Shakespeare Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Reward, prize, recompense (‘If you are hired for _____, go back again, And I will send you to my brother Gloucester’ Richard III).
  2. 5. The back of the head (‘Doubt not her care should be To comb your ____ with a three-legged stool.’ The Taming of the Shrew).
  3. 6. Girl-friend, wife (‘That hugs his ______ here at home’ All’s Well That Ends Well).
  4. 7. Clothing, vestments (as mentioned in The Taming of the Shrew). Clothes are also referred to as ‘Habiliments’ in the same play.
Down
  1. 1. The excitement associated with a successful beginning (‘And, in the _____ of this dread exploit, Drew on me here again.’ King Lear).
  2. 2. Confused and / or disorderly mass (‘Advance your standards, and upon them, lords; _____, down with them!’ Love’s Labour’s Lost).
  3. 4. One who wastes candles by sitting up all night, probably not a reveller, as some have supposed, but a nocturnal student; a bookworm.