Suppliance, satisfaction, gratification, pastime, diversion (cf. Supply): “for Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, a violet in the youth of primy nature, forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the perfume and s. of a minute,” Hml. I, 3, 9.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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