Plays and Poems

Hermione, heroine of the first part of Winter's T., wife
of Leontes and daughter of the Emperor of Russia.

Hermits, your (beadsmen to pray for you), Mac., i. 6;
Cymb., iii. 6, "Great men," etc.

Herne, the hunter, his oak in Windsor Forest, Merry
Wives, iv. 4, v. 5.

Hero, of Sestos, As You Like It, iv. 1; her tower, Two
Gent., iii. 1; R. & J., ii. 4.

Hero, daughter of Leonato, Governor of Messina,

character in Much Ado.

Herod, of Jewry, Merry Wives, ii. 1; H. V., iii. 2; A.
& C., i. 2, iii. 3, 6, iv. 6; out-Herods, Ham., iii. 2. Herod
was a frequent character in the miracle-plays.

Herring, a shotten, 1 II. IV., ii. 4. One that has cast
its spawn.

Hesperides, gardens of the, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 3; Peric., 1. 1.
Hesperus, sleepy lamp of, All's Well, ii. 1.

He that has and a little, song, Lear, iii. 2.

Hey Robin, song by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tw. Nt., iv. 2.
Hic et ubique (here and everywhere), Ham., 1. 5.

Hic ibat Simois, etc., from Ovid, Tam. of S., iii. 1.
"Here Simois flowed; here was the Sigeian land; here
stood the lofty realm of old Priam."

Hic jacet, All's Well, iii. 6. "Here lies."
Hide, your, and you, K. J., ii. 1. Austria was repre-
sented as wearing the lion's skin taken from Richard.

Highwaymen, St. Nicholas's clerks--Trojans, 1 H.
IV., ii. 1; gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon,
1 II. IV., i. 2.

Highway robbery, 1 II. IV., ii. 2; As You Like It, ii. 3.
Hilding (cowardly), 2 IH. IV., 1, 1; II. V., iv. 2.

Hilding (a coarse girl), Tam. of S., ii. 1.

Hinckley Fair, 2 II. IV., v. 1.

Hind, the, that would mate with the lion, All's Well, i. 1.
Hip, to have upon the (a wrestling phrase), M. of V.,
1. 3, iv. 1.

Hippocrates, Merry Wives, iii. 1. A Greek physician,
born about 460 B.C., called the father of medicine.

Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, character in the
M. N. D.

Hisperia, an attendant of the princess, mentioned in
As You Like It, ii. 2.

Hobbididence, a fiend, Lear, iv. 1.

Hobby-horse, Ham., iii. 2.

Hobby-horse is forgot, L.'s L.'s L., iii. 1. A line of
an old song.

Hob nob, is his word, Tre. Nt., iii. 4. Have or not have.
Hogs, shall I keep your, As You Like It, i. 1. Allu-
sion to the parable of the prodigal son. This making of
Christians will raise the price of, M. of V., iii. 5.

Hold you there (keep in that mind), M. for M., iii. 1.
Holiday(s), if all the year were, 1 II. IV., i. 2; a
beautiful, K. J., iii. 1.

Holland, John, a follower of Jack Cade, 2 II. VI., iv. 2.
Holmedon, or Homildon Hill, September 14, 1402,
battle at, 1 H. IV., i. 1, 3, between the Scots under
Douglas and the king's troops under Hotspur.

Holofernes, character in L.'s L.'s L. He has been
supposed to be a caricature of an Italian teacher in
London named Florio, who translated Montaigne and
published in 1598 a dictionary called "A World of
Words," and who had criticised the English dramas as
being "neither right comedies nor right tragedies, but
perverted histories without decorum.""

Holy Land, the, 1 H. IV., 1. 1.

Holy-rood day, 1 II. IV., i. 1. September 14th, feast
Holy thistle (Carduus benedictus), Much Ado, iii. 4. It
was used as a specific for heart diseases.

of the Exaltation of the Cross.

Holy water, court (flattery), Lear, iii. 2.

Homildon Hill. See HOLMEDON.

Honesty, wrangle with one's own, Merry Wives, ii. 1;
description of Duncan's, All's Well, iv. 3; is a fool,
Winter's T., iv. 3 or 4; pretence of, R. III., і. 3, "Ве-
cause I cannot flatter," etc.; armed strong in, Jul. Cæs.,
iv. 3; rarity of, Ham., ii. 2, iii. 1; Winter's T., ii. 1; T.
of A., iv. 3; honesty his fault, T. of A., iii. 1; no puritan,
All's Well, 1. 3; unsafe, Oth., iii. 3; a man of, Oth., v. 2.
Honeymoon, a, Tam. of S., iv. 1.

Honey-stalks, Tit. And., iv. 4. Supposed to be clover.

Honi soit, etc., Merry Wives, v. 5. "Shame to him.

Honour(s), take the, Merry Wives, ii. 1; hidden in
necessity, Merry Wives, ii. 2; that it were purchased by
merit, M. of V., ii. 9; the knight that swore by his, As
You Like It, i. 2; perfect, All's Well, i. 2; real, Alla
Well, ii. 3; wins but a scar, or, All's Well, iii. 2; a
woman's, Temp., 1. 2; All's Well, iii. 5, iv. 2; life loved
more than, M. for M., iii. 1; I stand for, Winter's T., ili
2; signs of new-made, K. J., i. 1; value of, R. II., 11:
shows in the meanest habit, Tam, of S., iv. 3; sets him
off more than a mortal seeming, Cymb., i. 7; in war and
in peace, Cor., iii. 2; who hates, hates the gods, Peric...
ii. 3; to pluck or bring up-shared with others, 1 H. IV.,
i. 3; Falstaff's opinion of, 1 H. IV., v. 1, end; lost, 2 H.
IV., ii. 3; covetous of, H. V., iv. 3; new, R. III., 13;
Mac., i. 3; depths and shoals of, H. VIII., iii. 2; for
accidental advantages-travels in a narrow strait, Tr. &
Cr., iii. 3; dearer than life, Tr. & Cr., v. 3; desire of,
Cor., i. 3; at difference with mercy, Cor., v. 3; a brow, a
throne for, R. & J., iii. 2; love of, Jul. Cæs., i. 2; justice
of a quarrel for, Ham,, iv. 4 (or 1); an essence not seen,
Oth., iv. 1; all in, Oth., v. 2; in love, A. & C., 1. 3; before
profit, A. & C., ii. 7; if born to, show it, Peric., iv. 6;
appeal to, Lucrece. 1. 568; and death, Lucrece, lines 103,
1051; fleeting, Sonnet xxv. See TRUTH, REPUTATION.

