round to whisper:
“rounded in the ear,”
KING JOHN, ii. 1. 566
;
“whispering, rounding,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, i. 2. 217
(
“To round one in the eare. S'accouter à l'oreïlle, s'acouter.”
Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl.
Dict.
Other poets, besides Shakespeare, use in the same sentence whisper and round,—see my note on Skelton's
Works, vol. ii. p. 120; but, I apprehend, it would not be easy to show wherein
the difference of the meaning of the two words consists; in the following couple of
stage-directions they were manifestly intended to be synonymous: “He rowndeth with Frescobaldi” . . .
“He whispereth
with Cæsar.”
Barnes's Divils Charter,
1607, sig. E 4)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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