Dyce adopts Pope's emendation, "deservèd so of you.

Walker (Crit. Exam. i. 151) conjectures

"Wherein have I so undeserv'd of you,

That you extol me thus ?"

507. If any woman. The folio reading. "Is any woman." The usual modern reading woman's."

Dyce reads is " If any

537. that's. The first folio has "that," which was corrected in the second.

GLOSSARY

TO

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

ABSOLUTE, decided; "be abso- | BAY, an architectural term for a

APPOINTMENT, equipment; iii. Bosoм, heart's desire; iv. 3. 131.

BASTARD (used equivocally), a BUNCH OF GRAPES, name of a

name the several rooms in tav- | CONTRARIOUS, contradictory; iv. erns; ii. 1. 122.

CENSURED, to pass judgment, or
sentence, upon; i. 4. 72; (CEN-
SURE) ii. 1. 29.
CHARACTER, writing, outward
mark; 1. 1. 28; handwriting; iv.
2. 182.

CHARACTS, characters; v. 1. 56.
CHEAP, of small value; iii. 1. 180.
CIRCUMMURED, walled round; iv.
1. 26.

CLACK-DISH, a wooden dish or
box carried by beggars; iii. 2.
118.

CLAP, to begin without delay; iv.

3. 37.

1.60.

CONVENIENT, fitting; iv. 3. 99. CONVENTED, summoned; v. 1. 158.

COUNTENANCE, hypocrisy; v. 1.

118.

COVENT; convent; iv. 3. 125.
CREATION; "their creation,"
that is, "their (men's) na-
ture;" ii. 4. 127.
CREDENT BULK, weight of credit;
iv. 4. 24.

CREDULOUS, readily yielding; ii.
4. 130.
"CUOULLUS

non facit mo-
nachum," that is, "All hoods
make not monks;
"" V. 1. 261.

CLOSE, to make peace, come to CUNNING, sagacity; iv. 2. 149.

an agreement; v. 1. 340.
CLOSE, silent, secret; iv. 3. 115.
COLD, cool, deliberate; iv. 3. 96.
COMBINATE, betrothed; iii. 1. 216.
COMBINED, bound; iv. 3. 141.
COMES OFF WELL, is well told; ii.
1. 56.

COMMODITY, quantity of wares,
parcel; iv. 3. 4.
COMPACT, leagued; v. 1. 240.
COMPOSITION, compact; v. 1. 218.
CONCERNING, "concerning her
observance," that is, which it
concerns her to observe; iv. 1.
40.

DEFIANCE, rejection, refusal; iii.
1. 144.

DEFINITIVE, resolved; v. 1. 425.
DELIGHTED, accustomed to ease
and delight; iii. 1. 122.
DENUNCIATION, declaration; i. 2.

141.

DEPUTATION, deputyship; 1. 1. 21.
DESPERATELY; "desperately

mortal," that is, terribly near death; others, "desperate in his incurring of death;' "destined to die without hope of salvation;" iv. 2. 138.

CONCUPISCIBLE, concupiscent; v. DETECTED, charged, accused;

1. 98.

CONFIXED, fixed; v. 1. 230.
CONSERVE, preserve; iii. 1. 89.
CONSTANTLY, firmly; iv. 1. 20.
CONSUMMATE, being consum-
mated; v. 1. 376.
CONTINUE, blunderingly misun-
derstood by Elbow to refer to
some penalty or other; ii. 1.
182; to let live; iv. 3. 80.

iii. 2. 113.

DETERMINED, limited, bounded;
iii. 1. 71.

DETERMINES, assigns; i. 1. 39.
DETEST, Elbow's blunder for
"protest;" ii. 1. 66.
DISCOVER, recognise; iv. 2. 164.
DISCOVER, expose; iii. 1. 191.
DISPENSES WITH, excuses; ili. 1.
136.

DISSOLUTION, death; iii. 2. 210. DISVALUED, depreciated; v. 1. 219.

DISVOUCHED, contradicted; iv. 4. 1.

DOLOURS, used quibblingly with

play upon " dollar; ".i. 2. 48. DRAW, "as it refers to the tapster it signifies to drain, to empty;" as it is related to "hang" it means "to be conveyed to execution on a hurdle;" in Froth's answer it is the same as "to bring along by some motive or power;" ii. 1. 195.

DRAWN IN, taken in, swindled; ii. 1. 199.

FAVOUR, used equivocally with a
play upon " favour"=" coun-
tenance;" iv. 2. 28; face; iv. 2.
165.

FEAR, affright; ii. 1. 2.
FEAR, "to give fear," ="to in-
timidate;" i. 4. 62.
FEODARY (80 Folios 2, 3, 4; Folio
1, fedarie), originally one who
holds an estate by suit or ser-
vice to a superior lord, hence
one who acts under the direc-
tion of another; here," one of
the human fraternity;" ii. 4.
122.

FEWNESS AND TRUTH, briefly and
truly; i. 4. 39.

FILE, multitude; iii. 2. 128.