Honour, riches, marriage blessing, song, Temp., iv. 1
Hood, Robin, Two Gent., iv. 1; As You Like It, 11.
Hoodman blind (blind-man's-buff), All's Well, iv. 3;
Ham., iii. 4.

Hopdance, a fiend, Lear, iii. 6.

Hope, put off, Temp., iii. 3; a lover's staff, Two Gent..
iii. 1; a curtal (tailless) dog, Merry Wives, ii. 1; medicine
for the miserable, M. for M., iii. 1; fulfilment oft Cons
when it is coldest, All's Well, ii. 1; lined himself with
2 H. IV., 1. 3; is swift, R. III., v. 2; never wholly ful
filled, Tr. & Cr., i. 3; against evidence, Tr. & Cr.,
was the, drunk, Mac., i. 7; at the darkest time, Nat
iv. 2, 3; cozening, R. II., ii, 2; far off, 3 H. VI, int
one worth fighting for, 3 H. VI., v. 4.

Hopkins, Nicholas. See HENTON,
Horace, quoted, Tit. And., iv. 2.
Horatio, character in Ham.

Horn, is dry, the, Lear, iii. 6. The horn cup of the
beggar, to be filled by charity with beer.

Horns, of the cuckold, allusions to, Much Ado, 1.1.
As You Like It, iii. 3, iv. 1, 2; 17. & Cr., i. 1.

Horner, Thomas, an armourer in 2 IH. VI. His real
name was William Catur.

Horrors, supped full of, Mac. v. 5.

Horse(s), the dancing, L.'s L.'s L., i. 2. A learned
horse belonging to one Bankes was exhibited in Londe
in 1589. In France he was near being taken as a servetu
at the instance of the Capuchins. Description of a
diseased, Tam. of S., iii. 2; of that colour, The. Nt.,
praise of a, H. V., iii. 7; my kingdom for a, R. III. VA
ate each other, Mac., ii. 4; buttered hay for, Lear, in
beauty of a, Ven. & Ad., 1. 295; roan Barbary, R. II.

v. 5.

Horsemanship, good, Ham., iv. 7 (or 4); 1 II. IV., it
1; Lover's Complaint, 1. 106.

Hortensio, one of the unsuccessful suitors for Bianca
in the Tam. of S.

Hortensius, servant of one of the creditors of Timo
of Athens.

Hospitality, want of, As You Like It, ii. 4; extended.
Winter's T., 1. 1, 2, v. 1; T. of A., iii. 4; abuse of, Lear
iii. 7; Lucrece, lines 575, 842.

Host of the Garter Inn, character in Merry Wires
Hostess, character in the induction to the Tam. off
Hotspur, Henry Percy, so surnamed from his quick
temper, son of the Earl of Northumberland, character
R. II., and 1 H. IV. In 1 H. IV., iii. 2, he is rep
sented as of about the same age as the prince, though
really twenty years older.

Hounds, description of, M. N. D., iv. 1; fell and cruel
Tw. Nt., i. 1, allusion to the story of Acteon (q.t.)
Ven. & Ad., 1. 913. See HUNTING.

Hour-glass, allusions to the, Temp., 1, 2; M. of F
1; H. V., 1., chorus; Cymb., iii. 2.
Howard, John. See NORFOLK.
Howard, Thomas. See SURREY.

How can I then return in happy plight, Sonnet xxviii.
How can my muse want subject to invent, Sonnet

xxxviii.

How careful was I, Sonnet xlviii.

How heavy do I journey, Sonnet 1.

How like a winter hath my absence been, Sonnet

xevii.

How oft, when thou, my music, Sonnet cxxviii.
How sweet and lovely, Sonnet xcv.

How should I your true love, song, Ham. iv. 5 (or 2).
Hoxes (cuts the hamstrings of), Winter's T., i. 2.
Hubert de Burgh, character in K. J.

Hugger-mugger in (stealthily), Ham., iv. 5 (or 2).
Human nature, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 3, "God amend us,"
etc.; depravity of, H. VIII., v. 2, "We all are man's,"
etc.; T. of A., i. 2, iv. 3, "All is oblique,” etc.

Hume, John, a priest in 2 H. VI.
Humility, M. for M., ii. 4, "Let me be ignorant," etc.;
the witness of excellency, Much Ado, ii. 3; of a great
man, All's Well, i. 2; the base string of, 1 H. IV., ii. 4;
becoming in time of peace, H. V., iii. 1; H. V., v. 1,
"Being free from vainness," etc.; God thanked for,
R. III., ii. 1; the ladder of ambition, Jul. Cæs., ii. 1;
despised, Oth., i. 1, "You shall mark many," etc.; base,
R. II., v. 1; refusal to assume, Cor., ii. 1; the beetle
often safer than the eagle, Cymb., iii. 3.

Humour of Forty Fancies, Tam. of S., iii. 2. Thought
to be a collection of ballads.

Humourous (capricious), As You Like It, i. 2, ii. 3.

Humphrey, Duke, of Gloucester, called the good Duke
Humphrey, character in 2 H. IV., where he is Prince
Humphrey, and in the first and second parts of II. VI.
He was uncle of the infant king, and protector.

