Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath. (3 Hen. VI. v. 2.)
Him that did object. (Rich. III. ii. 4.)

He doth object I am too young. (Mer. Wiv. iii. 4.)

I dare your worst objections. (Hen. VIII. iii. 2.) &c.

289. I demand.

He doth demand. (L. L. L. ii. 1.)

Speak, demand; we'll answer. (Macb. iv. 1.)
I do demand of thee. (John, iii. 1, rep.)
The suit which you demand is gone. (Ib. iv. 2.)
Why may not I demand? (Ib. v.)

(A frequent form.)

290. I distinguish, &c.

Can you distinguish of a man? (R. III. ii. 1.)

Since I could distinguish a benefit and an injury. (Oth. i. 3.) (Twelve times.)

291. A matter not in question.

This is not the question: the question is, &c. (Mer. Wiv. i. 1.)

Our haste leaves unquestioned matters of needful value.

The phrase is to the matter. (Ib. v. i.)
This encompassment and drift of question.
No question. . . . Past question.
The matter. Speak, I pray you.

Out of our question we wipe him.

(M. M. i. 1.)

(Ham. ii. 1.)

(Tw. N. i. 3.) (Cor. i. 1.)

(Ant. Cl. ii. 2.)

(What's the matter?' 'No matter,' 'Come to the matter,'

occur about 250 times in the plays. with 'What's the matter,' frequent. 1384.)

'How now,' in combination Compare Nos. 313 and

Go to, no more words.

(M. M. iii. 2.)

Pauca verba, Sir John (rep.). (Mer. Wiv. i. 1.)

Vir sapit, qui pauca loquitur .

You shall not say me nay.

Pauca verba. (L. L. L. iv. 2.)

Therefore paucas pallabris. (Tam. Sh. i. [ind.] and Hen. V. ii. 1.) What needs more words? (Ant. Cl. ii. 7.) &c.

293. You have.

I cannot tell what you have done; I have. (Ib. ii. 2.)

You conclude, then, that I am a sheep?

I do. (Tw. G. Ver. i. 1.)

And have you (done it)?

I have. (Tw. G. Ver. ii. 1.)

(And John, i. 1, 8; Jul. Cæs. ii. 2, 92; Ham. ii. 2, 183.)

294. Well.

Well, well.

Well, well? (Tr. Cr. i. 2.)

Well, go to, very well. (Oth. iv. 2.)

6 ;

(Tw. G. Ver. i. 1, 139; i. 2, 132; i. 3, 65; Mer. W. i. 2, i. 3, 65, 66, 74; ii 1-40, 82, 113, 146, 150; Cor. i. 1, 41.) Well, sir. (Tw. N. Kins. ii. 3, 69, and iii. 1, 17.)

(The peculiarity of the use of this word consists in the fact that Shakespeare uses it both as continuing a conversation and as concluding it; other authors, previous and contemporary, in the first manner only.)

297. You have forgot nothing.

What have I forgot? (Mer. Wives, i. 4.)
We'll omit nothing. (W. T. iv. 3.)

O! Perdita, what have we twain forgot? (b.)
Great thing of us forgot! (Lear, v. 3, 237.)
He misses not much. (Temp. ii. 1.)

298. Whear stay we?

Where did I leave? (R. II. v. 2.)

What was I about to say?-By the mass I was
About to say something :-Where did I leave?

299. Prima facie.

(Ham. ii. 1, and see Rich. II. v. 2, 1-4.)

(Love at first sight. As Y. L. iii. 5, 81; Tr. Cr. v. 2, 9; Temp. i. 2, 242)

300. That agayne.

That strain again, it had a dying fall. (Tw. N. i. 1.)

Little again, nothing but low and little.

301. More or less.

(M. N. D. iii. 2.) &c.

More or less. (Tit. And. iv. 2, and Lear, i. 1.)

302. I find that strange.

I find it strange. (Squire's Conspiracy, 1589.)

If it be so. (As Y. L. iii. 5, 67, and Macb. iii. 1, 63, iv. 3, 101.). I find the people strangely fantasied. (John, iv. 2.)

This is most strange. (Temp. iv. 1.)

I should not think it strange. (M. M. iv. 6.)

'Tis strange. (H. V. iii. 2.)

That, methinks, is strange.
This, methinks, is strange.
Tis strange, 'tis very strange.

(Jul. Cæs. iv. 3.)
(Cor. i. 1, and ii. 1.)

(Al's W. ii. 3, and Oth. i. 1.)

(About thirty times in the plays.)

303. Not unlike.

Not unlike. (Advt. of L. i.; Spedding, vol. iii. p. 266.)

Not unlike, sir. (L. L. L. ii. 1; Cor. iii. 1.)

How much unlike art thou Mark Antony! (Ant. Cl. i. 5.)

304. Yf that be so.

If it be so. (As Y. L. iii. 5, 67, and Macb. iii. 1, 63, iv. 3, 101.) What if it should be so? (Tim. Ath. iii. 4, 105.)

305. Is it because?

Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,

That thou consumest thyself in widow's life? (Sonnet ix.)

306. Quasi vero.

Master person, quasi person. (L. L. L. iv. 6.)

307. What els?

What else? (Oth. i. 3, 287.)

Nothing else. (Tw. G. Ver. ii. 4; R. II. i. 3; ii. 3; v.

1;

Troil. and Cress. v. 2; Mer. Ven. iv. 2, 79; Cor. v.
Ant. and Cl. ii. 3.)

Who else? (1 H. VI. ii. 5, 55.)

What is there else to do? (Tw. N. Kin. v. 2, 75.)

What's else to say? (Ant. Cl. ii. 7, 60.)

308. Nothing lesse.

Methinks my father's execution

Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.

(1 H. VI. ii. 5.)

He is no less than what we say he is.
I must have done no less.

309. It cometh to that.

(Tam. Sh. Ind. i.)

(Tw. N. v. 1.)

Is it come to this? (Much Ado, i. 1; 2 H. IV. ii. 2; Ant. Cl. iii. 11, and iv. 10; Oth. iii. 4.)

310. Hear you faile.

If we should fail .. we'll not fail. (Macb. i. 7.)

311. To meet with that.

How rarely does it meet with this. (Tim. Ath. iv. 3.)

312. Bear with that.

Bear with me. (John, iv. 2.)
I pray you bear with me.

bear you. (As Y. L. ii. 4.)

I had rather bear with you, than

Bear with me: my heart is in the coffin there with Cæsar.

Traitor! How now? (Cor. v. 5, 87.)

(This expression, so common as a greeting in previous and contemporary works, seems to be also used in Shakespeare in controversy and argument, as in the above and many other instances; also frequently in combination with 'What's the matter?' Comp. 292.)

314. Best of all.

Best of all. (1 H. IV. iii. 1–2; 2 H. VI. i. 3; 3 H. VI. ii. 5.)

315. Causa patet. (The cause is clear.)

The truth appears so naked on my side,

That any purblind man may find it out;
And on my side it is so well apparell'd,

So clear, so shining, and so evident,

That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.

(1 Hen. VI. ii. 5.)

There is reasons and causes for it. (Mer. Wiv. iii. 1.)

Our frailty is the cause. (Tw. N. ii. 2.)

Let us be cleared of being tyrannous since we so openly proceed.

I will unfold some cause. (R. II. iii. 1.)

I cannot project mine own cause so well

To make it clear. (Ant. Cl. v. 2.)

It is the cause-it is the cause, my soul.

Let me not name it to yon chaste stars—
It is the cause. (Oth. v. 2.)

(W. T. iii. 2.)

(About 350 passages on the causes of things, and as many on reasons.)