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fore-, prefix, is used = (1) in front, front-, in “ffinger” All'sW. II. ii. 25, “f-foot” H5 II. i. 71, “frank” H5 V. ii. 97, “f-runner” Mer.V. I. ii. 136, “f-skirt” H8 II. iii. 98, “f-spurrer” Mer.V. II. ix. 95; (2) beforehand, previously, pre-, in “f-advised” Cor. II. iii. 199, “f-bemoaned” Sonn. xxx. 11, “fbetrayed” Compl. 328, “f-knowing” Ham. I. i. 134, Ven. 245, “f-knowledge” Tw.N. I. v. 151, “f-named” Meas. III. i. 249, “f-past” All'sW. V. iii. 121, “frecited” H8 I. ii. 127, “f-said” Ham. i. I. 103, “fvouched” Lr. I. i. 223.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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