Hath sense withal of its own fall* [* downfall '].—Timon, v. 2.

Ours is the fall [' downfall,' ' defeat '], I fear.—Ibid., v. 3.

Whose fall ['downfall,' 'ruin,' 'destruction'] the mark of his ambition is—Ibid., v.4 I know not what may fall ['befall,' ' happen,'' occur '].-Jul. C., iii. 1.

No disgrace shall fall ['befall'] you for refusing.—Ant. & C., iii. 7.

Her mantle she did fall [ let fall,' 'drop'].—Mid. N. D., v. 1.
Here she did fall [ let fall,' 'drop '] a tear.-R. II., iii. 4.

Fall [drop'] not a tear, I say.—Ant. & C., iii. 9.

Well thank'd, whate'er falls [ befalls '] more.-All's W., v. 1.

Each drop she falls ['lets fall,' 'drops '] would prove.-Oth., iv. 1.

Forty fancies [favourite songs, gay and fanciful '] prick'd in 't.-Tam. of S., iii. 2. They were his fancies ['favourite fanciful songs'].—2 H. IV., iii. 2.

So full of shapes is fancy [' love,' 'enamoured imagination'].—Tw. N., i. 1.

I am, and by my fancy [love,'' affection'].-W. T., iv. 3.

In May's new-fangled ['decked out'] shows.-Love's L. L., i. 1.

Be not, as is our fangled [* frivolously decked out,' 'fantastically fashioned '] world, a garment nobler.-Cym., v. 4.

The farced [stuffed,' 'compounded of highly seasoned epithets': French, farci. See Forced" under the present heading] title running 'fore the king.—H. V., iv. 1. I prattle out of fashion ['conventional form '].-Oth., ii. 1.

'Tis our fast ['firm,'' steadfast'] intent to shake.—Lear, i. 1.

Strong and fastened ['confirmed,' 'inveterate,' 'steadfast in guilt'] villain!-Ibid., ii. 1.

The native mightiness and fate ['power decreed to him by fate,' ' performance appointed him by destiny'] of him.-H. V., ii. 4.

'Tis your fault [* ill-luck,' ' mishap,'' misfortune'], 'tis your fault: 'tis a good dog. -Merry W., i. 1.

'Tis my fault [' misfortune'], Master Page.-Ibid., iii. 3.

The more my fault ['misfortune'], to 'scape.-Per., iv. 3.

I know your favour [' aspect,' 'look,' 'countenance '] well.-Tw. N., iii. 4.
As I do know your outward favour ['aspect,'' appearance'].—Jul. C., i. 2.
To alter favour ['aspect '] ever is to fear.-Macb., i. 5.

To this favour ['appearance'] she must come.-Hamlet, v. I.

And stain my favours ['features,' 'looks'] in a bloody mask.-1 H. IV., iii. 2.

But let my favours ['silken scarf worn over armour'] hide thy mangled face.-Ibid., v. 4.

And hold'st it fear [danger,' that which is to be feared,' 'cause of fear,' Sei WORDS LIKE "BLAME," &c.], or sin, to speak a truth.—2 H. IV., i. I.

And indent with fears ['causers of fear,'' those likely to inspire fear'], when they have lost.-1 H. IV., i. 3.

All these bold fears ['causers of fear'] thou see'st.—2 H. IV., iv. 4.
Come down with fearful ['secretly timid '] bravery.-Jul. C., v. I.
He's gentle, and not fearful+ [' timid '].—Temp., i. 2.

Pursue these fearful [' timid'] creatures.-V. & Adon., Stanza 113.

Doth my simple feature ['general personal appearance'] content you?As You L., iii. 3.

"Fall," in this passage, has been variously altered by various commentators; but we think that the mode in which Shakespeare uses it in the two other passages here cited from the same play serves to show that he intended to use it in the sense we assign, in the present instance.

+ Some interpreters explain "gentle, and not fearful" here to mean, mild, not for midable'; but we believe it to mean of noble nature, and not timid.' See "Gentle

as used in the present heading; and “Fearful” as used in the above-cited passages.

