218 justly exactly
218 promise expectation
219 mistress sweetheart
221 suits favor
225 parts qualities/spirits
227 quintain post used as a target when practicing jousting or darts 229 would wants
233 Have with you I'm coming
235 conference conversation
237 Or either
241 condition disposition
243 humorous temperamental
243 indeed in reality
244 conceive understand/imagine
249 taller more elegant/more attractive (some editors assume a reference to height and emend to "smaller" or "shorter," since Celia is less tall than Rosalind) 255 gentle wellborn/kind
256 argument reason
260 suddenly at any time
262 knowledge acquaintance
263 rest remain
263 bounden indebted
264 from ... smother i.e. from bad to worse
264 smother dense, suffocating smoke/smoldering fire
Act 1 Scene 3
1 Cupid god of love
5 curs dogs/worthless fellows
6 reasons remarks/explanations
7 Then there were if I did, then there would be
11 child's father i.e. one who might become the father of my children (Orlando) 12 briars i.e. obstacles
12 working-day ordinary, everyday
13 burs prickly seed heads that stick easily to clothing
15 petticoats skirts
16 coat petticoat/skirt
18 Hem cough (as if to dislodge something stuck in the throat or to clear the chest; pun on "sew a hem") 19 'hem' puns on "him"
19 have win, possess (plays on the sense of "have sex with") 20 wrestle plays on the sense of "grapple sexually"
21 take ... of support (part plays on the sense of "penis") 22 a ... you bless you/good luck to you (upon may play on the sense of "mount sexually") 22 try fight/have sex
23 fall throw in wrestling/bout of sex/moral lapse
23 turning ... service to finish with this joking (turning, jests and service all play on the sense of "copulation") 29 dearly deeply (possible pun on "deer" is generated by chase) 29 chase pursuit/hunt
32 Why ... not? i.e. Why should I hate him?
36 your safest haste sufficient haste to ensure your safety
45 intelligence communication
47 frantic mad
48 dear noble
52 purgation acquittal
53 grace salvation, divine grace
56 whereon on what
61 friends relatives
66 stayed kept
67 Else otherwise
67 ranged wandered
69 pleasure will
69 remorse compassion
70 young immature
72 still always
73 an instant the same time
73 eat eaten
74 like Juno's swans i.e. yoked together to pull the chariot of the Roman queen of the gods 76 subtle crafty
76 smoothness plausibility/friendliness
79 name reputation
82 doom judgment
86 provide prepare
88 greatness authority
90 change exchange
99 sundered separated
103 change i.e. of circumstances
105 at ... pale depending on whether pale is an adjective or a noun, either "the sky is pale in shock and grief," or "our sorrows have reached their utmost limit"
112 mean lowly
113 umber brown pigment (to conceal aristocratically pale complexions) 118 suit ... points dress myself in every respect
119 gallant curtle-axe fine cutlass
120 boar-spear weapon used for boar hunting
122 swashing swaggering/dashing
124 outface ... semblances brazen it out with appearances
126 Jove in Roman mythology, king of the gods
127 Ganymede a beautiful youth, carried off by Jove to be his cupbearer; the name was also used by Elizabethans to refer to a youth who was the subject of an older man's homosexual desire 129 state status
130 Aliena from the Latin for "stranger"
131 assayed attempted
133 travel journey/hardship
135 Leave me alone leave it to me
135 woo persuade
139 content contentment
Act 2 Scene 1
2.1 Location: the Forest of Arden Amiens name of a northern French town; may suggest "friendliness" (from the Latin) 2.1 foresters forest dwellers
2 old custom established practice/experience
3 painted pomp artificial show
4 envious malicious
5 penalty of Adam i.e. the harsher seasons and greater toil that followed loss of Eden 6 difference change
6 as such as
7 churlish chiding harsh brawling/rebuking
11 feelingly tangibly/intensely
12 uses benefits
13 toad ... head supposedly, venomous toads had precious stones in their heads that were antidotes to poisons 15 exempt ... haunt not visited by people
16 tongues speech
18 change alter/exchange
19 translate transform/re-express (one thing in terms of another) 20 style mode of expression/way of life
22 fools poor creatures
23 burghers citizens
23 desert lonely, uninhabited
24 confines territories
24 forked heads i.e. barbed arrowheads
28 kind manner
31 along stretched out
32 antique ancient/antic (i.e. grotesquely gnarled)
33 brawls rushes noisily
34 sequestered separated (from his herd)
40 Coursed flowed/chased (plays on the sense of "hunted")
42 marked of noticed by
43 extremest verge very edge
46 moralize draw a moral from, interpret
48 needless having no need (for more water)
49 testament will
50 worldlings materially minded mortals
50 sum of more store/additional amount
52 velvet friend deer with smooth coat/richly clothed per son/syphilitic lover 53 part depart from/separate
54 flux continuous stream
54 Anon instantly/soon
54 careless carefree
56 stays stops
57 greasy plump and fit for killing/wealthy
