All's Well That Ends Well (40 page)

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hence removed
departed from here

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use
custom

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pains
efforts

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like
likely

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commend
commit

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presume
assure (you)

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means … means
resources will enable us

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falls more
else happens

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provide
prepare

Act 5 Scene 2

5.2
Location: Rossillion

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Lavache
Parolles clarifies the name's probable derivation (
vache
is French for “cow”)

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mood
anger/temper (puns on “mud”)

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sluttish
a whore/dirty

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butt'ring
preparation/cooking

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allow the wind
i.e. stand downwind of me, so I don't have to smell you

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stop
block

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me
for me

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paper
i.e. soiled with excrement

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close-stool
toilet/chamber-pot enclosed in a stool

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purr
knave, jack in a card game/cat noise/animal dung

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musk-cat
i.e. perfume, the musky substance obtained from the anal glands of the civet cat

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withal
with it

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carp
fish bred in ponds/chatterer

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ingenious
wily/un-genious, i.e. stupid

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smiles of comfort
gloating (ironic usage)

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pare
trim

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cardecue
small silver coin

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justices
magistrates, responsible for dealing with beggars under Elizabethan law

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“word”
a single word, as Parolles' name means “words”

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Cox
cock's (i.e. God's)

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Cox my passion!
By God's passion! (i.e. Christ's suffering)

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me
me out

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sooth
truth

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lost
parted with/abandoned

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in
into

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grace
favor

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out
of favor

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Out upon thee
expression of frustration and condemnation

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inquire … me
ask for me later

Act 5 Scene 3

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of
in

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our esteem
my worth

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home
fully, truly

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make
consider

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Natural
i.e. of the passions

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i'th'blade
in the greenness, immaturity (sometimes emended to “blaze” for consistency with subsequent fire imagery)

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high bent
pulled fully taut for action (like a bow)

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watched
awaited

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my pardon
i.e. you to pardon me

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astonish
stun/dazzle

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survey
sight, gaze

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richest
most noble/most experienced

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view
sight (of him)

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kill All repetition
put an end to going over past wrongs

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dead
forgotten (also a reminder that Helen is supposed dead)

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incensing relics
anger-rousing memories

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stranger
i.e. person whose story is unknown

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GENTLEMAN
i.e. an attendant

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hath reference to
is at the disposal of

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day of season
i.e. inclined to one unchanging disposition

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season
time of year/weather

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Distracted
breaking/agitated

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high-repented blames
bitterly regretted faults

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to
in

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whole
mended/well

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consumèd
used up/passed

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take … top
tug occasion by the forelock (hair at the front of the head)

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quick'st
most lively/urgent

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stuck
fixed

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Durst
dared

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herald
messenger

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Where
i.e. in
my heart

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impression
image (of Lafew's daughter)

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infixing
was implanted/fastened onto

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perspective
optical glass that produced a distorted image

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favour
(woman's) face

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fair colour
beautiful appearance/pale complexion (considered attractive)

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expressed
deemed (it to be)

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stol'n
i.e. falsely created with cosmetics

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Extended or contracted
(the
perspective
) distorted by elongating or shortening

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object
spectacle/sight

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she
i.e. Helen

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scores
debts

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great count
large account/judgment day

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remorseful
compassionate

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pardon
reprieve from death

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slowly carried
i.e. delivered too late

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turns
becomes

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Make trivial price
undervalue

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knowing
acknowledging

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know their grave
i.e. lose them

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displeasures
wrongs

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weep
weep over, mourn

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dust
remains

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out
through

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knell
funeral bell

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Maudlin
Magdalen, Lafew's daughter; means “sorrowful” (may recall Mary Magdalene)

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main consents
i.e. agreements of the most important parties

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they meet
Bertram and Maudlin marry/the first and second marriages become similar

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cesse
variant form of “cease” (some editors assign the closing couplet to the countess, though with no warrant from the Folio)

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digested
incorporated

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favour
love token

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come
yield/come forth

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last
last time

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took her leave
said farewell to her

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bade
told

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Necessitied to
in dire need of

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reave
deprive/rob

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stead
help, support

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reckoned
valued

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At
as highly as

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rate
worth

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casement
window

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engaged
pledged (to her)

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subscribed To
acknowledged

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answer … overture
respond honorably to her advances

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heavy satisfaction
sad resignation

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Plutus
Greek god of wealth

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tinct
tincture, elixir

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multiplying med'cine
alchemical formula for turning base metals into gold

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science
knowledge

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to surety
as witness

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upon … disaster
in the event of some terrible misfortune befalling her

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conjectural
speculative

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fain
willingly

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fore-past
former

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fall
turn out

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Shall … vanity
will not reprove my fears for being foolish; rather my fears have foolishly not been apprehensive enough

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vainly
stupidly/wrongly

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sift
examine carefully

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Gentleman
[
the Astringer
] though no mention is made here of his status as a hawk-keeper

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for
on account of

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removes
stages in a royal progress (Helen kept missing the king)

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short
i.e. too late

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tender
offer

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vanquished
won

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this
this time

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looks
manifests itself

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importing visage
countenance full of urgency

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brief
summary

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honour's paid
i.e. virginity's surrendered

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taking no leave
without saying goodbye

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in
at

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fair
i.e. where stolen or poor-quality goods were for sale; Lafew reasons that even there he would receive a better deal than in accepting Bertram for his daughter

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toll for this
sell Bertram at a market (where vendors paid a fee and entered their goods in the toll-book)

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suitors
petitioners

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afeard
afraid

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foully snatched
i.e. that she was murdered (on Bertram's orders)

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sith
since

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that
since

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fly … lordship
flee them as soon as you promise to marry them

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Derivèd
descended

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both shall cease
i.e. she will die in dishonor

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strange
like a stranger

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this hand
i.e. Bertram's

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embodied yours
made part of your body/united as one

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fond
foolish

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you … friend
they are not friendly toward you

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gain them
win them over again

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impudent
shameless, immodest

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gamester
sexual player, prostitute

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validity
value

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parallel
equal

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commoner
prostitute

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'tis hit
the mark is hit, this is true

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Of
by

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testament
will

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th'sequent issue
the successive heir

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owed
owned

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instrument
agent, means

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quoted for
regarded as

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perfidious
treacherous

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with
by

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spots
stains, vices

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taxed
censured

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deboshed
debauched, corrupted

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but
merely

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or … for
(to be judged) one or the other according to

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boarded
accosted sexually

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wanton
playful/lascivious

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knew her distance
knew her inferiority of rank/knew how to tease from a distance

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Madding
maddening, provoking

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fancy's
love's/desire's

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insuite
possibly “unusual” (some editors emend to “infinite”)

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modern
commonplace

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subdued me
made me submit

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rate
price