Richard du Champ [the name given by Imogen to her supposed dead master).— Cym., iv. 2.

Fidele [the name given by Imogen as her own, when she is met by Belarius and her brothers, disguised as a boy, in their cave].-Ibid., iii. 6.

Ganymede [the name assumed by Rosalind when going into exile, dressed as a young lad].-As You L., i, 3.

Lodowick [the name taken by Duke Vincentio, when he is in the garb of a friar].— M. for M., v. I.

Roderigo [the name temporarily assumed by Sebastian after shipwreck].—Tw. N., ii. 1. Sebastian [the name under which Julia engages herself to Proteus as his page]. Two G. of V., iv. 4.

Sir Topas [the name adopted by Feste the clown, when he presents himself to Malvolio as the curate fetched to visit the steward in his imputed madness. There is peculiar propriety in this name; inasmuch as among the alleged properties of precious stones, the topaz was believed to possess the virtue of curing insanity].-Tw. N., iv. 2.

In the following instance, Shakespeare uses the same name for two different personages in one play; for a suitor of Julia in Verona, and for the faithful friend of Silvia in Milan :

What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?-Two G. of V., i. 2.
Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow.—Ibid., iv. 3.

In the following instance, Shakespeare gave duplicate names, Antipholus and Dromio, to the two pair of twins, for the sake of the dramatic équivoque maintained throughout the play; but the passages here quoted impart naturalness to the circumstance by showing that originally the four boys had some distinguishing appellation, though subsequently one of each pair of twins, in remembrance of his lost brother, takes his name:

A joyful mother of two goodly sons;

And, which was strange, the one so like the other,

As could not be distinguish'd but by names.-Com. of E., i. 1.
That his attendant-for his case was like,

Reft of his brother, but retain'd his name—

Might bear him company in the quest of him.-Ibid., i. 1.

In two plays, Shakespeare has made use of a name slightly varied :— What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio ?-Two G. of V., i. 2.

Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!—R. & Jul., i. 4.

And in two plays, he has used the same name (according to Italian wont) as a man's name and as a woman's name :—

Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?-Tam. of S., i. 1.

Gonzago is the duke's name; his wife, Baptista.—Hamlet, iii. 2.

He has used four names apparently in remembrance of old familiar Stratford-on-Avon names :-

Here comes fair Mistress Anne [the name of one of the poet's sisters as well as of his wife].-Merry W., i. 1.

Come apace, good Audrey:* I will fetch up your goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey? Am I the man yet?-As You L., iii. 3.

Bardolph.*-Merry W., 1 and 2 H. IV., H. V.

Captain Fluellen,* you must come presently.-Hen. V., iii. 2.

* All these three names have been ascertained to have belonged to neighbours in Shakespeare's native town.

He uses some familiar forms of Christian names [See VARIATIONS]:

For Dickon [Richard] thy master is bought and sold-R. III., v. 3 (Scroll).
Jockey [John] of Norfolk, be not too bold.-Ibid., v. 3 (Scroll).

Wilt thou not, Jule [Juliet]?-R. & Jul., i. 3.

It is such another Nan [Anne].-Merry W., i. 4.

He uses some common names to express generalisation; "the usual run of men or women," or 'just such kind of people' :

Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,

That smiles his cheek in years.-Love's L. L., v. 2.

To beg of Hob and Dick, that do appear,

Their needless vouches ?-Coriol., ii. 3.

Since every Jack became a gentleman,

There's many a gentle person made a Jack.-R. III., i. 3.
Our wooing doth not end like an old play;
Jack hath not fill.-Love's L. L., v. 2.

Be the Jacks fair within, the Jills fair without.—Tam. of S., iv. 1.
Some men must love my lady, and some Joan.-Love's L. L., iii. 1.

Well, now can I make any Joan a lady.-John, i. 1.

As Tib's rush for Tom's forefinger.—All's W., ii. 2.

In several passages Shakespeare denotes the then custom of using "Jack" as an expression of contempt :

Little better than played the Jack with us.-Temp., iv. 1.

By gar, I will kill de Jack priest.-Merry W., i. 4.

He is de coward Jack priest of de vorld.—Ibid., ii. 3.

Or do you play the flouting Jack, to tell us.-M. Ado, i. 1.

She did call me rascal fiddler, and twangling Jack.-Tam. of S., ii. 1.

A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Jack.-Ibid., ii. 1.

Tell me flatly I am no proud Jack, like Falstaff.—1 H. IV., ii. 4.

The prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup.—Ibid., iii. 3.

If I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack.-Ibid., v. 4.

