Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Memory, 1) the power of remembering things, recollection: Sonn. 77, 9. Tp. I, 2, 101. Wiv. IV, 1, 84. Err. V, 314. LLL IV, 1, 99. IV, 2, 71. V, 2, 150. Merch. I, 3, 55. III, 5, 71. H4B IV, 1, 202. H8 III, 2, 303. Cor. I, 9, 91. Rom. III, 2, 110. Mcb. I, 7, 65. V, 3, 41. Hml. I, 3, 58. Hml. I, 3, 58 I, 5, 96. I, 5, 96 II, 2, 470. V, 2, 119. Oth. IV, 1, 20. Cymb. II, 2, 44. III, 4, 97. “our great court made me to blame in m.” III, 5, 51 (== with respect to m.; made me forgetful). Plur. --ies: “toiled their unbreathed --ies,” Mids. V, 74. “freshly pitied in our --ies,” H8 V, 3, 31.
2) a retaining of past ideas, remembrance; absol.: “wear their state out of m.” Sonn. 15, 8. “he shall never cut from m. my sweet love's beauty,” 63, 11. “charactered with lasting m.” 122, 2. “shall be of little m.” Tp. II, 1, 233 (shall be soon forgotten). “many things of worthy m.” Shr. IV, 1, 84. “your grandfather of famous m.” H5 IV, 7, 95. “that ever-living man of m.” H6A IV, 3, 51 (== man of ever-living m.). “I'll note you in my book of m.” H6A II, 4, 101; cf. H6B I, 1, 100. “let m. upbraid my falsehood,” Troil. III, 2, 196. “he shall have a noble m.” Cor. V, 6, 155. “bare hateful m.” Ant. IV, 9, 9. “I have some rights of m. in this kingdom,” Hml. V, 2, 400 (rights living in the remembrance of men, traditional rights). With a genitive or a poss. pron.: “his tender heir might bear his m.” Sonn. I, 4. 55, 8. 81, 3. “the wrinkles . . . of mouthed graves will give thee m.” 77, 6. “leave no m. of what it was,” Gent. V, 4, 10. Wint. V, 1, 50. H4B IV, 1, 81. IV, 4, 75. IV, 5, 216. H6A I, 6, 23 “(in m. of her).” H8 III, 2, 418. Tim. V, 4, 80. Hml. I, 2, 2. III, 2, 139.
3) that which calls to remembrance, memorial: “O you m. of old Sir Rowland,” As II, 3, 3. “that surname, a good m. and witness of the malice and displeasure which thou shouldst bear me,” Cor. IV, 5, 77. “beg a hair of him for m.” Caes. III, 2, 139. “these weeds are --ies of those worser hours,” Lr. IV, 7, 7. “till by degrees the m. of my womb . . . lie graveless,” Ant. III, 13, 163. Perhaps also in Cor. V, 1, 17.