ance.

And yet the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a received belief that they were fairies. Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5. Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, You break not sanctuary in seizing him.

Richard 3, iii. 1.

GROUNDLINGS. Those spectators who, in our ancient theatres, occupied the ground, or, as we should now say, the pit.

O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. Hamlet, iii. 2. TO GROW. To cause to grow; to accrue; to become due.

Touch thou the sourest points with sweetest terms,
Nor curstness grow to the matter.

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 2.
Even just the sum that I do owe to you
Is growing to me by Antipholus.

GROWING.

The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither. Much Ado about Nothing, i. 1. Give him a livery more guarded than his fellows. Merchant of Venice, ii. 2.

To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. King John, iv. 2.
GUARDAGE. Wardship.

Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy,
Would ever have, to incur general mock,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou,-to fear, not to delight.
Othello, i. 2.

GUARDANT. A protector; a guardian.

But when my angry guardant stood alone,
Tendering my ruin, and assail'd of none,
Dizzy-ey'd fury and great rage of heart
Suddenly made him from my side to start
Into the clustering battle of the French.

Henry 6, P. 1, iv. 7.

Comedy of Errors, iv. 1.

Growth, Growth; progress; advancement. I have begun to plant thee, and will labour

To make thee full of growing.

I turn my glass, and give my scene such growing As you had slept between.

GRUDGE.

Winter's Tale, iv. Chorus.

The damned'st body to invest and cover

In priestly guards. Measure for Measure, iii. 1. And the guards are but slightly basted on neiMuch Ado about Nothing, i. 1.

ther.

anger; resentment.

My noble queen, let former grudges pass.

Death, in guerdon of her wrongs, Gives her fame which never dies.

Henry 6, P. 3, iii. 3.

Much Ado about Nothing, v. 3.

GYVE

An unfledged bird; a nestling; a cheat; a trick; a dupe; a fool.

And, being fed by us, you us'd us so
As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,
Useth the sparrow,-did oppress our nest.

For, I do fear,

Henry 4, P. 1, v. 1.

When every feather sticks in his own wing,
Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,
Which flashes now a phoenix,

Timon of Athens, ii. 1. I should think this a gull, but that the whitebearded fellow speaks it.

Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 3. And made the most notorious geck and gull That e'er invention play'd on. Twelfth-Night, v. 1. O gull! O dolt! as ignorant as dirt! Othello, v. 2. TO GULL. To trick; to deceive.

If I do not gull him into a nayword, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed. Twelfth Night, ii. 3.

GULL-CATCHER. A trickster; a cheat.
Here comes my noble gull-catcher.

GUN-STONE. A cannon-ball.

Twelfth-Night, ii. 5.

And tell the pleasant prince, this mock of his Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones. Henry 5, i. 2. GUST. Taste; relish; enjoyment.

But that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent he would quickly have the gift of a grave. Twelfth-Night, i. 3. To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust.

Cymbeline, v. 1.

My Lord of Suffolk, say, is this the guise,
Is this the fashion in the court of England?
Henry 6, P. 2, i. 3.
How rarely does it meet with this time's guise,
When man was wish'd to love his enemies!
Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

To GUST. To taste.

'Tis far gone, when I shall gust it last.

To HALE. To haul; to pull; to drag.
That the appalled air

May pierce the head of the great combatant,
And hale him hither. Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.
The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune,
And hale him up and down. Coriolanus, v. 4.
HALF-BLOODED.

rate.

Ibid. ii. 3.

Custody; contract; obliga

Some of my shame; if you will know of me What man I am, and how, and why, and where This handkercher was stain'd. As you like it, iv. 3.

HANDS. Height; inches.

The worst that they can say of me is, that I am a second brother, and that I am a proper fellow of my hands. Henry 4, P. 2, ii. 2.

TO HAVE. To help; to know; to understand; to find.

And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,
To have my love to bed and to arise.

Midsummer-Night's Dream, iii. 1.
Or wilt thou sleep? we'll have thee to a couch
Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis.

Taming of the Shrew, Induction, sc. 2.
He will steal himself into a man's favour, and
for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but
when you find him out, you have him ever after.
All's well that ends well, iii. 6.
You have me, have you not?-My lord, I have.
Hamlet, ii. 1.
At the Elephant is best to lodge: there shall you
have me.
Twelfth Night, iii. 3.

King John, i. 1.

Hamlet, i. 4.