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    Love's Labour's Lost

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      108 digression transgression

      109 rational hind rustic capable of reason

      111 whipped a punishment for prostitutes

      111 yet yet she deserves

      113 heavy sad

      114 light not heavy/promiscuous

      116 Clown rustic

      118 penance malapropism for “pleasure”

      119 For as for

      120 for the dey-woman to serve the dairy woman

      123 lodge hunting lodge/gamekeeper’s cottage

      124 hereby nearby

      128 With that face? i.e. Really?/You don’t say? (tell may pun on the sense of “count,” so that the face would be that of a clock)

      134 Villain rascal/peasant/servant

      136 full stomach full of food/courageously

      139 bound obliged

      139 fellows servants

      140 but lightly little (plays on opposite of heavily)

      143 pent up imprisoned/constipated

      143 loose free/loose in the bowels

      144 fast and loose cheating

      144 shalt to shall go to

      146 desolation malapropism, perhaps for “consolation”

      150 silent perhaps an error for “free”

      151 little error for “much” (or patience is an error for its opposite)

      153 affect love

      155 be forsworn break my oath

      155 argument proof

      157 familiar attendant evil spirit

      159 Solomon biblical king known for his wisdom and love of women

      160 butt-shaft unbarbed arrow used for target practice

      161 too much odds at too great an advantage

      162 first … cause refers to the codes of dueling practice

      162 turn purpose

      163 passado forward thrust with one foot advanced

      163 duello established dueling code

      165 manager master/user

      166 extemporal … rhyme god of improvised poetry

      167 turn sonnet become a sonneteer

      168 for for producing

      168 folio large-format book

      2.1 Princess of France possible parallel in Marguerite de Valois, who married Henri of Navarre

      1 dearest most valuable/strongest

      1 spirits energies/thoughts

      3 embassy message

      5 parley speak/negotiate

      5 inheritor owner

      6 owe own

      7 Matchless unrivaled (may pun on the king’s unmarried status)

      7 plea claim

      9 prodigal of lavish with

      9 dear precious, beloved

      10 dear costly

      11 starve i.e. deprive of graces

      11 beside i.e. apart from yourself

      13 mean meager/moderate

      16 uttered offered for sale/spoken

      16 chapmen’s merchants’/peddlers’

      17 tell speak of/reckon up

      18 much greatly

      18 counted accounted

      19 spending wasting/paying out

      20 task set a task for/take to task

      20 tasker he who sets a task

      21 ignorant unaware that

      21 fame rumor

      22 noise abroad broadcast

      23 painful laborious/diligent

      25 to’s seemeth it it seems to us

      25 needful necessary

      27 pleasure wishes

      27 that behalf regard to that

      28 Bold confident

      28 single select

      29 best-moving most persuasive

      29 fair just/plausible/flattering

      29 solicitor advocate

      32 Importunes begs for

      32 conference conversation

      33 attend wait

      35 Proud of honored by

      35 willingly puns on will in the previous line

      36 pride the princess shifts the sense to “arrogance, vanity”

      37 votaries those bound by a vow

      42 Perigort Perigord is a district in southwest France

      42 heir heiress

      44 Normandy region of northern France

      45 sovereign parts excellent qualities

      46 fitted equipped

      46 arts scholarship

      46 arms warfare

      47 Nothing … well whatever he wants to do well he does well, and it suits him

      48 soil blemish

      48 gloss luster

      50 blunt a will i.e. unfeeling readiness to use his wit

      51 still continually

      52 his its

      53 belike most likely

      54 humours moods

      58 Of by

      58 for virtue for his virtue

      59 least knowing ill though he is ignorant of evil


      60 wit … good such intelligence that he could make something bad seem good

      61 shape the appearance

      61 though even if

      62 Duke Alençon King Henri III of France’s younger brother, who unsuccessfully courted Queen Elizabeth around 1580

      63 much … worthiness my report of him is inadequate compared to the worth I saw in him

      68 becoming appropriate

      69 withal with

      70 begets creates

      70 occasion opportunities

      71 catch i.e. see

      72 mirth-moving laughter-provoking

      73 conceit’s expositor the expounder of witty ideas

      75 play truant at abandon their duties in order to listen to

      77 voluble fluent

      80 bedecking adorning

      82 admittance reception

      84 competitors partners/rivals

      85 addressed prepared

      87 lodge entertain/encamp

      87 field open land/battleground

      90 unpeopled inadequately staffed

      94 roof … court i.e. the sky

      100 by my will willingly

      101 will desire

      104 Where whereas

      105 sworn out house-keeping renounced hospitality

      109 beseemeth suits

      110 Vouchsafe agree

      111 suddenly immediately

      111 resolve … suit answer my request

      113 that … away in order to make me leave

      115 Brabant in the Low Countries

      119 quick impatient, sharp

      120 long on account

      121 hot eager, hasty

      122 mire bog

      123 day time is it

      125 mask worn by ladies to protect the complexion from the sun

      126 fall befall

      128 so provided that

      130 intimate refer to/imply

      133 Disbursèd paid out

      133 his i.e. the King of France’s

      134 he Navarre’s father

      134 as neither have which neither of us has

      136 in surety as guarantee

      137 bound contracted

      138 valued to of the same value as

      139 restore repay

      140 unsatisfied unpaid

      143 little purposeth scarcely intends

      144 demand … repaid legally claims back/insists he has already paid

      145 not … crowns does not even request, on payment of the rest of the money

      147 have … in regain his entitlement to

      148 depart withal part with

      150 gelded weakened (literally, castrated)

