the original sense of flour, might give an erroneous impression. GIRD. Act I., Sc. 1. "He will not spare to gird the gods." To gird is to taunt. Falstaff uses the word as a noun when he says, "every man has a gird at me." KAM. Act III., Sc. 1. "This is clean kam." Kam is probably from the French camus, bent, turned up, and in a translation of Guzman d'Alfarache we have- LOCKRAM. Act II., Sc. 1. "Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck." Lockram was no doubt a kind of coarse linen. In 'The Spanish "To poor maidens' marriages I give per annum two hundred ells of lockram." Lors. Act V., Sc. 2. "It is lots to blanks." Lots are the whole number of tickets in a lottery: blanks are a proportion of the whole number. MALKIN. Act II., Sc. 1. "The kitchen malkin." A malkin was a scarecrow, a figure of rags; also a mop of rags used to clean the oven; was the kitchen-wench so called from her dirty resemblance to such an object? It is also said that Malkin is the diminutive of Mall, Moll, and thus in the time of Beaumont and Fletcher, the lady of the May had degenerated into Malkin. Is the scarecrow then called after the kitchen-wench? The reader must decide. MANKIND. Act IV., Sc. 2. "Are you mankind?" Sicinius asks sneeringly if Volumnia is mankind,—a woman with the rough qualities of a man. She answers that she is of human kind-had a man to her father. In a Winter's Tale,' Shakspere uses the term "a mankind witch." PоTCH. Act I., Sc. 10. "I'll potch at him some way." Potch, is probably from the French pocher. Pocher les yeux used for a blow RAPTURE. Act II., Sc. 1. "Into a rapture lets her baby cry." Rapture is used for a fit RUTH. Act I., Sc. 1. "Would the nobility lay aside their ruth." Ruth is pity: another old English word. 'Scaling his present bearing with his past." Scaling is weighing. SHENT. Act. V., Sc. 2. "Do you hear how we are shent." Shent is rebuked, reproved, scolded. "Have you inform'd them sithence." Sithence, from the Anglo-Saxon sith, is since, or since then. SOWLE. Act IV., Sc. 5. "Sowle the porter of Rome gates." Sowle is a provincial term for to pull out. STALE. Act I., Sc. 1. "To stale 't a little more." To stale, according to Gifford, is to render it flat, deprive it of zest by previous intimation. The original has scale 't, which Theobald judiciously altered to stale. WELL APPEARED. Act IV., Sc. 3. "Your favour is well appeared by your tongue." Well appeared, is made to appear, rendered apparent. WHATEVER. Act I., Sc. 2. "Whatever have been thought on." Whatever have is used elliptically for whatever things have. WREAK. Act IV., Sc. 5. "If thou hast A heart of wreak in thee." Wreak, from the Anglo-Saxon wrac, is revenge, vindictive punishment. JULIUS CESAR. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 1. MARCUS ANTONIUS, a triumvir after the death of Julius Cæsar. Act IV. sc. 1. M. EMIL:US LEPIDUS, a triumvir after the death of Julius Cæsar. Appears, Act III. sc. 1. Act IV. sc. 1. MARCUS BRUTUS, a conspirator against Julius Cæsar. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 2 Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 4; sc. 5. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 3. CASSIUS, a conspirator against Julius Cæsar. Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 1. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3. CASCA, a conspirator against Julius Cæsar. Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act III. sc. 1. DECIUS BRUTUS, a conspirator against Julius Cæsar. CINNA, a conspirator against Julius Cæsar. Act III. sc. 1. |