Humphrey Hour (or Hower), R. III., iv. 4. A puzzle

to the commentators.

"Hundred Merry Tales," Much Ado, ii. 1. Name of a
jest-book.

Hungarian wight (gipsy), Merry Wives, i. 3.
Hungary, King of. See CORVINUS.

Hungerford, Lord, 1 II. VI., i. 1.

Hunt, a, Tit. And., ii. 2; Ven. & Ad., 1. 870, et seq.
Hunting, terms of, and allusions to: uncape (let loose),
Merry Wives, iii. 3; trail-open, Merry Wives, iv. 2;
counter-dry foot, Com. of Er., iv. 2; recheat, Much Ado,
i. 1; hunting-scenes, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 1; M. N. D., iv. 1;
on the hip, M. of V., 1. 3; cruelty of, As You Like It,
ii. 1; dogs for, Tam, of S., induction, i., ii.; embossed
(foaming at the mouth), All's Well, iii. 6, and elsewhere;
metaphors from, Tw, Nt., i. 1; "all with purpled hands,"
K. J., ii. 1 or 2, allusion to the custom for all in the chase
to dye their hands in the blood of the game; before the
game's afoot, thou still let'st slip, 1 H. IV., i. 3; hunt-
counter (hunter going backward on the trace), 2 II. IV.,

Iachimo, an Italian, friend of Philario in Cymb.
Iago, ancient or ensign of Othello.

Icarus, 1 H. VI., iv. 6, 7; 2 H. VI., v. 6. Dædalus
made wings for himself and his son Icarus, on which they
rose from Crete; but the boy flew too near the sun, the
wax that held the feathers together melted, and he fell
into the sea.

Iceland dog, II. V., ii. 1.

Icicle(s), on a Dutchman's beard, Tw. Nt., iii. 2; rop-
ing, II. V., iii. 5; chaste as the, Cor., v. 3.

Iden, Alexander, character in 2 II. VI. He was Sheriff
of Kent, and captured Jack Cade.

Ides of March, Jul. Cæs., iii. 1. The fifteenth.
Idiot, life a tale told by an, Mac., v. 5.
Idleness, to mar with, As You Like It, i. 1; makes
man a beast, Ham., iv. 4; evils of, A. & C., i. 2.

Ield, or ild (yield, shield), As You Like It, iii. 3; Ham.,
iv. 5.

If(s), traitorous to talk of, R. III., iii. 4; virtues of an,
As You Like It, v. 4.

If a hart do lack a hind, travesty on Orlando's love-
verses, As You Like It, iii. 2.

If love make me forsworn, poem, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 2;
Passionate Pilgrim, v.

i. 2; coward dogs, H. V., ii. 4; a little herd, etc., 1 H.
VL., iv. 2; razed, R. III., iii. 2; rascal, worst in blood,
Cor., i. 1; full of vent (eager, as at first scent), Cor., iv. 5;
hunt's-up (a reveille on the morning of a hunt), R. & J.,
iii. 5; recover the wind of one (get the animal to run with
the wind, that it may not know it is pursued), Ham.,
iii. 2; this is counter, Ham., iv. 5 (or 2); "This quarry
cries on havoc," Ham., v. 2, an unnecessary amount of
game killed by raw huntsmen; putting on (inciting)-
trash (hold back by a trash or halter), Oth., ii. 1; fills up
the cry, Oth., ii. 3; to be unbent, Cymb., iii. 4; dangers
of, Ven. & Ad., lines 673, 883.

Huntingdon, John Holland, Earl of, addressed in H.
V., v. 2, one of the king's council.

Hurly (uproar), Tam. of S., iv. 1; hurly burly, Mac., i. 1.
Husband(s), reproaches to a, Com. of Er., ii. 2, v. 1;
compared to an elm, Com. of Er., ii. 2; duty of a, Com.
of Er., iii. 2; Christian, M. of V., iv. 1; duty to a, Tam.
of S., v. 2; Oth., i. 3; should be older than their wives-
like fools, Tw. Nt., iii. 1; that cannot stay the tongues
of their wives, Winter's T., ii. 3, "Hang all the," etc.;
treachery to a contrast between a first and second,
Ham., iii. 4; injustice of, Oth., iv. 3, end.

Husbandry (economy), in heaven, Mac., ii. 1; borrow-
ing dulls the edge of, Ham., і. 3.

Hybla, bees of, 1 H. IV., i. 2; Jul. Cæs., v. 1. Hybla,
in Sicily, noted for honey.

Hydra (hundred-headed monster), Cor., iii. 1; Oth.,
ii. 3; and elsewhere.

Hyems (winter), M. N. D., ii. 2.

Hymen, Temp., iv. 1; Much Ado, v. 3; personated in
As You Like It, last scene.

Hyperbole(s), L.'s L.'s L., v. 2; three-piled, Tr. & Cr., i. 3.
Hyperion (Apollo), H. V., iv. 1; T. of A., iv. 3; Tit.
And., v. 2; Tr. & Cr., ii. 3; to a satyr, Ham., i. 2; curls
of, Ham., iii. 4.

Hypocrisy, of Proteus and Valentine, Two Gent., iii.
1,2; of Falstaff, Merry Wives, ii. 1; of Angelo, M. for M.,
1. 4, 5, iii. 1, 2, v. 1; recommended to a husband, Com, of
Er., iii. 2; no vice but practises, M. of V., iii. 2; long
experience in, K. J., iv. 3; the evil done by, H. V., ii. 2;
2 II. VI., iii. 1; of Richard (Gloucester), 3 IH. VI., iii. 2;
R. III., i. 1-6, ii. 1, 2, iii. 5, 7; Anne accused of, II. VIII.,
ii. 3; Wolsey accused of, II. VIII., iii. 1; denounced,
R. & J., iii. 2, "O serpent heart," etc.; recommended,
Mac., i. 3, to beguile the time, etc.; the devil sugared
over, Ham., iii. 1; time shall uncover, Lear, i. 1; of
simpering dames, Lear, iv. 6; mere, Oth., ii. 1; of devils,
Oth., ii. 3, "And what's he," etc.; of Iago, Oth., iii. 3; of
a woman, Oth., iv. 1; Lucrece, lines 846, 1514; cunning
of, Much Ado, iv. 1.

