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iv. 1.

Wondered (endowed with wonderful power), Temp.,
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.'s L.'s L., iv. 3; All's Well, iv. 1;
Tw. 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., 1. 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
H. IV.

Word(s), crammed into the ears, Temp., ii 1; his, are
bonds, Tawo 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
V., iii. 5; a man of (Parolles, which means words), All's
Well; dallying with, . Nt., iii. 1; bethumped with,
K. J., ii. 2; like a woman's, 1 H. IV., 1. 3; of the dying,
R. II., ii. 1; windy attorneys, R. III., iv. 4; mere, Tr.
& Cr., v. 3: and strokes, Jul. Cæs., 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, 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., 1. 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,

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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, I
H. IV., iv. 1; to bustle in the, R. III., 1.1: all, to
nothing, R. III., 1. 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., 12

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,

Sonnet lxix.

Worldlings, testaments of, As You Like It, il. 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. 4
They were three heathens-Hector, Alexander, and
Cæsar; three Jews-Joshua, David, and Judas Maces
bræus; 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.
notion that they open in presence of the murderer. R
III., 1. 2; the custom of showing, when seeking
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 1
church-door, R. & J., iii. 1; Cresar's, Jul. Cæs., iii. 1,1;
a, Ven. & Ad., 1. 1052.

Wren(s), the youngest of nine, Tw. Nt., iii. 2. The
wren was said to lay nine eggs, and the last bird hatchel
was the smallest; and as Maria was very small, she was
called the youngest wren of nine; may prey where
eagles dare not perch, R. III., 1. 3; parental love of
Mac., iv. 2

Wrest (an active power), Tr. & Cr., iii. 3.
Wrestling, allusions to: on the hip, M. of F., 1.8;
Oth., ii. 1; a wrestling-match, As You Like It, 1.2
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., 1. 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.
to Brutus and Cassius, Jul. Ces., iii. 2; pocketing up of
H. V., iii. 2; humanity must prey upon itself, Lear,
2; to do a great right, do a little wrong, M. of V., iv, 1
fears attend the steps of, K. J., iv. 2; flattery a, R. IL
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.

Xantippe, as curst and shrewd as Socrates's, Tam. of S., i. 2.

Y.

Yare, yarely (quick, speedy, active, skilfully), Тетр., і.
1, v. 1; M. for M., iv. 2; Tw. 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., 1. 1, v. 2.
Yead (Edward), Merry Wives, i. 1.

Yearn (to grieve), H. V., ii. 3, iv. 3; Jul. Cæs., ii. 2;
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.

R. II., v. 5; Merry Wives, iii. 5.

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bows, and the leaves were poisonous), R. II., ii.
sion to the custom of placing sprigs of it in the shroud
Tre. Nt., ii. 4, song; used by witches when slivered in
the moon's eclipse, Mac., iv. 1; in churchyards, R. & J.,

v. 3.

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. 111.
York, sun of, R. III., i. 1. Edward IV., whose cogniz-

ance was a sun.

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, í. 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., 1. 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,
A. & C., i. 5; one's, in his friends, Sonnet xxii.; cannot
live with age, Passionate Pilgrim, xii.; aptness of, T. of
A., 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.

Zanies, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2; wise men the, of fools, Tw.
Nt., i. 5.

Zed, unnecessary letter, Lear, ii. 2.

Zenelophon (or Penelophon), the beggar of the ballad
of King Cophetua, L.'s L.'s L., iv. L

Z.

Zenith, the, depends upon a most auspicious star,
Temp., i. 2.
Ziminar, a devil invoked by witches, called "Monarch
of the north," 1 H. VI., v. 3.

Zodiac, the, in his glistering coach, Tit. And., ii. 1.
Zodiacs (years), M. for M., i. 3.

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1601-2 in pre- Story of "Giglietta | Addition of char- France and 14th century.

sent form, di Nerbona" in acters of Lafeu, Italy

but probably Boccaccio's De- Parolles,

the same as cameron, as trans

Love's La-lated in Painter's

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Plutarch's Lives, in Ennoblement of Alexan-
North'stranslation the characters of

Antony and Cleo-
patra

Lodge's Rosalynde Addition of char

Probably an earlier
play called The
Historie of Error,

acted 1577, and
founded on Mence-
chmi of Plautus
Plutarch's Lives

dria, Rome,
Athens,

near

40-31 в.с.

Actium, Messina, Syria "Forest of Arden" in

14th century (?)

and France

acters of Jaques,
Touchstone,
Audrey

Addition of two Ephesus
Dromios and other
characters

14th century (?)

Holinshed and Boc-
caccio

An unknown ver-
sion of the story
first told by Saxo

Grammaticus

in The Historia Danica. Probably

also an older play North's Plutarch

Holinshed, and an
older play, The
Famous Victories
of Henry V.
As above

Holinshed, and two
older plays worked
up with the assis-
tance of other
playwrights

Holinshed and
Stowe, and Foxe's
Actes and Monu-
ments. Probably
written in collabo-
ration with
Fletcher

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in relation to France
Dame Elinor in
Part II.

Some alteration in London,
the sequence of Westminster,
events, e.g., Queen
Katharine's death
is antedated by
three years

(iii.) 1455-71.

and Kim-
bolton

1521-33.

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1591-3 written, 1596-7

Giraldo Cinthio

Story in Gesta Ro-
manorum, as told
in Gower's Confes-
sio Amantis, and
L. Twine's Pat-
terne of Painfull
Adventures. Name
possibly from
"Pyrocles" in Sid-
ney's
Arcadia.

[Not wholly by
Shakspere.]

Venice and

Cyprus

1570

Antioch, 15 or 20 years.

Tyre, Tar Period vague

sus, Penta

polis, Eph-
esus, Mity

lene

Verona and Early 14th

revised

Painter's Palace of
Pleasure (follow-
ing Bandello), a
poem by Arthur

Brooke, and pos

sibly a lost play

century.

Mantua

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