case a pair, a couple:
“I have not a case of lives,”
HENRY V., iii. 2. 3
(Compare
“this case of
rapiers.”
Marlowe's Faustus,—
Works, p. 89, ed. Dyce, 1858
;
“two case of
jewels.”
Webster's White
Devil,—Works, p. 46, ed. Dyce, 1857
;
“a case of
pistols.”
Middleton and W. Rowley's Spanish
Gipsy,—Middleton's Works, vol. iv. p.
177, ed. Dyce
).
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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