stale to render stale, to make cheap or common:
“Must not so stale his palm, nobly acquired,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 3.
186
;
“To stale 't a little more,”
CORIOLANUS, i. 1. 90
;
“To stale with ordinary oaths my love,”
JULIUS CAESAR, i. 2. 73
; nor custom stale Her infinite variety, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 2. 239;
“out of use and staled by other men,”
JULIUS CAESAR, iv. 1. 38.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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