fact a deed, a doing,—an evil doing:
“his fact, till now . . . came not to an undoubtful proof,”
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 2.
129
;
“Those of your fact,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, iii. 2. 83
;
“a fouler fact,”
2 HENRY VI., i. 3. 171
;
“Damned fact,”
MACBETH, iii. 6. 10
;
“Becoming well thy fact,”
PERICLES, iv. 3. 12
;
“The powers to whom I pray abhor this fact,”
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 349.