Easiness, freedom from emotion, evenness of temper, unconcernedness: “if we suffer, out of our e. and childish pity to one man's honour, this contagious sickness,” H8 V, 3, 25. “that shall lend a kind of e. to the next abstinence,” Hml. III, 4, 166. “custom hath made it in him a property of e.” V, 1, 76.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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