Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Yield, 1) trans. a) to produce, to give in return for labour or as profit: for fear it y. me still so bad a harvest, Ven. Ded. Rom. V, 3, 3 “what my revenue --ed,” Tp. I, 2, 98. the bees that y. it (honey) Gent. I, 2, 107. Wiv. IV, 4, 33. Mids. V, 435. As II, 3, 64. II, 6, 6. III, 2, 123. Wint. IV, 3, 34. IV, 4, 702. V, 1, 55. John III, 4, 111. R2 III, 2, 18. H4B IV, 5, 80. H5 IV, 3, 125. Tim. III, 6, 58. Hml. IV, 4, 21. Cymb. IV, 2, 180. Per. IV, 1, 4.
== to bear, to bring forth: “a birth which throes thee much to y.” Tp. II, 1, 231. “that such a crafty devil as is his mother should y. the world this ass,” Cymb. II, 1, 58. “she was -- ed there,” Per. V, 3, 48.
b) to afford, to offer, to give: “the portal . . . which to his speech did honey passage y.” Ven. 452. “each unwilling portal --s him way,” Lucr. 309. “to their hope they such odd action y.” Lucr. 309 “the earth can y. me but a common grave,” Sonn. 81, 7. “the pleasures that hill and valleys . . . y.” Pilgr. 356. “who never --s us kind answer,” Tp. I, 2, 309. “y. me a direct answer,” Meas. IV, 2, 7. “our soul cannot but y. you forth to public thanks,” V, 7 (== y. public thanks to you). as much (love) “as may be --ed to a man,” Ado III, 1, 48. “ere further leisure y. them farther means,” R2 I, 4, 40. “the means that heaven --s must be embraced,” III, 2, 29. “thy own hand --s thy death's instrument,” V, 5, 107. “O earth, y. us that king again,” H4B I, 3, 106. “he'll y. the crow a pudding,” H5 II, 1, 91. “didst y. consent to disinherit him,” H6C II, 2, 24. IV, 6, 36. IV, 6, 36 “if France can y. relief,” III, 3, 20. “all kindness that your estate requires and mine can y.” III, 3, 20 “Burgundy will y. him help,” IV, 6, 90. “more pain . . . than death can y. me here,” R3 I, 3, 169. “look to have it --ed with all willingness,” III, 1, 198. “as thou canst y. a melancholy seat,” IV, 4, 32. “day, y. me not thy light,” IV, 4, 32 “if they would y. us but the superfluity,” Cor. I, 1, 17. “to y. your voices,” II, 3, 184. III, 1, 34. “earth, y. me roots,” Tim. IV, 3, 23. Tim. IV, 3, 23 “they botch the words up fit to their own thoughts; which, as her winks and nods and gestures y. them, indeed would make one think . . .,” Hml. IV, 5, 11. “that self exhibition which your own coffers y.” Cymb. I, 6, 123. “who did promise to y. me often tidings,” IV, 3, 39. “wherein my death might y. her any profit,” Per. IV, 1, 81. “this city will y. many scholars,” IV, 6, 198.
c) to grant, to allow, to admit: the noblemen --ed Collatinus the victory, Lucr. Arg. IV, 6, 198 were not his requests so far from reason's --ing, your fair self should “make a --ing . . . in my breast,” LLL II, 151. LLL II, 151 “I y. all this,” Wint. IV, 4, 421. “shall y. the other in the right opinion,” H6A II, 4, 42. “nor will he know his purse or y. me this, to show him what a beggar his heart is,” Tim. I, 2, 200. “your loving motion to the common body, to y. what passes here,” Cor. II, 2, 58.
d) to deliver, to exhibit: “the reasons of our state I cannot y.” All's III, 1, 10. I can y. you none (reason) “without words,” Tw. III, 1, 27. III, 2, 4. “but well and free, if thou so y. him, there is gold,” Ant. II, 5, 28.
