Glossing (basic) Flashcards
1
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1.1
‘bloods’
A
- dispositions, moods affecting physiological and psychological states
2
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1.1
‘his like’
A
- one who is his equal
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1.1
‘sur-addition’
A
- additional name/ title given for commendatory service
as in Coriolanus after Caius Marcius
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1.1
‘swathing clothes’
A
- cloths used to wrap and swaddle an infant
5
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1.1
‘marry’
A
- a mild oath invoking the Virgin Mary
- reduction of ‘by the virgin mary’
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1.1
‘dissembling courtesy’
A
- deceptively polite behaviour
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1.1
‘fine’
A
- subtly, with nicety
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1.1
‘tickle’
A
- flatter
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1.1
‘cere up’
A
- shroud by wrapping a corpse in a cere-cloth (a waxed winding sheet)
- shut up in a coffin
- ie. Posthumus prefers to die rather than embrace a second wife
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1.1
‘lustre’
A
- brilliance
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1.1
‘vile’
A
- abhorrent
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1.2
‘reflection’
A
- evidence/ indication
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1.2
‘wit’
A
- intelligence
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1.3
‘senseless’
A
- unfeeling
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1.3
‘eye-strings’
A
- the nerves, blood vessels, tendons, or muscles of the eye which were thought to break at death or loss of sight
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1.3
‘interest’
A
- entitlement or claim (to him)
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1.4
‘crescent note’
A
- growing reputation
- Posthumus’ star is rising, like the increasing, crescent-shaped moon
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1.4
‘furnished’
A
- equipped
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1.4
‘mended’
A
- revised/ improved
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1.4
‘signor’
A
- gentleman/ sir
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1.4
‘approbation’
A
- proof
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1.4
‘have articles’
A
- procure a legal agreement
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1.5
‘cordial’
A
- restorative
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Q
1.5
‘earnest’
A
- the first payment to seal a bargain
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1.5
| 'closet'
- private chamber
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1.6
| 'seasons'
- strengthens/ tempers
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1.6
| 'Partition'
- distinction/ separation
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1.6
| 'trow'
- I wonder
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1.6
| 'cloyed will'
- lust overfed to the point of surfeit
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1.6
| 'raps'
- transports
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1.6
| 'peevish'
- irritable, ill-tempered
| - temperamental
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1.6
| 'Gallian'
- someone from Gallia (the Latin name for Gaul)
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1.6
| 'wrack'
- ruin and loss
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1.6
| 'Slaver'
- slobber, to wet with saliva
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1.6
| 'stinking tallow'
- smelly candle made from animal fat
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1.6
| 'beggary'
- contemptible meanness
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1.6
| 'Recoil'
- degenerate
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1.6
| 'saucy'
- impudent, lascivious
| - insolent (a stronger term than now)
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1.6
| 'to mart'
- should bargain, make a deal
| - to do business (the verb derives from the noun 'mart' as in marketplace)
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1.6
'witch'
'holy witch'
- a wizard or enchanter
- can be used for both genders
- a wizard who practises white magic, not black
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2.1
| 'pate'
- head
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2.1
| 'coining'
- devising
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2.2
| 'taper'
- candle
| - this very localised source of light in the darkened room builds the tension of the scene by accentuating the darkness
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2.2
| 'voucher'
- piece of evidence
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2.3
| 'vantages'