Be-monster not thy feature [' personal appearance '].-Lear, iv. 2.

Report the feature ['personal appearance,' 'general aspect'] of Octavia.— Ant. & C., ii. 5.

For feature [ personal appearance,' 'general shapeliness'], laming the shrine of Venus.-Cym., v. 5.

I will your very faithful feeder ['menial,' ' hired servant,' and 'pasturer or feeder of sheep'] be.-As You L., ii. 4.

One that looks on feeders ['menials,' hired servants '].—Ant. & C., iii. 11.
Have secret feet [footing'] in some of our best ports.-Lear, iii. 1.

That fell ['cruel,' 'barbarous,' 'tyrannous,' grim'] anatomy.-John, iii. 4.
Of that fell ['cruel,' 'tyrannous'] poison which assaileth him.-Ibid., v. 7.
To be your fellow [ companion,'' equal'] you may deny me.-Temp., iii. 1.
Nor after my degree, but fellow ['companion,'' equal '].-Tw. N., iii. 4.
Cannot parallel a fellow ['equal '] to it.-Macb., ii. 3.

My brother's servants were then my fellows [' equals '].-Temp., ii. 1.
Put into contempt the suits of princely fellows ['equals '].-Cym., iii. 4.
A fetch [ contrivance,'' trick,'' stratagem'] of warrant.—Hamlet, ii. 1.
Mere fetches [pretences,'' excuses,' 'feints']; the images.-Lear, ii. 4.

Temperate order in so fierce ['rash,' 'hasty,'' sudden,' 'precipitate'] a cause.— John, iii. 4.

This fierce ['hasty,' 'rapid,' ' brief'] abridgment hath.-Cym., v. 5.

The valu'd file [‘list '] distinguishes . . . a station in the file.-Macb., iii. 1.

Three performers are the file [ line of soldiers,' 'range of combatants'], when all the rest do nothing.-Cym., v. 3.

Are his files [lines of soldiers'] as full as thy report ?-Timon, v. 3.

Yet fil'd [kept pace with '] my abilities.-H. VIII., iii. 2.

Have I fil'd ['defiled'] my mind.—Macb., iii. 1.

His tongue filed [' polished'], his eye.-Love's L. L., v. 1.

Thou art too fine ['evasive,' 'prevaricating,' 'wily'] in thy evidence.—All's W., v. 3. Say, the firm ['constant.' See "Constant," under the present heading, sometimes used for 'firm'] Roman to great Egypt sends.—Ant. & C., i. 5.

Too flattering ['illusively'] sweet to be substantial.-R. & Jul., ii. 2.

If I may trust the flattering ['illusive'] truth of sleep.—Ibid., v. 1.

Observe how Antony becomes his flaw ['breach of fortune' and storm of fortune']. -Ant. & C., iii. 10.

I do not fear the flaw ['stormy blast'].-Per., iii. 1.

Sudden as flaws * ['sudden gusts of wind '] congealed.—2 H. IV., iv. 4.

Oh, these flaws ['sudden gusts'] and starts.—Macb., iii. 4.

Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws ['fragments,'' shivers '].-Lear, ii. 4.

As seasons fleet ['pass away in succession '].-2 H. VI., ii. 4.
Our sever'd navy too have knit again, and fleet ['float.'

of the word], threatening most.-Ant. & C., iii. 11.

This is an antique form

To darkness fleet ['float rapidly,' 'pass quickly away '], souls that fly backwards!— Cym., v. 3.

False, fleeting [fluctuating,' vacillating,' 'inconstant,' 'changeable'], perjur'd Clarence.-R. III., i. 4.

Now the fleeting ['inconstant,' 'variable,'' changeable '] moon no planet is of mine.— Ant. & C., v. 2.

You are well fleshed ['commenced and practised in the use of your weapon']; come on.-Tw. N., iv. 1.

* It has been asserted that here "flaws" signifies small blades of ice'; but from the tenor of the passage, and from Shakespeare's use of the word "flaws " elsewhere, we incline to think he employed it with the meaning we assign.

