Now, sir,

What have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose? Cymbeline, iv. 2. TO PURSE UP. To ensnare; to entangle.

When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 2.

TO PURSUE. To punish; to proscribe.
It imports no reason

That with such vehemency he should pursue Faults proper to himself. Measure for Measure, v. 1. PURSUIVANT. A state messenger.

Take this fellow in, and send for his master with a pursuivant presently. Henry 6, P. 2, i. 3.

PUSH. Proof; trial; emergency.

We'll put the matter to the present push.

Hamlet, v. 1.
There's time enough for that;
Lest they desire upon this push to trouble
Your joys with like relation.

PUSH. Pshaw; pish.

PYRENEAN.

Winter's Tale, v. 3.

Push! did you see my cap?

TO PUT A GIRDLE ROUND. circle.

Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,
Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels.
Henry 6, P. 1, i. 4.

I'll put a girdle round about the earth

In forty minutes. Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii. 1.

TO PUT ON. To show; to indicate; to incite; to encourage; to instigate.

Let not our looks put on our purposes.

Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above

Rather make

My country's high pyramides my gibbet,
And hang me up in chains.

Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2.

PYRAMIS. A pyramid.

A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear
Than Rhodope's of Memphis ever was.

Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.

Macbeth

PYRENEAN.

Put on their instruments.

But now grow fearful

By your allowance.

Gods! if you

Had liv'd to put on this.

Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never

We'll put on those shall praise your excellence.

Cymbeline, v. 1.

Hamlet, iv. 7.

The Pyrenees.

Henry 6, P. 1, i. 5.

And so, ere answer knows what question would,— Saving in dialogue of compliment,

And talking of the Alps and Apennines,

The Pyrenean and the river Po,—

It draws toward supper in conclusion so.
But this is worshipful society,

And fits the mounting spirit like myself.
King John, i. l.

QUALITY.

Associates; fellows; vocation; nature; qualification; property; disposition; temper.

All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,

To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curl'd clouds,-to thy strong bidding task
Ariel and all his quality.
Tempest, i. 2.
Will they pursue the quality no longer than
they can sing?
Hamlet, ii. 2.
Come, give us a taste of your quality; come, a
passionate speech.
Ibid. ii. 2.

But, fair soul,

In your fine frame hath love no quality?

All's well that ends well, iv. 2.

MM

QUIDDIT.

TO QUESTION. To talk; to converse with; to
discuss; to examine; to call in question.
I pray you, think you question with the Jew.
Merchant of Venice, iv. 1.
Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.
Romeo and Juliet, v. 3.

I and my brother are not known; yourself
So out of thought, and thereto so o'ergrown,
Cannot be question'd.
Cymbeline, iv. 4.

QUESTRIST. A pursuer; a follower.

Some five or six and thirty of his knights,
Hot questrists after him, met him at gate.

King Lear, iii. 7. QUICK. Gay; sprightly; lively; sudden. But is there no quick recreation granted?

Love's Labour's lost, i. 1.
And cheer his grace with quick and merry words.
Richard 3, i. 3.

The quick comedians
Extemporally will stage us.

Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2.
A thousand moral paintings I can show,
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of For-
tune's
More pregnantly than words.

Timon of Athens, i. 1. TO QUICKEN. To come to life; to revive. These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin, Will quicken and accuse thee: I'm your host.

King Lear, iii. 7.
Even then this forkèd plague is fated to us
When we do quicken.
Othello, iii. 3.
Quicken with kissing: 'had my lips that power,
Thus would I wear them out.

Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 15. QUIDDIT. A cavil; a subtlety.

Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Hamlet, v.1.

And quit the house on purpose, that their punish

Might have the freer course.

Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very
Instinctively had quit it.

TO QUIT. To pay; to recompense; to requite;
to pardon; to be even with; to set free.
Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains.
Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4.
Is't not perfect conscience,

Hamlet, v. 2.

To quit him with this arm?
To let a fellow that will take rewards,
And say,
"God quit you!" be familiar with
My playfellow, your hand!

Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 13. Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well.

Measure for Measure, v. 1. And ere thou bid good-night, to quit their grief Tell thou the lamentable tale of me.

Richard 2, v. 1. But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all. Measure for Measure, v. 1. To be full quit of those my banishers, Stand I before thee.

Coriolanus, iv. 5.