colours —
“Fear no,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, i. 5. 5
, 9; 2 HENRY IV., v. 5. 89.
“Probably at first a military expression, to fear no enemy.
So Shakespeare derives it, and though the passage [that is, the first of these passages]
is comic, it is likely to be right.”
Nares's Gloss.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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