Princes, flesh'd ['satiated'] with conquest.-2 H. IV., i. 1.

And the flesh'd ['practised,' ' experienced''accustomed to butchery'] soldier, rough and hard of heart.-H. V., iii. 3.

Albeit they were flesh'd ['practised'] villains.-R. III., iv. 3.

Challenged Cupid at the flight [‘sharp slender arrow used for flying long distances". -M. Ado, i. I.

The flighty ['swift,' ' rapidly conceived '] purpose.—Macb., iv. 1.

Does your business follow ['concern,' ' pursue as its object'] us?—All's W., ii. 1.
I have follow'd ['inimically and emulatively pursued '] thee to this.-Ant. & C., v. 1.
What folly ['indiscretion,' 'lightness,' 'levity'] I commit.-Tr. & Cr., iii. 2.
Tempt me no more to folly ['light conduct '].-Ibid., v. 2.

She turn'd to folly ['light conduct,' 'wantonness'].—Oth., v. 2.

Feeds his vulture folly ['wantonness,' ' depravity '].-Lucrece, Stanza So.

Or tyrant folly ['wantonness,' depravity'] lurk.-Ibid., 122.

This is a fond ['foolish,' 'witless,' 'crazed'] and desperate creature.-All's W., v. 3. Be not fond [foolish,' 'weak'], to think that Cæsar.-Jul. C., iii. 1.

An idle and fond ['foolish,' 'weak'] bondage.—Lear, i. 2 (Letter).

Stoop'd, as to foot ['clutch in talons'] us.-Cym., v. 4.

Forage [range forth in search of prey '], and run to.-John, v. I.

Lion's whelp forage [ravagingly prey,'' destructively ramp or range'] in blood of French nobility.—H. V., i. 2.

Canst thou not forbear [* bear with '] me half an hour?—2 H. IV., iv. 4.
To forbear ['bear with,' 'tolerate,' ' endure'] the absence of.—Per., ii. 4.

He shall live a man forbid ['bewitched,'' under a spell or charm '].—Macb., i. 3.
Law by the nose, when he would force [ enforce'] it?-M. for M., iii. 1.
And force ['enforce,' ' urge'] them with a constancy.-H. VIII., iii. 2.
Why force ['enforce,' 'urge'] you this?-Coriol., iii. 2.

Much is the force ['power' influence,' 'efficacy,' favourable agency'] of heavenbred poesy.-Two G. of V., iii. 2.

Thy fair virtue's force ['essential excellence,' 'virtuous property or quality'] perforce doth move me.-Mid. N. D., iii. 1.

Had force influence' and 'virtuous exellence'] and knowledge more than was ever man's.-W. T., iv. 3.

Force [stuff,'cram.' See "Farced pour in, pour in.—Tr. & Cr., ii. 3.

under the present heading] him with praises:

By that forced [perverted from truth,' 'wryed from fact,'false'] baseness which he has put upon 't!-W. T., ii. 3.

With these forc'd ['perverted from truth,' 'false'] thoughts.-Ibid., iv. 3.

So forcing [falsely imputing,' 'wrongfully charging'] faults upon Hermione, I little like.-Ibid., iii. 1.

To make of him a formal ['sane,' 'rational'] man again.-Com. of E., v. 1. This is evident to any formal ['sane,' ' rational '] capacity.-Tw. N., ii. 5. Flow henceforth in formal ['well-regulated,'' sedate'] majesty.-2 H. IV., v. 2. With untir'd spirits and formal ['orderly,' 'well-regulated,' 'discreet,' 'judicious"] constancy. Jul. C., ii. 1.

On our former [' foremost '] ensign two mighty.—Ibid., v. 1.

The fortitude ['fortified strength'] of the place is best known.-Oth., i. 3.

I have now found [' detected,' ' found out '] thee.—All's W., ii. 3.

I have found ['detected'] thee.—Ibid., ii, 4.

The first that found ['detected '] me.—Ibid., v. 2.

Heaven save the foundation ['religious house or establishment where alms were given ]-M. Ado, v. 1.

