Cage, 1) an enclosure to keep birds in: Ado I, 3, 36. As III, 2, 389. Tit. III, 1, 84. Lr. V, 3, 9. Cymb. III, 3, 42.
2) a prison for petty malefactors: “his father had never a house but the c.” H6B IV, 2, 56.
3) wicker-work, basket: “I must up-fill this osier c. of ours with baleful weeds,” Rom. II, 3, 7.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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