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Show ST ST thority Methought this fzff, mine office-badge in court Shakefpeare's Henry V! Was broke in twain All his officers brake their fawes ; but at thei return new fawes were delivered unto them Hayward on Edward V1 7. [ fef; Tflandick. A ftanza; a ferie of verfes regularly difpofed, {o as that when the feries is concluded, the fam .ordersbegins again Cowley found out that no kind of ffaff'is prope for an heroick poem, as being all too lyrical; ye though he wrote in couplets, wlere rhyme is free from conftraint, he affeéts half verfes Dryden When Crito once a panegyric fhow'd He beat him with a flaff of his ow Harte ode S$TAFFISH, adj. [from faf.] Stiff; harth Obfolete A wit in youth mot over dull, heavy, knotty, an lumpith, but hard, tough and, thoug .formewha Saffijb, both for learning and wholc courfe of livin Afcham proveth always beft STa'FFTREE. 2./. A fort of ever gree privet ‘8Tac. n./. [Of this word I find no derivation.] The male red deer ; the mal of the hind To the place a poor fequefter'd fag That from the hunter's-aim had ta'en a hurt # Did.come to languifh Shakefpe As you like it The fwift ffag from under groun Bore up his branching head Milton Th' inhabitants of feas and fkies fhall change .Aad filh on fhore, and flags in air fhall range Dryden The fla Hears hisown feet, and thinks they found like more And fears his hind legs will o'ertake his fore. Pope STAGE 1 2. / [e¢fage, French. A floor raifed to view, on which an fhow is exhibited ; a raifed floor of tem porary ufe 2. The theatre; the place of fcenick entertainments And much good do't you then Brave plufh and velvet men Can feed on ort; and, fafe in your fage clothes Dare quit, upon your oaths The ftagers and the ffage wrights too. Ben Fonfon Thofe two Mytilene brethren, bafely born, crep out of a fmall galliot unto the majefty of grea kings Herein admire the wonderful changes an chances of thefe worldly things, now up, now down as if the life of ma wer not of muc mor cer tainty than a flage play Knolles's Hiftory I maintain, againft the enemies of the flage that patterns of piety, decently reprefented, ma fecond the precepts Dryden One Livius Andronicus was the firft fage playe in Rom Dryden's Fuwenal, Dedication Knights, fquires, and fteeds muft enter on th Sage Pope 3. Any place where any thing is publickl " tranfaéted or performed .When we are born, we cry that we are com To this great ffage of fools Shakefp. King Lear 4. [ flatio, Latin.] A place in which ref is taken on a journey; as much .of journey as is performed without intermiffion I thail putyou in mind where it was you promife to fet out, or begin your firft flage; and befeec you to go before me as my guide Hammond's Praétical Catechifm Our next flage brought us to the mouth of th Tiber Addifon From thence compell'd by craft and age #he males the licad her lateft ffage Prior Atterbary even By opening a paflage from Mufcovy to China and marking the feveral flages, it was a journey o Baker {o many days Men drop fo faft, ere life's mid flage we tread Few know fo many friends alive as dead. % oung 5. A fingle ftep of gradual procefs The changes and viciflitudes in wars are many but chiefly in the feats or fages of the war, th weapons, and the manner of the conduct Bacon's E[Jays is by fome called the firft ffage of a con Thi fumption, but I had rather call it an ill habit pre Blackmore paratory to that diftemper To prepare the foul to'be a fit inhabitant of tha holy place to which we afpire, is to be brought t perfeétion by gradual advances through feveral har Rogers and laborious ffages of difcipline The -firft flage of healing, or the difcharge o matter, is by furgeons called digeftion Sharp's Surgery 70 STAGE. @. a. [from the noun. exhibit publickly. Out of ufe T I love the people But do not like to ffage me to their eyes Though it do well, I do not relifh wel Shakefp. Meaf. for Meal Their loud applaufe The quick comedian Extemp'rally will flage us, and prefen Our Alexandrian revels. Shakefp. Ant. and Clecp Staceco'acH. n. /. [ fage and coach.] coach that keeps its ftages ; a coach tha pafles and repafles on certain days fo the accommodation of paflengers ‘The ftory was told me by a prieft, as