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nay: the commoner S. use is that of serving to correct, amplify, or emphasize something that precedes, or to express a mild protest, e.g. Tp. I. i. 17 “Nay, good, be patient,” Err. IV. ii. 36 “A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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