coted
“them on the way—We,”
HAMLET, ii. 2. 315.
To cote is explained by Tollet “to overtake,” and by Nares (in Gloss.) “to pass by, to pass the side
of another.” Caldecott cites from Golding's transl. of Ovid's Metamorphoses,
“With that Hippomenes coted her”
B. x. sig. R 8 verso, ed. 1603.
(where the original has “Præterit
Hippomenes”), With the present passage of Shakespeare compare what the same
speaker afterwards says of the same persons,
“it so fell out, that certain players We o'er-raught on the way,”
HAMLET, iii. 1. 16.
(overtook, overpassed)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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