band a bond:
“arrested on a band,”
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, iv. 2.
49
(in what immediately follows these words Dromio quibbles on band in the sense of“bond,”
and band“a band for the
neck” );
“that breaks his band,”
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, iv. 3.
28
;
“thy oath and band,”
RICHARD II., i. 1. 2
;
“as my furthest band Shall pass,”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iii. 2.
26
;
“cancels all bands,”
1 HENRY IV., iii. 2. 157
;
“die in bands,”
3 HENRY VI., i. 1. 186
;
“with all bands of law,”
HAMLET, i. 2. 24.
(
“bonds,”
Cambridge)

