field —
“In her fair face's,”
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 72.
“Field is here
equivocally used. The war of lilies and roses
requires a field of battle; the heraldry in the preceding stanza demands another field,
that is, the ground or surface of a shield or escutcheon”
(STEEVENS)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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