Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Throat, the forepart of the neck, which is the passage for food and breath (oftenest used as the best assailable part of an enemy): Tp. I, 1, 43. III, 3, 45. Meas. II, 4, 153. IV, 3, 26. LLL III, 15. As I, 1, 63. Tw. I, 3, 42. H5 II, 1, 24. IV, 4, 15. H6C V, 6, 9. R3 I, 3, 189. Troil IV, 4, 56 (my heart will be blown up by my t.; Ff. “by the root).” Cor. IV, 5, 102. V, 4, 8. V, 4, 8 V, 6, 31. V, 6, 31 Tit. V, 2, 197. Tim. I, 2, 53. V, 1, 182. Hml. V, 1, 283. Lr. I, 1, 168. Ant. II, 5, 35. II, 6, 144. III, 5, 19. Cymb. IV, 2, 150. in the t. of death == in the jaws of death: LLL V, 2, 865. R3 V, 4, 5. to cut one's t. == to kill, to murder him: Wiv. I, 4, 115. H4A II, 2, 88. H5 II, 1, 73. H5 II, 1, 73 III, 2, 119. IV, 4, 34. IV, 7, 10. IV, 7, 10 H6B IV, 1, 20. IV, 2, 29. Troil. IV, 4, 131. Tit. V, 2, 182. Rom. I, 4, 83. Tim. III, 5, 44. IV, 1, 10. IV, 3, 121. IV, 3, 121 Caes. I, 2, 268. Mcb. III, 4, 16. Hml. IV, 7, 127. Cymb. III, 4, 35. “fly . . . to our enemies' --s,” H6A I, 1, 98. “fall to their --s,” Ant. II, 7, 78. “catch each other by the t.” R3 I, 3, 189. Oth. V, 2, 355. Lies or slanders thrown back into the throat from which they proceeded: “until it had returned these terms of treason doubled down his t.” R2 I, 1, 57. “as low as to thy heart, through the false passage of thy t., thou liest,” R2 I, 1, 57 “I'll turn my part thereof into thy t.” H6A II, 4, 79. “the solus in thy teeth, and in thy t.” H5 II, 1, 51. “thrust these reproachful speeches down his t.” Tit. II, 1, 55. “till all these mischiefs be returned again even in their --s that have committed them,” III, 1, 275. that it did (give me the lie) “i, the very t. on me,” Mcb. II, 3, 43. “gives me the lie i, the t., as deep as to the lungs,” Hml. II, 2, 601. “even in his t . . . I return the lie,” Per. II, 5, 56. Hence the following phrases: “I lie in my t.” LLL IV, 3, 13. Shr. IV, 3, 133. Tw. III, 4, 172. H4B I, 2, 94. R3 I, 2, 93. Oth. III, 4, 13. “that's a lie in thy t.” H5 IV, 8, 17 (Fluellen's speech). “with a foul traitor's name stuff I thy t.” R2 I, 1, 44.
== voice: “and turn his merry note unto the sweet bird's t.” As II, 5, 4. “my t. of war be turned . . . into a pipe small as an eunuch,” Cor. III, 2, 112. “the cock . . . with his lofty and shrill-sounding t.” Hml. I, 1, 151. “whose rude --s Jove's dreadful clamours counterfeit,” Oth. III, 3, 355.