The Winter's Tale (40 page)

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dignity
worth   

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But
only   

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violation … faith
breaking of my oaths   

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seeds
i.e. of life   

Lift … looks
look at me/be cheerful   

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wipe
erase   

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Be advised
be cautious, think carefully   

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fancy
feelings, love   

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desperate
extreme/rash/dangerous   

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honesty
right, honorable   

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pomp
splendor, ostentation   

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close
secret/enclosed   

wombs
holds within   

profound
deep   

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passion
rage   

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Tug
contend with one another   

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deliver
report   

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rides fast by
anchored nearby   

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What … hold
where I intend to go   

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Shall … reporting
will not benefit you to hear or me to tell you   

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for advice
to advise   

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irremovable
determined   

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frame … turn
use for my purposes   

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Purchase
obtain   

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fraught
burdened   

curious
difficult   

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ceremony
courtesy (toward you)   

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poor
meager   

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not … on
and important to him to reward your service as fully as he values it   

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embrace … direction
accept my advice, adopt my plan   

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ponderous
weighty   

settled
fixed, determined   

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suffer alteration
permit some adjustments   

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receiving
a reception   

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Enjoy
make love to/love freely   

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disjunction
separation   

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forfend
forbid   

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discontenting
discontented   

qualify
pacify   

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liking
giving his approval   

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after … to
ever after trust   

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on
of   

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th'unthought … do
this unexpected event is responsible for our rash behavior now   

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flies … blows
blown about like flies in the wind   

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list
listen   

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habited
dressed   

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As … person
as though he were your father   

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divides … kindness
veers between chastising himself for his past unkindness/unnatural behavior and endeavoring to be kind/ fatherly now   

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colour
pretext   

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bearing
behavior   

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as
as if   

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point … sitting
direct you at every discussion (with regard to)   

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bosom
most personal thoughts   

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sap
life   

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unpathed
uncharted   

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one
one misery   

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nothing … as
your only certainty   

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stay
hold, keep   

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Prosperity's … love
good fortune secures love   

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Affliction alters
(love) is changed by adversity   

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subdue the cheek
make the complexion pale   

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take in
affect/conquer   

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seven years
i.e. for a long time   

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such
such as Perdita   

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as … birth
as superior to her lowly upbringing as she is inferior to us in rank   

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instructions
education   

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furnished
dressed/equipped   

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appear
appear so   

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fortunes
wealth   

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appointed
provided for   

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mine
written/performed by me   

instance
proof   

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want
go without   

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trumpery
worthless finery   

stone
gem   

glass
mirror   

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pomander
ball of sweet-smelling substances carried about for ornament or to prevent infection   

table-book
notebook   

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horn-ring
ring made from horn, thought to possess magical qualities   

fasting
i.e. being empty   

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hallowed
sacred   

benediction
blessing   

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best in picture
looked best (to steal)   

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use
purpose/opportunity/profit   

wants
lacks   

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something
some thing   

grew
plays on the phallic sense of “became erect”   

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pettitoes
feet (literally, pig's trotters)   

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stuck in ears
were devoted to hearing   

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placket
literally, slit in a petticoat, hence “vagina”   

geld … purse
cut a purse free from the codpiece it is attached to/castrate (
geld
) a scrotum   

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my sir's
i.e. the Clown's   

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nothing
meaninglessness/silliness (puns on musical “noting,” which was pronounced similarly)   

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whoo-bub
hullabaloo   

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choughs
small chattering birds of crow family, especially jackdaws (plays on “chuffs,” meaning “rustics”)   

chaff
wares, pickings/husks of grain after threshing/refuse   

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satisfy
appease   

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Nothing
nothing that   

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outside … poverty
i.e. poor clothing   

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discase
undress   

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think
believe, understand   

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pennyworth
bargain   

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some boot
something more   

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dispatch
hurry   

flayed
stripped   

⁷¹²
in earnest
sincere (sense then shifts to “advance payment”)   

trick
knack/habit/trickery   

on't
of it, i.e. duping people   

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Come … ye
be fulfilled   

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covert
hiding place   

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pluck
pull   

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Dismantle you
take off your outer clothes   

disliken
disguise   

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seeming
appearance   

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eyes over
spies   

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undescried
undetected   

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lies
plays on the sense of “dissimulates”   

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remedy
alternative   

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twain
two   

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after
in pursuit   

⁷⁴⁰
review
see again   

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woman's
i.e. overwhelming   

⁷⁴²
speed
favor/hasten   

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cutpurse
one who steals by cutting purses which were worn hanging from the waist   

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exchange
conversation/exchange of garments/financial transaction   

without boot
even without payment   

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boot
benefit/profit/shoe   

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connive at
conspire with   

extempore
on a whim, spontaneously   

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piece of iniquity
wrongful act   

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clog
burden (block of wood tied to man or animal to prevent escape)/mistress   

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withal
with this   

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constant
faithful   

fardel
bundle   

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hot
enthusiastic, active   

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session
court session   

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careful
attentive, cunning   

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changeling
fairy child (usually substituted for a stolen mortal baby)   

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Go to
go ahead   

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I … ounce
i.e. nothing at all   

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puppies
i.e. silly ones   

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fardel
bundle   

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complaint
lament, grounds for grievance   

⁷⁸³
master
i.e. Florizel   

⁷⁸⁶
pocket up
put away   

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excrement
i.e. mustache/beard   

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an it like
if it please   

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condition
nature   

⁷⁹²
having
means, wealth   

⁷⁹³
discover
reveal   

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plain
simple (Autolycus plays on sense of “smooth”)   

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give … lie
deceive us/accuse us of lying (a valid cause for a duel)   

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pay … lie
i.e. even if cheated or insulted, since soldiers
pay
with legitimate currency rather than by stabbing, tradesmen cannot claim to have given anything (free goods/
the lie
), and a duel is thus avoided   

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one
the lie/a duel   

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taken … manner
behaved properly/caught yourself in time   

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enfoldings
clothing   

⁸⁰⁴
gait
posture, bearing   

measure
graceful movement   

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baseness
lowly status, which the court would find contemptuous   

⁸⁰⁶
for that
because   

insinuate
draw out subtly   

toaze
tease out