Expedience, 1) haste: “are making hither with all due e.” R2 II, 1, 287. “will with all e. charge on us,” H5 IV, 3, 70.
2) expedition, enterprise, campaign: “what our council did decree in forwarding this dear e.” H4A I, 1, 33. “I shall break the cause of our e. to the queen,” Ant. I, 2, 185.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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