counsel (sense of ‘legal adviser’ occurs in 2H4 I. ii. 155, Cym. I. iv. 185)
1.
consultation, deliberation,
consideration Ado II. iii.
221, Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 422,
1H4 IV. iii. 11
“I hold as little with weak
fear As you”
(=consult fear), 2H6 i. i. 98.
2.
private or secret
purpose, secret, inmost thought
Ado III. iii. 91
“keep your fellows' c-s
and your own,”
Cor. I. ii. 2
“they of Rome are
enter'd in our c-s,”
Ham. IV. ii. 11; “in ,” in private, in
secret Wiv. I. i. 123; so counsel-keeper
2H4 II. iv. 290, counsel-keeping
Tit. II. iii.
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