Hyrcan deserts, M. of V., ii. 7. Hyrcania, a wilder-
ness south of the Caspian Sea.

Hyrcan tiger, Mac., iii. 4; Hyrcanian beast, Ham., ii. 2.
Hysterica passio (hysteric passion), Lear, ii. 4.

If music and sweet poetry agree, Passionate Pilgrim,

viii.

If my dear love were but the child of state, Sonnet
cxxiv.

If the dull substance of my flesh, Sonnet xliv.
If there be nothing new, Sonnet lix.

If thou survive my well-contented day, Sonnet xxxii.
If thy soul check thee, Sonnet exxxvi.

Ignorance, no darkness but, Tu. Nt., iv. 2; bliss of,
Winter's T., ii. 1, "How blest am I," etc.; the curse
of God, 2 H. VI, iv. 7; a valiant, Tr. & Cr., iii. 3;
finds not till it feels, Cor., iii. 3; of one's losses, Oth.,
iii. 3; makes us pray for what would harm us, A. &
C., ii. 1; of books, a monster, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 2; dull,
unfeeling, barren, R. II., i. 3; short-armed, Tr. & Cr.,

ii. 3.

I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, Sonnet
lxxxii.

Ilium, a name of Troy, but in Tr. & Cr., i. 1, used as
the name of the palace.

Illyria, on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, scene
of Tw. Nt.

Imagination, effect of death on, Much Ado, iv. 1; of
lunatics, lovers, and poets, M. N. D., v. 1; of greatness,

Tw. Nt., ii. 5; impotence of, R. II., i. 3, "O who can tell,!
etc.; help of, at the theatre, H. V., i., chorus; of riches,
Lover's Complaint, 1. 136; desperate with, Ham., i. 4.
Imbare (make bare, expose), H. V., i. 2.
Immanity (inhumanity), 1 H. VI., v. 1.
Imogen, daughter of Cymbeline.

Imp, L.'s L.'s L., i. 2. A graff or shoot of a tree, and
so used for child in a good sense.

Imp, R. II., ii. 1. To imp a hawk was to supply miss-
ing wing-feathers.

Impeachment (impediment), II. V., iii. 6.

Imperceiverant (unperceiving), Cymb,, iv. 1.
Impeticos thy gratillity (pockets thy gratuity), Tw. Nt.,
ii. 3.

Impleached (intertwined), Lover's Complaint, 1. 205.
Imponed (impawned, staked), Ham., v. 2.
Importance (import), Winter's T., v. 2.

Importance (importunity), K. J., ii. 1; Tr. Nt., v. 1.
Important (importunate), Com. of Er., v. 1; Much Ado,
ii. 1; All's Well, iii. 7; Lear, iv. 4.

Imposition, hereditary ours, the, Winter's T., i. 2.
Meaning original or transmitted sin.

Inchide (restrain), Two Gent., v. 4.

Inconstancy, in love, Two Gent., ii. 4, v. 4; R. & J., ii.
3; Falstaff's, Merry Wives, ii. 1; of men, Much Ado, ii.
3, song; of common men, 3 H. VI., iii. 1, "Look, as I
blow this feather," etc.; novelty only is in request, M
for M., iii. 2.

Incony (unlearned, artless), L.'s L.'s L., iii. 1, iv. 1.
Make bargains with
Indent, with fears, 1 H. IV., i. 3.
those who would be objects of fears.
Indenture, tripartite, 1 H. IV., iii. 1. Division of
England into three parts by the conspirators.

Index (beginning), R. III., ii. 2, iv. 4, and elsewhere.
India, metal of (gold), Tw. Nt., ii. 5.

Indies, the, Com. of Er., iii. 2; East and West, Merry
Wires, i. 3; the, Tur. Nt., iii. 2. See MAP.

Indigest (chaos), K. J., v. 7.

Indirection (crookedness), Jul. Cæs. iv. 3; finding out
by, Ham., ii. 1.

Induction, Tam, of S. The play is a play within a play,
acted before the characters of the induction.

Induction(s) (preparations), R. III., i. 1; (beginning),
R. III., iv. 4; 1 II. IV., iii. 1.

I never saw that you did painting need, Sonnet
lxxxiii.

In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, Sonnet exli.
Informal (incoherent), M. for M., v. 1.
"Does tire the ingener" is
Ingener (artist), Oth., ii. 1.
the reading of the folio, "Does bear all excellency" of the
quarto.

Ingratitude, Tw. Nt., iii. 4, v. 1; song on, As You Like
It, ii. 7; charged on the king, 1 H. IV., iv. 3, v. 1; toward
God, R. III., ii. 2; of the king, H. VIII., iii. 2, “Had I
but served," etc.; for good deeds past, Tr. & Cr., iii. 3,
"Time hath a wallet," etc.; Cor., ii. 3; in Rome, Tit.
And., i. 1 or 2; R. & J., iii. 3; T. of A., ii. 2, îîi. 1–4, 6,
v. 1; of the populace, Jul. Cæs., i. 1; of Brutus, Jul.
Cæs., iii. 2; of children, Lear, i. 4, iii. 2, 4; of Seleucus,
A. & C., v. 2; Peric., i. 4.

In this hope I live.

In hâc spe vivo, Peric., ii. 2.
Iniquity, I lack, Oth., i. 2; the formal vice, R. III.,

iii. 1.

Injointed (united), Oth., i. 3.

In loving thee thou knowst I am forsworn, Sonnet
clii.

