Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

I, pronoun of the first person: Ven. 18. Ven. 18 109 etc. etc. Obj. form “me:” Ven. 138. Ven. 138 152 etc. Preceded by adjectives: “wretched I, to imitate thee well, against my heart will fix a knife,” Lucr. 1136. “poor I am but his stale,” Err. II, 1, 101. “poor I was slain,” Tit. II, 3, 171. “poor I am stale,” Cymb. III, 4, 53. “to leave poor me,” Sonn. 49, 13. “make a conquest of unhappy me,” Per. I, 4, 69. “save poor me,” IV, 1, 91. I for me: “hang no more praise upon deceased I,” Sonn. 72, 7. “do that good mischief which may make this island thine own for ever, and I thy Caliban for aye thy foot-licker,” Tp. IV, 218. “let fortune go to hell for it, not I,” Merch. III, 2, 21. “all debts are cleared between you and I,” Merch. III, 2, 21 “my father had no child but I,” As I, 2, 18. “what he is indeed, more suits you to conceive than I to speak of,” As I, 2, 279 (but cf. “a heavier task could not have been imposed than I to speak my griefs unspeakable,” Err. I, 1, 33. “I to bear this, is some burden,” Tim. IV, 3, 266. “heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave,” As III, 2, 161. Similarly Gent. V, 4, 109. Cor. III, 2, 124. Cymb. III, 1, 72. On the other hand: “me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough,” Tp. I, 2, 109). “when she exclaimed on Hastings, you and I,” R3 III, 3, after v. 15 (not in Ff and Gl. Ed). Me for I: “then ten times happy me,” Sonn. 37, 14. “the dog is me,” Gent. II, 3, 25. “get you from our court. Me, uncle?” As I, 3, 44. that's me, Tw. II. 5, 87. “or both yourself and me cry lost,” Wint. I, 2, 410. “me rather and my heart might feel your love,” R2 III, 3, 192. “tawny slave, half me and half thy dam,” Tit. V, 1, 27. “no mightier than thyself, or me,” Caes. I, 3, 76. “is she as tall as me?” Ant. III, 3, 14. cf. “O me!” John I, 220. “O me unhappy!” Gent. V, 4, 84. “woe is me!” Hml. III, 1, 168 (see O and Woe). -- I repeated at the close of the sentence: “I care not for her I,” Gent. V, 4, 132. “I'll drink no more than will do me good, for no man's pleasure I,” H4B II, 4, 129. “I do not like these several councils I,” R3 III, 2, 78. “I am no vaunter I,” Tit. V, 3, 113. “I am no bady I,” Tit. V, 3, 113 “I will budge for no man's pleasure I,” Rom. III, 1, 58. “I know it I,” III, 5, 12. -- I omitted: “beseech you,” Tp. I, 2, 473. II, 1, 1 etc. (cf. Beseech). “give your worship good morrow,” Wiv. II, 2, 35. R3 II, 3, 6. Hml. I, 1, 16. Lr. II, 2, 165. “and thank you too,” LLL IV, 2, 167. H8 I, 2, 13. “pray heaven,” As I, 2, 209. IV, 3, 76 etc. (cf. Pray). “as to a bed, that longing have been sick for,” Meas. II, 4, 103. “I show more mirth than I am mistress of, and would you yet were merrier?” As I, 2, 4 (M. Edd. I were merrier). “with toss-pots still had drunken heads,” Tw. V, 412. “and think me honoured,” H6A II, 3, 81. “if son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot,” IV, 6, 53. “give thee thy due,” Tim. III, 1, 37. for their knives care not, V, I, 181. “assure thee, Regan,” Lr. II, 1, 106. 4, 42. Not pronounced, or at least slurred, in its proclitical position, though inserted: “if you tarry longer, I shall give worse payment,” Tw. IV, 1, 21. “if that be true, I shall see my boy again,” John III, 4, 78. “I beseech your majesty, give me leave to go,” H6B II, 3, 20. “I beseech your graces,” Tit. I, 1, 84. Tit. I, 1, 84 Similarly let me as one syllable: “let me see, let me see, is not the leaf turned down?” Caes. IV, 3, 273 (cf. on the other hand: Gent. I, 3, 55. II, 1, 3. LLL III, 104. Merch. II, 7, 13. II, 9, 23. H6C II, 5, 82 etc. let me see == now I have it, this it is: Hml. II, 2, 471. IV, 7, 155). Me omitted: “the justice of it pleases,” Oth. IV, 1, 222. of me for my: tell thou the lamentable tale (Ff fall) “of me,” R2 V, 1, 44. not I, used in answering: Tp. III, 3, 42. Err. V, 420 etc.
