tale (1 the earliest sense; 2 Skelton 1523 has ‘Therby lyeth a tale’, Holland 1600 ‘Hereto longeth a tale’; the sense ‘number’ is not S.)
1.
talk
Rom. II. iv. 102
“to stop in my ,”
Ven. 74
“to a pretty ear she
tunes her tale.”
2.
“thereby hangs a ,” there is
something to say about that Shr. IV. i. 60.
3.
“in a tale,” in
agreement Ado IV. ii. 34.