angel a gold coin, which at its highest value
was worth ten shillings:
“not I for an angel,”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 3.
30
;
“This bottle makes an angel,”
1 HENRY IV., iv. 2. 6
;
“your ill angel is light”
2 HENRY IV., i. 2. 156
; (
“The Lord Chief Justice calls Falstaff the Prince's
ill angel or genius; which Falstaff turns off
by saying, an ill angel [meaning the coin
called an angel] is light,”
THEOBALD)
“he hath a legion of angels”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. 3.
50
; (with a quibble)
“twenty angels,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 2.
65
;
“the angels that you sent for,”
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, iv. 3.
36
;
“his fair angels,”
KING JOHN, ii. 1. 590
;
“imprisoned angels,”
KING JOHN, iii. 3. 8
; and see stamp about their necks, etc.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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