popularity —
“From open haunts and,”
HENRY V., i. 1. 59.
“Popularity, that
is, plebeian intercourse; an unusual sense of the word; though perhaps the same idea was
meant to be communicated by it in 1 Henry IV. [iii. 2. 69],
where King Richard II. is represented as having ‘Enfeoff'd himself to popularity’”
(STEEVENS)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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