Me used as a refl. pron. == myself; accus. (cf. the resp. verbs): “I should absent me,” Shr. Ind. 2, 125. “I will address me to my appointment,” Wiv. III, 5, 135. Merch. II, 9, 19. “I will arm me,” H6C IV, 1, 113. “attire me how I can,” H6B II, 4, 109. “how I may bear me here,” Tp. I, 2, 425. “betake me to my heels,” H6B IV, 8, 67. “I cloy me,” R3 IV, 4, 62. “I commend me,” Lucr. 1308. “I complain me,” Lucr. 1308 “I confess me much guilty,” As I, 2, 196. “I cross me for a sinner,” Err. II, 2, 190. “I will discase me,” Tp. V, 85. “I'll disrobe me,” Cymb. V, 1, 22. “I would divorce me,” Lr. II, 4, 133. “drenched me in the sea,” Gent. I, 3, 79. “to drown me,” Err. III, 2, 46. “I ensconce me here,” Sonn. 49, 9. Wiv. III, 3, 97. “let me excuse me,” Meas. IV, 1, 12. “how shall I fashion me,” Gent. III, 1, 135. “flattering me with impossibilities,” H6C III, 2, 143. “I'll get me to a place more void,” Caes. II, 4, 37. “I hid me,” Tp. II, 2, 115. Wiv. III, 3, 36. Ado II, 3, 38. Mids II, 1, 227. H6B IV, 10, 3. R3 III, 7, 161. Cymb. I, 6, 86. “I held me glad,” Gent. IV, 1, 32. Err. IV, 2, 17. R3 I, 3, 157. Tit. I, 245. “to keep me from a most unholy match,” Gent. IV, 3, 30. “I lay me down,” H6C II, 3, 2. “I have loaden me with spoils,” H6A II, 1, 80. “I alone do me oppose,” John III, 1, 170. “to prepare me,” Meas. IV, 3, 58. “in pruning me,” LLL IV, 3, 183. “raise me from my knees,” Meas. V, 231. “rank me,” Merch. II, 9, 33. “I'll reconcile me,” Wint. III, 2, 156. R3 II, 1, 59. “I do refer me to the oracle,” Wint. III, 2, 116. “as I remember me,” R3 IV, 2, 98 (Qq only remember). “I'll renew me in his fall,” Cor. V, 6, 49. “I do repent me,” Meas. II, 3, 35. Mcb. II, 3, 112. “I needs must rest me,” Tp. III, 3, 4. “retire me to my Milan,” Tp. V, 310. Tim. II, 2, 171. “when I do rouse me,” H5 I, 2, 275. “I will shelter me here,” Wiv. V, 5, 24. “sit me down,” H6C II, 5, 14. “where I list to sport me,” Ven. 154. “I had squared me to thy counsel,” Wint. V, 1, 52. “subject me,” As II, 3, 36. “I did suit me like a man,” I, 3, 118. “to stage me to their eyes,” Meas. I, 1, 69. “think me honoured,” H6A II, 3, 81. “I wean me from despair,” H6C IV, 4, 17. “will wing me to some bough,” Wint. V, 3, 133. “wishing me like to one more rich,” Sonn. 29, 5. “I'll withdraw me,” H6A IV, 2, 8. “I yoke me in my brother's fault,” Cymb. IV, 2, 19 etc. -- Dative: “I will buy me a son in law,” Alls V, 3, 148. “I can buy me twenty,” Mcb. IV, 2, 40. “I'll get me one of such another length,” Gent. III, 1, 133. IV, 4, 196. “make me a willow cabin,” Tw. I, 5, 287. “to procure me grace,” H6A I, 4, 7.