Innocence, plain and holy, Temp., iii. 1; of children,
Winter's T., i. 2; persuades, Winter's T., ii. 2; silence of,
Winter's T., iii. 2, "If powers divine," etc.; protestations
of, Oth., iv. 2; unsuspecting, Lucrece, 1. 99; trust in,
H. IV., iv. 4; appearance of, Much Ado, iv. 1.
Innocent III. See POPE.

Inns, the Porpentine (porcupine), Com. of Er., iii. 1,
v. 1: the Tiger, Com. of Er., iii. 1; the Garter, Merry
Wives; the Boar's Head at Eastcheap, 1 H. IV.; mine
ease in mine inn, 1 H. IV., iii. 3.

Insane root, the, Mac., i. 3. Henbane or hemlock.

Insanity, affected by music, R. II., v. 5; Lear, iv. 7;
restraints for, As You Like It, iii. 2; Two. Nt., v. 1;
gradual coming on of, Ham., ii. 2; symptoms of, Ham.,
ii. 1, iii. 1, 4; betrays secrets, Mac., v. i; medicine for,
Mac., v. 3; the mind suffering with the body, Lear, ii. 4;
caused by the moon, Oth., v. 2.

Integer vitæ, etc., Tit. And., iv. 2.

"He who is upright in life and pure from sin,
Needs neither the spear nor bow of the Moor."
-HORACE
Intend (pretend), Much Ado, ii. 2; Lucrece, l. 121;
R. III., iii. 7.

In the old age black was not counted fair, Sonnet
exxvii.

Intrenchant (not to be cut), Mac., v. 7.
Invised (unseen), Lover's Complaint, 1. 212.
Invitis nubibus (in spite of clouds), 2 H. VI., iv. 1.
Invisibility, of Ariel, Temp., i. 2; produced by fern
seed, 1 H. IV., îí. 1.

Io, Tam. of S., induction, ii. The daughter of the
river-god Inachus, changed by Jupiter into a heifer, and
persecuted by Juno.

Ipswich, college at, H. VIII., iv. 2.

Ira furor brevis est, T. of A., i. 2. Anger is a short
madness.

Iras, an attendant of Cleopatra in A. & C.
Ireland, bogs of, Com. of Er., iii. 2; rebellion in, R
II., i. 4; 1 H. IV., iv. 4, v. 1; 2 H. VI., i. 1, iii. 1; no
snakes in, R. II., ii. 1.

Iris, goddess of the rainbow and messenger of Juno,
Temp., iv. 1; All's Well, i. 3; 2 H. VI., iii. 2.

Irish, the, R. II., ii. 1, “Rough, rug-headed kerns,”
Irish rat, an, As You Like It, iii. 2.

Irish wolves, howling of, As You Like It, v. 2.
Irregulous (lawless), Cymb., iv. 2.
Isabel, Queen of France, character in H. '.
Isabella, character in M. for M.
Isabella, queen of Richard II.

I shall no more to sea, song, Temp., ii. 2.
Isis (chief goddess of the Egyptians), invoked, A. & C.,
i. 2; habiliments of, A. & C., iii. 6.

Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye, Sonnet ix.
Is it thy will, Sonnet lxi.

Italy, scene of part of Cymb.; fashions of, see

FASHION.

Iteration, damnable, 1 H. IV., i. 2; truth tired with.
Tr. & Cr., iii. 2.

It was a friar of orders grey, Tam. of S., iv. 1. A line
of an old ballad, other lines of which are scattered
through the play. From these Percy constructed the

Ink, let gall enough be in, Tw. Nt., iii. 2; Cymb., i. 2; ballad, with additions.

a pit of, Much Ado, iv. 1.

Inkhorn mate (scholar), 1 H. VI., iíî. 1.

Inkle (used in embroidery, silk, or braid), Winter's T.,

iv. 4; Perie., V., prologue.

It was a lording's daughter, Passionate Pilaris

xvi.

Ivy, allusion to the custom of using a bush of, as å
vintner's sign, As You Like It, epilogue.

Jack, played the, Temp., iv. 1; term of reproach,
Merry Wives, ii. 3, iii. 1, 2; and Jill, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2;
M. N. D., iii. 2.

Jack-a-Lent, Merry Wives, îii. 3, v. 5. A puppet to

be thrown at as an amusement in Lent.

Jack-an-apes (Jack o' lantern), Merry Wives, iv. 4.
Jackdaws. See CHOUGH.

Jack o' the clock, R. II., v. 5; R. III., iv. 2 The

automaton that struck the hours.
Jacks, Tam, of S., iv. 1. Leather drinking-vessels.
Jacob, M. of V., i. 3.

Jacques, Saint, pilgrim of, All's Well, iii. 4. Pilgrim
ages were made to the shrine of St. James at Compostella
› Spain.

Jade, let the galled, wince, Ham., iii. 2.
brother Richard I., or Cœur de Lion, according to a will
Jaded (degraded by menial labour, 2 H. VI., iv. 1; that he brought forward after Richard's death, though
(beaten), H. VIII., iii. 2.

Jailer, the, character in the Com. of Er., i. 1.

James I., of England, flattery of, see KING'S EVIL;
prophecy concerning, H. VIII., v. 4; Mac. iv. 1, "That
twofold balls," etc. The passages in M. for M. begin-
ning. "I love the people" (i. 1), "How I have ever loved
the life removed" (i. 4), and "The general subject to a
well-wished king" (ii. 4), are supposed to refer to his
dislike to being the centre of a pageant.

Jamy, a Scottish captain in H. V.
Janus, two-headed, M. of V., i. 1.
Jape (a joke), Winter's T., iv. 3 or 4.
Japhet, H. IV., ii. 2.

Jaquenetta, a country wench in L.'s L.'s L.

Jaques, the melancholy, one of the lords attending the
banished duke in As You Like It.