- suitable opportunities
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2.3
| 'Prefer'
- recommended
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2.3
| 'meaner'
- socially inferior
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2.3
| 'squire's cloth'
- servant's clothing
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2.3
| 'pantler'
- a household servant in charge of the bread or pantry
| - a lowly position
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2.3
| 'underhangman'
- an apprentice or assistant to the hangman
| - a job that was generally despised
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2.3
| 'sprited'
- tormented, as by a spirit
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2.3
| 'Shrew me'
- an aphetic form of 'beshrew me', a mild oath meaning 'the devil take me'
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2.4
| 'arrearages'
- overdue payments of tribute
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2.4
| 'tenor'
- substance/ content
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2.4
| 'fretted'
- elaborately adorned with cravings in decorative patterns, as in 'fretwork'
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3.2
| 'senseless bauble'
- insentient trifle
| - a trifle, without feeling
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3.3
| 'keep house'
- stay inside
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3.3
| 'jet'
- strut/ swagger
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3.3
| 'mellow hangings'
- ripe fruit
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3.3
| 'demesnes'
- territories
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3.4
| 'pander'
- pimp/ procurer
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3.4
| 'posting'
- swift/ speeding
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3.4
| 'panged'
- tormented
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3.4
| 'false struck'
- stricken with slander
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3.4
| 'waggish'
- mischievious
| - roguish
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3.4
| 'gibes'
- taunts, jeers
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3.4
| 'soldier to'
- committed to, enlisted to
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3.4
| 'stomach qualmed'
- taken sick/ nauseous
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3.5
| 'packing'
- scheming
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3.5
| 'sirrah'
- a form of address to an inferior, in this instance contemptuous
- fellow
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3.5
| 'industry'
- diligence
72
3.6
'churls'
(also 'carl')
5.2
'drudge'
- peasants/ rustics (contempuous)
| - slave/ serf
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3.7
| 'writ'
- written command, document
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3.7
| 'levy'
- recruitment (of soldiers)
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3.7
| 'vainglory'
- undue vanity
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4.2
| 'yoke me'
- link myself
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4.2
| 'commix'
- mingle
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4.2
| 'runagates'
- runaways ie. Innogen and Posthumus
| - vagabond
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4.2
| 'reck'
- care
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4.2
| 'enchafed'
- enraged, furious
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4.2
| 'Stark'
- stiff, rigid
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4.2
| 'leagued'
- linked, intertwined
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4.2
| 'Od's pittikins'
- God's pity, a colloquial form of 'God have mercy'
| - OED suggests that 'od' as a 'minced form of God' was introduced around 1600 to avoid overt blasphemy
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4.2
| 'lucre'
- greed/ financial gain
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4.2
| 'pickaxes'
- her fingers
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4.3
| 'it betid'
- has happened
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4.4
| 'cloyed importantly'
- obstructed or impeded with important matters
88
4.4
| 'quartered fires'
- campfires in their quarters
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4.4
| 'cracked'
- weakened (with age), flawed
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5.1
'weeds'
'habits'
- clothes
| - garments
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5.3
| 'strait'
- narrow/ confined
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5.3
| 'full-hearted'
- full of courage and confidence
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5.3
| 'touched'
- wounded
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5.3
| 'dammed'
- blocked
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5.3