Abus'd by silken, sly, insinuating Jacks.—R. III., i. 3.

Lustier than he is, and twenty such Jacks.-R. & Jul., ii. 4.

In the following passages Shakespeare has recorded the custom that prevailed in his time of giving particular names to particular houses, especially houses of entertainment and houses of commerce:Go beat it to the Centaur, where we host.-Com. of E., i. 2.

Home to your house, the Phonix, sir, to dinner.-Ibid., i. 2.

Bring it, I pray you, to the Porcupine; for there's the house.—Ibid., iii. 1.

And let us to the Tiger all to dinner.-Ibid., iii. 1.

In Genoa, where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.—Tam. of S., iv. 4.
Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?-

At the Saint Francis here, beside the port.-All's W., iii. 5.

At the Elephant, is best to lodge. . . . To the Elephant.-Tw. N., iii. 3.
The duke being at the Rose, within the parish St. Laurence, Poultry.-H. VIII., i. 2.
Lead to the Sagittary* the raised search.--Oth., i. 1.

It has been supposed by some commentators that an inn is here meant; and by another (Mr. Charles Knight) that an official residence at the Venetian arsenal is meant. But, inasmuch as Cassio's question, "What makes he here?" shows that it is neither Othello's own "lodging nor his usual military quarters, and moreover that the senate send "several quests" in search of him, we believe "the Sagittary" to be

He has also noted the custom which formerly prevailed of giving particular names to particular rooms, especially in taverns or houses of public entertainment; and which custom lasted even to as late a period as Goldsmith's time, who, in his pleasant comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer," makes his heroine, when impersonating a barmaid, exclaim, "attend the Lion there; pipes and tobacco for the Angel; the Lamb has been outrageous this half-hour":

'Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?—I have so, because it is an open room, and good for winter.-M. for M., ii. 1. Score a pint of bastard in the Half Moon. . . . Look down into the Pomegranate, Ralph.-1 H. IV., ii. 4.

Sitting in my Dolphin-chamber.-2 H. IV., ii. 1.

He has given particular names of pirates; the first being that of a Ragusan vessel (called a "Ragozine," from the island of Ragusa, or Ragosa); the second having possibly been suggested by the fact that Don Pedro de Valdes was an admiral in the fleet of the Spanish Armada; the dramatist thinking that to assign this hostile admiral's name to a "pirate,' was likely to prove a popular point with an Elizabethan audience:

One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate.-M. for M., iv. 3.

These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes.-Per., iv. 2.

He has given particular names of ships; the first in the following list, being an Italian vessel, it is well named in honour of the great Genoese admiral, Andrea Doria :

And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand.-Mer. of V., i. 1.

The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral, with all their sixty, fly.—Ant. & C., iii. 8. That the bark Expedition put forth to-night; and then were you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy Delay.-Com. of E., iv. 3.

That took the Phanix and her fraught from Candy;

And this is he that did the Tiger board.-Tw. N., v. 1. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger.*— Macb., i. 3. 'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carrack.—Oth., i. 2.

Who sent whole armadas of carracks to be ballast at.-Com. of E., iii. 2.
The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare

Might easiliest harbour in ?-Cym., iv. 2.

Than three great argosies; besides two galliasses,
And twelve tight galleys.-Tam. of S., ii. 1.

He hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies.-Mer. of V., i. 3.
The ship is here put in, a Veronessa.-Oth., ii. I.

Particular names of horses :

When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary.-R. II., v. 5.

some newly taken house, bearing the classical name and sign of a certain fabulous beast, described in Caxton's "History of the Destruction of Troy," as being half horse, half man, with "eyen red as a cole, and shotte well with a bowe." That Othello subsequently says to Iago:-" Ancient, conduct them; you best know the place," confirms our idea that the dramatist intended it as some secluded residence to which the Moorish general had conveyed his lately made bride, and that its whereabouts was known only to himself and to his trusted officer, the supposed "honest Iago." * Sir W. C. Trevelyan has pointed out that in Hakluyt's Voyages" there are several letters and journals of a voyage made to Aleppo in the ship Tiger, of London, in the year 1583.

Let him let the matter slip, and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet.*—Tw. N., iii. 4.
I'd give bay Curtal and his furniture.-All's W,, ii. 2.

I pr'ythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few.-1 H. IV., ii. 1.
Than Dobbin my phill-horse has on his tail.—Mer. of V., ii. 2.
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse.-Tr. & Cr., v. 5.
Saddle White Surrey for the field to-morrow.-R. III., v. 3.
Particular names of dogs :-

He will spend his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the hound.—Tr. & Cr., v. I.

