Citations:confirmities

English citations of confirmities

Shakespearean nonce word

• 1596-99, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4

  By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never meet but you fall to some discord: you are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What the good-year! one must bear, and that must be you: you are the weaker vessel, as as they say, the emptier vessel.