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According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.
Those who have always thought (or been taught) that Hamlet's Get thee to a nunnery rudely suggests that poor Ophelia hie herself to a brothel, Professor Spevack, ignoring Eric Partridge and other Shakespeare scholars, will have none of that interpretation.
In the merest quibble, the word limbeck ( Macbeth , I, 7) is missing from Professor Spevack's compendium, although it appears to be standard usage in most editions of Macbeth.
Not that the world's oldest profession is in any way slighted in the book and volume of Professor Spevack's brain: under strumpet (main heading Humans, Family, Friendship) there are fifty-eight references, among them, blowze, giglet, stewed prune, and quail.
Professor Spevack makes short shrift of the lengthy debate over Hamlet's I know a hawk from a handsaw (II, 2).