e) to emit; to give up: “graves, yawn and y. your dead,” Ado V, 3, 19. y. the ghost (== die) H6A I, 1, 67. R3 I, 4, 37. “ere thou y. thy breath,” H6A IV, 7, 24. R3 V, 3, 172. With up: “graves --ed up their dead,” Caes. II, 2, 18.
f) to deliver, to render, to give up, to surrender: “I'll y. him thee asleep,” Tp. III, 2, 68. “if I would y. him my virginity,” Meas. III, 1, 98. “y. thee to my hand,” John II, 156. H4A V, 3, 10. H4B IV, 3, 19. “here he is, and here I y. him,” H4B IV, 3, 19 “we y. our town and lives to thy soft mercy,” H5 III, 3, 48. “I'll y. myself to prison,” H6B IV, 9, 42. “I must y. my body to the earth,” H6C V, 2, 9. “the sheep doth y. his fleece and next his throat unto the butcher's knife,” V, 6, 8. “they had so vilely --ed the town,” Cor. III, 1, 11. “y. thee, coward,” Mcb. V, 8, 23. “mine honour was not --ed, but conquered merely,” Ant. III, 13, 61. “it shall safe be kept and truly --ed you,” Cymb. I, 6, 210. “y. thee, thief,” IV, 2, 75. V, 3, 77. “therefore briefly y. her,” Per. III, 1, 53. With a double accus.: “to y. myself his wife who wins me by that means,” Merch. II, 1, 18. “the man entire upon the next encounter --s him ours,” Caes. I, 3, 156. With up: “y. them up where I myself must render,” Compl. 221. “the law of Athens --s you up . . . to death,” Mids. I, 1, 119. he'ld y. them up (twenty heads) Meas. II, 4, 181. “hath --ed up his body to the grave,” R2 V, 6, 21. “your northern castles are --ed up,” III, 2, 201. “is Rouen --ed up?” H6A I, 1, 65. “--s up his life unto a world of odds,” IV, 4, 25. “y. me up the keys,” H6C IV, 7, 37. “that reason which denies the --ing of her up,” Troil. II, 2, 25. “so she will y. us up,” Ant. III, 13, 16. “I y. thee up my life,” V, 1, 12. “y. up their deer to the stand o'the stealer,” Cymb. II, 3, 74.
== to resign (cf. above: Meas. III, 1, 98. H6C V, 2, 9. V, 6, 8. R2 V, 6, 21. H6A IV, 4, 25): “till each to razed oblivion y. his part of thee,” Sonn. 122, 7. “shall I now give o'er the --ed set?” John V, 2, 107 (almost == lost, or at least given up for lost). “--ed upon compromise that which his ancestors achieved,” R2 II, 1, 253. “who . . . his sceptre --s to the possession of thy royal hand,” IV, 109. “I'll make him y. the crown,” H6B I, 1, 258. H6C II, 2, 101. “Milo his addition y. to sinewy Ajax,” Troil. II, 3, 258. Err. IV, 4, 58. Mids. I, 1, 91. H6C II, 5, 59. III, 3, 16. With up: “ere I'ld y. my body up to shame,” Meas. II, 4, 103. Meas. II, 4, 103 LLL II, 160. Mids. I, 1, 80. III, 2, 165. John IV, 2, 157. V, 1, 1. Tit. I, 191. Oth. III, 3, 448.
g) to give a reward, to bless: “the gods y. you for it,” Ant. IV, 2, 33 (cf. Godild).
