Forty, four times ten: R2 I, 3, 159. H4A IV, 1, 130. Tit. I, 193. Rom. IV, 1, 105. V, 1, 59. Lr. I, 4, 42. Oth. I, 3, 4. Used for an indefinite number, where no exact reckoning was needed: “when f. winters shall besiege thy brow,” Sonn. 2, 1. “I had rather than f. shillings,” Wiv. I, 1, 205; Tw. II, 3, 20 and V, 180. “f. more,” Meas. IV, 3, 20. “worth f. ducats,” Err. IV, 3, 84. 97; cf. H4A III, 3, 95. 117 and H5 IV, 4, 14. “in f. minutes,” Mids. II, 1, 176. “f. fancies,” Shr. III, 2, 70. “I myself fight not once in f. year,” H6A I, 3, 91. “f. pence,” H8 II, 3, 89 (proverbial expression of a small wager). “within these f. hours,” III, 2, 253. “f. truncheoners,” V, 4, 54. “I could beat f. of them,” Cor. III, 1, 243. “hop f. paces,” Ant. II, 2, 234. “f. days longer,” Per. I, 1, 116. “is not the king's name f. thousand names?” R2 III, 2, 85 (Ff twenty). “f. thousand fathom above water,” Wint. IV, 4, 281. “f. thousand brothers,” Hml. V, 1, 292. “f. thousand lives,” Oth. III, 3, 442.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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