anchises out of it on
his shoulders. For seven years
he sailed the Mediterranean, then
landed in Italy, founded a city,
and became the ancestor of
Romulus, the founder of Rome.
Alexander the Great, king of
Macedon (born 356 B.C., died
323 B.C.), conquered the Persian
empire and pushed on as far as
India.

Amurath IV, Sultan of Turkey,
succeeded his father Amurath III
in 1596, invited all his brothers
to a feast in honour of his acces-
sion, and had them all strangled
at it.

Aristotle, a famous Greek philo-
sopher.

Ate, the goddess in old Greek
mythology who punishes men for
rash and wild deeds. Spenser in
The Fairy Queen places her
dwelling hard by the gates of
hell', and describes her as 'born
of hellish brood', and being her-
self the mother of debate'.

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Bacchanals: see Thracian singer.
Barbary, the Saracen countries
along the North coast of Africa.
Barrabas, Barabbas. This form
is used by Shakespeare and Mar-
lowe.

Brutus (121, 1. 134; 123, 1. 58).
The royal family of the Tarquins
were driven from Rome, and
Rome itself was made a republic,
because Sextus Tarquinius dis-
honoured a noble Roman lady
named Lucretia. The man who
headed the rising against the Tar-

quins was Lucius Junius Brutus,
an ancestor of the Brutus in
Shakespeare's play. See Macau-
lay's Lays of Ancient Rome.

Caesar's brag (35, 1. 20). In the
summer of 47 B.C. Julius Caesar
by rapid movements mastered
Asia Minor. After striking down
King Pharnaces of Pontus and
storming his camp at Zela, he
summed up the success in three
words Veni, vidi, vici, 'I came,
I saw, I conquered.'
Caperdochie, a high-sounding name
for the stocks.

Cassibelan, a British chieftain
whose tribe lived in Middlesex.
He was entrusted with the chief
command against Julius Caesar
in 54 B.C., the second Roman
invasion of Britain, and he was
conquered.

Cato, a famous Roman who fought
on the republican side against
Julius Caesar. He is often spo-
ken of as a type of 'the ancient
Roman honour'. He killed him-
self at Utica in North Africa,
46 B.C., to avoid falling into
Caesar's hands after the repub-
lican defeat. His daughter Portia
married Brutus, the murderer of
Caesar.

Charles's Wain, the Great Bear.
Colchos. See Jason.
Colossus, a gigantic figure of
Apollo, 70 cubits high, standing
over the entrance to the harbour
of Rhodes; anciently one of the
seven wonders of the world'.
Crispian, Crispin, two brothers,
shoemakers, martyred at Soissons
in France about the year 287 A.D.
Their day is October 25.