Durance. "Robe of durance" (1 H. IV. i. 2). "The jerkin-man is come, but your robe of durance is yet not finished" (Letter of Thomas Winter, of the Gunpowder Plot, in Notes and Queries, 3 S. i. 342). "Let me live, but I will give thee a good suit of durance" (Westward Ho!). "I refuse to wear buff for the lasting, and shall be content to apparel my brain in durance" (Cornwalleys, Essays). It thus appears that durance was a strong kind of cloth.
Each. "At each" (Lear, iv. 6), i.e. the end of one being joined to that of the other. The text seems to be right.
Eggs for money (W. T. i. 2) seems to mean cheating, bullying, giving little or no value for money.
Element, par excellence the air, as that by which we breathe and exist (Tw. N. i. 1, J. C. i. 3, Temp. v. ad fin.). It was believed that man was composed of the four elements (Tw. N. ii. 3, Ant. and Cl. v. 2).
'Em. This is not them by aphæresis; it is the old hem of Chaucer, etc. In Marston's plays it is printed 'hem.
End. This word was used in a variety of ways in conjunction with others. Thus we have "there an end" (Two Gent. ii. 1, T. Sh. v. 2); "still an end" (ib. iv. 4); "for an end," in fine (Cor. ii. 1); also "word and end" (Chauc. Monk's Tale, Tr. and Cr. iii.); "tale and end" (Gower, C. Am. v). "Most an end," perpetually (Mass. Very Woman, iii. 1), used also by Milton, and even by Warburton. See Gifford on Mass, ut sup. In most of these cases an is and.
Enew (M. for M. iii. 1). "How presently upon the landing of the fowl she [the falcon] came down like a stone and enew'd it, and suddenly got up again, and suddenly upon a second landing came down again, and, missing of it in the downcome, recovered it beyond expectation, to the admiration of the beholder, at a long flight" (Nash, Quaternio, etc., 1633). Enew is therefore to teaze, worry, terrify, and probably comes from ennuyer, Fr.
Entrance. In 1 H. IV. i. 1, this word is most abusively employed for mouth. A most remarkable instance of the liberties the poet took with the Queen's English.
Ephesian (M. W. iv. 5, 2 H. IV. ii. 2) apparently means jovial companion, toper; but why, it is hard to say.
Extent (As Y. L. iii. 1) "An extent or extendi facias is so called because the sheriff is to cause the land, etc., to be appraised to their full extended value before he delivers them to the plaintiff" (Blackstone).