Ha, ha! [expression of tedium] Give me to drink mandragora.-Ant. & C., i. 5. Ha, ha, ha! [senile laughter] most excellent, i' faith! . . . Ha, ha, ha! you can do it, sir; you can do it.-2 H. IV., iii. 2.

She gives it out that you shall marry her: do you intend it ?-Ha, ha, ha! [mocking laughter]. ... bear some charity to my wit; do not think it so unwholesome. Ha, ha, ha! so hales and pulls me: ha, ha ha! [laughter of levity].-Oth., iv. 1.

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How now! Interjections? Why then, some of laughing, as, ha, ha, he! [careless laughter].-M. Ado, iv. 1.

Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he! [happy laughter].-Tr. & Cr., iii. 1 (Song). What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! [calling attention to supernatural music].-Temp., iii. 3.

Hark! [the anxious listening for possible sounds by those engaged in a guilty deed Peace! it was the owl that shriek'd. . . . Hark! I laid their daggers ready; he could not miss them. . . . Hark! Who lies in the second chamber? ... Hark! more knocking.-Macb., ii. 2.

Yet here's a spot.-Hark! [listening to the murmured accents of a sleep-walker] she speaks: I will set down what comes from her.—Ibid., v. I.

Hark! [listening to an imagined noise] who is it that knocks?—It is the wind.— Oth., iv. 2.

O, help!-Hark! [listening to a wounded person's call] . . . Nobody come? then I shall bleed to death.-Hark !-Ibid., v. I.

My ingenious instrument!

Hark [calling attention to a musical summons], Polydore, it sounds! .. Hark! Cym., iv. 2.

Heigh [a cheering shout], my hearts! cheerly, cheerly.-Temp., i. 1.

My lord, my lord!-Heigh! heigh! [a jeering shout] the devil rides upon a fiddlestick: what's the matter?-1 H. IV., ii. 4.

By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho! [a languishing sigh].-M. Ado, iii. 4. How well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho! [a gasp, after recovering from a swoon] This was not counterfeit.-As You L., iv. 3.

Heigh-ho! [a yawn] An 't be not four by the day, I'll be hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney.-1 H. IV., ii. 1.

Heigh-ho! [an affected sigh] In love, i̇' faith, to the very tip of the nose.Tr. & Cr., iii. 1.

Hem them away. I would try, if I could cry hem [clearing the throat, in suppression of uneasiness of spirit], and have him.-As You L., i. 3.

There's a man, niece! Hem! [clearing the throat, to attract attention!] Brave Troilus! the prince of chivalry !-Tr. & Cr., i. 2.

Cough, or cry hem [clearing the throat, as a token of warning], if any body come. -Oth., iv. 2.

Freedom, hey-day! [in hilarity] hey-day, freedom! freedom! hey-day, freedom! -Temp., ii. 2.

Hey-day! [in impatient disdain], a riddle! neither good nor bad!-R. III., iv. 4. Hey-day! [in astonishment] spirits and fires!-Tr. & Cr., v. 1.

Hey-day! [in contemptuous surprise] what a sweep of vanity comes this way! They dance-Timon, i. 2.

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H'm [in moody reverie],-ha! is this a vision? is this a dream? do I sleep? Master Ford, awake!-Merry W., iii. 5.

I cried, H'm" [in suppressed impatience], and "Well, go to," but mark'd him not.- H. IV., iii. 1.

Jove bless great Ajax.—H'm ! [in mimicry of a self-absorbed bully]-I come from the worthy Achilles,-Ha!-Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector to his tent, -H'm!-And to procure safe conduct from Agamemnon.-Tr. & Cr., iii. 3.

* In the Folio this exclamation is sometimes spelt Hum' and sometimes 'Humh.'

Must he needs trouble me in 't, h'm! [grumblingly] 'bove all others? . . . And does he send to me? Three? H'm !-Timon, iii. 3.

The heaviest sound that ever yet they heard.-H'm! [in suppressed emotion] I guess at it.-Macb., iv. 3.

H'm! [reflectively] this fellow might be in 's time.-Hamlet, v. 1.

H'm! [in grieved amazement] Conspiracy!-Lear, i. 2.

H'm! [shiveringly] go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.—Ibid., iii. 4.

If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.-H'm! [unwilling to reply]—And yet I fear you.-Oth., v. 2.

Not her danger.-H'm! [reading over the letter to himself] . . . sirrah, is this letter true?-Cym., iii. 5.

Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear.-H'm! [absently] ha?-Per., v. I.

I pray you, leave me.-Ho! [bantering expostulation] now you strike like the blind man.-M. Ado, ii. 1.

What noise there, ho? [angry inquiry].-W. T., ii. 3.

Who's there? speak, ho! [military challenge of inquiry] speak quickly, or I shoot. -John, v. 6.

