mettle, mettell (n.) Old form(s): mettall , mettell
spirit, vigour, zest
1H4 IV.iii.22[Vernon to Hotspur] Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today, / And now their pride and mettle is asleep
1H4 V.iv.23[Prince Hal to King Henry, of Lancaster] this boy / Lends mettle to us all!
AC I.ii.143[Antony to Enobarbus, of Cleopatra] I do not think there is mettle in death ... she hath such a celerity in dying
H5 III.i.27[King Henry to yeomen] show us here / The mettle of your pasture
JC II.i.134[Brutus to all] do not stain ... th'insuppressive mettle of our spirits
TC I.iii.258[Aeneas to Agamemnon] every Greek of mettle, let him know / What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud
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