South
Worcestershire_. I append a list of the local archaic words and
phrases which can also be found in Shakespeare's Plays. This list was
compiled by me some years ago, and appeared in the "Notes and Queries"
column of the _Evesham Journal_; I think all are still to be heard in
Evesham and the villages in that corner of Worcestershire.

SHIP--sheep; cf. Shipton, Shipston, etc.; _Two Gentlemen of Verona_,
Act I., Scene 1; _Comedy of Errors_, Act IV., Scene 1.

FALSING--the present participle of the verb "to false"; _Comedy of
Errors_, Act II., Scene 2; _Cymbeline_, Act II., Scene 3.

FALL--verb active; _Comedy of Errors_, Act II., Scene 2; _Midsummer
Night's Dream_, Act V., Scene 1.

CUSTOMERS--companions; _Comedy of Errors_, Act IV., Scene 4.

KNOTS--flower beds; _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act I., Scene 1; _Richard
II_., Act III., Scene 4.

TALENT--for talon; cf. "tenant" for tenon; _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act
IV., Scene 2.

METHEGLIN--mead, a drink made from honey; _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act
V., Scene 2; _Merry Wives_, Act V., Scene 5.

HANDKERCHER--handkerchief; _King John_, Act IV., Scene 1; _King
Henry V_., Act III., Scene 2.

NOR NEVER SHALL--two negatives strengthening each other; _King John_,
Act IV., Scene 1, and Act V., Scene 7.

CONTRARY--stress on the penultimate syllable; cf. "matrimony,"
"secretary," "January," etc.; _King John_, Act IV., Scene 2.

To RESOLVE--to dissolve; _King John_, Act V., Scene 4; _Hamlet_, Act
I., Scene 2.

STROND--strand; cf. "hommer"--hammer, "opples"--apples, etc.;
_1 King Henry IV_., Act I., Scene 1.

APPLE JOHN--John Apple (?); _1 King Henry IV_., Act III., Scene 3;
_2 King Henry IV_., Act II., Scene 4.

GULL--young cuckoo; _1 King Henry IV_., Act V., Scene 1.

TO BUCKLE--to bend; _2 King Henry IV_., Act I., Scene 1.

NICE--weak; cf. "naish"--weak; _2 King Henry IV_., Act I., Scene 1.

OLD--extreme, very good; _2 King Henry IV_., Act II., Scene 4.

PEASCOD-TIME--peapicking time; _2 King Henry IV_., Act II., Scene 4.

WAS LIKE--had nearly; _King Henry V_., Act I., Scene 1.

SCAMBLING--scrambling; _King Henry V_., Act I., Scene 1.

MARCHES--boundaries; cf. Moreton-in-the-Marsh, _i.e._, March; _King
Henry V_., Act I., Scene 2.

SWILLED--washed; _King Henry V_., Act III., Scene 1.

To DRESS--to decorate with evergreens, etc.; _Taming of the Shrew_,
Act III., Scene 1.

YELLOWS--jaundice; _Taming of the Shrew_, Act III., Scene 2.

DRINK--ale; "Drink" is