233 credit believe/trust
234 schools universities, medical faculties
235 Embowelled disemboweled, emptied
235 doctrine learning, science
235 left off abandoned
239 receipt prescription/remedy
240 sanctified blessed
242 try success find out what happens
242 venture risk
243 well-lost i.e. lost for a good cause
244 such a a specific
246 knowingly i.e. securely with confidence 247 leave permission
250 into unto/upon
252 miss lack
Act 2 Scene 1
2.1 Location: Paris
1 principles i.e. advice
2 throw from you forget
4 gift i.e. of advice
7 well-entered (becoming) experienced
10 owes owns
13 higher italy highranking Italians/northern Italy (Tuscany) 14 Those ... monarchy except those who merely inherit their places from what is left of the Holy Roman Empire/they that are cast down by having merely the remains of the Holy Roman Empire 16 woo court, flirt with
16 wed i.e. own, be bound to
17 questant seeker, one on a quest
17 shrinks recoils (plays on the sense of "loses his erection") 18 cry proclaim
21 lack ... deny i.e. cannot say no
22 captives i.e. to the girls' charms
23 serve fight (plays on the sense of "have sex")
27 spark young man about town
28 brave splendid
30 here to stay here
30 kept a coil fussed over
32 bravely boldly/worthily
33 forehorse ... smock lead horse in a team led by a woman 34 masonry stonework floor (i.e. not a battlefield) 35 bought up won by others
36 one ... with i.e. an ornamental weapon
36 steal sneak (the First Lord plays on the sense of "rob") 40 grow to become attached to
40 a tortured body like a body being torn apart
44 a word in a word
44 metals blades/spirits ("mettles")
45 Spurio "counterfeit" (Italian)
46 cicatrice scar
46 sinister left
47 entrenched gashed, grooved
48 reports response
50 Mars may Mars
50 novices recruits
52 Stay wait on/obey (Second Folio repunctuates "Stay:" which changes the sense to "Wait: the king is coming") 53 spacious ceremony ample courtesy
54 list boundary
55 wear ... time i.e. are fashionable/notable 56 muster true gait display correct bearing/behavior 58 received fashionable
58 measure stately dance
59 dilated extended
62 like likely
63 sinewy muscular, energetic
64 tidings news
65 fee pay
66 brought his pardon i.e. something to earn it 69 broke thy pate given you a blow to the skull
71 across i.e. a clumsy hit (in jousting, to break a lance across rather than striking directly with the point showed poor skill) 74 will ... fox in Aesop's fable the fox declared the grapes were sour because he couldn't reach them; the king dismisses the idea of recovery because he thinks it impossible 75 will will eat/want
75 an if if
76 medicine doctor
78 Quicken give life to
78 canary a lively Spanish dance
79 simple minimal/herbal/medicinal
80 araise raise from the dead/sexually arouse
80 King Pippin eighth-century French king, father of Charlemain (Charlemagne) 81 pen plays on the sense of "penis"
87 light lighthearted/sexually suggestive
87 deliverance delivery, reporting
88 profession claims of skill
90 blame attribute to
90 weakness partiality, susceptibility
94 admiration object of wonder
95 spend expend
95 take off reduce, remove
96 took'st conceived of, caught
97 fit satisfy
99 special nothing particular trifles
99 ever prologues always introduces
99 Enter Helen some editors suppose that she is disguised, since in Act 2 Scene 3 Lafew appears surprised at her identity, despite having met her in Act 1 Scene 1; this is possible, but it seems more likely that he is complicit with her plan (hence Cressid's uncle) and that the later surprise is feigned 100 come your ways come along
105 Cressid's uncle Pandarus, go-between for the lovers Troilus and Cressida 107 follow relate to
110 profess practice, make a profession of
110 well found of established skill
114 receipts recipes for medical cures
115 issue product
116 th'only the foremost/peerless
117 triple third
118 Safer more safely
120 cause ... power disease (cause) for which the worth of my father's gift is most effective 122 tender offer
122 appliance remedy/treatment
123 bound prepared/dutiful
125 credulous readily believing
127 congregated college i.e. of doctors
128 art skill/scholarship/science
129 inaidible unable to be assisted
131 prostitute submit (basely)
132 empirics quack doctors
132 dissever divide
133 great self kingly person
133 credit reputation
133 esteem give merit to, believe in
134 senseless foolish
134 sense rational hope
134 deem judge (it to be)
135 duty i.e. as a subject (having tried to help you) 135 pains efforts
136 office services, duty
138 modest one slight thought/thought that confirms my modest, seeemly behavior 138 to ... again for me to return with/to conduct me home 139 to than to
142 at full in detail
142 no part not at all
143 art (sufficient) medical skill
145 set ... rest stake everything (derived from the card game primero) 146 He i.e. God
148 holy writ the Bible, which contains several examples of the young being wiser than their elders 148 babes foolish/inexperienced
149 great ... sources Moses struck rock from which water flowed for the thirsty Israelites (Exodus 17) 150 simple small
