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    Richard II (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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      21 ragged rough, rugged

      22 for because pride prime/arrogance

      23 content acceptance

      25 silly simple/lowly/helpless

      26 stocks contraption for public punishment in which the arms or legs were confined refuge take refuge from, reduce 27 That with the thought that

      31 prison most editions follow Quarto's "person," but Folio's "prison" seems to be a purposeful alteration, not a printer's error 33 treason thoughts of treason

      34 penury poverty

      36 by and by soon

      38 straight straightaway

      39 but man is is merely mortal

      40 nothing anything

      41 nothing i.e. dead

      43 proportion musical time, rhythm

      45 daintiness sensitivity

      46 string individual string/musical instrument

      47 concord harmony

      49 waste decay

      50 numb'ring clock clock with hours marked on it (i.e. not an hourglass) 51 jar ... on tick on, jump forward (jar plays on the sense of "make discordant") 52 watches intervals between minutes/wakeful periods watch clockface (plays on the sense of "sentry/wakeful person") 53 dial's point clock's hand

      54 still continuously (plays on the sense of "motionless")

      55 tells counts out/reveals

      56 strike beat, pound/toll

      58 times marks on the dial, i.e. quarter or half hours time lifetime, time on earth 59 posting hurrying

      60 Jack o'th'clock figure of a man that strikes a bell on the outside of some types of clock 61 mads maddens

      62 holp ... wits music was thought to assist the recovery of the insane holp helped 65 to for

      66 strange brooch rare jewel

      68 peer equal/nobleman

      69 The ... us i.e. the imprisoned Richard ten groats Richard plays on the financial senses of royal and noble (types of gold coin): a royal was worth ten groats more than a noble, so the Groom has overvalued the royal prince by that amount (Richard identifies himself and the Groom as nobles) groat coin worth four old pence 71 sad dismal, unsmiling

      72 misfortune i.e. Richard

      75 ado trouble, fuss

      76 sometimes formerly

      77 yearned grieved, moved

      79 roan horse with a coat in which the prevailing color is interspersed with some other Barbary the horse's name, suggesting that it was imported from the Barbary coast of northern Africa, whose horses were noted for great speed and endurance 80 bestrid straddled, ridden

      82 gentle noble

      86 jade worthless old horse

      87 clapping patting

      91 rail on abuse

      92 awed controlled, subdued

      95 galled made sore jauncing hard-riding

      96 Fellow servant give place move, withdraw/defer to me 99 fall to begin eating

      100 wont accustomed

      106 rude rough, violent

      108 room empty space

      110 staggers makes stagger my person my royal person 112 seat royal throne/place in heaven

      113 gross earthly, fleshy, lowly

      3 Cicester Cirencester

      4 ta'en taken, captured

      7 next most pressing

      9 taking capture

      10 at large discoursed related in full

      12 worthy well-deserved/valuable

      16 dire dangerous, dreadful

      18 wot know

      19 grand chief

      20 clog burden

      22 abide await

      23 doom judgment, punishment

      25 reverend room holy place (i.e. monastery)

      26 More i.e. more worthy of reverence/larger than your prison cell joy enjoy 29 High noble

      33 Bordeaux Richard's birthplace

      34 wrought created, fashioned

      40 love ... murdered love him who has been murdered/love the fact that he has been murdered 43 Cain in the Bible, the world's first murderer

      48 sullen mournful, somber incontinent immediately 49 Holy Land i.e. Jerusalem

      51 sadly solemnly/sorrowfully grace dignify

      52 after as you follow bier stretcher-like structure on which a corpse is carried to the grave

     

     

     



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