Chapter LVIII: Act III: SCENE 1. Page 470

LUC. ... for, _but_ I be deceiv'd.

Mr. Malone has well explained this word as meaning _unless_, in which sense it is often used by Shakspeare. It is the Saxon buꞇon, _nisi_. Sometimes it was used with _if_, as "I wol breake thy heed _but if_ thou get the hense;" from Terence's "Diminuam ego tibi caput, _nisi_ abis," Udall's _Floures from Latine_, 1533, 12mo.

SCENE 2. Page 487.

PET. Go to the feast, revel and _domineer_.

So in Tarlton's _Jests_, "T. having been _domineering_ very late at night with two of his friends." In these instances to _domineer_ is to _bluster_.

SCENE 2. Page 487.

PET. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
My houshold stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

In the anonymous play of _A knacke to knowe a knave_, 1594, one of the old men says, "My house? why, 'tis my goods, my wyfe, my land, my horse, my ass, or any thing that is his." If Mr. Malone's conjecture respecting the date of _The taming of the shrew_ be well founded, it is difficult to say whether Shakspeare is the borrower, in this instance, or not.