I think foundations ['religious establishments where relief is given'] fly the wretched.-Cym., iii. 6.

And these hard fractions [' broken sentences,' 'fragmentary phrases '].—Timon, ii. 2. Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame ['order,' 'ordination,' 'disposal of events'] ?— M. Ado, iv. I.

Ever out of frame ['order'].-Love's L. L., iii. 1.

That yarely frame [' perform,'' fulfil '] the office.-Ant. & C., ii. 2.

Frank [freely bounteous,' 'open-handed,'

curious than in haste.-All's W., i. 2.

generous in gifts'] nature, rather

Doth the old boar feed in the old frank ['sty,' 'place to fatten hogs in '] ?— 2 H. IV., ii. 2.

He is frank'd [' styed '] up to fatting for his pains.—R. III., i. 3.

And the free ['pure,'' chaste,'' free from vicious taint'] maids.-Tw. N., ii. 4.

More free ['chaste,' 'pure'] than he is jealous.-W. T., ii. 3.

He did solicit you in free [' open,'' unreserved '] contempt.-Coriol., ii. 3.

Being free [liberal '] itself, it thinks all others so.-Timon, ii. 2.

We that have free [' unguilty,'' free from crime'] souls.-Hamlet, iii. 2.

With his free ['freely rendered,'' spontaneously offered '] duty recommends.Oth., i. 3.

When this advice is free [' liberal,' ' spontaneous '] I give.-Ibid., ii. 3.

I think it freely ['sincerely,'' genuinely']; and, betimes.-Ibid., ii. 3.

We'll learn our freeness [ generosity,' 'liberality,'' magnanimity '] of a son-in-law. -Cym., v. 5.

He hath got his friend ['sweetheart,' 'mistress,' 'loveress'] with child.— M. for M., i. 5.

Lady, will you walk about with your friend ['admirer,' 'lover '] ?-M. Ado, ii. 1. Which fronted ['affronted,'' opposed'] mine own peace.-Ant. & C., ii. 2.

She's fram'd as fruitful [‘bountiful,' 'generous'] as the free elements.—Oth., ii. 3. What a full [' plenarily good '] fortune does the.—Ibid., i. I.

Commands like a full [fully accomplished '] soldier.—Ibid., ii. 1.

Blithe, and full ['fully beautiful,'' plenarily attractive '] of face.-Per., i. (Gower). My full [whole,' 'entire,' 'complete'] life doth sway.-As You L., iii. 2.

He was furnish'd [' equipped,'' accoutred'] like a hunter.—Ibid., iii. 2.

I am not furnished [' appareled,'' attired '] like a beggar.—Ibid. (Epilogue).

Semblably furnish'd ['accoutred '] like the king.—1 H. IV., v. 3.

Whereof perchance these are but furnishings ['outward appendages ']—Lear, iii. 1. Now will I stir this gamester ['mettlesome young spark,' ' forward young fellow'.As You L., i. I.

A common gamester ['prostitute'] to the camp.-All's W., v. 3.

Love not a gaping ['loud-voiced,' 'noisy,' 'discordant,' 'yelling'] pig abide a gaping pig-Mer. of V., iv. I.

... cannot

With fatal mouths gaping ['open-jawed,' 'wide-stretched,' and 'roaring'] on girded Harfleur.-H. V., iii. (Chorus).

Leave your gaping [' roaring,'' shouting,' 'bawling '].—H. VIII., v. 3.

Who never leave gaping ['stretching their jaws and roaring or bawling'] till they've swallowed the whole parish.-Per., ii. 1.

Break the heart of generosity ['nobility,' 'those of high rank'], and make bold power look pale.—Coriol., i. 1.

The generous['high-born,' 'nobly ranked '] and gravest citizens.-M. for M., iv. 6. The generous ['distinguished,'' high-born '] islanders.-Oth., iii. 3.

He's gentle ['well born,'' noble'], and not fearful.-Temp., i. 2.

He said he was gentle ['well born,' ' of superior race and rank'], but unfortunate.Cym., iv. 2.

