Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Quarrel, subst. any dispute or contest that cannot be settled by words; a private difference as well as a dissension and combat for a public cause and on a larger scale: a) “in the managing of --s he is wise,” Ado II, 3, 197. “enter into a q.” Ado II, 3, 197 “in a false q. there is no true valour,” V, 1, 120. “a q. already!” Merch. V, 146. Merch. V, 146 As II, 7, 151. V, 4, 48. V, 4, 48 V, 4, 48 Shr. I, 1, 116. Shr. I, 1, 116 I, 2, 27. IV, 2, 84. Tw. III, 4, 266. Tw. III, 4, 266 V, 364. R2 I, 2, 6. R2 I, 2, 6 II, 1, 248. H4B IV, 5, 195. H5 IV, 1, 219. H5 IV, 1, 219 IV, 8, 69. H6A II, 4, 134. IV, 1, 118. IV, 1, 118 H6B II, 1, 28. II, 3, 53. H6C I, 2, 5. H6C I, 2, 5 R3 I, 4, 223. H8 I, 3, 20. Tit. I, 293. Tit. I, 293 II, 1, 47. II, 1, 47 II, 3, 54. V, 3, 20. Rom. I, 1, 23. Rom. I, 1, 23 II, 4, 168. III, 1, 24. III, 1, 24 Mcb. IV, 3, 83. Hml. I, 3, 66. Lr. II, 1, 56. II, 2, 66. III, 7, 77. IV, 6, 38. Oth. II, 3, 52. Oth. II, 3, 52 Oth. II, 3, 52 Ant. II, 2, 52. Cymb. I, 4, 51. “to pick a q.” H4A III, 3, 76. to take up a q. (== to compose it): As V, 4, 104. Tw. III, 4, 320. to have a q. to == to have a difference, to be at odds with: Ado II, 1, 243. Tw. III, 4, 248. Cor. IV, 5, 133. b) “holy seems the q. upon your grace's part,” All's III, 1, 4. “the quality of the time and q. might well have given us bloody argument,” Tw. III, 3, 31. “put his cause and q. to the disposing of the cardinal,” John V, 7, 91. “O, would the q. lay upon our heads,” H4A V, 2, 48. “derives from heaven his q. and his cause,” H4B I, 1, 206. “I make my q. in particular,” IV, 1, 96. “hold this q. up,” IV, 2, 48. “foreign --s,” IV, 5, 215. H5 II, 4, 17. IV, 1, 133. IV, 1, 133 V, 2, 20. H6A V, 4, 105. H6C II, 2, 65. II, 5, 91. III, 3, 216. III, 3, 216. II, 2, 123. II, 2, 123 II, 3, 79. II, 3, 79 V, 7, 21. Cor. IV, 5, 133. Tit. V, 3, 102. Mcb. I, 2, 14 (O. Edd. quarry). in q. or in the q. of == in the cause of: “in the king's q.” H5 IV, 1, 180. “in q. of the house of York the worthy gentleman did lose his life,” H6C III, 2, 6. “to fight in q. of the house of Lancaster,” R3 I, 4, 209. “my blood in Rome's great q. shed,” Tit. III, 1, 4.
Often == cause, occasion and motive of dispute: “what's thy q.?” R2 I, 3, 33. “the q. of a true inheritor,” H4B IV, 5, 169. “it is a q. most unnatural, to be revenged on him that loveth you,” R3 I, 2, 134. R3 I, 2, 134 “since the q. will bear no colour for the thing he is,” Caes. II, 1, 28. H6B III, 2, 233. Hml. IV, 4, 55. Mcb. IV, 3, 137. Lr. V, 3, 56.
In H8 II, 3, 14: if that q. fortune do divorce it (pomp) from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging etc., some commentators suppose the word to be used in the sense of dart, arrow; but it may well be abstr. pro concr., == quarreller.