All fast? What means this? Ho! [authoritative summons] Who waits there? Sure, you know me.-H. VIII., v. 2.

Ho! [impatient call] bid my trumpet sound!-Tr. & Cr., v. 3.

What, are you busy, ho? [kindly inquiry].-R. & Jul., i. 3.

Stand, ho! [sentinels' challenge] Who is there?—Hamlet, i. 1.

The guard, ho! [wounded summons]-O, despatch me!—Ant. & C., iv. 12.
Ho! [attemptedly loud summons] Who's there?

If anything that's civil, speak; if savage,

Take, or lend. Ho! No answer? Then I'll enter.-Cym., iii. 6.

Sweet lady, ho, ho [fantastical smiling].-Tw. N., iii. 4.

Ho, ho [cynical laughter], confess'd it! hang'd it, have you not? . . . Ho, ho! I laugh to think that babe a bastard.-Timon, i. 2.

Ho, ho, ho! [the written form of the mocking laugh ascribed to Puck in the old ballads describing his pranks] Coward, why com'st thou not ?-Mid. N. D., iii. 2. Ho, ho, ho! [forced laugh] Now, the witch take me, if I meant it thus! Grace grow where those drops fall!—Ant. & C., iv. 2.

What ho! [calling to one within a cave] slave! Caliban!-Temp., i. 2.

What ho! [neighbourly call] gossip Ford! what ho !-Merry W., iv. 2.

What ho! [call for admission at a prison-entrance] Peace here; grace and good company!-M. for M., iii. 1.

What ho! what ho! what ho! [sailorly call].-Oth., i. 3.

Whoa, ho, hoa !-Hilloa! loa! [rustic shouting]-What! art so near?-W. T., iii. 2. Whoo! ho! ho! [blubbering] father Page!-Merry W., v. 5.

Hoo! [joyful shout] Marcius coming home.—Coriol., ii. 1.

Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo! [plebeian shout].—Ibid., iii. 3.

Hoo! [roistering shout] Says 'a! There's my cap!-Hoo! Noble captain, come.-Ant. & C., ii. 7.

Spake you of Cæsar? Hoo! [laudatory shout] the nonpareil!

yet he loves Antony: Hoo! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot think, speak, cast, write, sing, number-hoo!-his love to Antony.-Ibid., iii. 2.

There, hold [giving back a letter]: I will not look upon.-Two G. of V.,

iv. 4.

Hold [tendering his commission], therefore, Angelo.-M. for M., i. 1.
Hold! [interposing] hurt him not, for God's sake!-Com. of E., v. I.

Hold [giving money], there 's expenses for thee.-Tw. N., iii. 1.

Hold [parting combatants], Toby! on thy life, I charge thee, hold!—Ibid., iv. 1. Hold [giving a weapon], Wart, traverse.-2 H. IV., iii. 2.

Hold [giving keys], take these keys, and fetch more spices.-R. & Jul., iv. 4.

Hold [giving his hand], my hand: be factious for redress.-Jul. C., i. 3.

Hold [bidding his heart not break], my heart!—Hamlet, i. 5.

Holla [calling to a servant], within! sirrah, lead these.-Tam. of S., ii. 1.

Holla! [calling, in the dark] Bernardo !-Hamlet, i. 1.

Holla! [a command, in the dark] stand there !-Oth., i. 2.

Holla, holla! [scornful denial] That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint.Lear, v. 3.

How! [surprised inquiry] the best? What wert thou.-Temp., i. 2.

How! [angry inquiry] away with that audacious lady.-W. T., ii. 3.

How! [astonishment] not your own desire !-Coriol., ii. 3.

It is not lost; but what an if it were? How! [wrath].-Oth., iii. 3. Why, how now! [cheerful inquiry] do you speak in the sick tune?—M. Ado, iii. 4. Why, how now [poutingly], Orlando! where have you been all this while? You a lover! As You L., iv. 1.

My lady would not lose him for more than I'll say.-How now [rebukingly] mistress!-Tw. N., iii. 4.

Why, how now [roaring inquiry], my bawcock, how dost thou, chuck ?—Ibid., iii. 4. How now [arousingly], fair shepherd! your heart is full of something that does take your mind from feasting.-W. T., iv. 3.

Why, how now [remonstratingly], general! no more of that. . . . How now, my lord!-Oth., iii. 3.

How now [half surprised, half humouring her], my sweet Bianca'! how now, how now!-Ibid., iv. 1.

And I thank you always with my heart, la [in senile affirmation]; with my heart.— Merry W., i. 1.

Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la [in flabby affirmation].—Ibid., i. 1. Truly, I will not go first; truly, la [foolishly insisting]; I will not do you that wrong. . . . You do yourself wrong, indeed, la.—Ibid., i. 1.

