SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF THE WORD "DELIGHTED."

Although Mr. Hickson's notion of the meaning of *delight*, in the three passages of Shakspeare he has cited, is somewhat startling, it was not to be summarily rejected without due examination; and yet, from a tolerably extensive acquaintance with old English phraseology, I fear I cannot flatter him with the expectation of having it confirmed by instances from other writers. I believe that *lighted* is rather an unusual form to express *lightened*, *disencumbered*, but that it was sometimes used is apparent; for in Hutton's *Dictionary*, 1583, we have "Allevo, to make light, to light."—"Allevat…