bourn a limit, a boundary:
“Bourn, bound of land,”
THE TEMPEST, ii. 1. 146
;
“No bourn 'twixt his and mine,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, i. 2. 134
;
“a bourn, a pale, a shore,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 3.
243
;
“from whose bourn No traveller returns,”
HAMLET, iii. 1. 79
;
“this chalky bourn”
KING LEAR, iv. 6. 57
; (
“this chalky boundary of England, towards France,”
STEEVENS)
“I'll set a bourn,”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, i. 1.
16
;
“From bourn to bourn,”
PERICLES, iv. 4. 4.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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