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need vb.: “it needs,” it is necessary, there is necessity Err. V. i. 393 “It shall not need,” 3H6 I. iv. 125, Mac. V. ii. 29; “what need(s . . .?,” what necessity is there for . . .? Err. III. i. 60 “What needs all that?,” Tim. I. ii. 251 “what need these feasts?,” Ant. II. vii. 132 “What needs more words?,” Lucr. 31 “What needeth then apology be made?.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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