150 great ... dried Moses led the Israelites through the Red Sea, which parted, allowing them to pass on dry ground (Exodus 14) 151 great'st great persons, such as Pharaoh, who complained about God's power 153 hits succeeds
154 shifts operates
156 by ... paid be their own reward
157 Proffers offers
157 for as
158 Inspired divinely inspired (plays on the sense of "inhaled") 158 breath words
160 square shape
160 shows appearances
162 count consider
164 experiment trial
165 impostor swindler
165 proclaim ... aim declare my success before attempting to hit the target/claim skill that is greater than my ability 169 space period of time
171 greatest i.e. God's
173 torcher torchbearer, the sun god, who was carried across the sky in a horse-drawn chariot 173 diurnal ring daily circuit
174 occidental western (i.e. sunset)
175 Hesperus the evening star (Venus)
176 pilot's glass nautical hourglass
181 venture risk/wager
182 Tax accusation
183 strumpet's harlot's/whore's
184 Traduced slandered
185 Seared branded
185 extended stretched on a rack
189 slay deny, extinguish
190 sense higher wisdom/natural feeling, instinct 191 rate value
192 estimate value
194 prime youth
195 Thou ... hazard your willingness to risk this 195 needs necessarily
196 monstrous desperate unnaturally reckless
197 practicer practitioner
197 physic medical advice/medicine
198 ministers delivers (plays on the sense of "dispenses healing") 199 break time miss my deadline
199 property any particular respect
201 Not in not
204 make it even fulfill it
207 What whatever
208 Exempted far removed
214 premises observed conditions noted/fulfilled
215 performance carrying out (of the request)
216 of in
217 resolved determined
217 still always
220 tended on attended
221 Unquestioned unquestionably
223 high as word amply as promised
Act 2 Scene 2
2.2 Location: Rossillion
1 put ... height thoroughly test
2 breeding education/upbringing
3 highly fed overfed
3 lowly inadequately
5 make you do you think
6 put off dismiss
8 put pass
9 make a leg bow
12 answer throughout the exchange this word seems to have phallic connotations (question thus suggests "vagina") 16 pin narrow/sharp
16 quatch probably squat/fat
16 brawn meaty/well-rounded
18 fit suitably
19 groats fourpenny coins
20 French crown gold coin/bald head (symptom of syphilis) 20 taffety punk finely dressed whore
20 Tib typical name for lower-class girl/whore (diminutive of "Isabel") 20 rush ring made of reeds/vagina
21 Tom typical name for a rogue
21 forefinger with phallic connotations
21 pancake traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday, the feasting day before Lent 21 morris morris dance
22 nail with phallic connotations
22 his its
22 hole with vaginal connotations
22 cuckold man with an unfaithful wife
22 horn traditionally cuckolds were supposed to sprout horns 23 quean prostitute (puns on "queen")
23 wrangling knave quarrelsome servant/rogue
24 pudding sausage (perhaps with phallic connotations) 24 his its
31 neither on the contrary
34 fool in question ignorant/inexperienced in questioning (you) 37 putting off evasion
40 O lord, sir! a fashionable phrase amongst affected courtiers 40 Thick quickly
41 homely meat plain food
46 is very sequent follows logically
47 answer reply cleverly/respond well
48 bound to't obliged to reply/tied up for it
51 noble used ironically, as she is wasting time
55 present immediate
55 Commend me convey my regards
59 fruitfully abundantly
59 before my legs i.e. very quickly
60 again back again
Act 2 Scene 3
2.3 Location: Paris
2 philosophical persons scholars of "natural philosophy"
2 modern everyday
2 things things that seem
3 causeless inexplicable by natural causes
4 ensconcing ourselves into fortifying ourselves with 5 unknown fear fear of the unknown
6 rarest most extraordinary
5 argument topic, issue
7 shot out suddenly appeared
7 latter most recent
9 relinquished of abandoned by
9 artists scholars, medical practitioners
10 Galen famous second-century Greek physician
10 Paracelsus famous sixteenth-century Swiss physician 11 authentic fellows accredited members of the medical profession 13 gave him out proclaimed him to be
18 Just exactly
20 showing visible/printed form
25 dolphin puns on "dauphin" (i.e. heir to the French throne) 25 'Fore me before me; mild oath, like "upon my soul"
27 brief ... tedious short and the long
28 facinerious extremely wicked
33 debile minister feeble agent
36 Generally universally
39 Lustigue lusty vigorous (from the German lustig) 39 Dutchman German
40 tooth sweet tooth, i.e. appetite for pleasure 41 coranto lively dance
42 Mor du vinager! pseudo-French oath, literally "death of/by vinegar"
46 banished sense loss of feeling
47 repealed recalled, given a second chance
49 attends awaits
50 parcel group
51 my bestowing my power to give in marriage
53 frank election free choice
54 forsake refuse
57 bay ... furniture my bay horse with a docked tail (curtal), and all his trappings 58 My ... boys' to have as many teeth/to be as little broken to the bit (i.e. youthful) as these boys 59 writ to be able to claim/exhibit
62 She ... Lord some editors suppose that this direction is misplaced and belongs with the later line spoken to First Lord 66 protest declare
