PROOF.

And with thy blessings steel my lance's point.
Richard 2, i. 3.
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
Confronted him with self-comparisons. Macbeth, i. 2.
And in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,
From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.
Romeo and Juliet, i. 1.
But 'tis a common proof

That lowliness is young ambition's ladder.

Julius Caesar, ii. 1. And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. Hamlet, iv. 7. Out of your proof you speak; we, poor unfledg'd, Have never wing'd from view o' the nest, nor know not

TO PROPERTY. To make a property of; to draw; to attract; to endow with qualities.

They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness, and do all they can to face me out of my wits. Twelfth-Night, iv. 2.

I am too high-born to be propertied.

His large fortune

King John, v. 2.

Timon of Athens, i. 1.

Subdues and properties to his love and tendance

Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2.

All sorts of hearts.

PROPENSION. Propensity; inclination.

But I attest the gods, your full consent
Gave wings to my propension.

PROPER.

Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2. Handsome; personable; good

looking; pure; unmixed.

Ay, by my beard, will we;

PROPHESYING. Prophetic; prescient.

She had a prophesying fear

Of what hath come to pass.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 1

Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 14.

For he's a proper man.

And bid her steal into the pleached bower,
Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,
Forbid the sun to enter: there will she hide her,
To listen our propose.

Much Ado about Nothing, iii. 1.

TO PROPOSE. To suppose; to imagine; to converse; to talk.

Be now the father, and propose a son;
Hear your own dignity so much profan'd,
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And, in your power, so silencing your son:
After this cold considerance, sentence me.

Thou art sworn, Eros,

That, when the exigent should come,-which now
Is come indeed,-when I should see behind me
The inevitable prosecution of

Disgrace and horror, that, on my command,
Thou then wouldst kill me : do't; the time is come.
Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 14.

PROTEST.

All's well that ends well, ii. 1.

Protestation.

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath, and leave "in sooth,"
And such protést of pepper-gingerbread,
To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens.

Henry 4, P. 1, iii. 1.
Full of protést, of oath, and big compare.
Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2.

TO PROTEST. To prove; to show; to give evidence of.

And many unrough youths, that even now
Protest their first of manhood.

Macbeth, v. 2.

This quarrel would excite?

Troilus and Cressida, ii. 2.

TO PROTRACT.

To delay; to put off; to post

PROTRACTIVE.

PURGATION.

ened.

To waver; to lose

ready.

Your pulsidge beats as extraordinarily as heart would desire. Henry 4, P. 2, ii. 4.

TO PUN. To pound; to beat.

He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks a biscuit. Troilus and Cressida, ii. 1.

PURCHASE. Booty; plunder.

Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 4.
His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven
More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary
Rather than purchas'd.

Antony and Cleopatra, i. 4. Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.

As you like it, iii. 2. With die and drab I purchased this caparison. Winter's Tale, iv. 2. PURGATION. Exculpation; proof; trial. Proceed in justice; which shall have due course, Even to the guilt or the purgation.

Winter's Tale, iii. 2. If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation. As you like it, v. 4. For, for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler.

Winter's Tale, iv. 2.

Hamlet, iii. 2.

TO PURSE UP. To ensnare; to entangle.

When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 2.

TO PURSUE. To punish; to proscribe.
It imports no reason

That with such vehemency he should pursue
Faults proper to himself. Measure for Measure, v. 1.
PURSUIVANT. A state messenger.

Take this fellow in, and send for his master with a pursuivant presently. Henry 6, P. 2, i. 3. PUSH. Proof; trial; emergency.

We'll put the matter to the present push.

Hamlet, v. 1.
There's time enough for that;
Lest they desire upon this push to trouble
Your joys with like relation.

PUSH. Pshaw; pish.

PYRENEAN.

Winter's Tale, v. 3.

Push! did you see my cap?

TO PUT A GIRDLE ROUND. circle.

Timon of Athens, iii. 6. Το

go round; to

PYRAMIDES.
PYRAMIDES. Pyramids.

Rather make

Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels. Henry 6, P. 1, i. 4.

I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes. Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii. 1.

TO PUT ON. To show; to indicate; to incite; to encourage; to instigate.

Let not our looks put on our purposes.

Julius Caesar, ii. 1.

PYRENEAN.

And talking of the Alps and Apennines,
The Pyrenean and the river Po,-

It draws toward supper in conclusion so.
But this is worshipful society,

And fits the mounting spirit like myself.
King John, i. 1.

Ibid. ii. 1.

'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd, And better in my mind not undertook.

Merchant of Venice, ii. 4.

Coriolanus, i. 9.

TO QUAKE. To frighten; to alarm.
Where ladies shall be frighted,
And, gladly quak'd, hear more.
QUALIFICATION. Disposition; temper.

For out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. Othello, ii. 1.

QUALITY. Associates; fellows; vocation; nature; qualification; property; disposition; temper.

All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,

To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride

On the curl'd clouds,-to thy strong bidding task
Ariel and all his quality.
Tempest, i. 2.
Will they pursue the quality no longer than
they can sing?
Hamlet, ii. 2.

Come, give us a taste of your quality; come, a Ibid. ii. 2. passionate speech.

Ibid. ii. 2.

All's well that ends well, iv. 2.

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