near adv.2 and prep.:
1.
“come near the
house, come or draw near,” enter Tp. V. i. 318, Wiv. I. iv. 137, III. iii. 159, Mer.V. V. i. 223.
2.
“
upon,” close at hand Meas. IV. vi. 14.
3.
“go to,” be on the
point of, almost succeed in (doing something) Tp. II. ii. 80, 2H6 I. ii. 102.
4.
intimately, deeply,
closely
Gent. III. i. 60
“some affairs That touch
me ,”
1H6 III. i. 58, Tim. I. ii. 186; also as
prep. closely touching or affecting, esp. in phr.
“come near”
Gent. IV. iii. 19
“No grief did ever come
so near thy heart,”
AYL. V. ii. 70
“If you do love Rosalind
so near the heart,”
1H4 I. ii. 14, H8 III. i. 71,
Oth. IV. i. 209
“if it touch not you, it
comes
nobody.”
5.
intimate with
2H4 V. i. 80
“being their
master.”
