Forwardness, 1) readiness, ardor, zeal: H6A I, 1, 100. H6C IV, 5, 23. V, 4, 65. Cymb. IV, 2, 342.
2) immodest assurance, confidence, pertness: “since the youth will not be entreated, his own peru on his f.” As I, 2, 159.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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