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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Chapter 29

D. Wilson : Caliban : The Missing Link . . . . . . . . . . 1873

W. Winter: Daly’s Arrangement for Representation . 1888
W. Winter: Old Shrines and Ivy .. .. .. .. .. .. 1892
H. Woelffel: Album d. lit. Vereins in Nurnberg . . . , . , . . 1852
Bartholomew Yong: Diana of George of Montemayor . . . . . . 1598
J. Zupitza : ‘ Englische Studien,’ vol. viii. . . . . . . . . . . 1885
INDEX
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Abide . 162
Abide, corruption of aby . 148
Abide me . 169
Aby . 148
Abridgement . 204
Absorption . 180
Absurda Comica . 336
Accent of methinks . 192
Acheron . 163
Acting by mechanicals . 35
Actresses . 37
Acts, division into . 5
Adamant . 94
Addressed = ready . 21 1
Admiring of, verbal noun . 30
After-supper = dessert . 203
All arm’d . 73
Alliteration . 216
Almost, transposed . 1 13
Alone, sport . 143
Alteration for stage-version .... 242
Amiable . 173
And and an, confounded . 41
And if =2/ . 112,140
Antiopa . 61
Apricocks . 128
Argument . 154
Arrows, Cupid’s . 23
Artificial . 15°
As = as if . 74
Ass-head . 122
Aubrey’s constable at Grendon . . 4
Aunt . 55
Badge . 1 44
Bankrupt . 1 40
Barme . 54
Barren sort . 1 32
Bated =■ excepted . 26
Beached . 62
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Bead . 161
Beams . 228
Bear or boar . 185
'Bear, pronunciation . 109
Beards, with strings . 199
Beast and best, pronunciation . . . 225
Beauteous, pronunciation . 15
Beholds or behowls . 235
Belike . 17
Bellowes . 37
Bergomask . 234
Berlaken . 114
Beshrew . 106
Best and beast, pronunciation . . . 225
Best, you were . 33
Beteem . 17
Blind worm . 102
Blood = passion . 12
Bones, tongs and . 175
Bottle of hay . 175
Bottom, its meaning . I
Bottom, criticisms on . 315
Bowstrings, hold or cut . 44
Brake . 1 18
Brawl . 62
Brief, noun . 205
Broom . 237
Brown, J. M., on Bottom . 321
Bully . H4
But, with preventive meaning ... 96
Buy it dear . 17°
By . 74
Calendar . 117
Canker . xoi
Canker-blossom . 158
Capping-verse . 119
Cat . 104
Ceremony, trisyllable . 206
Certaine . 73. 2I5
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INDEX
Chance it, How ; the full phrase . .
Changeling .
Chaucer’s Knight's Tale .
Cheer .
Chetwood’s Third Quarto .
Chiding, i. e. sounding .
Childing .
Chin .
Chough .
Churchyard’s Charitie .
Clamorous .
Clapp, on Duration of Action . . .
Cohn, on Peter Squentz .
Coil .
Coleridge, Hartley, on the play . .
Collied .
Companions, i. e. companies .... Companions, used contemptuously .
Comparatives, double .
Conceits .
Condole .
Conference .
Confound .
Confounding .
Confusion of e and ie final ....
Constancy .
Continents .
Com .
Costume .
Courtesie . .