Tapster, one who draws beer and serves the customers of an alehouse (== the modern waiter): “shrilltongued --s answering every call,” Ven. 849. Wiv. I, 3, 17. Wiv. I, 3, 17 Meas. I, 2, 112. Meas. I, 2, 112 II, 1, 63. II, 1, 63 II, 1, 63 II, 1, 63 II, 1, 63 II, 1, 63 LLL 1, 2, 43 “(I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a t.).” As III, 4, 34. H4A IV, 2, 31. H4B I, 2, 193. Troil. I, 2, 123. Tim. IV, 3, 215.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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