Audit, final account: “when nature calls thee to be gone, what acceptable a. canst thou leave?” Sonn. 4, 12. “when as thy love hath cast his utmost sum, call'd to that a. by advised respects,” 49, 4. 126, 11. “and how his a. stands who knows save heaven?” Hml. III, 3, 82. “if you will take this a., take this life,” Cymb. V, 4, 27. Account in general: “to steal from spiritual leisure a brief span to keep your earthly a.” H8 III, 2, 141. “I can make my a. up, that all from me do back receive the flour of all, and leave me but the bran,” Cor. I, 1, 148. “to make their a. at your highness' pleasure still to return your own,” Mcb. I, 6, 27. “to your a. comes their distract parcels in combined sums,” Compl. 230.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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