Whose settled visage and deliberate word
Nips youth i’ th’ head, and follies doth enmew
As falcon doth the fowl.”
The verb “to mew,” or “enmew,” signifies to enclose or shut up, owing its origin to the word “mews,” the place where the hawks were confined:—
“To-night she’s mew’d up.”
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Sc. 4.
Gremio, speaking of Bianca to Signor Baptista, says,—
“Why, will you mew her?”
Taming of the Shrew, Act i. Sc. 1.
A question presently solved by Tranio, who says:—