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comfort: used as interj. (S.)=cheer up, take heart Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 854 “, good ,” John III. iv. 4, R2 III. ii. 75, R3 II. ii. 89, Ant. III. vi. 89 “Best of !;—what ?” =what cheer? Meas. III. i. 53, R2 II. i. 72;—“have , be of (good) ,” be of good cheer Tp. I. ii. 492, Tw.N. III. iv. 375, John V. iii. 9, V. vii. 25.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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