58 wherefore why
60 invectively in violent terms
63 mere absolute
64 up off
67 commenting pondering
70 cope encounter
71 matter ideas/material for discussion
72 straight straight away
Act 2 Scene 2
2.2 Location: the court
2 villains servants/wrongdoers
3 sufferance acquiescence
7 untreasured robbed/emptied of a treasure
8 roynish coarse
9 wont accustomed
13 parts qualities
17 gallant fine fellow/daring young man/ladies' man (i.e. Orlando) 19 suddenly immediately
20 quail fail
21 again back
Act 2 Scene 3
2.3 Location: Oliver's household
3 memory reminder
4 make you are you doing
7 fond foolish
8 bonny priser robust prizefighter
8 humorous temperamental
12 more better
13 sanctified sanctimonious, hypocritical
14 comely fair
15 Envenoms poisons
23 your praises people's praises of you
24 use are accustomed
25 of to do
26 cut you off kill you
27 practices schemes
28 place i.e. safe place
28 butchery slaughterhouse
31 so so long as
33 boist'rous massive/savage
33 enforce gain by force
34 common public
38 diverted blood kinship drawn away from its natural course 40 thrifty hire wages thriftily saved
41 foster-nurse nurse who brings up another's child as her own 42 service ... lame i.e. when I am too weak to work
43 unregarded uncared for, ignored
48 lusty vigorous
51 unbashful forehead shameless audacity
54 Frosty i.e. white-haired
54 kindly pleasant/thriving
58 constant faithful
59 sweat i.e. worked
59 meed reward
62 choke ... having i.e. stop working once they have gained their reward/promotion 66 In lieu of in return for
66 husbandry cultivation/domestic management
67 come thy ways come on
69 low content humble contentment
72 fourscore eighty (four times twenty)
75 too ... week i.e. far too late
Act 2 Scene 4
2.4 Location: the Forest of Arden; except for one brief scene (Act 3 Scene 1) the remainder of the action takes place in various parts of the forest
2.4 for i.e. disguised as
2.4 alias may indicate a change of costume (see Introduction) 1 Jupiter Roman king of the gods (Jove)
5 weaker vessel i.e. woman
5 doublet and hose man's close-fitting jacket and breeches
9 cross burden/coin (with cross stamped on it)
14.1 Silvius from Latin for "woods"
16 solemn serious
26 fantasy amorous imaginings/desire
28 heartily sincerely, from the heart
29 folly foolishness/lewdness
33 Wearing wearing out, wearying
35 broke from escaped
38 Phoebe a name for Diana/Artemis, goddess of the moon, chastity, and hunting 39 Searching of probing
40 adventure fortune
42 sword weapon/penis
42 him the stone /his sword
43 coming visiting/ejaculating
43 a-night at night
44 batler wooden club (for beating wet laundry)
44 dugs teats
44 chopt chapped
45 milked plays on the sense of "caused to ejaculate"
45 peascod pea pod (with genital connotations; a reversal of "codpiece") 46 cods pods/testicles
47 Wear plays on the sense of "have sex with, exhaust"
48 capers frolicsome leaps/fornications
49 mortal subject to decay (sense then shifts to "only human") 50 ware aware (puns on wear; Touchstone shifts the sense to "wary") 51 wit possible play on "penis"
54 upon my fashion like mine
55 something somewhat
55 stale may play on the sense of "prostitute"
56 yond yonder, that
59 clown rustic (Rosalind picks up on the sense of "jester") 64 even evening (i.e. afternoon)
67 desert deserted
67 entertainment hospitality, provisions
70 succour help
75 shear ... graze i.e. make any profit from the sheep I tend 77 recks cares
79 cote cottage
79 bounds of feed range of pasture land
80 sheepcote building sheltering sheep (perhaps here a shepherd's cottage) 83 in my voice as far as I am concerned
85 swain low-ranking man/rustic
85 but erewhile only a while ago
87 stand is consistent
89 to pay i.e. money
90 mend improve
91 waste spend
95 feeder servant
96 suddenly at once
Act 2 Scene 5
1 greenwood leafy
2 Who anyone who
3 turn adapt, tune
3 note melody
4 throat voice
13 ragged hoarse/harsh
16 stanzo stanza, verse
18 I ... nothing Jaques refers to the names on a loan document of those who owe money 22 that that which
22 compliment etiquette
22 th'encounter the meeting/sexual encounter
23 dog-apes dog-faced baboons
24 beggarly i.e. effusive
27 end complete
27 cover the while in the meantime lay the cloth for a meal 29 look look for
31 disputable argumentative
32 matters topics
36 i'th'sun i.e. free from care
40 etc. indicates repeat of "no enemy / But winter and rough weather"
42 in ... invention in spite of my poor imagination
48 Ducdame meaning unclear; probably a nonsense word
49 gross great/dull/coarse
50 An if if
52 Greek i.e. gibberish
52 circle magic circle/circle of gaping idiots (i.e. the others, gathered around Amiens) 53 rail rant
53 all ... Egypt in punishment for Pharaoh's ill-treatment of the Jews, God slaughtered all first-born children and animals in Egypt, which resulted in a great lament being raised in the night 55 banquet light meal/course of fruit, sweetmeats, and wine
Act 2 Scene 6
5 comfort take comfort
6 uncouth unknown
7 conceit imagination
8 comfortable cheerful
