rouse (v.) Old form(s): rowse , rowsed , rowseth
raise, lift up
2H4 IV.i.116[Mowbray to Westmorland, of his father] Henry Bolingbroke and he, / Being mounted and both roused in their seats [also: excite]
AC V.ii.283[Cleopatra to Iras and Charmian, of Antony] I see him rouse himself / To praise my noble act
H5 I.ii.276[King Henry to Ambassador] When I do rouse me in my throne of France
Luc.541[of Tarquin] with a cockatrice' dead-killing eye / He rouseth up himself
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