Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Gift, 1) a thing given or bestowed, a present: Sonn. 11, 12. 60, 8. 122, 1. Tp. IV, 1, 8. Tp. IV, 1, 8 Gent. III, 1, 89. IV, 4, 62. V, 4, 148. Wiv. II, 2, 67. III, 5, 9. Meas. II, 2, 147. Err. III, 2, 188. Ado III, 3, 15. IV, 1, 29. Merch. II, 9, 91. IV, 1, 444. V, 167. As I, 2, 34. As I, 2, 34 All's II, 1, 4. All's II, 1, 4 Shr. II, 76. Wint. I, 1, 31. H4A IV, 3, 71. H6B IV, 7, 73. H6C V, 1, 31. R3 IV, 2, 91. Tim. I, 2, 178. IV, 3, 516. Hml. III, 1, 101 etc. “to give a g.” H6B I, 1, 15. R3 III, 1, 115. With to: “--s to women,” As I, 2, 38. Tim. I, 1, 289. Oth. V, 1, 17.
2) the act of giving, donation: “the cause of this fair g. in me is wanting,” Sonn. 87, 7. “draw a deed of g.” Merch. IV, 1, 394. “I will not take her on g. of any man,” As III, 3, 69. “by g. of heaven,” H5 II, 4, 79. “by Warwick's g.” H6C V, 1, 35. “of their friend's g.” Tim. I, 2, 147. “jewels of Timon's g.” III, 4, 19. “the one may be given, if there were . . . merit for the g.” Cymb. I, 4, 91. With an obj. gen.: “by g. of my chaste body to his lust,” Meas. V, 97. “a g. of all,” Merch. IV, 1, 388. V, 292.
3) quality, faculty, endowment: “your graces and your --s,” Sonn. 103, 12. Gent. IV, 2, 6. Wiv. I, 1, 64. Ado III, 5, 47. LLL IV, 2, 67. V, 2, 651. As III, 2, 161. Shr. I, 1, 107. All's I, 1, 47. Tw. I, 3, 29. H4B I, 2, 194. H6A V, 1, 43. V, 5, 3 etc. With an obj. gen.: “which by a g. of learning did bear the maid away,” Pilgr. 224. the g. of tongue (== eloquence) H4A V, 2, 78. With in: “his g. is in devising impossible slanders,” Ado II, 1, 143. “I have no g. in shrewishness,” Mids. III, 2, 301. “have not more g. in taciturnity,” Troil. IV, 2, 75. “you have a goodly g. in horning,” Tit. II, 3, 67. With an inf.: “they have the g. to know it,” As II, 7, 38. Shr. Ind. 1, 124. H5 V, 2, 162.