I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl.-1 H. IV., iii. 1.

When Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.-Lear, i. 4.

Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds:
Trash Merriman-the poor cur is emboss'd;

And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach.
Saw'st thou not how Silver made it good
At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?

I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.-
Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord

...

if Echo were as fleet.-Tam. of S., Induc. 1.

Sowter will cry upon 't, for all this.-Tw. N., ii. 5.

The little dogs and all,

Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.-Lear, iii. 6.

Where's my spaniel Troilus ?—Tam. of S., iv. I.

Hope is a curtail-dog in some affairs.-Merry W., ii. 1.

She had transformed me to a curtail-dog, and made me turn i' the wheel.-Com. of E., iii. 2.

Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,

Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,

Or bobtail tike, or trundle-tail.-Lear, iii. 6.
As hounds, greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are cleped
All by the name of dogs.—Macb., iii. 1.

Particular names for cats:—

i. 2.

I am as melancholy as a gib cat, or a lugged bear.-1 H. IV.,
From a bat, a gib, such dear concernings hide?—Hamlet, iii. 4.
I come, Graymalkin !—Macb., i. 1.

Why, what is Tybalt?-More than prince of cats,
I can tell you.-R. & Jul., ii. 4.

Particular names for birds :

I hear the strain of strutting chanticleer.-Temp., i. 2 (Song).
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer.-As You L., ii. 7.
Another way I have to man my haggard,

To make her come, and know her keeper's call;

That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites

That bate, and beat, and will not be obedient.-Tam. of S., iv. 1.

Not, like the haggard, check at every feather.-Tw. N., iii. 1.

As coy and wild as haggards of the rock.-M. Ado, iii. 1.

And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out.—

But what a point, my lord, your falcon made,

And what a pitch she flew above the rest!-2 H. VI., ii. 1.

That "capel" was a name for a horse, we learn from two lines in Chaucer :

To kepe him on his capel out of the slough,

And if he falle from of his capel eftsone.

Manciple's Prol., CANT. TALES.

Thou art woman-tir'd, unroosted by thy Dame Partlet here.-W. T.,
How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you.-1 H. IV., iii. 3.
Philip? sparrow! James, there's toys abroad.—John, i. 1.

ii. 3..

Philomel, with melody, sing in our sweet lullaby.—Mid. N. D., ii. 3 (Song).
By this, lamenting Philomel had ended

The well-tun'd warble of her nightly sorrow.-Lucrece, Stanza 155.
Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,

But may imagine how the bird was dead,

Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak ?—2 H. VI., iii. 2.

An owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe.-Tr. & Cr., v. 1.

I chose an eagle, and did avoid a puttock.-Cym., i. 2.

The ruddock would, with charitable bill.-Cym., iv. 2.
A name for a hare:-

By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill,

Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear,

To hearken if his foes pursue him still.-V. & Adon., Stanza 117.

The name of a bear (it having been a custom to give to the most known of these animals in bear-baiting exhibitions, the names of their leaders or keepers) :—

I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by the chain.Merry W., i. I.

Paddock calls: anon!-Macb., i. 1.

Sober, wise, would from a paddock, from a.—Hamlet, iii. 4.

Names for fiends:

Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are all devils' additions, the names of fiends.-Merry W., ii. 2.

He of Wales, that gave Amaimon the bastinado.—1 H. IV., ii. 4.

I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me.-H. V., ii. 1.

This is the foul fiend, Flibbertigibbet: he begins.-Lear, iii. 4.

Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is.—Ibid., iii. 6.

Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two white herring.—Ibid., iii. 6.

How now, Mephistophilus !-Merry W., i. 1.

Modo he's called, and Mahu.- Lear, iii. 4.

It would control my dam's god, Setebos.-Temp., i. 2.

Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend !—Lear, iii. 4.

Names of certain fruits :

I am withered like an old apple-john.-1 H. IV., iii. 3.

What the plague hast thou brought there? apple-johns? thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an apple-john. . . the prince once set a dish of apple-johns before him.-2 H. IV., ii. 4.

Feed him with apricocks, and dewberries,

With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.-Mid. N. D., iii. 1.

Or a codling when 'tis almost an apple.-Tw. N., i. 5.

There is a dish of leather-coats for you.-2 H. IV., v. 3.

We will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing.-Ibid., v. 3.

I will make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.Merry W., i. 2.

Ripe as a pomewater, who now hangeth.-Love's L. L., iv. 2.

Thou a poprin pear !—R. & Jul., ii. 1.