forthright a straight path:
“Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 3.
158
;
“Through forth-rights and meanders”
THE TEMPEST, iii. 3. 3.
(
“The passage is explained by the fact of the allusion being
to an artificial maze, sometimes constructed of straight lines [forth-rights], sometimes
of circles [meanders],”
KNIGHT)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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