      153 A … reason me compromise even against reason

      157 unseeming not seeming

      162 arrest take you at

      162 word utterance/promise

      163 acquittances documents confirming payment of a debt

      165 his i.e. the King of Navarre’s

      166 Satisfy me so provide me with this

      168 specialties sealed contracts

      171 liberal reason reasonable terms

      173 breach of honour i.e. breaking the oath

      174 Make tender of offer

      176 without outside

      177 As that

      179 Your may your

      181 consort attend


      182 Thy … place! I wish you the same wherever you may be!

      184 do my commendations give it my greetings

      187 fool poor thing

      189 let it blood bleed it

      191 physic medical knowledge

      192 eye gaze (puns on ay)

      193 Non point “not at all” (French), perhaps also suggesting “no penis” (picking up on prick)

      196 stay thanksgiving remain to express thanks

      199 Katherine Shakespeare confused the names and wrote “Rosaline” here: editors and directors must emend for clarity of coupling

      200 gallant fine-looking

      204 light … light wanton when her behavior is known

      205 desire want to have

      212 choler anger

      214 unlike unlikely

      216 Rosaline Shakespeare confused the names and wrote “Katherine” here: editors and directors must emend for clarity of coupling

      216 hap chance, fortune

      218 so something like that

      220 welcome to you you are welcome to go

      224 take … word accept what he says/take him on at his own word games

      225 grapple contend with, seize (literally, attach one’s ship to another vessel)

      225 board accost (literally, climb aboard another ship)

      226 hot fiery, ardent

      226 sheeps puns on ships

      229 pasture puns on “pastor” (i.e. shepherd)

      230 So as long as

      232 common common ground (available to all sheep/men)

      232 several private land/more than one/parted

      235 jangling squabbling

      235 gentles gentlefolk

      236 civil domestic/polite

      237 bookmen scholars

      237 abused misapplied

      239 By about

      239 still silent

      242 affected being in love

      244 did … retire retreated

      245 court royal dwelling (puns on sense of “courtship”)

      245 thorough through

      246 agate precious stone often carved with tiny figures

      246 print image

      246 impressed stamped/affected

      247 Proud made proud/swollen

      247 his form i.e. the princess’ image

      248 all … see frustrated at only being able to speak rather than gaze

      250 that sense i.e. eyesight

      250 make their repair go

      253 crystal under crystal glass

      254 Who, tend’ring which, offering

      254 glassed encased in glass

      255 point direct, invite

      256 margin i.e. like that of a page, which often carried additional notes

      256 quote display

      259 An if

      260 pavilion ceremonial tent

      260 disposed inclined (to be merry)

      261 But only

      267 Venus goddess of love, mother of Cupid

      267 father i.e. Boyet, as Cupid’s grandfather

      268 grim ugly

      269 mad excitable

      273 hard tough (to outwit)

      3 Concolinel presumably the title of Moth’s song, perhaps of Irish or French origin

      4 air tune

      5 enlargement freedom

      5 festinately speedily

      7 brawl French dance

      8 Brawling quarreling

      9 jig … tune sing the tune of a jig

      10 canary i.e. dance (name of a lively dance)

      10 humour adapt (yourself) to/indulge

      14 penthouse-like like a roof projecting over a shop

      15 thin-belly doublet unpadded lower part of a close-fitting jacket

      17 after in the style of

      18 snip and away snatch before moving on to the next

      18 compliments gentlemanly accomplishments

      19 humours whims

      19 betray seduce/mislead

      19 nice coy/capricious/lecherous

      20 note reputation (plays on the sense of “musical note”)

      21 note pay attention

      21 men possibly addressed to the men in the audience

      21 affected inclined

      22 purchased acquired

      25 ‘The … forgot’ probably lines from a popular song, now lost

      26 hobby-horse false or toy horse/prostitute

      27 colt young horse/lascivious person

      28 hackney horse for hire/whore

      33 prove demonstrate (sense then shifts to “turn out to be”)

      37 come by possess

      39 out of heart discouraged

      43 me for me

      44 sympathized suited

      48 slow-gaited slow-moving

      51 ingenious clever one

      53 Minime by no means (Latin)

      60 Thump i.e. noise of a cannon going off

      61 acute clever

      61 free of grace liberal with charm

      62 welkin sky, heaven

      63 gives thee place yields its place to you

      65 costard apple/head

      67 l’envoy postscript (i.e. explanation)