| 'Athwart'
- (positioned) across
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5.3
| 'striplings'
- youths passing from boyhood to manhood
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5.3
| 'bane'
- ruin
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5.3
| 'fly my friendship'
- run from me
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5.3
| 'silly'
- simple and rustic
100
5.4
| 'gyves'
- fetters, shackles
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5.4
| 'clement'
- compassionate, merciful
102
5.4
| 'dolours'
- sorrow
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5.4
| 'fangled'
- fashion-conscious, novelty-obsessed
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5.4
| 'counters'
- metal discs used for making calculations
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5.5
| 'naked'
- unprotected by armour
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5.5
| 'mortal mineral'
- deadly poison
107
5.5
| 'razed out'
- scraped clean, removed by erasure
108
5.5
| 'estate'
- spiritual condition
109
5.5
| 'feat'
- deft
110
5.5
| 'vassal'
- subject
111
5.5
| 'viands'
- food, victuals
112
5.5
| 'laming'
- making deficient
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5.5
| 'hook of wiving'
- bait for marriage
114
5.5
| 'unspeaking sots'
- inarticulate idiots
115
5.5
| 'amorous'
- faithful love
116
5.5
| 'simular'
- pretended, simulated
117
5.5
| 'benediction'
- blessing
118
5.5
| 'fierce abridgement'
- drastically compressed account
119
5.5
| 'stock'
- trunk
120
5.5
| 'laud'
- praise, honour
121
1.1
| 'dotards'
- old fools
122
1.2
| 'haven'
- harbour
123
1.4
| 'suffer the report'
- bear recounting
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1.4
| 'moiety'
- half
125
1.6
| 'vaulting'
- sexually straddling
126
1.6
| 'variable ramps'
- variety of whores
127
2.2
| 'tinct'
- colour
128
2.3
| 'bred of alms'
- brought up on charitable relief of the king
129
2.4
| 'pudency'
- modesty
130
3.1
| 'giglot'
- whore
| - Fortune is often presented as such because she is fickle
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3.3
| 'franklin'
- a freeholder, below the rank of a gentleman
| - a small landowner
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3.7
| 'outpeer'
- surpass
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4.2
| 'precious varlet'
- arrant rascal
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4.2
| 'obsequies'
- funeral rites
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4.4
| 'tanlings' (note the similarity to 'strip-lings' as in youths)
- children tanned by the sun
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4.4
| 'rowel'
- small, rotating disc at the end of a spur
137
5.3
| 'distaff'
- a pole used in spinning
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5.3
| 'rout'
- disorderly flight - a military term
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5.3
| 'shanks'
- legs
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5.3
| 'geck'
- dupe
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5.3
| 'fealty'
- allegiance owing to a lord
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5.3
| 'whelp'
- cub
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5.4
| 'carbuncle'
- a precious stone (red)
144
1.1
| 'widow'
- implies that the Queen is not of royal birth
| - king's objection to Innogen's choice of husband is thus in contradiction to his own choice to marry someone not noble
145
1.1
| 'gall'
- bile, bitter bodily fluid
| - ink - made of a bitter oak-gall (parasitic growth on oak bark)
146
1.1
| 'manacle'
- can also refer to a shackle ie. derives from 'manus' meaning hand
- Posthumus' use of the manacle in context suggests an attempt to contain Innogen's sexuality in marriage in his absence
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1.1
| 'fraught'
- burden
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1.1
| 'needle'
- the female counterpart to a sword, in context an amusing image urging the men to fight
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1.1
| 'haven'
- harbour
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1.4
| 'battery'
- assault/ bombardment
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1.4
| 'less attemptable'
- less open to seduction
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1.4
| 'dram'
- an apothecary's weight, 1/8th of an ounce
153
1.5
| 'remembrancer'
- a person who reminds her
| - word recalls 'an official appointed to oversee certain affair, esp. debts'
154
1.6
| ''th Arabian bird'
- phoenix
- mythical bird, symbolises perfection because it was believed there was only one
- symbolically linked to virginity
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1.6
| 'Parthian'
- horse-archers of Parthia were proverbially famous for their fighting techniques
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1.6
| ''Twixt fair and (foul)?'
