Too, (often spelt to in O. Edd.) 1) more than enough, or more than is suitable: “too delicate to act her commands,” Tp. I, 2, 272. “lest too light winning make the prize too light,” Tp. I, 2, 272 II, 1, 249. III, 1, 42 etc. etc. “all too short a date,” Sonn. 18, 4 (cf. All). “too rash a trial,” Tp. I, 2, 467. Gent. I, 1, 105. I, 2, 94. II, 4, 106. Wiv. III, 2, 74. Meas. III, 2, 106. Meas. III, 2, 106 LLL II, 49 etc. Reduplicated: “too too oft,” Lucr. 174. “too too much,” Gent. II, 4, 205. Wiv. II, 2, 260. LLL V, 2, 532. Merch. II, 6, 42. Hml. I, 2, 129 etc. too much substantively: “goodness, growing to a plurisy, dies in his own too much,” Hml. IV, 7, 119. “another, to amplify too much, would make much more,” Lr. V, 3, 206. cf. Rom. I, 1, 195.
2) likewise, also, at the same time: Tp. II, 1, 80. Tp. II, 1, 80 Tp. II, 1, 80 Tp. II, 1, 80 Tp. II, 1, 80 Tp. II, 1, 80 II, 2, 57. III, 2, 87. Gent. I, 2, 139. II, 4, 157. II, 5, 30. III, 1, 342. Wiv. IV, 5, 42. Err. I, 2, 2. II, 2, 131. H8 V, 4, 72 etc. etc. Before the word to which it refers: “you that have so fair parts of woman on you, have too a woman's heart,” H8 II, 3, 28. and too == and at the same time: “it shall be sparing and too full of riot,” Ven. 1147. “it shall be merciful and too severe,” Ven. 1147 “wild and yet too gentle,” Err. III, 1, 110. “then you scratched your head, and too impatiently stamped with your foot,” Caes. II, 1, 244.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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