Jaques de Bois, a brother of Oliver and Orlando in As

You Like It.

Jasons, many, M. of V., i. 1, iii. 2. Jason went after
the Golden Fleece.

Jay(s), Temp., ii. 2; Tam. of S., iv. 3.

Jealousy, of Adriana, Com. of Er., ii. 1, 2, iii. 1, end,
iv. 2, v. 1; of Ford, Merry Wives, ii. 1, 2, iii. 2, 5, iv. 1, 4;
love full of, Two Gent., ii. 4, iv. 4; a ruse, to excite, Tu.
Nt., iii. 2; savage, Tr. Nt., v. 1; of Leontes, Winter's T.,
1. 2, ii. 1, 3, iii. 2; Elinor's, of Constance, K. J., 1. 1;
godly, Tr. & Cr., iv. 4; aroused, Cor., iv. 7; of Cassius,
Jul. Cæs., i. 2; guilt full of, Ham., iv. 5; Goneril's, Lear,
iv. 2, "But being widow," etc.; Regan's, Lear, v. 1, 3;
green-eyed monster-trifles to, Oth., iii. 3; self-made,
Oth., iii. 4; one wrought up to, Oth., v. 2; of Cleopatra,
A. & C., i. 1, 3, ii. 5, iii. 3; toward superior officers, A.
& C., iii. 1; of Posthumus, Cymb., i. 6, ii. 4; Ven. & Ad.,
1. 649; the forgeries of, M. N. D., ii. 2; R. & J., iv. 4.
Jephthah, 3 H. VI., v. 1; Пат., іі. 2.

Jerkin, a buff coat, 1 H. IV., i. 2; an old cloak makes
a new, Merry Wives, i. 3.

Jeronimy, Saint, Tam. of S., induction, i. Supposed
to be Sly's blunder for a phrase from Thomas Kyd's play
"The Spanish Tragedy; or, Hieronimo is Mad again,
published in 1603, but acted before that time.

Jerusalem, K. J., ii. 2; 3 H. VI., v. 4; King of. See

REIGNIER.

Jerusalem Chamber, the, 2 H. IV., iv. 4.

Jessica, daughter of Shylock in the M. of V.

Jest(s), an unseen, Two Gent., ii. 1; the prosperity of
a, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2, "Why, that's the way," etc.; a, in a
fool's ear, Ham., iv. 2 (or v. 6); at scars, R. & J., ii. 2;
effect of a, 2 H. IV., v. 1.

Jest (masque), R. II., i. 3.

Jesters, do oft prove prophets, Lear, v. 3; drive off
melancholy, Com, of Er., i. 2.

Jesters. Touchstone in As You Like It, Feste in Tw.
Nt., the clown in All's Well, and the fool in Lear, are the
most noteworthy jesters in the plays.

Jet (strut), Cymb., iii. 3, and elsewhere.
Jewel(s), move a woman's mind, Two Gent., iii. 1; best
enamelled, Com. of Er., ii. 1; in the toad's head, As You
Like It, ii. 1; mine eternal, Mac., iii. 1; my heavenly,
Merry Wives, iii. 3.

Jeweller, a, in T. of A., i. 1, seeking patronage.
Jewess's eye, M. of V., ii. 5. The Jews were forced to
pay the price of an eye that is, a ransom-to save them-
selves from mutilation, hence the proverb, "Worth a
Jew's eye."

Jewry, the sepulchre in, R. II., ii. 1.
Jew(s), would have wept, Two Gent., ii. 3; used oppro-
briously, Two Gent., ii. 5; I am a, if, Much Ado, ii. 3;
treatment of, M. of V., i. 3, ii. 2; of like nature with
Christians, M. of V., iii. 1; an Ebrew, 1 H. IV., ii. 4;
blaspheming, Mac., iv. 1.

Jezebel, Tw. Nt., ii. 5.

Jig (a dance), Much Ado, ii. 1; Tw. Nt., i. 3. The name
was also applied to a comic recitation or song, given by
the clown and accompanied with dancing and playing on
the pipe or tabor, Ham., ii. 2; your only (only your) jig-
maker, Ham., iii. 2.

Joan of Arc, La Pucelle, character in 1 H. VI.

Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, Winter's T., iv. 2
or 3. Part of an old round for three voices.

John, King of England from 1199 to 1216, succeeded his

Richard had named his nephew Arthur his successor in
1190.

John of Gaunt. See GAUNT.

John of Lancaster. See LANCASTER.

John, Don, bastard brother of Don Pedro in Much Ado.
John, a Franciscan friar in R. & J.
John-a-dreams, Ham., il. 2. A sleepy or absent-
minded fellow.

Joint ring (a double ring used as a lover's token), Oth.,

iv. 3.

Jourdain, Margery, a witch in 2 IH. VI.
Journeys, from and toward one loved, Sonnets 1., li.
Joust, a, Peric., ii. 2.

Jove, Tr. & Cr., ii. 3; lightnings of, Temp., i. 2; oak
of, Temp., v. 1; thunder of, M. for M., ii. 2; would swear
Juno an Ethiope, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 3; the page of, As You
Like It, i. 3; in a thatched house, see OVID; doing of,
Trw. Nt., iii. 4; his forehead, Ham., iii. 4; bless thee,
Tw. Nt., iv. 2. Used here for God, because of the law

against the use of God's name on the stage. Laughs at
lovers' perjuries, R. & J., ii. 2; thunder-darter, Tr. &
Cr., ii. 3; bird of, Cymb., iv. 2.

Joy, shown by tears better to weep at, than, etc.,
Much Ado, i. 1; silence the herald of, Much Ado, ii. 1;
description of, Winter's T., v. 2; from wondering-to
weeping, 2 H. VI., i. 1; sudden, Peric., v. 1; expression
of, Cor., ii. 1, iv. 5, v. 4; subtle, Tr. & Cr., iii. 2.

