will sb. (“good will” is freq. in the senses of ‘favourable regard, favour’, ‘acquiescence, consent’, and ‘willingness, readiness’)
1.
phr. “by my
will,” (i) of my own accord,
voluntarily
Ado III. iii. 67
“I would not hang a dog
by my will,”
Tw.N. III. iii. 1; (ii) with my
consent
2H4 IV. i. 159
“by my will we shall
admit no parley,”
Troil. II. iii. 204,
Ven. 639;—“by” or “of” one's “(own) good will,” of
one's own accord
R2 IV. i. 177
“To do that office of
thine own good will Which tired majesty
did make thee offer,”
Ven. 479
“she, by her good will,
Will never rise, so he will kiss her
still”
; so “on my free will”
Ant. III. vi. 57.
2.
carnal appetite, lust
Meas. II. iv. 165, All'sW. IV. iii. 19,
Ham. III. iv. 88, Lr. IV. vi. 279, Oth. III. iii. 236,
Ant. III. xi. [xiii.] 3, Cym. I. vi.
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