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;
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
H. IV.

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
V., iii. 5; a man of (Parolles, which means words), All's
Well; dallying with, T. Nt., iii. 1; bethumped with,
K. J., ii. 2; like a woman's, 1 H. IV., i. 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, 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.'8
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, ef
S., ii. 1; go to the (to marry), All's Well, i. 3; turned by
commodity, or interest, K. J., ii., end; doffed aside, !
H. IV., iv. 1; to bustle in the, R. III., i. 1: all, t
nothing, R. III., i. 2; vain pomp and glory of the, B.
VIII., iii. 2; slippery turns of the, Cor., iv. 4; to da
harm in the, often laudable, Mac., iv. 2; weariness with,
Mac., v. 5; all uses of it, weary, stale, etc., Ham., 1.2;
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

Sonnet Ixix.

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., fi. 4
They were: three heathens-Hector, Alexander, and
Cæsar; three Jews-Joshua, David, and Judas Macca
bus; 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, E
III., i. 2; the custom of showing, when seeking an
election, Cor., ii. 3; he that never felt a, jests at scar
R. & J., ii. 2; one not so deep as a well, nor so wide sa
church-door, R. & J., iii. 1; Cesar's, Jul. Cæs., iii 1,2;
a, Ven. & Ad., 1, 1052.

Wren(s), the youngest of nine, T. 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 w
called the youngest wren of nine; may prey when
eagles dare not perch, R. III., i. 3; parental love d
Mac., iv. 2

Wrest (an active power), Tr. & Cr., iii. 3.
Wrestling, allusions to: on the hip, M. of F., L. 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, Cumb., 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., T.
to Brutus and Cassius, Jul. Cos., iii. 2; pocketing up of
H. V., iii. 2; humanity must prey upon itself, Lear,
fears attend the steps of, K. J., iv. 2; flattery a, R. IL,
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; 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., i. 1, v. 2.
Yead (Edward), Merry Wives, i. 1.

Yearn (to grieve), H. V., ii. 3, iv. 3; Jul. Cæs., 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, haw
lighted fools, the way to dusty death, Mac., v. 5.

bows, and the leaves were poisonous), R. II., iii. 2: alle
Yew, double-fatal (so called because it was used for
sion to the custom of placing sprigs of it in the shro
Tu. 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. III.
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, 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.