reason sb.:
1.
observation, remark, account
or explanation of something
LLL. V. i. 2
“your r-s at
dinner,”
AYL. I. iii. 6,
R3 IV. iv. 362
“Your r-s are too
shallow,”
H8 V. i. 50
“those fell mischiefs
Our r-s laid before him,”
Cor. V. iii. 158; talk,
discourse
Meas. I. ii. 196
“ and
discourse,”
Sonn. cli. 8
“flesh stays no further
”
2.
cause, ground; phr.
“reason” and
“great reason”=
there is good reason (for it)
Wiv. II. ii. 16
“, you
rogue, ,”
LLL. V. ii. 28,
John V. ii. 130
“and too he
should,”
R3 V. iii. 186
“Great reason
why,”
Tit. II. iii. 81.
3.
reasonableness;
chiefly in phr. “in (all)
, good
, 'tis but
,”
MND. V. i. 261, Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 420,
3H6 III. iii. 147,
Oth. III. iii. 64
“in our common ,”
Cym. IV. ii. 131
“in all safe
reason.”
4.
reasonable speech or
behaviour
Wiv. I. i. 218
“I shall do that that is
,”
Ado V. i. 41
“thou speak'st ,”
Mer.V. I. i. 116, AYL. II. vii. 100.
5.
what is reasonable,
reasonable amount
Ado V. iv. 74
“no more than ,”
Mer.V. III. v. 45.
6.
“do ,” do justice,
make satisfaction Tp. III. ii.
131,
Tit. I. i. 279
“To do myself this and this
right.”
7.
“have ,” be right Gent. II. iv. 157,
Ven. 612
“You have no reason to
withhold me so.”
8.
(with negative)
possibility of action
Gent. II. iv. 213
“There is no
but”
. . .,
Shr. II. i. 401
“I see no reason
but”
. . .
