A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10

Note 370 — ACTUS II., SCÆNA 1.

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All amort here and in other places signifies melancholy. So in Greene's "History of Friar Bacon," 1594—

"Shall he thus all amort live malecontent."

Again, in "Wily Beguiled," 1606—

"Why, how now, Sophos, all amort? still languish in love?"

[ix. 305]. And in the "Contention between Liberality and Prodigality," 1602, the author makes an addition to this French expression not usually found in English—

"What, is there none that answers? Tout a-la-mort?"

[viii. 335.]—Collier.

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