Another, 1) some or any else: “no hope that way is a. way so high a hope,” Tp. II, 1, 241. Gentl. I, 1, 86. Err. I, 1, 113. Wiv. I, 1, 43 etc. etc. Another while == at other times, H6B IV, 10, 9. “Remember this a. day,” R3 I, 3, 299 (== one day). LLL IV, 1, 109.
2) somebody or anybody else: “to choose love by --'s eyes,” Mids. I, 1, 140. Gentl. IV, 4, 23. Wiv. I, 4, 179 etc.
3) different: “'tis one thing to be tempted, a. thing to fall,” Meas. II, 1, 18. “I will wed thee in a. key,” Mids. I, 1, 18. III, 2, 388. Tw. III, 1, 119 etc.
4) a new, a second: “thy sorrow to my sorrow lendeth a. power,” Lucr. 1677. “these blenches gave my heart a. youth,” Sonn. 110, 7. “to scale a. Hero's tower,” Gentl. III, 1, 119. “a. Hero,” Ado V, 4, 62. “I have received from her a. embassy of meeting,” Wiv. III, 5, 131. III, 3, 58. V, 5, 10. “four happy days bring in a. moon,” Mids. I, 1, 3. “enough to purchase such a. island,” H6B III, 3, 3. “you would be a. Penelope,” Cor. I, 3, 92. Ant. V, 2, 77 etc.
5) one more: “a. storm brewing,” Tp. II, 1, 19. IV, 1, 244. Gentl. I, 2, 103. II, 1, 135. Wiv. II, 2, 97. Err. II, 2, 64. Wint. IV, 4, 290 etc. Another time == once more, Tp. III, 2, 85. “such a. trick,” Tp. IV, 1, 37. Wiv. III, 5, 7. As IV, 1, 40. “such a. proof,” Gentl. I, 1, 97. “be choked with such a. emphasis!” Ant. I, 5, 68.
6) a second of the same sort or set: my cousin's a fool, and thou art a. (== art so too), Ado III, 4, II. “Leonatus! a banished rascal; and he's a., whatsoever he be,” Cymb. II, 1, 43. “I'll get me one of such a. length,” Gentl. III, 1, 133. “one heat a. expels,” II, 4, 91. “one drunkard loves a.” LLL IV, 3, 50.
It is such a. Nan! == an arch girl, a wicked little Anne! (Germ. auch so eine) Wiv. I, 4, 160. “Benedick was such a.” Ado III, 4, 87. “the prince himself is such a.” H4B II, 4, 275. you are such a. woman (Q such a woman) Troil. I, 2, 282. “you are such a.” Troil. I, 2, 282 “'tis such a. fitchew,” Oth. IV, 1, 150.
7) == the other: “as you have one eye upon my follies, turn a. into the register of your own,” Wiv. II, 2, 193. “a pair of boots, one buckled, a. laced,” Shr. III, 2, 46. “sometimes her head on one side, some a.” Wint. III, 3, 20. “she had one eye declined, a. elevated,” V, 2, 82. “with one hand on his dagger, a. spread on's breast,” H8 I, 2, 205. Gentl. I, 2, 128. Sonn. 144, 12. Err. V, 425. Ado II, 3, 224. Mids. III, 2, 359. Merch. I, 2, 89. Wint. IV, 4, 176. H4B II, 4, 63. H6C II, 5, 10. Troil. III, 2, 206. Oth. I, 3, 331. Lr. III, 7, 71.
8) One another, either separated by other words (as in All's IV, 1, 20. H4B II, 4, 63. V, 1, 86. Troil. III, 2, 206 etc.) or placed together, may as well be used of several persons or things (f. i. John IV, 2, 189. H6A III, 1, 82. Oth. I, 2, 42) as of two: Wiv. I, 1, 257. II, 2, 132. V, 2, 5. V, 2, 5 Ado III, 2, 80. As V, 2, 39. Tw. III, 4, 214. Wint. V, 2, 13. R2 IV, 185. H6B IV, 7, 139. R3 IV, 3, 10. -- One with another == pellmell: “he loves . . . both young and old, one with a.” Wiv. II, 1, 118.
Peculiar repetition of the article: “another such a night,” R3 I, 4, 5.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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