Judas, hanged on an elder-tree, L's L.'s L., v. 2; his
hair, As You Like It, iii. 4. It was believed to have been
red. His kiss, 3 H. VI., v. 7; three Judases, R. II., iii,
2, iv. 1.

Judas Maccabæus, one of the nine worthies (q.v.), L.'s
L.'s L., v. 1, 2.

Judge(s), what 'twere to be a, M. for M., ii. 2; a wise
and upright, M. of V., iv. 1; the incorruptible, H. VIII.,
iii. 1; delaying, Cor., ii. 1.

Judgment, conceit of one's own, corrected, All's Well,
iv. 3; of heaven, 1 H. IV., iii. 2; a grand juryman since
Noah, Tw. Nt., iii. 2; fled to beasts, Jul. Cæs., iii. 2; on
earth, Mac., i. 7; of men, a parcel of their fortunes, A.
& C., iii. 11 or 13; a Daniel come to, M. of V., iv. 1; hath
bred a kind of remorse, R. III., i. 4; repented of, M. for
M., ii. 2; without which (reason) we are pictures or mere
beasts, Ham., iv. 5. See JUSTICE.

Judgment-day, the, R. III., i. 4; 1 H. VI., i. 1. See
DOOMSDAY.

Julia, character in the Two Gent.
Juliet, character in M. for M.

Juliet, heroine of R. & J.

Jump (risk) the life to come, Mac., i. 7; a body with a
dangerous physic, Cor., iii. 1; fortune lies upon this jump,
A. & C., iii. 8.

Jump (opportunely), Ham., 1. 1; Oth., ii. 3.

Juno, Temp., iv. 1; an Ethiope, L.'s L.'s L., iv. 3;
swans of, As You Like It, i. 3; his despiteful, All's Well,
iii. 4, alluding to the story of Hercules or that of Eneas;
Winter's T., iv. 3 or 4; A. & C., iv. 13.

Jupiter, Merry Wives, v. 5; As You Like It, iii. 2;
Winter's T., iv. 3 or 4; in a vision, Cymb., v. 4; A. & C.,
iii. 2; Tit. And., iv. 3, v. 2; Tr. & Cr., iv. 5, v. 1. See
JOVE and PHILEMON.

Jury, the, may have one guiltier than the prisoner, M.
for M., ii. 1.

Justice, sleeping, M. for M., i. 4; seizes what it sees,
M. for M., ii. 1; and mercy, M. for M., ii. 2; innocence
with, M. for M., iv. 2; "His life is paralleled," etc., M.
of V., iv. 1; of condemning by surmises, Winter's T., iii.
2; course of Shallow's, 2 H. IV., v. 1; scales of, 2 II. VI.,
ii. 1; not to be judged by results, Tr. & Cr., ii. 2; gone
from earth, Tit. And., iv. 3; even-handed, Mac., i. 7;
against gold, Lear, iv. 6; of the gods, Lear, v. 3; delays
of, Lucrece, 1. 906; impartial, R. II., i. 1; of heaven,

Ham., iii. 3.

Justice, description of a, As You Like It, ii. 7; of the
peace, H. VI., iv, 7.

Justicer (judge), Lear, iii. 6, iv. 2; Cymb., v. 5.
Justify (prove), Temp., v. 1.

M. N. D., iii. 1.
Juvenal (youth), L.'s L.'s L., 1. 2, iii, 1; 2 H. IV., i. 2;

INDEX.

Κ.

Kam, clean (quite crooked), Cor., iii. 1.
Kate, name given to Hotspur's wife, whose real name
was Elizabeth; play on the name, Tam. of S., ii. 1.

Katharine, one of the ladies attending the princess in
L.'s L.'s L.

Katherina, heroine of the Tam. of S.

Katherine, daughter of Charles VI. of France, character

in H. V.

Katherine of Aragon, Queen, character in H. VIII.
Kecksies. See KEXES.

Keech (a lump of fat), H. VIII., i. 1. Alluding to
Wolsey's corpulence and his being reputed a butcher's
son, 1 II. IV., 1. 4.

Keel (cool), L.'s L.'s L., v. 2.

Keisar, Merry Wices, i. 3. Emperor.

Kendal Green, 1 IH. IV., ii. 4, colour worn by Robin

Hood's men. Cloth was made at Kendal.

Kenilworth Castle, H. VI., iv, 4; scene of IH. VI.,

iv. 9.

Kennel (gutter), 2 H. VI., iv. 1.

Kent, scene of 2 H. VI., iv. 1; Cæsar on the people

of, H. VI., iv. 7; men of,
R. 111., iv. 4.

3 II. VI., 1. 2; rebellion in,

Kent, Thomas Holland, Earl of, beheaded, R. II.,

Kent, the Earl of, character in Lear.

Kerns (light-armed troops from Ireland), Mac., 1. 2, v.

7; R. II., ii. 1; IH. V., iii. 7; 2 H. VI., iii. 1, iv. 9.
Ketly, Sir Richard, his death, II. V., iv. 8.
Kexes (hollow-stemmed weeds), H. V., v. 2.
Kibe (chilblain), Temp., ii. 1.

Kildare, Earl of, II. VIII., ii. 1.

Killing, a trifle, 1 II. IV., ii. 4; in defence, T. of A.,
iii. 5; do all men kill the things they do not love? M. of
V., iv. 1; I promised to eat all of his, Much Ado, i. 1.

Killingworth. See KENILWORTH.

Kiln-hole (fireplace), Winter's T., iv. 3 or 4.

Kimbolton, a castle in Huntingdonshire belonging to
the Duke of Manchester, the scene of II. VIII., iv. 2.

Kin, a little more than, Ham., i. 2; one touch of
nature makes the whole world, Tr. & Cr., iii, 3.

