Woodville, Anthony. See RIVERS.

Wooing, by a figure, Two Gent., ii. 1; an odd, Tam. of
S., ii. 1; in haste, Tam. of S., iii. 2; in rhyme, L.'s L.'s
L., v. 2; a king's, H. V., v. 2; an unique, R. III., i. 2;
love sweeter in, Tr. & Cr., i. 2, end; idle, Ham., i. 3; a
soldier's, Oth., i. 3; women were not made for, M. N. D.,
ii. 1 or 2: wedding and repenting, Much Ado, ii. 1.

Woolward, go, for penance, L.'s L.'s L., v. 2. Go
clothed in wool instead of linen, sometimes imposed as a
penance.

Worcester, burial of John at, K. J., v. 7.

Worcester, Thomas Percy, Earl of, character in 1
H. IV.

Word(s), crammed into the ears, Temp., ii 1; his, are
bonds, Two Gent., ii. 7; evil, double deeds, Com, of Er.,
iii. 2; ill, empoison liking, Much Ado, iii. 1; high, to low
matter, L.'s L.'s L., i. 1; pronunciation of certain-
longest of all, L.'s L.'s L., v. 1; an army of good, M. of
V.. iii. 5; a man of (Parolles, which means words), All's
Well; dallying with, Tir. Nt., iii. 1; bethumped with,
K. J., ii. 2; like a woman's, 1 H. IV., i. 3; of the dying,
R. II., ii. 1; windy attorneys, R. III, iv. 4; mere, Tr.
& Cr., v. 3; and strokes, Jul. Cos., v. 1; unpack the
heart with, Ham., ii. 2; without thoughts, Ham., iii. 3;
to grief, Oth., i. 3; to tire the hearer with a book of,
Much Ado, i. 1; an exchequer of, but no other treasure,
Two Gent., ii. 4; a soldier-like, 2 H. IV., iii. 2; have put
to flight when blows could not, Cor., ii. 2; unprofitable,
Lucrece, 1. 1016; wind of, Lucrece, 1. 1330.

World, on wheels, a, Two Gent., iii. 1; an oyster,
Merry Wives, ii. 2; delights of the, renounced, L.'s L.'8
L., i. 1; weariness of the, M. of V., i. 2; bought with
care-a stage, M. of V., i. 1; As You Like It, ii. 7; what
a, is this, As You Like It, ii. 3; how wags-the infected,

As You Like It, ii. 7; a, to see (a wonder to see), Tan, ef
S., ii. 1; go to the (to marry), All's Well, i. 3; turned by
commodity, or interest, K. J., ii., end; doffed aside,
H. IV., iv. 1; to bustle in the, R. III., i. 1: all, to
nothing, R. III., i. 2; vain pomp and glory of the, H.
VIII., iii. 2; slippery turns of the, Cor., iv. 4; to do
harm in the, often laudable, Mac., iv. 2; weariness with,
Mac., v. 5; all uses of it, weary, stale, etc., Ham., 1.2;
mutations of the, Lear, iv. 1; a stage of fools, Lear, iv.6;
this tough, Lear, v. 3; the future, A. & C., iv. 12 or 14;
renouncing the, different from being in ignorance of the,
Cymb., iii. 3; deceit of the, R. III., iii. 1; praise of the
Sonnet Ixix.

I

Worldlings, testaments of, As You Like It, ii 1.

Worm(s), that hath eat a king, Ham., iv. 3; man a
Lear, iv. 1; the word is often used for serpent, as A. &
C., v. 2; allusion to the notion that toothache was caused
by a, Much Ado, iii. 2; food for, 1 H. IV., v. 4; the only
emperors for diet-politic, Ham., iv. 3, or v. 7.

Yclep'd (called, from clepe), L.'s L.'s L., i. 1, v. 2.
Yead (Edward), Merry Wives, i. 1.