The dat. me used like the Latin dativus commodi et incommodi: “which is not yet performed me,” Tp. I, 2, 244. “to do me business in the veins o' the earth,” Tp. I, 2, 244 “hark what thou else shalt do me,” Tp. I, 2, 244 “will either of you bear me a challenge to him?” Tw. III, 2, 43. “heat me these irons hot,” John IV, 1, 1. “how this river comes me cranking in,” H4A III, 1, 98. “runs me up with like advantage on the other side,” H4A III, 1, 98 “I press me none but good householders,” IV, 2, 16. “the sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as cheap,” III, 3, 51. And hence, like the Latin dativus ethicus, superfluous as to the general sense, but imparting a lively colour to the expression: “he steps me to her trencher,” Gent. IV, 4, 9. “he thrusts me himself into the company,” Gent. IV, 4, 9 “goes me to the fellow,” Gent. IV, 4, 9 “he makes me no more ado,” Gent. IV, 4, 9 “humour me the angels,” Wiv. I, 3, 64. “I have writ me here a letter,” Wiv. I, 3, 64 “comes me in the instant of our encounter,” III, 5, 73. “pluck me out all the linen,” IV, 2, 155. “touch me his finger-end,” V, 5, 88. awakes “me all the enrolled penalties,” Meas. I, 2, 170. “come me to what was done to her,” II, 1, 121. “leave me your snatches,” IV, 2, 6. “comes me the prince,” Ado I, 3, 61. I whipt me behind the arras, 63 (Ff. whipt behind). “she leans me out at her mistress' window,” III, 3, 155. “study me how to please the eye,” LLL I, 1, 80. “the skilful shepherd peeled me certain wands,” Merch. I, 3, 85. “give me your present to one Master Bassanio,” II, 2, 115. “knock me here soundly,” Shr. I, 2, 8. “sayest me so?” Shr. I, 2, 8 “hop me over every kennel home,” IV, 3, 98. “swinge me them soundly forth,” V, 2, 104. “deliver me this paper,” Alls V, 2, 16. “build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour,” Tw. III, 2, 35. “challenge me the count's youth,” Tw. III, 2, 35 “scout me for him at the corner of the orchard,” III, 4, 193. “hear me this,” V, 123. “imagine me, gentle spectators, that I now may be in fair Bohemia,” Wint. IV, 1, 19. “he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots,” H4A II, 4, 115. “I made me no more ado,” H4A II, 4, 115 “I followed me close,” H4A II, 4, 115 “rob me the exchequer,” III, 3, 205. “he steps me a little higher,” IV, 3, 75. “cut me off the heads of all the favourites,” IV, 3, 75 “cut me off the villain's head,” H4B II, 1, 51. “it ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the crudy vapours,” IV, 3, 105. “convey me Salisbury into his tent,” H6A I, 4, 110. “say'st thou me so?” H6B II, 1, 109. “leap me over this stool,” H6B II, 1, 109 “a strange fellow here writes me,” Troil. III, 3, 96. “they set me up, in policy, that mongrel cur Ajax,” V, 4, 13. “I pried me through the crevice of a wall,” Tit. V, 1, 114. “rests me his minim rest,” Rom. II, 4, 22. “claps me his sword upon the table,” III, 1, 6. “where I have learned me to repent the sin,” IV, 2, 17. “strike me the counterfeit matron,” Tim. IV, 3, 112. “he plucked me ope his doublet,” Caes. I, 2, 267. “you'll bear me a bang for that,” III, 3, 20. “the cloudy messenger turns me his back,” Mcb. III, 6, 41. “inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris,” Hml. II, 1, 7. “wind me into him,” Lr. I, 2, 106. “draw me a clothier's yard,” IV, 6, 88. “whip me such honest knaves,” Oth. I, 1, 49. I fear me, see under Fear.