affect to love (“
To affect [love], Diligo.”
Coles's Latin and English Dictionary):
“ a lady . . . Whom I affect,”
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iii.
1. 82
;
“Dost thou affect her?”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, i. 1.
258
;
“I do affect the very ground,”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, i. 2.
158
;
“If you affect him,”
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. 1.
14
;
“she did affect me,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 5. 22
;
“Sir John affects thy wife,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 1.
99
;
“since he affects her most,”
1 HENRY VI., v. 5. 59
;
“And may, for aught thou know'st, affected be,”
TITUS ANDRONICUS, ii. 1. 28.