rate.

The let-alone lies not in your good will.—
Nor in thine, lord.-Half-blooded fellow, yes.
King Lear, v. 3.

HALF-CAP. A slight salutation.

After distasteful looks, and these hard fractions,
With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods
They froze me into silence. Timon of Athens, ii. 2.

Some of shame; my if will know of me you 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.

Richard 3, i. 3. And by me too, had not our hap been bad. Comedy of Errors, i. 1. Till I know 'tis done, Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. Hamlet, iv. 3. Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true. Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 3.

And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

Hamlet, i. 2. What else may hap, to time I will commit. Twelfth Night, i. 2.

To HAP. To happen.

HAPPILY. Haply; perchance.
Besides old Gremio is hearkening still;
And happily we might be interrupted.
Taming of the Shrew, iv. 4.
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!

Hamlet, i. 1. Happily he's the second time come to them; for they say an old man is twice a child. Ibid. ii. 2.

HAPPY. Successful; fortunate; well skilled; accomplished.

Whether 'twas pride,

Which out of daily fortune ever taints
The happy man.

Coriolanus, iv. 7.
Not so happy, yet much happier. Macbeth, i. 3.
For if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
There's no man happy.

For thus popp'd Paris in his hardiment,
And parted thus you and your argument.
Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.

HARDINESS. Courage; stoutness; valour.

Hardness ever

Cymbeline, iii. 6.

Of hardiness is mother.
If we, with thrice such powers left at home,
Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,
Let us be worried, and our nation lose
The name of hardiness and policy. Henry 5, i. 2.
HARDNESS. Want; hardship; penùry.

Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever
Of hardiness is mother.
Cymbeline, iii. 6.

HARLOT. A rogue; a cheat; a base person.
While she with harlots feasted in my house.
Comedy of Errors, v. 1.
HARLOT. Depraved; dissolute; debased.
For the harlot king

Is quite beyond mine arm. Winter's Tale, ii. 3.

Othello, iv. 2.

For, of no right, nor colour like to right,
He doth fill fields with harness in the realm.
Henry 4, P. 1, iii. 2.
At least we'll die with harness on our back.

Present yourself, desire his service, tell him

Fore noble Lucius

Wherein you are happy.

To put on armour; to arm.

Before the sun rose, he was harness'd light,
And to the field goes he. Troilus and Cressida, i. 2.
This harness'd masque and unadvised revel
The king doth smile at.

King John, v. 2.

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 Twelfth-Night, iii. 3.

Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.

have me.

King John, i. 1.

HEAVINESS. Dejection; sorrow.

I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;
To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.

Romeo and Juliet, iii. 4.
Our strength is all gone into heaviness,
That makes the weight.

Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 15. HEAVY. Sorrowful; mournful; grievous; dark; gloomy.

Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry.

Henry 4, P. 2, v. 2.
She ceas'd, in heavy satisfaction, and would never
Receive the ring again.

All's well that ends well, v. 3.
Our treasure seiz'd, our soldiers put to flight,
And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight.
Henry 6, P. 3, iii. 3.
There have I made my promise

HEFT. Heaving; reaching; inclination to vomit.

But if one make known how he hath drunk,
He cracks his gorge, his sides, with violent hefts.
Winter's Tale, ii. 1.

HEIGHT. Utmost degree; full extent; rank; dignity.

By day and night, he's traitor to the height.

Henry 8, i. 2. Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of your breeding.

All's well that ends well, ii. 2.
Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height
Before this outdar'd dastard.

Richard 2, i. 1.

To HELM. To guide; to conduct; to manage. The business he hath helmed must, upon a warranted need, give him a better proclamation. Measure for Measure, iii. 2.

HELP. Cure; remedy.

You have brought

A trembling upon Rome, such as was never

So incapable of help.

But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.

Upon the heavy middle of the night.

To call upon him. Measure for Measure, iv. 1. Two or three groan: it is a heavy night.

Othello, v. 1.

HEBENON. Ebony.

Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial.

Hamlet, i. 5.

Coriolanus, iv. 6.

Macbeth, i. 2.

TO HEDGE. To shift; to hide; to skulk; to shut out; to exclude.

The king in this perceives him, how he coasts
And hedges his own way.
Henry 8, iii. 2.

I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2.