34 third ... all i.e. third time lucky (proverbial) 34 triplex triple time in music
35 tripping nimble, skipping
35 measure stately dance/music
35 Saint Bennet church of Saint Benedict
38 throw roll of the dice/occasion
41 lullaby i.e. farewell
48 Vulcan Roman god of fire, and the gods' blacksmith 49 bawbling trifling
50 For (trifling) because of
50 draught depth of water required to float the ship 50 unprizeable of little value
51 scathful damaging
51 grapple close fighting, attempts to board another ship 52 bottom ship (literally, ship's hull)
53 very even
53 envy malice, i.e. his enemies
53 loss defeat
56 Phoenix name of Illyrian ship
56 fraught cargo
56 Candy Candia, modern Heraklion, a port in Crete 57 Tiger name of Illyrian ship
59 desperate disregarding
60 brabble brawl
61 on my side (his sword) in my defense
62 put ... me spoke to me strangely
63 but distraction if not madness
64 Notable notorious
66 bloody bloodthirsty
66 dear grievous, severe
69 Be ... I allow me to
71 base basis
74 rude rough
77 retention reservation
78 All ... dedication dedicated wholly to him 79 pure purely
80 adverse hostile
84 face ... acquaintance deny he knew me
85 grew ... wink in the space of a moment he behaved as if we had not seen each other for twenty years 87 recommended committed
95 But for as for
98 but ... have except that which I refuse him, i.e. love 103 lord if addressed to Viola, "husband" (Viola uses the sense of "master") 105 aught anything
106 fat gross
106 fulsome distasteful, nauseating
110 uncivil uncivilized
111 ingrate ungrateful
111 unauspicious ill-omened, unpromising 113 tendered offered (may play on "tender," i.e. loving, gentle) 114 Even what whatever/exactly what
114 become suit
116 Egyptian thief character from a Greek romance who tried to kill a captive he loved when his own life was threatened 118 savours nobly has a taste of nobility 119 non-regardance disrespect/lack of attention 120 that since
121 screws forces
123 minion favorite/darling
124 tender care for/value
126 in ... spite to the vexation of his master 127 ripe in mischief ready to do harm
130 jocund cheerful
130 apt readily
131 To ... rest in order to give you ease 135 mores such comparisons
137 tainting of discrediting
138 beguiled deceived
146 sirrah sir (contemptuous; used to an inferior) 148 baseness cowardice/lowly nature
149 strangle stifle
149 propriety real identity
151 that that which
152 that thou fear'st him you fear, i.e. Orsino 155 unfold reveal
160 joinder joining
161 close meeting
163 compact agreement
164 Sealed ... function certified by my priestly authority 165 watch clock
168 grizzle sprinkling of gray hair
168 case (animal) skin
169 craft cunning
170 trip wrestling move to throw opponent 173 protest declare/swear
175 Hold little faith keep some part of your promise 176 presently immediately
179 H'as broke he has cut
180 coxcomb head (with suggestion of fool's cap resembling a cock's crest) 184 incardinate incarnate
186 'Od's lifelings by God's little lives (mild oath) 192 set nothing by think nothing of
193 halting limping
193 in drink drunk
194 tickled i.e. beaten
194 othergates in another way, i.e. differently 196 all one doesn't matter
196 there's th'end on't that's all there is to it 197 sot idiot/drunkard
198 agone ago, past
199 set glazed/fixed/closed (eight i'th'morning may suggest the manner in which the surgeon's eyes were fixed, rolling back, like the sun high in the morning sky) 200 passy measures pavin stately dance, i.e. slow 204 be dressed bandaged
206 coxcomb fool
207 gull dupe/fool
210 brother ... blood my own brother
211 with ... safety in reasonable self-protection 212 strange regard odd/distant look
216 habit clothing
217 natural perspective optical illusion produced by nature 219 racked tormented
222 Fear'st doubt
228 deity godlike quality
229 here and everywhere omnipresence
230 blind heedless
235 suited dressed
236 form and suit physical appearance and dress 239 am ... clad my body is clothed with the flesh 240 participate have in common with all humanity 241 the ... even everything else is in agreement 248 record memory
248 lively vivid, alive
251 lets hinders
254 jump coincide
257 weeds clothes
261 mistook mistaken
262 to ... drew inclined in the right direction (bowling metaphor) 263 contracted betrothed
267 glass mirror/lens of optical instrument (perspective)
268 happy fortunate
270 like to as much as
271 overswear swear again and again
273 orbed continent spherical container, i.e. as the sun keeps 278 action legal charge
279 in durance imprisoned
281 enlarge release
282 remember me remember
283 distract mad
284 extracting distracting
284 frenzy agitation/madness
285 From ... his drove him from my memory 287 Beelzebub the devil
287 the stave's end at a distance
289 today i.e. this
290 epistles letters/New Testament letters from the apostles 290 gospels truths/New Testament records of Christ's life and teaching 290 skills matters
291 delivered handed over
293 delivers speaks the words of
297 vox "voice" (Latin), i.e. the correct manner of delivery (Feste has obviously read the words in a "mad" style) 299 read discern
299 right wits true state of mind
300 perpend consider
306 semblance outward show
306 the which i.e. the letter
308 duty i.e. respectful behavior of a steward 309 out ... injury as a wronged party
314 delivered released
315 so may it
315 thought on considered
316 as ... wife as good a sister-in-law as you'd hoped to regard me as a wife 317 th'alliance the union (in a double wedding) 318 proper personal
319 apt ready
320 quits releases (from service)
321 mettle natural disposition
334 hand handwriting
335 from it differently
336 invention composition
338 modesty of honour name of all that is decent and honorable/restraint befitting your status 339 lights signals
342 lighter more frivolous/lesser
343 acting undertaking
344 suffered allowed
346 geck dupe/fool
347 invention played on trickery sported with 349 character style of writing
350 out of beyond
352 cam'st you came
353 presupposed Upon previously suggested to 355 practice plot/trick
355 shrewdly mischievously
355 passed been perpetrated
361 condition (happy) circumstances
362 wondered marveled
365 Upon because of
365 uncourteous unfriendly/uncivil
365 parts qualities/actions
366 conceived against imagined/discerned in 367 importance urging
369 sportful playful
369 followed followed up/carried out
370 pluck on induce
371 If that If
373 baffled tricked/disgraced
376 interlude short play
379 whirligig spinning top/roundabout
385 golden auspicious
385 convents comes together/calls us
386 combination union
388 hence here, i.e. Olivia's house 390 habits clothing
391 fancy's love's
392 and a a very
394 foolish trivial/silly (may play on the sense of "lewd") 394 thing may play on the sense of "penis"
394 toy trifle/useless/fun (may play on a sense of "penis") 396 man's estate manhood
397 etc. indicates repeat of chorus
400 wive marry
402 swaggering bullying/quarreling
404 beds drunk to bed/old age
406 With toss-pots like other drunkards