foul plain, homely, ugly:
“Her amber hairs for foul hath amber quoted,”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 3.
83
(see quote);
“a foul slut,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, iii. 3. 31
;
“I am foul,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, iii. 3. 34
;
“Foul is most foul, being foul,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, iii. 5. 62
;
“as foul as was Florentius' love,”
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, i. 2.
67
(see Florentius);
“Were I hard-favour'd, foul,”
VENUS AND ADONIS, 133
;
“all they foul,”
SONNETS, cxxxii. 14.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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