Talk, subst. 1) the act of speaking: sometime it (her grief) “is mad and too much t. affords,” Lucr. 1106. “so she sleep not in her t.” Gent. III, 1, 335. “crossing the plain highway of t.” Merch. III, 1, 13. “practise rhetoric in your common t.” Shr. I, 1, 35. “to be cross in t.” II, 251. “our argument is all too heavy to admit much t.” H4B V, 2, 24. R3 III, 1, 126. Troil. IV, 4, 88. Troil. IV, 4, 88 Tim. V, 2, 14. Hml. III, 2, 300. Ant. V, 2, 50.
2) something spoken: “mine ears, that to your wanton t. attended,” Ven. 809. “mingling my t. with tears,” Lucr. 797. “smooth not thy tongue with filed t.” Pilgr. 306. “as strange unto your town as to your t.” Err. II, 2, 151. Meas. IV, 3, 188. Ado III, 1, 20. R2 IV, 14. H6C III, 3, 158. Troil. V, 1, 17. Tit. III, 2, 31. V, 2, 17.
3) mutual discourse, conversation: “what sad t. was that,” Gent. I, 3, 1. “break their t.” Wiv. III, 4, 22. “our t. must only be of Benedick,” Ado III, 1, 17. “spent an hour's t.” LLL II, 68. “I would not have my father see me in t. with thee,” Merch. II, 3, 9. As II, 4, 21. Wint IV, 4, 317. H6A I, 2, 118. III, 1, 63. H6C IV, 1, 6 R3 III, 1, 177. Cor. IV, 7, 4. Caes. II, 2, 121. IV, 3, 226. 289 “(hold).” Hml. I, 3, 134 “(to give words or t. with the Lord Hamlet).” Lr. III, 3, 16 (maintain). to have t. of == to converse about: “we had an hour's t. of that wart,” Wiv. I, 4, 162. II, 1, 172. “I had t. of you last night,” All's V, 2, 56. “to have more t. of these sad things,” Rom. V, 3, 307.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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