Yearn (to grieve), H. V., ii. 3, iv. 3; Jul. Cæs., ii. 2;
R. II., v. 5; Merry Wives, iii. 5.
Yellowness (colour of jealousy), Merry Wives, i. 3, end;
Winter's T., ii. 3, "No yellow in't," etc.; Cymb., ii. 5.
Yellows (jaundice in horses), Tam, of S., iii. 2.

Worthies, the Nine, L.'s L.'s L., v. 1; 2 H. IV., K. 4
They were: three heathens-Hector, Alexander, and
Cæsar; three Jews-Joshua, David, and Judas Macca
bæus; and three Christians-Arthur, Charlemagne, and
Godfrey of Bouillon. Shakspere includes Pompey and
Hercules

Worts, quibble on, Merry Wives, i. 1. A general name
for vegetables of the cabbage kind.

Wound(s), one, to be healed by many, K. J.. v. ;
notion that they open in presence of the murderer, E
HII., i. 2; the custom of showing, when seeking an
election, Cor., ii. 3; he that never felt a, jests at scars
R. & J., ii. 2; one not so deep as a well, nor so wide a
church-door, R. & J., iií. 1; Caesar's, Jul. Cœs., iii. 1, 2:
a, Ven. & Ad., 1. 1052.

Writhled (wrinkled), 1 H. VI., ii. 3.

Writing, comes by nature, Much Ado, iii. 3; let it be
held treacherous, Cumb., iv. 2; a baseness to write fair,
Ham., v. 2; in a martial hand, Tw. Nt., ii. 3.

Wroath (ill fortune), M. of V., ii. 9.

Wrong(s), it is dishonourable to remember, Cor., T.;
to Brutus and Cassius, Jul. Cos., iii. 2; pocketing up of
H. V., iii. 2; humanity must prey upon itself, Lear,
2; to do a great right, do a little wrong, M. of V., iv. 1;
fears attend the steps of, K. J., iv. 2; flattery a, R. II.,
iii. 2; to wear wrongs like raiment, T. of A., iii. 2
Wrying (swerving), Cymb., v. 1.

Wye, the, river, 1 H. IV., iii. 1; H. V., iv. 7.

Yeoman (subordinate), 2 H. IV., ii. 1.
Yeoman-service, Ham., v. 2.

Yeomen, of England, H. V., iii. 1.
Yesterday(s), 0, call back, R. II., iii. 2; all our, have
lighted fools, the way to dusty death, Mac., v. 5.

Yew, double-fatal (so called because it was used for
bows, and the leaves were poisonous), R. II., iii. 2; alle
Tar. Nt., ii. 4, song; used by witches when slivered in
sion to the custom of placing sprigs of it in the shroud
the moon's eclipse, Mac., iv. 1; in churchyards, R. & Ju

V. 3.

Play.

All's Well that Ends Well

Antony Cleopatra

and

Date of Probable First Date of Publication. Composition.

1623

Source.

Story of "Giglietta di Nerbona" in Boccaccio's De cameron, as translated in Painter's Palace of Pleasure

Plutarch's Lives, in North's translation

Probably an earlier play called The Historie of Error, acted 1577, and founded on Mencechmi of Plautus Plutarch's Lives

Holinshed and Boccaccio

An unknown version of the story first told by Saxo Grammaticus in The Historia Danica. Probably also an older play North's Plutarch

Holinshed, and an older play, The Famous Victories of Henry V. As above

Holinshed, and two older plays worked up with the assis tance of other playwrights Holinshed and Stowe, and Foxe's Actes and Monu ments. Probably written in collaboration with Fletcher

Source.

An earlier play, The Troublesome Reign of King John

Holinshed, reproducing Geoffrey of Monmouth. Parts of Gloucester and his sons from Sidney's Arcadia. There was an older play on the subject Holinshed

Holinshed

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Holinshed's account of the murder of King Duff by Donwald and his wife at Fores. [Speeches of Hecate perhaps by Middleton.] Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra, and the same story in his Heptameron of Civil Discourses, both founded on the Hecatommithi of Giraldo Cinthio Probably a lost play named The Jew, which showed "the greediness of worldly chusers and bloody mind of usurers. The component parts of the story exist in numerous forms

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