love sb. (3 an Eliz. sense)
1.
act of kindness
John IV. i. 49, Per. II. iv. 49.
2.
dear friend Mer.V. IV. i. 278, Sonn. xiii. 1, &c.
3.
paramour Wiv. III. v. 81.
4.
phr. “for” one's “love,” for one's sake,
on one's account LLL. V. ii.
848; “of all
loves,” phr. of strong adjuration or entreaty
Wiv. II. ii. 119,
MND. II. ii. 154
“Speak, of all
loves,”
Oth. III. i. 13 (Ff
“for love's sake); out
of love with,” unfavourably inclined
to, disgusted with Gent. IV. iv.
212,
Meas. III. i. 172
“I am so out of love
with life,”
2H4 II. ii. 15.
