make
“all split,”
A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM, i. 2.
24.
A phrase which occurs frequently in our early dramas, expressing great violence of
action (It is properly a sailor's phrase:
“He set downe this period with such a sigh, that, as the marriners say, a man would haue thought al would haue split againe.”
Greene's Neuer too late,
Part First, sig. G 3, ed. 1611)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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