John Webster

Apology

For which he can not well apology.

Double

What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double.

Double-dye

To double-dye their robes in scarlet.

Durance

Where didst thou buy this buff? let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance.

Esteem

I will deliver you, in ready coin, The full and dear'st esteem of what you crave.

Fang

He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.

Fold

A face folded in sorrow.

Force

What can the church force more?

Forcement

It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery?

Foredeem

Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor.

Give

I fear our ears have given us the bag.

My mind gives ye're reserved To rob poor market women.

Heartless

You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom.

Imply

Whence might this distaste arise? If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will. To which I most imply it.

Impresa

My impresa to your lordship; a swain Flying to a laurel for shelter.

Linguist

I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist.

Ostend

Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend.

Peeper

Who's there? peepers, . . . eavesdroppers?

Purchase

Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast.

Rand

I wept, . . . and raved, and randed, and railed.

Ransack

Even your father's house Shall not be free from ransack.

Rid

Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails.

Rife

What! I am rife a little yet.

Ruinate

My brother Edward lives in pomp and state, I in a mansion here all ruinate.

Scantle

All their pay Must your discretion scantle; keep it back.

Sugar

Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf?

Surprise

Not with me, That in my hands surprise the sovereignity.

Uncharity

'T were much uncharity in you.

Under-age

I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation.

Void

With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones.

When

Come hither; mend my ruff: Here, when! thou art such a tedious lady!

Will

As you go, will the lord mayor . . . To attend our further pleasure presently.

Wretchless

Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor.