Civility, good breeding, decorum, politeness: “any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but tameness, c. and patience,” Wiv. IV, 2, 28. “use all the observance of c.” Merch. II, 2, 204. “that in c. thou seemest so empty,” As II, 7, 93. As II, 7, 93 “from the sense of all c.” Oth. I, 1, 132. Cymb. IV, 2, 179.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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