Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Semblance (trisyll. at the end of the verse in Err. V, 358 and Per. I, 4, 71) 1) appearance, show, exterior, form: under whose (love's) simple s. he (lust) “hath fed upon fresh beauty,” Ven. 795. “true sorrow then is feelingly sufficed when with like s. it is sympathised,” Lucr. 1113. “if you go out in your own s., you die,” Wiv. IV, 2, 67. “another fault in the s. of a fowl,” V, 5, 11. “these two Dromios, one in s.” Err. V, 358. “cozened with the s. of a maid,” Ado II, 2, 39. “she's but the sign and s. of her honour,” IV, 1, 34. “now thy image doth appear in the rare s. that I loved it first,” V, 1, 260. “many other mannish cowards that do outface it with their --s,” As I, 3, 124. “your own letter that induced me to the s. I put on,” Tw. V, 315. “this ship-boy's s. hath disguised me quite,” John IV, 3, 4. “forms being fetched from glistering --s of piety,” H5 II, 2, 117. overbears attaint with cheerful s. IV Chor. H5 II, 2, 117 “of ashy s.” H6B III, 2, 162. “as he made s. of his duty, would have put his knife into him,” H8 I, 2, 198. “put off these frowns, an ill-beseeming s. for a feast,” Rom. I, 5, 76. “if thou path, thy native s. on,” Caes. II, 1, 83. “to assume a s. that very dogs disdained,” Lr. V, 3, 187. “let there be no honour, where there is beauty; truth, where s.” Cymb. II, 4, 109. “with speechless tongue and s. pale,” Per. I, 1, 36. “by the s. of their white flags they bring us peace,” I, 4, 71.
2) likeness, image: “no more than wax shall be accounted evil wherein is stamped the s. of a devil,” Lucr. 1246. “of what she was no s. did remain,” Lucr. 1246 “poor broken glass, I often did behold in thy sweet s. my old age new born,” Lucr. 1246 “your sweet s. to some other give,” Sonn. 13, 4. “purchasing the s. of my soul from out the state of hellish misery,” Merch. III, 4, 20. “repeat their s. often on the seas,” H6A V, 3, 193. “two mirrors of his princely s. are cracked in pieces,” R3 II, 2, 51.