Long, adv. not for a short time: Tp. II, 1, 169. Gent. III, 1, 388. III, 2, 48. IV, 1, 20. V, 4, 8. V, 4, 8 Wiv. II, 2, 188. Mids. I, 1, 6. R2 V, 2, 114. R3 I, 1, 139. Troil. IV, 1, 3. Lr. III, 6, 3 etc. etc. “l. ago:” Tw. I, 5, 282. Shr. III, 1, 71. R2 V, 1, 42. H8 III, 1, 120. Tit. IV, 2, 23. “not l. ago,” Tim. III, 2, 12. “l. agone:” Gent. III, 1, 85. “l. since:” Sonn. 30, 7. Wiv. V, 5, 236. H6A III, 4, 20. Tim. II, 2, 38. “at last, though l., our jarring notes agree,” Shr. V, 2, 1 (== late).
In a relative sense: Tp. I, 1, 27. II, 2, 37. III, 3, 8. Gent. II, 1, 70. II, 2, 15. III, 1, 164. III, 2, 20. Err. I, 1, 66. II, 2, 37. Mids. II, 1, 145. R2 III, 4, 95 etc. “how l. is't ago?” H4A II, 4, 360. Cymb. I, 1, 61. “no --er ago than Wednesday last,” H4B II, 4, 93; and in the same sense without ago: “no --er than yesterday,” Ant. V, 2, 251 (the clown's speech). “how l. is't since?” Cor. I, 6, 14; cf. Rom. I, 5, 34. Cymb. III, 5, 153. IV, 2, 103. all the winter l. == during all the winter, Wint. IV, 4, 75. “all day l.” Tit. V, 2, 55. “all night l.” Hml. I, 1, 160. “three days --er,” H6B III, 2, 288. Per. I, 1, 116. “as l. as:” Wiv. II, 1, 56. Tw. I, 3, 41. H5 IV, 7, 113. Oftener “so l. as:” Shr. V, 1, 25. Tw. I, 2, 17. Wint. III, 2, 241. H4A IV, 3, 39. H5 II, 1, 15. IV, 7, 119. H6B I, 1, 211. II, 4, 63. H6C IV, 1, 77. Lr. IV, 1, 30. Oth. I, 3, 211. Cymb. I, 3, 8. l. live, see Live.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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