secure careless, over-confident:
“a secure fool,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 1.
208
;
“a secure ass,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 2.
268
;
“a secure and wilful Actæon,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iii. 2.
36
;
“secure, foolhardy king,”
RICHARD II., v. 3. 43
;
“Surety secure,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 2.
15
;
“my secure hour,”
HAMLET, i. 5. 61
(
“unguarded,”
CALDECOTT)
;
“not jealous nor secure,”
OTHELLO, iii. 3. 202
;
“in a secure couch”
OTHELLO, iv. 1. 71.
（
“in a couch in which he is lulled into a false security and
confidence in his wife's virtue,”
MALONE)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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