overture an opening, a discovery, a disclosure:
“You had only in your silent judgement tried it, Without more
overture,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, ii. 1.
172
;
“the overture of thy treasons,”
KING LEAR, iii. 7. 88.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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