lover a male friend:
“the bosom lover of my lord,”
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii. 4.
17
;
“Whether Bassanio had not once a lover”
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1.
272
(
“love,”
Cambridge
);
“I as your lover speak,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 3.
214
;
“Thy general is my lover,”
CORIOLANUS, v. 2. 14
;
“Thy lover, Artemidorus,”
JULIUS CAESAR, ii. 3. 7
;
“as I slew my best lover,”
JULIUS CAESAR, iii. 2. 44
;
“thy deceased lover,”
SONNETS, xxxii. 4
;
“though my lover's life,”
SONNETS, lxiii. 12
;
“the drops of thy lovers”
2 HENRY IV., iv. 3. 13
(persons who love thee);
“countrymen, and lovers!”
JULIUS CAESAR, iii. 2. 13
;
“Knights, kinsmen, lovers,”
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, v. 1.
34
;
“call your lovers,”
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, v. 4.
123.
(Compare Peele's Edward I.:
“Edward, my king, my lord, and lover dear,
Full little dost thou wot how this retreat,
As with a sword, hath slain poor Mortimer.”
Works, p. 390, ed. Dyce. )
“Edward, my king, my lord, and lover dear,
Full little dost thou wot how this retreat,
As with a sword, hath slain poor Mortimer.”
Works, p. 390, ed. Dyce. )