2) intr. a) to give place: “y. day to night,” H6A I, 1, 1. “let York be regent, I will y. to him,” H6B I, 3, 109. “I yield to thee, or to the meanest groom,” II, 1, 184.
b) to give way; to succumb: “soldiers, when their captain once doth y., they basely fly,” Ven. 893. “Hercules himself must y. to odds,” H6C II, 1, 53. “so true men y., with robbers so o'ermatched,” I, 4, 64. --ing to another (wind) “when it blows,” III, 1, 87. “thus --s the cedar to the axe's edge,” V, 2, 11. “why do I y. to that suggestion,” Mcb. I, 3, 134. “I bear a charmed life, which must not y. to one of woman born,” V, 8, 12. “a substance that must y. to you,” Per. II, 1, 3.
c) to give way, not to oppose or to discontinue opposition: Ven. 547. Lucr. 339. Lucr. 339 Lucr. 339 Compl. 149. Pilgr. 319. Ado V, 4, 95. Merch. IV, 1, 425. All's III, 7, 36. R2 III, 3, 58. H4A V, 1, 110. H4B II, 1, 125. H5 V, 2, 301. H6A III, 1, 112. H6A III, 1, 112 V, 3, 99. V, 5, 77. Cor. V, 3, 17 (I have --ed too; some M. Edd. unnecessarily “--ed to).” Tit. I, 449. With “to:” Ven. 566. Err. IV, 4, 84. LLL II, 168. Merch. III, 3, 15. H6A III, 1, 134. H6B V, 1, 40. R3 III, 7, 207. Troil. V, 3, 76. Tit. V, 2, 140. Caes. II, 2, 106.
d) to submit: “heart, . . . y. to my hand,” Lucr. 1210. “to your power I'll y.” Err. III, 2, 40. “must y. to such inevitable shame as to offend, being himself offended,” Merch. IV, 1, 57. “so she --s to me,” Shr. II, 137. “all Kent hath --ed,” John V, 1, 30. “I must not y. to any rites of love,” H6A I, 2, 113. “made me almost y. upon my knees,” III, 3, 80. “y. or die,” H6B IV, 2, 135. “all his powers do y.” IV, 9, 10. “what he will, I humbly y. unto,” H6C III, 1, 101. “to y. to his conditions,” Cor. V, 1, 69. “making a treaty where there was a --ing,” V, 6, 69. “all places y. to him,” IV, 7, 28. “life would not y. to age,” Lr. IV, 1, 12. “to wisdom he's a fool that will not y.” Per. II, 4, 54.
== to surrender: R2 III, 3, 20. H4A V, 3, 11 (Ff to y.; Qq a yielder). H4B IV, 3, 13. H4B IV, 3, 13 H5 III, 3, 42. IV, 2, 37. IV, 4, 1. V, 2, 327. Cor. III, 1, 215. Caes. V, 4, 12. Mcb. V, 8, 27. Lr. II, 1, 33. Ant. III, 10, 35. V, 1, 1. Cymb. I, 4, 115 “(go back even to the --ing).” IV, 2, 100. With to: “y. to my love,” Lucr. 668. “the coward . . . doth y. to those two armies,” Lucr. 668 “I'll force thee y. to my desire,” Gent. V, 4, 59. Meas. V, 101. H6B IV, 8, 12. H6C I, 4, 30. Ant. IV, 12, 11. Cymb. IV, 2, 80.
e) to comply, to assent: “inclined to accessary --ings,” Lucr. 1658. “how well this --ing rescues thee from shame,” LLL I, 1, 118. “I would not y. to be your house's guest,” V, 2, 354. “if you y. not to your father's choice,” Mids. I, 1, 69. “I see a --ing in the looks of France,” John II, 474. “before I would have --ed to this league,” H6B I, 1, 127. “that is more than I will y. unto,” H6C III, 2, 96. “will not y. to our complots,” R3 III, 1, 192. “--ed to bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,” III, 7, 145. “not impute this --ing to light love,” Rom. II, 2, 105. “therefore must his choice be circumscribed unto the voice and --ing of that body whereof he is the head,” Hml. I, 3, 23. “will y. to see his daughter,” Lr. IV, 3, 43. “when life itself --s to the theft,” IV, 6, 44. “he'll never y. to that, nor must not then be --ed to in this,” Ant. III, 6, 37. Ant. III, 6, 37 “you shall not say I y. being silent,” Cymb. II, 3, 99.