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case sb.2 (2 perhaps ‘a pair’, like ‘a case of pistols’)
1. applied to (i) a mask LLL. V. ii. 388 “that superfluous case,” Rom. I. iv. 29; cf. Ado II. i. 99, and CASE vb. 1; (ii) the body, as enclosing the soul Tw.N. V. i. 169, Ant. IV. xii. [xiv.] 41, xiii. [xv.] 89 “This case of that huge spirit”; (iii) the sockets of the eyes Wint. V. ii. 14, Lr. IV. vi. 148 “with the case of eyes,” Per. III. ii. 99; (iv) the skin Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 849; (v) clothes Meas. II. iv. 13, 1H4 I. ii. 200 “cases of buckram,” Compl. 116 “Accomplish'd in himself, not in his case.”
2. set H5 III. ii. 5 “I have not a case of lives.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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