C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, defence

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eminence - enforce

enforced - ensinewed:

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defence (2 a 17th cent. use, now rare)

1. capacity of defending itself 3H6 V. i. 64^*.

2. art of defending oneself, practice or skill in selfdefence AYL. III. iii. 65, Cæs. IV. iii. 201, Ham. IV. vii. 97.

3. arms, armour Tw.N. III. iv. 243, Rom. III. iii. 133, Ant. IV. iv. 10 “Go put on thy defences.”

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

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