Calling, subst., 1) appellation: “I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son, and would not change that c.” As I, 2, 245.
2) vocation, profession: “you have paid the prisoner the very debt of your c.” Meas. III, 2, 265. Ado IV, 1, 170. As III, 3, 108. H6A III, 1, 32. H8 II, 4, 108. V, 3, 69. Per. IV, 2, 43 (except in the last passage, always used of the ecclesiastical profession).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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