68 whisper whisper to
70 white death pallor of death
73 Who he who
73 his ... me my love for him
74 Dian Diana, Roman goddess of chastity
75 Love i.e. Cupid, god of love 78 All. mute there is no more to be said
80 ames-ace double ace, lowest throw in dice
80 for my life were my life at stake
81 honour high status/willingness to marry/admiration 83 Love may Love
84 Her ... wishes i.e. myself, Helen
85 No better i.e. I wish for nothing better than your humble love
90 th'Turk i.e. non-Christian barbarian
96 Sure surely
97 got conceived
98 happy fortunate
101 grape i.e. fruit of good lineage
102 drunk wine i.e. to give you good blood 103 known seen through
115 bring me down i.e. by making me marry a social inferior (with associations of bringing into the marriage bed, and, possibly, of losing one's erection) 117 breeding upbringing
117 charge order/expense
119 corrupt debase/contaminate
119 ever forever
120 title lack of title
123 confound distinction be indistinguishable
123 stands off separate
128 proceed come forth
130 great ... none titles puff us up rather than virtue (swell's: "swell is," elided for meter) 131 dropsied swollen/proud/diseased
133 property inherent quality
133 go i.e. be known
135 heir because the qualities are inherited from nature 136 That ... sire true honor is scornful of inherited title when accompanying behavior not worthy of it 140 foregoers ancestors
141 Deboshed debauched, corrupted
144 honoured bones indeed i.e. the remains of those who were truly honorable 147 dower dowry
148 strive attempt
149 choose assert your own choice
150 restored cured
152 at the stake tied up like a bear to be baited, under attack 152 which which threat
154 this of this
155 misprision scorn
156 desert right/recompense
156 That you who
157 We the royal plural
157 poising weighing
157 defective i.e. lighter (as she is humble) 158 weigh ... beam outweigh you and tip your scale up to the crossbar 159 in us within my royal power
160 Check restrain
161 travails in labors for
162 Believe not deny
162 presently immediately
166 the staggers giddiness, unsteadiness (also, a horse disease affecting balance) 166 careless untended/reckless/irresponsible
166 lapse decline
168 Loosing being loosed, inflicted
169 all terms any form
171 fancy desire
172 great creat
ion creation of greatness
172 dole portion
173 which late who recently
175 who i.e. Helen
179 counterpoise equal weight (i.e. in dowry)
179 not not equal
180 replete complete/perfect/abundant
183 whose ... brief the formal accomplishment of which (i.e. marriage) shall quite properly follow the present agreement 186 more ... space have to wait for a time
187 Expecting waiting for (the arrival of)
187 As as long as
188 religious sacred/true/dutiful
188 err go astray
196 succeeding consequences (i.e. a fight)
197 companion comrade/rascal
198 man manly/mankind (Lafew shifts the sense to "servant") 201 too old i.e. for a duel
201 satisfy appease (in place of a duel)
202 write claim to be
204 dare ... do have the courage to accomplish only too well, I dare not because of your old age 205 ordinaries standard meals
206 vent utterance
207 scarfs military sashes
207 bannerets small banners
208 vessel ship, adorned with flags
209 burden cargo
209 found seen through
209 thee i.e. your company
210 taking up arresting/calling to account
212 antiquity old age
215 trial testing of supposed courage
215 hen i.e. not a bold cock; perhaps also refers to Parolles' "plumage"
216 window of lattice ale-house (whose red lattice windows signified its function) 216 casement window
218 egregious outrageous
221 dram small amount
221 bate lessen
222 scruple tiny amount
223 wiser i.e. in future
224 pull ... contrary swallow a good quantity of your foolishness 227 bondage what binds you (i.e. the scarves of which he is proud) 227 hold maintain
228 in the default when you fail
229 know understand/see through
231 poor doing inadequate ability to inflict vexation
232 doing action (plays on the sense of "having sex") 232 will will pass (puns on past as "passed") 232 in ... leave with what movement age will allow me 234 shall ... me upon whom I will vent my anger for these insults 235 scurvy contemptible
236 fettering imprisoning
237 with any convenience on a suitable occasion 237 an even if
243 reservation concealment
243 wrongs insults
243 good lord i.e. patron (rather than employer) 243 Whom he whom
248 garter tie (with scarves)
248 hose stockings, usually tied up with garters 249 set ... stands put your penis where your nose should be/smell your bottom 253 breathe exercise (through fighting)
254 measure treatment/judgment
255 Go to expression of dismissive impatience
255 picking ... pomegranate i.e. a small offense, as an excuse 256 vagabond itinerant vagrant, traveling without license 257 true honest/licensed
257 saucy insolent
258 commission warrant, allowance
259 heraldry i.e. authority, entitlement
263 Undone ruined
263 cares troubles, sorrows
272 import content, sense
275 box container/vagina
276 kicky-wicky woman
277 Spending expending/wasting/ejaculating
277 marrow vitality/sexual energy/semen
278 curvet horse's leap
280 jades worn-out horses
286 furnish me to equip me for