equivocator . . .
“who committed treason enough for God's sake—An,”
MACBETH, ii. 3. 8.
“Meaning a Jesuit; an order so troublesome to the state in
Queen Elizabeth's and King James the First's time. The inventors of the execrable doctrine
of equivocation”
(WARBURTON)
.
“This allusion to the times is certainly unlike Shakespeare.
It strengthens Coleridge's hypothesis of the spuriousness of part of this soliloquy”
(WALKER)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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