Grain and Chaff from an English Manor

Chapter 30

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TO GRUNT--to grumble; _Hamlet_, Act III., Scene 1.

TO FUST--to become mouldy; _Hamlet_, Act IV., Scene 5.

DOUT--do out; cf. "don"--do on; _Hamlet_, Act IV., Scene 7.

MAGOT PIES--Magpies; _Macbeth_, Act III., Scene 4.

SET DOWN--write down; _Macbeth_, Act V., Scene 1.

TO PUN--to pound; _Troilus and Cressida_, Act II., Scene 1.

NATIVE--place of origin; cf. "natif"; _Coriolanus_, Act III., Scene 1.

SLEEK--bald; cf. "slick"; _Julius Cæsar_, Act I., Scene 2.

WARN--summon; cf. "backwarn"--tell a person not to come; _Julius Cæsar_, Act V., Scene 1.

BREESE--gadfly; _Antony and Cleopatra_, Act III., Scene 8.

WOO'T--wilt thou; _Antony and Cleopatra_, Act IV., Scene 13.

URCHIN--hedgehog; _Titus Andronicus_, Act II., Scene 3.

MESHED--mashed (a term used in brewing); _Titus Andronicus_, Act III.,