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light sb. (“put out” a person's “light” is not pre-S.)
1. in asseverations:—“by this ” (freq.), “God's ” (cf. 'SLIGHT) Tp. II. ii. 155 [147], 162 [154], 1H4 III. iii. 71, H5 IV. viii. 66.
2. enlightenment, information Gent. III. i. 49, Tw.N. V. i. 348, John IV. iii. 61, Per. I. iii. 18.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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