choose (special idiomatic uses are)
1.
to do as one
likes, take one's own course
Mer.V. I. ii. 50
“An you will not have
me, choose.”
2.
“cannot choose,” have no
alternative, cannot do otherwise Tp. I. ii. 186, Cor. IV. iii. 39;
followed by “but”
Mer.V. III. i. 123,
2H4 III. ii. 223, Ven. 79.
3.
“to choose,” to prefer
one way or another Wint. IV. iii.
[iv.] 175 “not half a kiss to
choose.”
