favour countenance, aspect, appearance:
“a good favour you have,”
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 2. 29
;
“discover the favour,”
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 2.
165
;
“When I like your favour,”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 1.
80
;
“for your favour, sir,”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iii. 3.
17
;
“Her favour turns the fashion of the days,”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 3.
258
;
“My favour were as great”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2.
33
(with a quibble);
“O, were favour so,”
A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM, i. 1.
186
;
“Of female favour,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, iv. 3. 85
;
“my daughter's favour,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, v. 4. 27
;
“Carries no favour in't,”
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. 1.
77
;
“his sweet favour,”
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. 1.
90
;
“some favour that it loves,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 4. 23
;
“I know your favour,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4. 313
; TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iv. 5.
213;
“In favour was my brother,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4. 365
;
“known by garment, not by favour,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, v. 2. 47
;
“the favour and the form Of this most fair occasion,”
KING JOHN, v. 4. 50
;
“stain my favours in a bloody mask,”
1 HENRY IV., iii. 2. 136
(In this passage I ought to have retained the old reading favours; and in my note on it, I have too hastily asserted
that the plural, meaning“features,”
was not applied to a single face);
“our former favour,”
HENRY V., v. 2. 63
;
“your favour is well approved by your tongue,”
CORIOLANUS, iv. 3. 9
;
“your outward favour,”
JULIUS CAESAR, i. 2. 91
;
“In favour's like the work,”
JULIUS CAESAR, i. 3. 129
;
“any mark of favour,”
JULIUS CAESAR, ii. 1. 76
;
“To alter favour,”
MACBETH, i. 5. 69
;
“to this favour she must come,”
HAMLET, v. 1. 189
;
“defeat thy favour,”
OTHELLO, i. 3. 339
;
“in favour as in humour alter'd,”
OTHELLO, iii. 4. 126
;
“so tart a favour,”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 5.
38
;
“His favour is familiar to me,”
CYMBELINE, v. 5. 93
;
“favour, savour, hue, and qualities,”
VENUS AND ADONIS, 747
;
“The most sweet favour,”
SONNETS, cxiii. 10
;
“The favours of these men,”
RICHARD II., iv. 1. 168.