Pale, adj. not fresh of colour, not red or ruddy; wan: Ven. 21. Ven. 21 Ven. 21 Ven. 21 Ven. 21 Ven. 21 Ven. 21 Lucr. 441. Lucr. 441 Lucr. 441 Sonn. 97, 14. Compl. 5. Gent. III, 1, 228. Err. IV, 2, 4. IV, 4, 96. V, 82. Ado I, 1, 250. V, 1, 131. LLL I, 2, 107. IV, 3, 129. Mids. I, 1, 15. As I, 1, 164 etc. “I am p. at mine heart to see thine eyes so red,” Meas. IV, 3, 157 (cf. Pale-hearted). Used of ashes: Lucr. 5. R3 I, 2, 6. Rom. III, 2, 55. Of things wanting lustre and brightness; as of the moon: Gent. IV, 2, 100. Mids. II, 1, 104. As III, 2, 3. Wint. IV, 3, 16. Rom. III, 5, 20. Tim. IV, 3, 441. of moonlight: Merch. V, 125. of a dim sky: As I, 3, 106. H4A V, 1, 2. H5 III, 5, 17. H6C II, 1, 28. of lack-lustre eyes: “look, how thou diest! look, how thy eye turns p.” Troil. V, 3, 81 (cf. Hml. III, 4, 125). of lead: Rom. II, 5, 17. of silver: Merch. III, 2, 103. cf. “gilding p. streams with heavenly alchemy,” Sonn. 33, 4. Synonymous to white: “a lily p.” Pilgr. 89. “hands as p. as milk,” Mids. V, 345 (Thisbe's speech). “p. primroses,” Wint. IV, 4, 122. H6B III, 2, 63. Cymb. IV, 2, 221. “this p. and maiden blossom,” H4A II, 4, 47 (cf. Maid-pale and Pale-visaged). “that p., that white-faced shore,” John II, 23. H5 V, 2, 378. Compar. “--r:” Pilgr. 118. Merch. V, 125. As IV, 3, 178.
Substantively: “a sudden p. usurps her cheek,” Ven. 589. nor ashy p. (showed) “the fear,” Lucr. 1512. “the red blood reigns in the winter's p.” Wint. IV, 3, 4 (perhaps with a play on the word: p. == district, confine).
Adverbially: “so p. did shine the moon on Pyramus,” Tit. II, 3, 231. “how p. he glares,” Hml. III, 4, 125 (cf. Troil. V, 3, 81).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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