Gallant, subst. a person of rank and mettle: “all the --s of the town,” Ado III, 4, 101. “our French --s,” H5 IV, 2, 22. “like a g. in the brow of youth,” H6B V, 3, 4. Hence == a spruce fellow, a young blood, mostly used ironically: Tp. I, 2, 413. Wiv. II, 1, 22. III, 2, 1. Ado IV, 1, 319. LLL V, 2, 126. LLL V, 2, 126 LLL V, 2, 126 LLL V, 2, 126 As I, 2, 212. II, 2, 17. Shr. III, 2, 89. IV, 3, 198. R2 V, 3, 15. H6C V, 5, 12. H8 I, 3, 19. Hml. IV, 7, 85. Oth. II, 3, 31. Oth. II, 3, 31 Per. IV, 2, 4. Used as a familiar compellation: “--s, I am not as I have been,” Ado III, 2, 15. H4A II, 4, 306. H6A III, 2, 41.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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