sale-work —
“Nature's,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, iii. 5. 43.
“Those works that nature makes up carelessly and without
exactness. The allusion is to the practice of mechanics, whose work bespoke is more elaborate than that which is made up
for chance-customers, or to sell in quantities to retailers, which is called sale-work”
(WARBURTON)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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