excrement hair, beard:
“so plentiful an excrement,”
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, ii. 2.
77
;
“dally with my excrement,”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 1.
90
;
“valour's excrement,”
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii. 2.
87
;
“my pedlar's excrement,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4.
703
;
“Your bedded hairs, like life in excrements, Starts up”
HAMLET, iii. 4. 121.
(
“The hairs are excrementitious, that is, without life or
sensation; yet those very hairs, as if they had life, start up, etc.”
POPE)
, (
“And albeit hayre were of it selfe the most abiect excrement that were, yet should Poppæas hayre be
reputed honourable. I am not ignorant that hayre is noted by many as an excrement, a fleeting commodity. . . . An excrement it is, I deny not,”
Chapman's Justification of a
strange action of Nero, 1629, sig. B 2.
)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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