Require, 1) to ask, to beg, to demand: Sonn. 57, 4. Tp. II, 2, 186. Meas. III, 1, 253. H5 II, 4, 101. H8 III, 2, 122. With an inf.: “--s to live in Egypt,” Ant. III, 12, 12. With an accus. indicating the person asked: “to desire and r. her to solicit . . . ,” Wiv. I, 2, 10 (Evans' speech). “I r. your highness that it shall please you to declare,” H8 II, 4, 144. “he will r. them, as if he did contemn what he requested should be in them to give,” Cor. II, 2, 160. The accus. indicating the thing asked for: Lucr. Arg. Cor. II, 2, 160 Tp. V, 51. Meas. III, 1, 156. All's I, 3, 30. H5 III, 2, 151 (misapplied by Fluellen). R3 II, 2, 95. H8 II, 4, 177. Cor. II, 3, 1. Tim. III, 6, 77. Mcb. III, 4, 6. Lr. I, 1, 195. Oth. I, 2, 37. Ant. II, 2, 88. III, 12, 28. With of: “r. my dukedom of thee,” Tp. V, 132. Err. IV, 4, 121. All's IV, 3, 108. Tit. III, 1, 77. Lr. V, 3, 43. Ant. III, 13, 66.
2) to render necessary, to need, to want: “my plight --s it,” Wint. II, 1, 118. “--s nothing but secrecy,” III, 3, 130. H6C III, 3, 150. IV, 5, 18. H8 I, 1, 125. H8 I, 1, 125 II, 1, 144. III, 2, 146. V, 1, 105. Cor. III, 2, 63. V, 3, 130. Tit. V, 3, 168. Tim. V, 1, 231. Mcb. III, 1, 133. Lr. V, 3, 59. Oth. III, 4, 39. Ant. I, 2, 202. V, 1, 63. Per. IV, 1, 68. --d == requisite, necessary: “it is --d you do awake your faith,” Wint. V, 3, 94. I, 2, 245. All's II, 5, 65. Lr. IV, 3, 6. Oth. II, 1, 234.
Passing into the sense of to deserve: “be prosperous in more than this deed does r.” Wint. II, 3, 190. “I loved him as in honour he --d,” III, 2, 64.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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