mislike

He misliked the very word "interesting," connoting it with wasted energy and even with morbidity.

by profession I am a scholler, & in wil do affect that which I could neuer effect in action, for faine would I haue some taste in the liberall sciences, but Non licet cuibis adire Corinthum, and therefore I content my selfe with a superficiall insight, and only satisfie my desire with the name of a Scholler, yet as blinde Baiard wil iumpe soonest into the mire, so haue I ventured afore many my betters, to put my selfe into the presse, and haue set foorth sundrie bookes in print of loue & such amourous fancies which some haue fauoured, as other haue misliked ([C2.sup.r]).

Sidney theorizes tragedy as an emulative mode: "if evil men come to the stage, they ever go out (as the tragedy writer answered to one that misliked the show of such persons) so manacled, as they little animate folks to follow them." Titus, Hamlet, Cicero, Domitian--these characters, which Dickson shows are routinely presented in relation to precedent, go out in a manner unlikely to animate folks to follow them.

"Other names of government are but these same forms misliked. They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy: they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy." (85) These names simply stand for distinctly private preferences or, in the age of Facebook, "likes" or "dislikes." They do not rest on the basis of a well-founded political argument that allows us to say that X (say, George III) "really is" a tyrant rather than merely someone not sufficiently liked by American colonists.