Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works

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.