[I do not agree.
The older sense is, I think, the only one admissible; yet, Nares cites
a passage from Shakespeare which may shake this position. See _v.
Shend_, No. 1, second quotation.]
[316] Compare the "Midsummer Night's Dream," ii, 1.--_Halliwell_.
[317] "Bring oil to fire" (_King Lear_, ii. 2). Compare also "All's
Well that ends Well," v. 3.--_Halliwell_.
[318] "My tricksy spirit" (_Tempest_, v. 1).--_Halliwell_.
[319] "Smell of calumny" (Measure for Measure, ii. 4).--_Halliwell_.
[320] Often used formerly for county.--_Halliwell_.
[321] Voice.
[322] In the daytime.--_Halliwell_. [Simply _o' days_, as printed
here.]
[323] The simpleton. See 1, "Henry VI."--_Halliwell_.
[324] A common phrase, equivalent to, it were a good thing. See "Much
Ado about Nothing," ii. 3.--_Halliwell_. [Not a good thing, but _a
charity_.]
[325] "What, sweeting, all amort" (_Taming of the Shrew_).--_Halliwell_.
[326] Altogether, entirely.
[327] Rabbit. A term of endearment.
[328] My lady so fair in countenance. The expression is common in our
early romances.--_Halliwell_.
[329] If.
[330] "Twelve years since" (_Tempest_).--_Halliwell_.
[331] A provincialism.--_Halliwell_. [Rather, perhaps, a Cockneyism.]
[332] A term of contempt for a fool. See "Much Ado about Nothing,"
iii. 3.--_Halliwell_.
[333] "At a pin's fee" (_Hamlet_).--_Halliwell_.
[334] Anger. "And that which spites me more than all these wants"
(_Taming of the Shrew_).
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