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divers (1 now expressed by the form ‘diverse’; in H8 V. iii. 18 “new opinions, and dangerous,” the old meaning ‘wrong, perverse’ is perhaps represented)
1. different in kind AYL. III. ii. 329, 2H4 III. i. 53, H5 I. ii. 184, Rom. II. iii. 11.
2. various, sundry, several Wiv. I. i. 236, Cæs. IV. i. 20; absol. Mer.V. III. i. 121 “ of Antonio's creditors.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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