To show us so much gentry ['gentility,' 'gentleness,' 'courtesy '] and good will.— Hamlet, ii. 2.

All gilt [ruddy.' See "Golden" thus used as applied to blood, under the present heading] with Frenchmen's blood.-John, ii. 2.

For the gilt [gold,'' gold coin'] of France.-H. V., ii. (Chorus).
More laud than gilt [' gold '] o'er-dusted.—Tr. & Cr., iii. 3.

Take a pride to gird [' gibe,' ' jeer '] at me.—2 H. IV., i. 2.

He will not spare to gird [' gibe,'' jeer'] the gods.-Coriol., i. I.

Men's reports give ['adjudge,' ' consider '] him much wrong'd.—Ant. & C., i. 4. Thus given [* granted,' ' permitted'] Hydra here to choose.—Coriol., iii. 1.

Than may be given [' granted,'' allowed'] you.-Hamlet, i. 3.

Is the desire that's glorious ['high-raised,' 'exalted '].—Cym., i. 7.

They whom youth and ease have taught to gloze ['talk speciously,' 'insinuate,' 'flatter'].-R. II., ii. 1.

Unjustly gloze ['speciously set forth,' 'misconstrue,'' misinterpret,' ' misrepresent '] to be the realm of France.-H. V., i. 2.

I will gloze [talk speciously,'' beguilingly,' 'insinuatingly,' 'conciliatingly'] with him.-Per., i. I.

Have glozed ['talked speciously,' argued plausibly'], but superficially.Tr. & Cr., ii. 2.

Lay these glozes [special pleadings,' sophistical representations'] by.-Love's L. L., iv. 3.

His silver skin lac'd with his golden [‘ruddy ’] blood.—Macb., ii. 3.

With as few good [' brave,'' spirited '] deeds.- H. V., iii. 2.

Antonio is a good man ['man of credit,''man of reputed wealth and substance"] in saying he is a good man.-Mer. of V., i. 3.

...

The patricians, good [' of good credit,'' of substantial possession '].—Coriol., i. I. As our good ['advantage,' interest,'' profit,'' benefit'] wills.-Ibid., ii. 1.

Some good [valid,' ‘substantial,' ‘real,' 'unfeigned'] necessity touches his friend. -Timon, ii. 2.

If they have any goodness ['justice,' 'righteousness,' 'candour'], the trial just and noble.-H. VIII., ii. 2.

That goodness ['justice,'' righteousness,' 'virtue'] of gleaning.--Ibid., iii. 2.

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I have commended to his goodness [ favour,' propitiousness'] the model of our chaste loves, his young daughter.-Ibid., iv. 2.

And the chance of goodness ['success,' ' favourable issue,' 'justice.' See Varied MEANINGS, &c.] be like.-Macb., iv. 3.

What the good-year [ pestilence,' 'plague': an ironical form of the Italian imprecation, mal anno], my lord!-M. Ado, i. 3.

The good years [' pestilence'] shall devour them.-Lear, v. 3.

My fame is shrewdly gor'd [ bloodily torn,' 'wounded' as by the horn of an animal; and smirch'd,''polluted,'' soiled,' as derived from the Saxon word gor, dirt,' 'mud,” 'filth '].-Tr. & Cr., iii. 3.

Gor'd [ torn,' wounded,' and 'smirched,'' soiled,'' polluted'] mine own thoughts. -Sonnet 110.

'Tis government ['self-control,' 'modest submission and discretion,' 'moral discipline] that makes them seem divine.—3 H. VI., i. 4.

Wife-like government [discretion,' 'modest deportment,' self-control,' 'moral discipline'], obeying in commanding.-H. VIII., ii. 4.

Put your grace ['virtue'] in your pocket, sir.-Tw. N., v. I.

Mickle is the powerful grace ['virtuous property'] that lies in herbs.-R. & Jul., ii. 3. One shamed that was never gracious [* graced by fortune,' 'favoured by destiny'].— As You L., i. 2.

Not such a gracious ['well-graced by nature'] creature born.-John, iii. 4.