government (the sense ‘rule, sway’ occurs)
1.
control, management
MND. V. i. 125
“a sound, but not in
”
(i.e. without control of the stops of the
‘recorder’; cf. Ham. III. ii. 379),
Rom. IV. i. 102,
Cym. II. iv. 150
“Quite besides The of
patience.”
2.
demeanour, conduct,
behaviour, esp. becoming conduct, discretion
1H4 I. ii. 31
“men of good ,”
III. i. 183
“Defect of manners, want
of ,”
3H6 I. iv. 132
“'Tis that makes them
seem divine,”
H8 II. iv. 136
“wife-like ,”
Oth. III. iii. 256
“Fear not my ”
4.
period of rule Meas. IV. ii.
141.
