"Only, good master, while we do admire
This virtue, and this moral discipline,
Let's be no stoicks, nor no stocks, I pray;
Or so devote to Aristotle's checks,
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur'd."
Taming of the Shrew, Act I. Sc. 1.
The following are instances of the use of the substantive check by Shakspeare:
"Orlando. A man that had a wife with such a wit, might say,—'Wit whither wilt?'
"Rosalind. Nay, you might keep that check for it, till you met your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed."
"Falstaff. I never knew yet, but rebuke and check was the reward of valour."
"Antony. This is a soldier's kiss; rebukable,