This is all, indeed, la [lying affirmation].-Ibid., i. 4.

Surely, I think you have charms, la [waggish affirmation]; yes, in truth.Ibid., ii. 2.

I'll make the best in Gloucestershire know on 't; would I were hanged, la [flabbily threatening], else.—Ibid., v. 5.

As ever his plack shoe trod upon Got's ground and his earth, in my conscience, la [pepperily affirmative].-H. V., iv. 7.

Nay, that shall not serve your turn; that shall it not, in truth, la [pettishly affirma tive].-Tr. & Cr., iii. 1.

In faith, I will, la [coquettishly affirmative]; never trust me else.—Ibid., v. 2.
Indeed, la [earnestly affirmative], 'tis a noble child.—Coriol., i. 3.

In truth, la [persuasively insisting], go with me.—Ibid., i. 3.

Indeed, la [artlessly affirmative], without an oath, I'll make an end on't.Hamlet, iv. 5.

Sooth, la [blandishingly affirmative], I'll help.-Ant. & C., iv. 4.

Believe me, la [innocently affirmative], I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly.— Per., iv. I.

Hath sent to your lordship to furnish him, nothing doubting your present assistance therein.—La, la, la, la, [hypocritical sympathy], nothing doubting, says he? alas, good lord!-Timon, iii. 1.

La you! [pretended amazement] an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes it at heart-Tw. N., iii. 4.

Lo [calling attention to a particular point in narration], what befel! he threw his eye aside, and, mark, what object.-As You L., iv. 3.

Lo [calling attention to pretended circumstance], how hollow the fiend speaks within him!-Tw. N., iii. 4.

The love I bore your queen,—lo [self-rebukingly], fool again! I'll speak of her no more.-W. T., iii. 3.

Lo! [despondently] this is all: nay, yet depart not so.-R. II., i. 2.

Lo, lo, lo, lo [jeeringly admiring], what modicums of wit he utters !-Tr. & Cr., ii. 1.

Lo thee! [as a signal to strike the desired blow].—Ant. & C., iv. 12.

Why, lo you now [in playful surprise], I have spoke to the purpose twice.-W. T., i. 2.
Lo you now! [helplessly] you hear: when she will take.-Ibid., ii. 3.
Lord [in girlish amazement], how it looks about !-Temp., i. 2.
Lord! [sportively] I could not endure a husband with.-M. Ado, ii. 1.
Lord [jeeringly], how wise you are!-Love's L. L., i. 2.

Lord [scornfully], what fools these mortals be !--Mid. N. D., iii. 2.

Lord [rustic wonder], how art thou changed!-Mer. of V., ii. 2.

Lord! [female scorn at womanly submission] let me never have a cause to sigh till I be brought to such a silly pass!-Tam of S., v. 2.

Lord [vexation], how we lose our pains!—All's W., v. 1.

Lord [placid content], who would live turmoiled in the court.-2 H. VI., iv. 10. Lord [complaining], how my head aches !-R. & Jul., ii. 5.

Lord! [a sudden snatch of solemnity] we know what we are, but we know not what we may be.—Hamlet, iv. 5.

Lord, lord! [pertly] to see what folly reigns in us.-Two G. of V., i. 2.

Lord, lord! [waggishly] your worship's a wanton !-Merry W., ii. 2.

Lord, lord! [conceitedly] how the ladies and I have put him down!-Love's L. L., iv. 1I. Lord, lord [impudent denunciation of falsehood by a liar], how this world is given to lying.-1 H. IV., v. 4.

Lord, lord [pretended deploring of falsehood], how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!-2 H. IV., iii. 2.

Lord, lord! [garrulous gladness] she will be a joyful woman. . . .

Lord, lord! [garrulous praise] when 'twas a little prating thing.--R. & Jul., fi. 4. O Lord [mockingly], he will hang upon him like.-M. Ado, i. 1.

No, no; O lord! [pert contradiction] sir, no.-Love's L. L., i. 2.

O Lord [abject pleading], sir, let me live, or let me see.—All's W., iv. 3.

How, now, mistress!—O Lord! [pretendedly startled].—Tw. N., iii. 4.

O Lord! [in mental anguish] my boy, my Arthur.—John, iii. 2.

O Lord! [blaringly] good my lord captain, -what, dost thou roar before thou art pricked?-O Lord, sir, am a.-2 H. IV., iii. 2.

Not to-day, O Lord! [in earnest supplication] O, not to-day, think not upon the fault my father made.-H. V., iv. 1.

O Lord! [in troubled narration of a dream] methought what pain it was to drown! what dreadful noise.-R. III., i. 4.

O Lord! [in pained surprise] why look'st thou sad?—R. & Jul., ii. 5.