      69 egma Costard’s mistake for “enigma” (which he seems to think, along with

      69 riddle and

      69 l’envoy, means some type of remedy)

      69 salve healing ointment

      69 mail (medicine) bag

      70 plantain medicinal herb

      72 By virtue mild oath

      72 silly foolish

      73 spleen laughter

      74 ridiculous derisive

      75 inconsiderate thoughtless, idiotic

      75 salve Latin for “hail, greetings” (the opposite of l’envoy)

      80 precedence something said before

      80 tofore earlier

      80 sain said

      83 humble-bee bumble-bee

      84 still always

      84 at odds quarreling/of an uneven number

      86 Staying the odds ending the quarrel/making the number even

      86 adding four making up the fourth

      87 l’envoy … goose oie is French for “goose” and the final sound of envoy

      89 sold … bargain i.e. made a fool of him (proverbial)

      89 flat obvious

      90 good i.e. well-spent

      90 an if

      91 fast and loose cheating

      93 argument discussion

      99 ended the market refers to “Three women and a goose make a market” (proverbial)

      102 sensibly with common sense/feelingly

      103 feeling sense of the pain

      105 threshold doorway

      107 matter pus

      108 enfranchise liberate (Costard hears as “en-Frances”—i.e. “give you a Frances”)

      109 Frances typical name for a prostitute

      110 goose prostitute (slang)

      112 immured confined

      114 purgation purger of guilt/laxative

      115 let me loose free me/loosen my bowels

      116 from durance free from imprisonment

      117 lieu exchange

      118 significant sign

      119 remuneration payment

      119 ward protection

      120 dependants servants

      121 sequel that which follows (recalls the l’envoy joke)

      122 incony fine

      122 Jew affectionate term; possible pun on juvenal or diminutive of “jewel”

      124 farthings coins worth quarter of a penny

      125 inkle kind of linen tape

      126 carries it wins the day

      127 French crown coin/bald head caused by syphilis, the “French disease”

      128 out of without using

      130 carnation flesh-colored

      133 halfpenny farthing i.e. three farthings, three quarters of a penny

      136 slave rascal/fellow

      137 good my knave my good fellow

      144 villain rascal/fellow

      149 train entourage

      152 commend entrust

      153 counsel private communication

      153 guerdon reward

      154 Gard
    on anglicized version of guerdon

      155 better i.e. the shilling (twelvepence) is eleven and a quarter pence better than his previous reward

      156 in print to the letter

      158 beadle parish officer responsible for whipping minor offenders

      158 humorous moody

      160 pedant schoolmaster

      161 Than compared with

      161 magnificent proud

      162 wimpled blindfolded

      162 purblind completely blind

      164 Regent ruler

      167 Dread revered

      168 imperator emperor

      169 paritors those who summoned offenders to ecclesiastical courts

      170 corporal … field Cupid’s field officer

      171 colours insignia

      171 tumbler’s hoop acrobat’s ribboned hoop

      172 sue pay court

      173 German clock i.e. elaborate, likely to go wrong

      174 Still a-repairing always in need of repair

      174 frame order

      175 going aright keeping time/behaving well

      176 But being unless it is

      179 whitely pale

      179 wanton willful one

      179 brow forehead

      180 pitch-balls balls as black as pitch (tarlike substance)

      181 deed i.e. sex

      182 Though even if

      182 Argus monster with a hundred eyes

      182 eunuch castrated male (i.e. guard)

      183 watch be unable to sleep

      184 Go to expression of impatient dismissal

      185 neglect disregard

      188 my … Joan i.e. a worthy versus a lowly woman

      4 a was, a he was, he

      4 mounting climbing/aspiring

      5 dispatch dismissal

      9 coppice thicket

      10 stand hunter’s position

      12 fairest most favorable/beautiful

      14 again in response

      17 paint flatter

      18 fair beauty

      18 brow appearance

      19 good my glass my good mirror

      21 inherit possess

      22 merit its intrinsic worth/reward/good deeds

      23 in fair regarding beauty

      24 giving … praise proverbial: “the giving hand is fair”

      25 mercy i.e. the princess

      26 then i.e. when the princess hunts, because she is merciful

      27 credit reputation

      28 Not … do’t i.e. if she fails to hit a deer, she can claim it was out of pity

      31 out of without

      32 Glory the desire for glory/boastful spirit

      33 outward part superficial attribute

      35 As just as

      36 my … ill means me no harm/toward whom I do not essentially mean harm

      37 curst shrewish

      37 self-sovereignty self-discipline

      42 member … commonwealth ordinary person

      43 God dig-you-den God give you good evening (i.e. any time after noon)

      44 heads may pun on “maidenheads”

      46 thickest fattest

      55 carve cut up/make courteous gestures

      56 Break up cut up

      56 capon chicken (i.e. love letter)

     


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