DRESSINGS, habiliments; v. 1. 56. FINE, punish; ii. 2. 40.
DRIBBLING, weak; i. 3. 2.

EFFECTS, expressions; iii. 1. 24.
EMMEW, to coop up, "to force to
lie in cover without daring to
" iii. 1. 92.
show themselves;
ENSHIELD, Concealed, enclosed;
ii. 4. 80.

ENSKY'D, placed in heaven; i. 4.
34.

ENTERTAIN, desire to keep; iii. 1.
76.

ESCAPES, sallies; iv. 1. 61.
ESTIMATION, reputation; iv. 2.

23.

EVASION, excuse; i. 1. 51.
EVILS, privies; ii. 2. 172.

FACT, crime; iv. 2. 129.

FALSE, illegal; ii. 4. 49.

FALSELY, dishonestly, illegally; ii. 4. 47.

FINED, punished; iii. 1. 116,
FLOURISH, adorn; iv. 1. 73.
FLOWERY TENDERNESS, that is,
a tender woman "whose action
is no stronger than a flower
(cp. Sonnet LXV. 4); iii. 1. 84.
FOISON, plenty; i. 4. 43.
FOND, foolishly overprized; ii. 2.
149; foolish; ii. 2. 187; v. 1. 105.
FOPPERY, folly; i. 2. 127.
FORFEIT, liable to penalty; iii. 2.
181.

"FOR THE LORD'S SAKE," the
supplication of imprisoned
debtors to the passers-by; iv.
3. 17.

FREE, liberal; v. 1. 386.

FRENCH CROWN, a bald head produced by a certain disease; used equivocally; i. 2. 50.

FAULT; "fault and glimpse," GARDEN-HOUSE, summer-house; that is, the faulty glimpse; a V. i. 210.

fault arising from the mind being dazzled by a novel authority; i. 2. 151.

GENERAL, populace; ii. 4. 27.
GENERATION, race; iv. 3. 85.
GENERATIVE, (?) begot; "a mo-

tion generative;' "a puppet | IGNOMY (so Folio 1) = ignominy

born of a female being" (but

probably Theobald's emenda-
tion is correct,

tive"); iii. 2. 103.

(which word suits the metre
better); ii. 4. 111.

"ungenera- | IMPARTIAL, taking no part; v. 1.

GENEROUS AND GRAVEST, that
is, most generous and most
grave; iv. 6. 13.
GHOSTLY, spiritual; iv. 3. 44.
GIGLETS, giglots, wantons; v. 1.

345.

GLASSY ESSENCE," that essential
nature of man which is like
glass, from its faculty to reflect
the image of others in its own,
and from its fragility, its lia-
bility to injury or destruc-
tion;" ii. 2. 120.

166.

IMPORTS, carries with it; v. 1.
108.

IMPORTUNE, urge; i. 1. 57.
INCERTAIN, unsettled, vague; iii.
1. 128.

INFORMAL, insane; v. 1. 234.
IN GOOD TIME, so be it, very well;
iii. 1. 178.

INIQUITY, see Justice.
INSENSIBLE OF, indifferent to;
iv. 2. 137.

INSTANCE, intimation; iv. 3. 126.
INVENTION, imagination; ii. 4. 3.

122.

GRACE, good fortune, happiness; INWARD, intimate friend; iii. 2.
i. 4. 69.
GRADATION, regular advance
from step to step; iv. 3. 96.
GRANGE, a solitary farmhouse;

iii. 1. 255.
GRATULATE, gratifying; v. i. 527.
GRAVEL, flinty; iv. 3. 60.
GUARD, "stands at a guard
with," that is, is on his guard
against; i. 3. 51.

GUARDS, facings, trimmings; iii.
1.98.

ISSUES, purposes; i. 1. 37.

JOURNAL, diurnal; iv. 3. 84.
JUSTICE OR INIQUITY; "that is,
the constable or the fool. Es-
calus calls the latter Iniquity
in allusion to the old Vice,
a familiar character in the
ancient moralities and dumb
shows;" ii. 1. 164.

KEEPS, dwells; i. 3. 10.

HANNIBAL, Elbow's error for LAPWING ("the bird diverts at-

"cannibal;" ii. 1. 167.
HAPPILY, haply; iv. 2. 91.
HEAVY, drowsy, sleepy; iv. 1. 33.
HELMED, directed; iii. 2. 132.
HENT, seized, taken possession
of; iv. 6. 14.

HIDE, suppress; v. 1. 67.

His, its; iv. 1. 29.

tention from its nest by flying
to a distance and attracting
the sportsman there by flutter-
ing "); i. 4. 32.

LEAVEN'D, well fermented, ri-
pened; i. 1. 52.

LEIGER, a resident ambassador
at a foreign court; iii. 1. 60.

HOME AND HOME, to the quick; LIKE, likely to be believed; v. 1.

HOT-HOUSE, bathing-house; ii. 1. LIMIT, appointed time; iii. 1.210.
63, 64.
LIMITED, appointed; iv. 2. 157.