watch (n.)
sleepless state, wakefulness
Cym III.iv.42[Innogen to Pisanio, of her bed] To lie in watch there
Ham II.ii.148[Polonius to Claudius and Gertrude, of Hamlet] Fell ... into a fast, / Thence to a watch
RJ II.iii.31[Friar to Romeo] Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye
Sonn.148.10[] O how can love's eye be true, / That is so vexed with watching and with tears?
TC I.ii.264[Cressida to Pandarus, of her defences] at all these wards I lie, at a thousand watches [also: night vigilance; devotional exercise]
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