C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, as

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as (the following are common old uses, now obs. in literary English)

1. =that R3 I. iv. 289 “coward as thou art.”

2. ‘as . . . as’=though, however Ado I. i. 120 “as like him as she is,” like him though she is, however like him she may be.

3. =so that Shr. Ind. i. 70, Sonn. lxii. 8.

4. =as if Tp. II. i. 128, H5 II. iv. 20, Ham. IV. vii. 87; esp. in “as it were.”

5. redundant in “as how” AYL. IV. iii. 143. (Contrast Ham. IV. vii. 58.)

A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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