Shakspeare's Use of the Word "Captious"

Why may not the word have the same meaning as it has now? A *captious* person is not primarily a deceitful person, but either one who catches at any argument to uphold his own cause, or, more generally, one who catches or cavils at arguments or expressions used by another, and fastens a frivolous objection on them; one who takes exception to a point on paltry and insufficient grounds: "Yet in this captious and intenible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love." *i.e.* yet into this sieve, which catches at, and yet never holds them, I still pour the waters of my love. There seems to me a do…