Ass, the animal Asinus: Meas. III, 1, 26. Err. IV, 4, 28. Err. IV, 4, 28 Mids. III, 2, 17. Mids. III, 2, 17 IV, 1, 82. IV, 1, 82 Merch. IV, 1, 91. Shr. II, 200. Tw. V, 20 etc. etc. “I will fly, like a dog, the heels o' the a.” Tim. I, 1, 283. “thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er the dirt,” Lr. I, 4, 177 (allusions to well-known fables of Aesop). As a term of reproach, == stupid fellow, dolt: “to make an a. of me,” Mids. III, 1, 124. Wiv. V, 5, 125. Tw. V, 20. “I find the a. in compound with the major part of your syllables,” Cor. II, 1, 64.* Tp. V, 295. Gentl. II, 3, 39. 5, 25. 5, 25 V, 2, 28. Wiv. I, 1, 176. Meas. II, 2, 315. V, 506. Err. II, 1, 14. 2, 201. III, 1, 15. Mids. IV, 1, 27. V, 317 (quibble with ace). Ado IV, 2, 75. V, 1, 315. LLL V, 2, 628 etc. etc.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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