Favour, vb. 1) to regard with kindness and predilection: Gentl. II, 1, 58. H6B I, 1, 158. H6C I, 1, 67. H8 II, 1, 47. Tit. IV, 4, 79. “you may call it melancholy, if you will f. the man,” Troil. II, 3, 94. “commend unto his lips thy --ing hand,” Ant. IV, 8, 23 (O. Edd. savouring).
2) to countenance, befriend, support: Err. I, 1, 150. H6A II, 1, 47. IV, 1, 81. H6C IV, 1, 144. Cor. II, 1, 54. III, 3, 8. Tit. I, 139.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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