Cymbeline (46 page)

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searched
sought

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heir … reward
inheritor of the reward I should have given to him

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liver … brain
believed to control passion, affection, and judgment respectively

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grant
acknowledge, affirm

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of … are
where you are from

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Cambria
Wales

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are
were

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knights o’th’battle
knights created on the battlefield (an especial honor)

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fit
supply

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estates
i.e. new rank as knights

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business
serious concern

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trip me
correct me/catch me out

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Affected
desired, longed for

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by
through

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but
if it weren’t for the fact that

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opening
revealing, disclosing

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bore in hand
pretended, professed

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had Ta’en off
would have destroyed

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delicate
beautiful/crafty, skillful

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mortal mineral
fatal poison

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by the minute
minute by minute

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By … you
consume you little by little

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purposed
intended

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watching
i.e. at your bedside by night

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tendance
attention

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show
pretense

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fitted
molded, shaped

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th’adoption … crown
i.e. becoming adopted heir to the crown

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end
purpose, design

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opened
revealed

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Mine ears
nor were mine ears

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seeming
appearance

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had been vicious
would have been reprehensible

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feeling
emotions/experience

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razed out
erased

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made suit
appealed

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their
i.e. those killed in battle

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estate
spiritual state

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had … us
had we been the victors

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called
named as/taken for

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sufficeth
it is enough that

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think on’t
i.e. consider a strategy (with the unspoken implication “and then revenge it”)

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peculiar care
personal concerns

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tender … occasions
sensitive to his master’s needs

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feat
deft, graceful

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And
even if you

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favour
face, countenance

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looked … grace
won my favor by your looks

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Ne’er … master
i.e. because I don’t even know why I’m sparing you myself, but it’s not due to his pleading on your behalf

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boon
request

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state
rank

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shuffle
shift, look out

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briefly
quickly

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truth
loyalty, fidelity

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perplexed
distressed

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vassal
subject

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Am something nearer
i.e. I am more closely connected to you by being a British subject

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Wherefore … so?
Why do you stare at him in that way?

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eyes
sees

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forbear
have patience

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But … dead
but we see him whom we know to be dead

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Winnow
separate, like grain from chaff

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render
declare, state

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Thou’lt torture me
i.e. if you had any idea what I have to say, you’d torture me

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All … this
everything relating to this matter

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while nature will
for as long as nature will have it/for the remainder of your natural life

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ere
before

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viands
food

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heaved to head
raised to my mouth

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rar’st
most exceptional

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sadly
soberly, reservedly

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made barren
rendered impotent

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feature
shape/comeliness/form of face

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laming
crippling by comparison

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shrine
veneration, idolizing

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Venus
Roman goddess of love

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straight-pight
straight pitched, i.e. erect, upright in bearing

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Minerva
Roman goddess of arts and war

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beyond
surpassing

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brief nature
the brevity of mortal life

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condition
character, personality

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shop
storehouse

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hook of wiving
i.e. beauty which is bait for marriage

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I … fire
i.e. I am burning with impatience

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matter
point

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hint
cue/opportunity

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mind put in’t
described her character

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cracked of
boastfully uttered about

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kitchen-trulls
kitchen maids

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trull
wench/trollop

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unspeaking sots
fools/drunkards, incapable of articulate speech

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to th’purpose
get to the point

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as Dian
as though Diana (Roman goddess of chastity)

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hot
erotic, lustful

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she
i.e. Innogen

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cold
chaste

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scruple
doubt

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In suit
by courtship

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carbuncle
precious stone, mythical gem said to emit light in the dark

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Of Phoebus’ wheel
from the chariot wheel of Phoebus Apollo, the sun god

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might so
might have done so

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of’s car
of his chariot

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Post
hurry

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Of
by

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duller Britain
refers to the idea that cold, northern countries produced slower-witted people than those from the hot south

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vantage
profit, gain

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simular
simulated, specious

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renown
reputation

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thus, and thus
of this and that kind

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averring
affirming

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cracked
broken

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forfeit
that which is due when a contract is breached

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anything
any name, title

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in being
present

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cord
rope

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justicer
judge

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ingenious
masterly, skillful

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th’abhorrèd
the detested

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amend
make seem better

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sacrilegious thief
because he sacked the

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temple
that was Innogen

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she herself
i.e. virtue

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bay
bark at

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Be … ’twas
i.e. by comparing it with what I have done

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Shall’s have
shall we make

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There … part
play your part by lying on the ground

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staggers
giddiness, dizziness; a disease in animals which causes them to walk unsteadily

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mortal
earthly, human/deadly, fatal

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tune
voice

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stones of sulphur
thunderbolts

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approve
prove

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confection
mixture (drug)

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for cordial
as a restorative

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temper
mix, concoct

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still pretending
always claiming

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esteem
value, worth

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cease
halt, arrest

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offices of nature
natural faculties/bodily parts

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Most like
very likely

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sure
definitely

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the tree
i.e. himself

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mak’st … act
do you cast me as an idiot

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motive
reason

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mother’s
i.e. stepmother is

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naught
nothing/wicked

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long of
because of (along of)

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strangely
as strangers/in unusual circumstances

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missing
absence

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discovered
revealed

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accident
chance

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feignèd letter
i.e. the letter falsely claiming that Posthumus was waiting at Milford Haven

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enforced
took by force

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posts
hurries

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forfend
forbid

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Deny’t again
take it back again, unsay it

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He … prince
i.e. killing him is therefore treasonable and merits death

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incivil
unmannerly

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To … mine
i.e. to tell you that he had cut off my head

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sorrow
sorry/filled with sorrow

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dead
condemned to die

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As well descended
of as good lineage, family stock

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of
from

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merited
deserved

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Had … for
ever deserved for their wounds in battle

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worth … for
the reward you have not yet been given

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tasting of
experiencing, feeling

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thou
i.e. Belarius

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But I will
unless I

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on’s
of us

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given out him
declared him (Guiderius) to be

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For … speech
i.e. what I am about to say will prove dangerous to me

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haply
perhaps, with luck

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well for
beneficial to

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by leave
with your permission

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Assumed this age
attained this aged appearance

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hot
hasty

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it
i.e. the payment

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confiscate all
all confiscated

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so
as

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saucy
impudent

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prefer
raise in social stature

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blood
offspring

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sometime
once

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mere
whole

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That … did
i.e. I did no harm at all, unless you think my suffering harmful

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put into
teach

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moved
persuaded

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Having … then
i.e. he had already been unjustly banished for treason, but stealing the children was actually a treasonable offense

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Beaten
being beaten

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Excited
provoked, incited

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of
by