9 presently immediately/soon
12 said done
12 cheerly cheerful
Act 2 Scene 7
5 compact of jars made up of discords
6 spheres stars and planets were thought to be contained by crystalline spheres, which produced beautiful music as they rotated 13 motley in a professional fool's multicolored clothing
17 set terms roundly/in an articulate manner
19 Call ... fortune "Fortune favors fools" (proverbial)
20 dial watch
20 poke pocket
23 wags goes (may pun on the sense of "moves sexually")
24 hour may pun on "whore"
24 nine ... eleven possibly suggestive of growing erection 26 ripe mature/grow erect/search
27 rot decay/detumesce/become infected with venereal disease (possibly puns on "rut") 28 tale puns on "tail" (i.e. "penis")
29 moral moralize
30 chanticleer a cockerel
31 deep contemplative thoughtful/familiar with sexual matters 32 sans without
34 wear thing worth wearing
39 dry according to Elizabethan physiology, one with a dry brain was slow to grasp matters but sure to remember them 39 remainder remaining
40 places nooks and corners/topics
41 vents expresses
45 suit request/outfit
46 weed puns on the sense of "clothing"
47 rank luxuriantly, wild
49 Withal as well
49 charter privilege
51 galled vexed, irritated
53 way puns on why
53 church attendance was required by law
55 smart feels pain
56 senseless ... bob insensible to the jest; the line is a foot short, suggesting that words may have been omitted, so some editors emend (e.g. "Not to seem senseless" or "If he seem senseless") 57 anatomized dissected
58 squandering glances random jibes
59 Invest clothe
61 Cleanse purge medically
64 counter worthless token used to represent a coin
66 libertine wild, lecherous, dissolute person
67 brutish sting animal urging of lust
68 th'embossed ... evils swellings and sores caused by venereal disease 70 disgorge vomit
71 pride sexual desire/arrogance
72 tax ... party censure any particular individual
74 weary ... ebb the very stuff it feeds on is exhausted and used up 77 cost of princes i.e. excessively costly garments
78 come in come forward in the law court/intervene
80 function occupation
81 bravery fine clothes
81 not ... cost none of my business as I did not p
ay for it 82 suits fits/dresses
83 mettle spirit/substance
85 do him right speak truly of him
86 free innocent
89 Forbear stop
92 Of ... of? Where has this young cockerel sprung from?
94 rude uncivilized
96 touched ... first hit it with your first suggestion
98 inland bred civilized
99 nurture education, good upbringing
101 answered satisfied
102 reason may pun on "raisin" (grape), possibly part of the fruit at the meal 103 gentleness nobility/civilized conduct
109 countenance appearance/expression
112 melancholy dark, gloomy
115 knolled rung (to summon people)
119 enforcement constraint
126 upon command at will
127 wanting needs
133 weak causing weakness
136 waste consume
138 unhappy illfated
146 acts actions/divisions of a play
147 Mewling whimpering, mewing
153 strange foreign
153 bearded ... pard with a bristling beard like a leopard's whiskers 154 Jealous in quick to defend his
157 capon chicken (technically a castrated cockerel)
159 saws sayings
159 modern instances everyday examples
161 pantaloon in Italian comedy, the foolish elderly man who wore spectacles, pantaloons (type of trousers), and slippers 163 hose breeches
164 shank leg
166 his its
167 history history play/narrative
168 mere complete
169 Sans without
169 eyes eyesight
175 fall to eat
177.1 Song often sung by Amiens, assuming he is among the lords onstage for this scene 179 unkind cruel/unnatural
181 keen sharp
183 rude rough
189 nigh close
191 warp wrinkle/become corrugated by turning to ice
196 faithfully convincingly/truly
197 effigies likeness
198 limned portrayed
204 fortunes adventures
Act 3 Scene 1
3.1 Location: the court
1 him i.e. Orlando
2 better greater
2 made made of
3 argument subject
4 present being present (i.e. I would vent my wrath on you instead) 7 turn return
10 seizure taking legal possession of
11 quit ... mouth acquit yourself by means of your brother's own testimony 16 of ... nature whose responsibility it is
17 Make ... upon seize
18 expediently promptly
18 turn him going send him packing
Act 3 Scene 2
3.2 Location: the forest (where all remaining scenes are set)
2 thrice-crowned ... night the goddess of the moon, hunting, and chastity, known as Luna/Cynthia/Phoebe in the heavens, Diana/Artemis on earth, and Proserpina/Hecate/Lucina in the underworld 4 Thy huntress i.e. Rosalind
4 sway rule
6 character write
10 unexpressive inexpressible
16 private lonely
18 spare frugal
18 humour temperament
19 plenty abundance/comforts of life/food
20 stomach inclination/appetite
22 wants lacks
26 art education
27 complain of lament the lack of/complain about
28 natural instinctive/foolish/rustic
32 hope i.e. hope not
33 ill-roasted ... side eggs were roasted in the hot ashes of the fire and required turning for even cooking 37 manners proper behavior/morals
39 parlous perilous
43 but you kiss without kissing