we travelle in a flagecoach He began to appear fick and ger after which he fel) d v?: g‘i';'d Ful He firuck with all his migh on the hel et of th' unwary kpjeh Deep was the wound 5 he lagger'q w;zgh geu Thfem revelling the Teptyri esinnvvaagg By,» giddy head§ and faggerin legs beir:" l"h_e immediate forerunner of an a 7 e a vertigo, flaggering, and lofs o memory.offl,l,, 2. To faint 5 to begin to give way he enemy faggers; if you. follo youbl he falls at your feet; but if you all w hip m" he will recover his ftrength 3. To hefitate ; to fall intg doubt;‘tqug"w come lefs confident or determineg A man may, if he were fearfy attempt He flaggered not at the promife of Go: mfi unbelief 5 but was ftrong in faith, Roma,iy, m:' Three means to fortify belief are experience, rez. /540 fon, and authority: of thefe the moft potentisay thority; for belief upon reafon, or experienceyij, 1 Sagger No hereticks defire to fprea Their light opinions like thefe Epicures For fo their fagg'ring thoughts are comforted 6. An enfign of an office; a badge of au We muft not expect that our journey-through the feveral flages of this life fhould be all fmooth an Addifon And other men's affent their doubt affures, Dagjy If thou confidently depend on- the tru of th without any doubting or faggering, this vi accepted by God Hammond But let it inward fink and drown my mind Falfehood fhall want its triumph: I begi 7o STA'GGER w. a 1. To make to ftagger; to make to recl fire That hand fhall burn in never-quenchin That faggers thus my perfon Shakep, Rich. I When late their miry fides fagecoaches thow And their fiff horfes through the town move flow Then let the prudent walker thoes provide Gay Sta'cerray. n [ [ flag Theatrical entertainment and ploy. This rough-caft unhewn poetry was infte:d o JSrageplays for one hundred and twenty years Dryden's Fuwenal, Dedication STA'GEPLAYER. #. / One who publickly reprefents actions on the ftage Among flaves who exercifed polite arts, non fold fo dear as fageplayers or actors Sta'GER. 2. / 1. A player Arbuthnot en Coins [from fage. You, fafe in your ftage clothes Dare quit, upon your oaths The flagers and the ftage wrights too. Bea Fonf z. One who has long aded on the ftag of life ; a pradtitioner ; a perfon of cunning I've heard old cunning flager Say, fools for argument ufe wagers Hudibras Made all thefe idle wonderments their fport But he, who heard what ev'ry fool could fay Would never fix his thought, but trim his tim away Dryden One cries out, thefe fager Come in good time to make more work for wagers Dryden Be by a parfon cheated you been cunning flagers STA'GEVIL 7 / 7o STA'GGER 1. Toreel Savift A difeafe in horfes STa'cGARD. 2. /. [from ffag. year old ftag . n Whofoever will read the ftory of this viar find himfelf much flaggered, and putto akindo riddle Whe enoug gh tot '4'1.‘ a prince fails in homt)}\llr an;llju'fhce, hi fagger hi flagge people i peo their allegiance If‘E/frflafi Di& A fou lenites, and other like natural foffils, it was eno ¢ t read hi mak an fpeator to flagge tertain a belief that thefe were fo too. Wadust . /. [from the verb: STA'GGERS 1. A kind of horfe apoplexy e His horfe pat cure of the fives, ftark fpfl! SMW'B with the faggers be la eg ir u n c l w 2. Madnefs viour Out of ufe Into the ffaggers, and the carelefs lapi Of youth and igilorance Sbflk‘.'é‘[";‘ - fl fl a / m r [ / Y N N ' STa o o t m o t w i b o ftat veBi=d lation 1 ‘ nnfl fl‘ s a g f ad T A STA'G ed ta ag no l ft Motionlef flowin ; not ruianing ke fh ;f tl pl fr o fl th ; g Wha b iv eat amp it i a g f b i Shoul t I m d ea fp i u r The fun »would‘g t ion of th *Twas owing to this hury a‘;("gn"m layerset 3:‘ c w n n f t a t r wat i ‘ y u W o f n m l t f Hot t0 8 regula zgnant fi"%mmur'-d and buried in perpetsal flz;[;l:l' a g k f t o b u fl { Tha w S t [ faggeren, Dut. e mot not to ftand or walk feadily The fhells being lodged with the belemaites,&~ 1 You might yourfelves be treate By captains and by majors The queftion did at firft fo fflagger me Bearing a ftate of mighty momentin't Shakefpeare's Henry VIl I will throw thee from my cxa;e {ml‘e One experienced flager, that had baffled twent traps and tricks betore, difcovered the plot. 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