Grain and Chaff from an English Manor

by Arthur Herbert Savory

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.,
Scene 2.