cause cause of quarrel,—a fashionable
term in the science of duelling:
“The first and second cause will not serve my turn,”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, i. 2.
168
;
“found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, v. 4. 49
;
“a gentleman . . . of the first and second cause”
ROMEO AND JULIET, ii. 4. 25.
（
“one who quarrels by the book,”
WARBURTON
. And see book—We quarrel in print, by
the)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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