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    Henry V

    Page 29
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      243 Les ... France "In France it is not the custom for ladies and young ladies to be kissed before their marriages"

      249 entendre ... moi "understands" better "than me"

      252 Oui, vraiment "Yes, truly"

      253 nice fastidious/coy/trivial

      254 list boundary (literally, barrier enclosing a jousting or dueling area) 256 follows our places goes with our high rank

      256 find-faults people who seek to criticize

      268 apt ready, quick to learn

      269 condition disposition

      274 conjure i.e. raise up (spirits, but here a penis) 274 make a circle magic circle for conjuring/open her vagina 276 naked and blind like Cupid (Roman god of love, traditionally depicted thus)/in the form of a penis (with its "blind eye") 276 maid virgin

      277 rosed ... modesty i.e. blushing in modesty/flushed in sexual excitement 278 in within (emotionally)/inside (sexually)

      278 naked seeing emotionally exposed/aware of her physical nakedness 279 hard plays on the idea of penile hardness

      279 consign assent

      280 wink and yield close their eyes and give in

      281 enforces (love/the penis) pushes his way in

      283 do plays on the sense of "have sex with"

      284 consent winking agree to wink and yield

      286 on at

      287 know understand (with sexual connotations)

      287 summered tended, nurtured

      288 warm comfortably, well off/sexually aroused

      288 Bartholomew-tide Saint Bartholomew's day, 24 August 288 blind ... eyes sluggish, unaware (from the summer heat) 290 handling with sexual connotations

      291 moral lesson

      291 ties me over confines me to

      292 latter end late summer/lower body

      294 before it loves i.e. until it sees the object of its love/before sexual consummation 298 perspectively obliquely, distortedly (through a perspective: either a lens that distorts objects or a painting that only becomes clear when viewed from an angle) 299 maiden unbreached by military/sexual force

      300 entered invaded in war/penetrated sexually

      303 so so long as

      304 wait on her follow her (as a dowry)

      305 will political, military desire/sexual desire/penis

      306 terms of reason reasonable terms

      309 in sequel succession

      311 subscribed signed, agreed to

      313 matter of grant official conferment of lands or titles 314 addition title

      314 Notre ... France "our very dear son Henry, King of England, heir of France"

      316 Praeclarissimus ... Franciae "our very dear son Henry, King of England, heir of France"

      319 request i.e. to marry Katherine

      324 Issue descendants

      325 pale due to the chalk cliffs

      327 dear tender/costly

      328 neighbourhood friendly, neighborly

      329 bosoms hearts

      329 advance raise

      337 spousal marriage, union

      338 ill office disservice, poor dealings

      338 fell fierce

      340 paction pact, contract

      341 incorporate united in one body, indivisible

      347 surety ... leagues security of our alliance

      349 Sennet trumpet signaling a procession

      Epilogue

      1 rough imperfect, coarse

      1 all-unable inadequate

      2 bending i.e. over his work/bowing

      4 by starts in fits and starts, intermittently

      5 Small time Henry died aged thirty-five, after a nine-year reign 7 world's best garden i.e. France

      9 infant bands strips of linen babies were wrapped in

      11 Whose of whose

      13 their i.e. Shakespeare's plays concerning Henry VI 14 this acceptance take this play find favor

     

     

     



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