10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AYWORD»
Discover the use of
ayword in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ayword and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Twelfth Night Or What You Will
If I do not gull him into an ayword, and make him a common recreation, do not
115 think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed. I know I can do it. SIR TOBY
Possess us, possess us, tell us something of him. MARIA Marry, sir, sometimes
he ...
William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno, 2004
2
The Traveling Adventures of the Robin and the Fox Around the ...
(Mowat, 62) Field: “duelingground” (Riverside, 452) Out of quiet: “disquieted,
troubled” (Mowat, 62); let . . . him: “leave him to me” (Riverside, 452); For: “as for”
(Jordan, 1.307) Gull: “befool”; an ayword: “a byword or proverb (ay = ever).
Donald J. Richardson, 2013
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Twelfth Night: Third Series
'have a nay-word', MW 2.2.118–19, 5.2.5. Rowe's emendation is surely correct,
even if some editions, such as Riverside, defend F's 'an ayword'. 132 a common
recreation an object of sport or entertainment 132–3 wit . . . bed This sounds like
a ...
William Shakespeare, Keir Elam, 2008
4
Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words: A Guide from A to Zounds
Archaic variant of stoup [stcfipl 135. an ayword [AY wurd/ byword. Most eds.
prefer nayword [NAY wurdl. Notice that an ayword would be pronounced nearly
the same as a nayword. 150. swarths [sworthsl archaic and dialect variant of *
swaths ' ...
5
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Twelfe night, or, ...
For Monfieur Maluolio, let me alone with him : If I do not gull him into an ayword,
and make him a common recreation, do not thinke I haue witte enough to lye {
traight in my bed : I know I can do it. To. Poffefi'e vs, poffeffe vs, tell vs fomething
of ...
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, Samuel Burdett Hemingway, 1901
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Twelfth night, or, What you will, ed. H.H.Furness
For Monfieur Maluolio,let me alone with him : If I do not gull him into an ayword,
and make him a common recreation, do not thinke I haue witte e- nough to lye
ftraight in my bed : I know I can do it. To. Poflefle vs, pofiefle vs, tell vs fomething
of ...
William Shakespeare, 1901
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Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological ...
(a) An ayivord, a byword, an object of common ridicule : For Monsieur Maluolio,
let me alone with him: If I do not gull him into an ayword, and make him a
common recreation, do not thinke I haue witte enough to lye straight in my bed : I
know I ...
American Philological Association, 1892
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Transactions and proceedings
Ayword (xxiii. 212). I find one more instance of nayword, but it is in the buffooning
of Cotton, and is not of the nature of original evidence. And, with a gibing kind of
nayword, Quoth he, blind harpers have among ye. 1664-67 COTTON, Virgil ...
American Philological Association, 1894
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The Oriental Herald and Colonial Review. - London, ...
... we are not aware: but it seems that they have still, as formerly, no objections to
print, at Madras, matters reflecting on the authorities in Bengal: while not ayword
that should censure the authorities at Madras, would be suffered to appear there
...
10
The French Alphabet, Or an Explanation of the Mechanism of ...
1st, when in the middle of ayword, they take the sound of the? with a grave
accent, if they are not immediately followed by an r ; thus in the word
connoissance, knowledge, and its compounds, they are pro. nounced as if they
were written ...