O Lord! [sanctimoniously] I could have stayed here all the night, to hear good counsel: O, what learning is.-Ibid., iii. 3.

O Lord [in alarm], they fight! I will go call the watch.—Ibid., v. 3.

O lord, lord! [playfully] it is a hard matter for.-As You L., iii. 2.

Do not torment me: O! [growlingly] . . . The spirit torments me: O!—Temp., ii. 2. O! [ardently] she is ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed. . . but you. O you! so perfect.-Ibid., iii. 1.

O! [supplicatorily] think on that; and mercy then will.-M. for M., ii. 2.

O! [fervently] were it but my life, I'd throw it down.-Ibid., iii. 1.

O [furiously], I will to him, and pluck out his eyes!-Ibid., iv. 3.

O [narratively], when she had writ it. . . . O, she tore the letter into a thousand half-pence.-M. Ado, ii. 3.

O [sarcastically], that woman that cannot make her fault.-As You L., iv. 1.

But, O [amorous reflection], how bitter a thing it is.-As You L., v. 2.
O [disdainfully], sir, I will not be so hard-hearted.-Tw. N., i. 5.

O! [in pretended pain] good sir, tenderly, O !-W. T., iv. 2.

It is my lady; O [enamoured transport], it is my love! O, that she knew she were ! O, that I were a glove upon that hand. O, speak again, bright angel! ... O Romeo, Romeo! . . . O, be some other name! ... O gentle Romeo, if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. . . . O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon. . . . O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? . . . O blessed, blessed night! . . . O, for a falconer's voice, to lure this tassel-gentle back again!-R. & Jul., ii. 2.

Be witness to me, O thou

O! [impassioned dread] by this count I shall be much in years ere I again behold my Romeo. . . O, think'st thou we shall ever meet again?-Ibid., iii. 5. Well, then-sustain me: O! [ready to sink].-Ant. & C., iii. 9. O [passionate remorse], bear me witness, night. blessed moon! . . . O sovereign mistress of true melancholy! than my revolt is infamous, forgive me. . . O Antony! O Antony !-Ibid., iv. 9. O [jocular consolation], of this contradiction you shall now be quit. O, the charity of a penny cord !—Cym., v. 4.

0, 0, 'tis foul! [passionate complaint]—Lear, iii. 2.

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O Antony! nobler

O! O! O! [a man's agony of weeping] Nay, lay thee down and roar; for thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent. . . . O Desdemona! Desdemona! dead! 0:0!0! -Oth., v. 2.

These lovers cry-Oh! oh! [mockery of weeping] they die! ... Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he!... Oh! oh! a while, but ha! ha! ha! Oh! oh! groans out for ha ha ha!-Tr. & Cr., iii. 1 (Song).

Oh, oh, oh! [Falstaffian roar at being burnt by the fairies' tapers].-Merry W., v. 5. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh ! [profound sigh of remorse].—Macb., v. I.

O, ho [vauntingly], monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.—Temp., iv. 1. O, ho! [exultingly] do you come near me now?—Tw. N., iii. 4.

O, ho! [a cry of wandering wits]-Nay, but Ophelia.—Hamlet, iv. 5.

O, ho [cunning of insanity], are you there with me?-Lear, iv. 6.

O, ho! [detectingly] I know the riddle.-Ibid., v. 1.

O ho, O ho! [savage defiance] would it had been done!-Temp., i. 2.

O heaven! [flabby ecstasy] this is Mistress Anne Page.-Merry W., i. 1.

O heaven! [paternal grief] How got she out?—Oth., i. 1.

O heavens! [agitation] why does my blood thus muster to my heart ?-M. for M., ii. 4.

I am asham'd; O heavens ! [affectation of modesty] what have I done?-Tr. & Cr., iii. 2.

O heavens! [bitterly ironical] die two months ago, and not forgotten yet?— Hamlet, iii. 2.

O heavens! [hypocritical regret] that this treason were not.-Lear, iii. 5.
O heavens! O heavens ! [a burst of wifely weeping].—Coriol., iv. 1.
Soft [bespeaking attention], sir: one word more.-Temp., i. 2.
Soft! [enjoining silence] comes he not here?-As You L., iii. 2.
Soft! [self-imposed attention] and the impressure her Lucrece.
follows prose.-Tw. N., ii. 5.

Not too fast: soft, soft [self-checking].—Ibid., i. 5.

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Soft! here

Come, here's my heart: something's afore 't: Soft, soft! [bidding wait a moment we'll no defence.-Cym., iii. 4.

Shakespeare employs some exclamations that are formed from expressive sound :—

Oh, well flown, bird!-i' the clout, i' the clout: hewgh! [the old king's whistle in imitation of the falconer's call to the hawk, and of the twang of the arrow through the air].-Lear, iv. 6.