Vale, low ground (used only in verse): Compl. 2. Err. V, 120. H8 I, 1, 7. Troil. I, 2, 3. Tit. II, 3, 93. V, 2, 36. Ant. IV, 11, 3. Cymb. IV, 2, 176. Metaphorically, a place and state of misery or decline: “his comfort in this earthly v.” H6B II, 1, 70. “I am declined into the v. of years,” Oth. III, 3, 266.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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