Cymbeline

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by William Shakespeare


  289 still pretending always claiming

  292 esteem value, worth

  294 cease halt, arrest

  296 offices of nature natural faculties/bodily parts

  298 Most like very likely

  301 sure definitely

  306 the tree i.e. himself

  308 mak’st … act do you cast me as an idiot

  312 motive reason

  315 mother’s i.e. stepmother is

  317 naught nothing/wicked

  317 long of because of (along of)

  318 strangely as strangers/in unusual circumstances

  322 missing absence

  324 discovered revealed

  325 accident chance

  326 feignèd letter i.e. the letter falsely claiming that Posthumus was waiting at Milford Haven

  330 enforced took by force

  330 posts hurries

  336 forfend forbid

  339 Deny’t again take it back again, unsay it

  341 He … prince i.e. killing him is therefore treasonable and merits death

  342 incivil unmannerly

  347 To … mine i.e. to tell you that he had cut off my head

  348 sorrow sorry/filled with sorrow

  350 dead condemned to die

  357 As well descended of as good lineage, family stock

  358 of from

  358 merited deserved

  359 Had … for ever deserved for their wounds in battle

  362 worth … for the reward you have not yet been given

  363 tasting of experiencing, feeling

  366 thou i.e. Belarius

  368 But I will unless I

  368 on’s of us

  369 given out him declared him (Guiderius) to be

  370 For … speech i.e. what I am about to say will prove dangerous to me

  371 haply perhaps, with luck

  371 well for beneficial to

  374 by leave with your permission

  380 Assumed this age attained this aged appearance

  384 hot hasty

  386 it i.e. the payment

  386 confiscate all all confiscated

  386 so as

  389 saucy impudent

  390 prefer raise in social stature

  395 blood offspring

  398 sometime once

  399 mere whole

  400 That … did i.e. I did no harm at all, unless you think my suffering harmful

  404 put into teach

  407 moved persuaded

  408 Having … then i.e. he had already been unjustly banished for treason, but stealing the children was actually a treasonable offense

  409 Beaten being beaten

  410 Excited provoked, incited

  411 of by

  411 shaped Unto fitted, suited

  412 end of purpose in (to make Cymbeline suffer)

  419 service i.e. in battle

  420 Unlike unlikely, amazing

  423 Be pleased awhile permit me to speak for a few more moments

  425 as yours as your son

  427 lapped wrapped

  428 curious exquisite

  429 probation proof

  432 sanguine bloodred

  435 natural stamp birthmark

  436 end … donation purpose in giving it

  440 deliverance in giving birth

  440 pray I pray

  441 starting … orbs displacement from your spheres

  443 Thou … kingdom because Guiderius and Arviragus are immediate heirs to the throne

  447 But anything other than

  455 rare exceptional

  456 fierce abridgement drastically compressed account

  457 branches details

  458 Distinction … in need to be distinguished fully from one another/should prove plentiful once they have been distinguished from one another

  462 your … to what motives the three of you (Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus) had for joining

  463 demanded asked about

  464 by-dependences side issues, related matters

  465 chance happening, occurrence

  465 nor neither

  466 Will serve are suited to

  466 interrogatories interrogations

  467 anchors concentrates his looks, attention

  468 throws her eye gazes

  470 counterchange … all each reciprocates the looks of the others

  471 quit this ground leave this place

  472 smoke fill with smoke (from incense or sacrificial fires)

  473 hold consider

  474 relieve me help/rescue me

  475 gracious season joyous occasion

  477 Save except

  478 taste our comfort feel, experience our mercy/share in our happiness

  482 forlorn wretched, destitute

  483 becomed become, suited

  483 graced done honor to/made rich

  486 company accompany

  487 beseeming appearance, i.e. his peasant’s garb

  487 fitment preparation

  490 you finish an end of you

  492 sinks makes bend, weighs down

  494 often many times over

  501 doomed judged, sentenced

  502 freeness generosity, benevolence

  504 holp helped

  505 As as if

  506 Joyed overjoyed

  509 upon … backed riding upon his eagle’s back

  510 spritely shows ghostly visions

  512 label sheet of paper (the tablet)

  512 containing contents

  513 so … hardness i.e. hard to understand

  514 collection of deduction, inference from

  515 construction interpretation

  516 Philharmonus i.e. lover of harmony

  519 whelp cub

  528 leo-natus born of a lion

  528 import signify, mean

  530 mollis aer Latin for “soft air”; a false etymology of mulier, Latin for “woman”

  531 divine interpret (by divine inspiration)

  534 clipped about embraced

  536 seeming plausibility

  537 cedar the tree was an emblem of sovereignty, especially in the Bible

  538 Personates stands for

  538 point … forth indicate your two sons

  541 issue offspring, descendants

  547 wonted usual, accustomed

  549 Whom on whom

  553 stroke action, onset

  557 Lessened herself i.e. by disappearing into the distance

  561 west understood in classical geography as the location of Britain

  562 Laud praise

  563 crookèd curling

  564 Publish announce

  565 Set we forward let’s set on, begin marching

  566 ensign standard, banner

  569 seal confirm

  570 Set on there! Onward, forward march!

 

 

 


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