1594. Shakspeare, 2 Hen. VI. ii. 5. How will my mother, for a father's death, Take on with me, and ne'er be satisfied? Ibid. (1596), Hamlet, i. 1. This I take it Is the main motive of our preparations. Ibid. (1596), Merry Wives, iii. 3. What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket. Ibid. (1598), AlTs Well, ii. 3. Yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and that thou'rt scarce worth. Ibid. (1598), 2 Hen. IV. i. 2. And if a man is thorough with them, in honest taking up, then they must stand upon security. Ibid. (1598), 1 Hen. IV. iii. 3. Shall I not TAKE MINE' EASE IN MINE INN, but I shall have my pocket picked? Ibid. (1600), As You Like It, v. 4. I. And how was that taken up? C. Faith, we met and found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause. Ibid. (1602), Othello, iii. 4. Sweet Bianca, Take me this work OUT . . . ere it be demanded . . . I'd have it copied. Ibid. (1605), Lear, v. 1. 65. Let her who would be rid of him devise His speedy taking off.
d. 1599. Spenser, State of Ireland. Doe you thinke . . . it is soe harde to take him doune as some suppose?
1599. Jonson, Every Man out of Humour, i. 1. I will take up, and bring myself in credit, sure. Ibid. (1605), Volpone, v. 1. I will have thee put on a gowne And take upon thee as thou wert mine heir. (1609), Epicæne, i. 4. And now I can take up, at my pleasure. Can you take up ladies, sir? No, sir, excuse me, I meant money. Ibid. (1630), New Inn. i. 3. If I have got A seat to sit at ease here i' mine inn, To see the comedy.
1601. Holland, Pliny [Steevens]. Nicophanes gave his mind wholly to antique pictures, partly to exemplify and take out their patterns.
c. 1603. Heywood, Woman Killed [Pearson (1876), 11. 94]. In a good time that man both wins and wooes That takes his wife downe in her wedding shooes. Ibid. (1607), Fair Maid (Pearson, Works (1804), 11. 280]. Because of the old proverbe, What they want in meate, let them take out in drinke.
1607. Dekker and Webster, Northward Hoe, ii. 1. My father could take up, upon the bareness of his word, five hundred pound, and five too. Ibid. They will take up, I warrant you, where they may be trusted.
1611. COTGRAVE, Dict. S.V. TaNSER, to chide, rebuke, checke, taunt, reprove, TAKE UP.
1616. Times' Whistle, [E.E.T.S.], 24. And takes upon him in each company As if he held some petty monarchy.
1628. Earle, Micro-cosmog. 2. He takes on against the Pope without mercy, and ha's a iest still in lauender for Bellar-*mine.
d. 1631. Donne, Letters, xlvii. Sir, it is time to take up.
1632. Massinger, Emp. of East, i. 1. If he owe them money . . . never Appoint a day of payment; so they may hope still. But if he be to take up more, his page May attend them at the gate. Ibid. (1636), Gt. Duke, etc., i. 2. Coz. Be not rapt so. Cont. Your Excellence would be so had you seen her. Coz. Take up, take up! Ibid. (1637), Guardian, i. 1. When two heirs quarrel, The swords-*men of the city, shortly after Appear in plush, for their grave consultations In taking up the difference.
. . . Apologie for Ajax, D. D. 1 b. At last, to take up the quarrel, M. A. and M. R. S. set downe their order that he should not be called any more captaine Ajax.
. . . New Acad. Compliments [Nares] All their beds were taken up; and he had ne'er a room to spare neither, but one.
1641. Baker, Chronicles, 163. A Maid called La Pucelle, taking upon her to be sent from God for the Good of France.
1651. Cartwright, Royall Slave. Arc. Sirrah gaoler, see you send mistris Turnkey your wife to take us up whores enough.
d. 1657. Bradford, Plym. Plan, 10. Some were taken and clapt up in prison.
1657. Middleton, Wom. Bew. Women. She intends To take out other works, in a new sampler.
1669. Earl of Worcester, Apoth. God was fain to deal with wicked men as men do with frisking jades in a pasture, that cannot take them up till they get them to a gate; so wicked men will not be taken up till the hour of death.
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood. Ded. Madam, take it from me, no Man . . . is more dreadful than a Poet.
1703. Farquhar, Inconstant, iv. 3. Tis my turn now to be upon the sublime; I'll take her off, I warrant her.