- may refer to a prostitute
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1.6
| 'furnaces'
- breathes heavily
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1.6
| 'by-peeping'
- gazing covertly, or intermittently
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1.6
| 'boiled stuff'
- referring to the 'sweating tubs' used to treat venereal disease
160
1.6
| 'service'
- devotion or suit of a lover
161
1.6
| 'Romish stew'
- Roman brothel
162
1.6
| 'fan'
- winnow, blow upon to separate the chaff from the grain
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2.1
| 'jackanapes'
- a pert, impertinent fellow
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2.1
| 'jack-slave'
- knavish slave
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2.1
| 'strange'
- abnormal/ unnatural
| - aloof/ distant
166
2.1
| 'derogation'
- a detraction from one's honour or dignity
167
2.2
| 'Cytherea'
- the goddess of beauty and love
- known to the Greeks as Aphrodite
- to the Romans as Venus
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2.3
| 'horsehairs and calves' guts'
- bowstrings and strings for a fiddle or lute
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2.3
| 'forbearance'
- restraint
170
2.4
| 'more ordered'
- better disciplined
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2.4
| 'approvers'
- those who put them to the test
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2.4
| 'chimney-piece'
- a piece of sculpture, painting or tapestry used as an ornament over a fire
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2.4
| 'andirons'
- ornamented supports for the iron bars used to hold burning wood in a fireplace, sometimes called 'fire dogs'
174
2.4
| 'cognizance'
- a device or emblem borne for distinction by all the retainers of a noble house
175
2.4
| 'colted'
- mounted in sexual intercourse
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2.5
| 'full-acorned'
- well-fed with acorns
| - common food for pigs
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3.1
| 'Neptune's park'
- refers to the British Isles because they are defended by a thick border of trees, and surrounded by dangerous water
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3.1
| 'ribbed and paled in'
- enclosed like the ribs around a body/ timbers of a ship's hulk
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3.4
| 'jay'
- whore, strumpet
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3.4
| 'cravens'
- renders spiritless through fear
181
3.4
| 'stomachers'
- the ornamental covering of the chest... worn by women under the lacing of the bodice
182
3.7
| 'proconsul'
- provincial governor
| provincial commander carrying out the duties of a consul
183
4.2
| 'clotpoll'
- thick or 'wooden' head
- head made of a clod of earth
blockhead, dolt, numskull
184
4.2
| 'jollity for apes and grief for boys'
- superficial joy and shallow grief
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4.2
| 'clouted brogues'
- a rough kind of shoe studded with nails
186
4.2
| 'eglantine'
- sweet briar, a species of rose with delicately scented leaves
187
4.2
| 'ruddock'
- robin redbreast
188
4.2
| 'wench-like'
- girlish, womanish
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4.2
| 'fanes'
- oracles or temple-voices
190
4.2
| 'confiners'
- inhabitants, those living within the confines
191
4.2
| 'desperate bed'
- death bed
192
4.4
| 'During their use'
- as long as they find us useful to them
193
4.4
| 'shrinking slaves'
- recoiling from winter's cold like slaves under the lash
194
5.3
| 'country base'
- reference to a children's game called 'prisoner's bar'
195
5.3
| 'gilded pale looks'
- restored colour to the soldiers' faces blanched with fear
196
5.3
| 'the first beginners'
- those who first display cowardice
197
5.3
| 'veriest hind'
- merest peasant or boor (a rough and bad-mannered person)
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1.1
| hourly
- continual
199
1.1
| plight troth
- make a vow of marriage
200
1.1
| pinch
pain
201
5.4
| stomach
appetite
202
5.4
| vile men
creditors, or usurers, who seize a portion of the money or goods belonging to their debtors
203
5.4
| abatement
the reduced principal on a loan after the creditor has seized money or goods in partial payment
204
5.4
thunder-master
Lucina
Jupiter
Roman goddess of childbirth
205
5.4
| Leonati seat
literally - the ancestral home of the Leonati family
figuratively - used to refer to his family's honour
206
5.4
| fealthy
loyalty to Tenantius, Cymbeline's father
207
5.4
| acquittance
deliverance (from debt as well as life)
208
5.5
| peculiar care
personal concerns
209
5.5
| boon
favour, request
210
5.5
| Winnow
separate, as grain is separated out from chaff during threshing
211
5.5
| straight-pight Minerva
straight-pitched, hence an erect, tall image of the goddess of the arts and war
212
5.5
| staggers
giddiness, dizziness, usually with reference to diseases of horses that prompt them to walk unsteadily
213
5.5
| spritely shows
ghostly visions
214
5.5
| crooked
crookèd, referring to curling or twisting smoke
215
5.3
| distaff
a long, cleft pole through which fibres of wool or flax were drawn to spin them into thread, and it came to symbolise women
216
5.3
| drooping
faltering
217
1.1
| neatherd
cowherd - one who looks after bulls, cows or oxen
218
1.3
| vantage
with his next opportunity
219
1.4
| atone
reconcile
220
irregulous
unruly, lawless, uncontrollable
