Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Flesh, subst. the animal substance investing the bones and covered with the skin: Ven. 56. Ven. 56 Lucr. 739. Sonn. 44, 1. Tp. III, 3, 46. Wiv. V, 5, 91. Err. II, 2, 145. Ado IV, 1, 145. Merch. I, 3, 151. Merch. I, 3, 151 Merch. I, 3, 151 III, 2, 288. As IV, 3, 148. H6B III, 1, 301. Hml. I, 2, 129 etc. “get thyself in f.” Rom. V, 1, 84 (== recruit your flesh). “you shall be yet far fairer than you are. He means in f.” Ant. I, 2, 17 (== you shall gather flesh). “my trembling f.” R3 V, 3, 181. “makes my f. tremble,” Rom. I, 5, 92. “devour them, f. and fell,” Lr. V, 3, 24. “she would not exchange f. with one that loved her,” Wint. IV, 4, 285 (refused his love). -- Serving to denote the whole body, the animal part of man in general: “the mountain of mad f. that claims marriage of me,” Err. IV, 4, 159. “a pretty piece of f.” Ado IV, 2, 85. LLL III, 156. Tw. I, 5, 30. As III, 2, 68. “the liver-vein, which makes f. a deity,” LLL IV, 3, 74. “a thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger, and so riveted with faith unto your f.” Merch. V, 169. Similarly “f. and blood:” Tp. V, 114. LLL I, 1, 186. All's I, 3, 38. Tw. V, 36. H6B I, 1, 233. Denoting relationship: “thou art a collop of my f.” H6A V, 4, 18. “man and wife is one f.” Hml. IV, 3, 54; cf. “best of my f.” Cor. V, 3, 42; “I feed on mother's f.” Per. I, 1, 65. Per. I, 1, 65 “f. and blood, you, brother mine,” Tp. V, 74 (i. e. my f. and blood, yea, my brother). “thou art mine own f. and blood,” Merch. II, 2, 98. III, 1, 37. III, 1, 37 All's I, 3, 50. Tit. IV, 2, 84. Serving as the emblem of human frailty in general, and of sensuality in particular: “no dull f.” Sonn. 51, 11. “capable of our f.” H8 V, 3, 12. “his doubled spirit requickened what in f. was fatigate,” Cor. II, 2, 121. “I will be f. and blood,” Ado V, 1, 34. “as true we are as f. and blood can be,” LLL IV, 3, 214. “mock not f. and blood with solemn reverence,” R2 III, 2, 171. “men are f. and blood and apprehensive,” Caes. III, 1, 67. “the f. being proud, desire doth fight with grace,” Lucr. 712. “f. stays no farther reason,” Sonn. 151, 8. “to hearken after the f.” LLL I, 1, 220. Wiv. IV, 4, 24. Meas. II, 1, 267. All's I, 3, 31. H4B II, 4, 379. H6A I, 1, 41. Troil. V, 10, 46. Tim. IV, 3, 156. “I will tarry in despite of the f. and the blood,” Shr. Ind. 2, 130 (Sly's speech).
Denoting animal food: “over-roasted f.” Shr. IV, 1, 178. “didst eat strange f.” Ant. I, 4, 67. Quibbling: “suffering f. to be eaten,” H4B II, 4, 372. “when f. is cheap,” V, 3, 20. Opposed to fish: “at f. or fish,” Err. III, 1, 22. “neither fish nor f.” H4A III, 3, 144. Rom. II, 4, 40. Per. II, 1, 27. Per. II, 1, 27