Kind, kindless, kindly (nature, unnatural, naturally),
All's Well, i. 3; Tam, of S., induction, i.; Ilam., ii. 2;
A. & C., v. 2, and elsewhere.

Kindness, Tw. Nt., i. 5, What is yours to bestow,"
etc.; T. of A., i. 1, 2, "We are born to do benefits.
etc.; to kill with, Tam, of S., iv. 1; in women, wins
love, Tam, of S., iv. 2; nobler than revenge, As You
Like It, iv. 3; power of, Winter's T., i. 2; recalled, K.
J., iv. 1.

King, On the, a quatrain attributed to Shakspere,
sometimes placed at the end of the miscellaneous poems.
If it be his, it refers to James I. It exists in a manu-
script written in the time of his successor, in which the
verses are entitled "Shakspere on the King."

King Cophetua, ballad of, L.'s L.'s L., i. 2.

example," etc.; prerogative of, ii. 1, "Why, what need
King(s), murder of, Winter's T., i. 2, "If I can find
we, etc.; children of, iv. 1 or 2; quarrels of, K. J.,
ii. 1 or 2; conduct becoming, K. J., v. 1; the curse of,
K. J., iv. 2; sacredness of, R. II., i. 2, iii. 2; power of
due to, R. II., iii. 3; deposition of, R. II., iii. 2, 3, ir. 1,
words of, R. II., i I., i. 3; advice to, R. II., ii. 1; reverence
v. 1; woe's slaves, R. II., iii. 2; sentenced by subjects,
R. II., iv. 1; confession demanded of, R. II., iv. 1;
treatment of a, deposed by the populace, R. II., V.2
remorse of a, R. II., iii. 2; rights of, 1 II. IV., 1. 3; tro
wardrobe of the, 1 H. IV., v. 3; fickleness of the popu
lavish of his company, 1 H. IV., iii. 2; murder of the
easiness of, H. IV., iii. 1; majesty of, like heavy arwow,
lace toward, 2 H. IV., i. 3; kin to, 2 H. IV., ii. 2; un
II. IV., iv. 4; what have, that privates have not-cares
of a, 1H. VI., iii. 1; troubles of a, 3 H. VI., iv. 9; cares
of-but a man-responsibility of, H. V., iv. 1; presente
mond), 3 H.
of a, 3 H. VI., ii. 5; prophecy concerning a future (Rich-
VI., iv. 6; his name a tower of strength,
R. 111., v. 3; pleasure of, II. VIII.,

honourdanger of crossing the plane ord's anointed

temple, Mac., ii. 3; graces becoming a, Mac., iv. 3; many
Ham., iv. 5 (or 2); progress of, Ham, iv. 8 (or v. 7);
lives dependent on a, Ham,, iii. 3; divinity doth hedge a,
every inch a, Lear, iv. 6; smiles and frowns of, reflected,
Cumb., 1. 1; vices of, Peric., i. 1; secrets of Peric., 13:
misdeeds of, Lucrece, 1. 609; like the sea, Lucrece, L. 652;
their baseness worse, Lucrece, 1. 1002; knowledge in a
On the King; annoyed by crowds, see JAMES I.; adviser ol
R. III., i. 4; Mulmutius, the first, of Britain, Cymb., i
a, H. IV., iv. 2; a versatile, H. V., v. 1; troubles of a
1; flattery of, Peric, i. 2. See CROWN.

King Stephen was a worthy peer, song, Oth., ii. &.
King's evil, the, Mac., iv. 3. A compliment to James
evil.
I., who revived the old ceremony of touching for the

Like It, iii. 4; to fill pauses, As You Like It, iv. 1; al
Kisses, to shadows, M. of V., ii. 9; religious, As You
marriage, Tam, of S., iii. 2; R. II., v. 1; four negatives,
given to a partner, H. VIII., i. 4; of pilgrims by the
Tw. Nt., v. 1; women influenced by, Winter's T., L

book, R.

& J., i. 5; hard, Oth., iii. 8; Ven, &

Ad., lines

v. 3; Oth., ii. 1; comfortless, as frozen water to a starvel
18, 54, 84, 96, 115, 207, 479, 511, 536; 1 H. IV., iii. 1; Cor,
snake, Tit. And., iii. 1; to every sedge, Two Gent., ii.;
kingdoms and provinces kissed away, d. & C., iii. &

Knapped (snapped), M. of V., iii. 1.

Knell, it is a, Mac., ii. 1, iv. 3, v. 7; talks like a, Cor.,

v. 4.

Knight, a carpet, Tw. Nt., iii. 4, "on carpet considera

tion.

Knight of the Burning Lamp, 1 H. IV., iii. 2.
Knocking, at the gate, the, Mac., il. 2, 3.
Knot-grass, hinders growth, M. N. D., iii. 2.

Laban, M. of V., 1. 3.

Labienus, mentioned in A. & C., i. 2,

Labour, menial, made pleasure, Temp., iii. 1; physics
pain, when delighted in, Mac., ii. 3; vain, R. II., ii. 2;
II. V., iv. 1; 3 II. VL., 1. 4.

Labras (lips), Merry Wives, i. 1.

Lackbeard, my lord, Much Ado, iv. 1.

Lady, attending the queen in R. II. Eleanor Holland,
widow of the fourth Earl of March.

Lady, an old friend of Anne Boleyn in H. VIII., some-
times called Lady Denny.
Lady-smock, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2, the Canterbury bell.

Lakin (ladykin), Temp., iii. 3.
Mary.

The end crowns the
Little lady, the Virgin

Lamb, the, entreats the butcher, Cymb., iii. 4; and the
fox, M. for M., v. 1; T. of A., iv. 3; and the wolf, $ H.
VI., i. 1, 4; in a borrowed skin, 3 H. VI., iii. 1; follows
the lion, 3 II. VI., iv. 8; doing the feats of a lion in the
figure of a, Much Ado, i. 1; offered up, Mac,, iv. 3.

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