Article, 1) single clause in a stipulation, particular item in a writing or discourse: “in that last a.” Gentl. III, 1, 366. “this a. yourself must break,” LLL I, 1, 134. LLL I, 1, 134 Meas. IV, 2, 107. R2 IV, 233. R2 IV, 233 H4B IV, 1, 74. H4B IV, 1, 74 2, 53. H5 V, 2, 78. H5 V, 2, 78 H5 V, 2, 78 H5 V, 2, 78 H5 V, 2, 78 H6B I, 1, 40. H6B I, 1, 40 H6C I, 1, 180. III, 3, 135. H8 I, 1, 169. III, 2, 293. III, 2, 293 III, 2, 293 Hml. I, 1, 94. 2, 38. Oth. I, 3, 11. V, 2, 54. Ant. II, 2, 82. Ant. II, 2, 82 Cymb. I, 4, 169. Per. I, 1, 88. Endures not a. tying him to aught (== condition) Cor. II, 3, 204. “to every a.” Tp. I, 2, 195. “to the last a.” Oth. III, 3, 22. “to draw my answer from thy --s,” John II, 111 (as from an inventory made by thee). “thou shouldst not alter the a. of thy gentry,” Wiv. II, 1, 53 (== the tenour of thy gentry, thy rank). “I take him to be a soul of great a.,” Hml. V, 2, 122, i. e. of a great item, one who, if virtues should be specified inventorially (cf. v. 118), would have many items in the list.
2) the grammatical article, the word prefixed to substantives: Wiv. IV, 1, 40. Wiv. IV, 1, 40
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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