clamour
“your tongues,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4.
243.
Arrowsmith (Notes and Queries, vii. 567, First Series) explains clamour to mean “curb, restrain.”
The attempts to explain this by referring it to bell-ringing (vide notes in the Var. Shakespeare and Nares's Gloss. in v.) ought, I think, to have ceased long ago.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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