by Thomas More
rearward rear guard
reculed fallen back, recoiled
reeds Papyrus
registers records
rehearsal retelling
relicts vestiges
remain remnant
removing moving
render give up
represent reproduce
require call in
rested consisted
retainer advisor, consultant
return (noun) side
rings chimes
room place
rot virulent disease affecting liver of sheep fed on moist pasture
rude uncivilized, crude, ignorant, unskilled
run in incur
rush-bucklers swashbucklers
rushes plants with straight stems, like bulrushes
sad dignified, solemn
sallets salads
savours perfumes, aromas
scala coeli stairway, ladder to heaven
scant scarcely, hardly; (verb) stint
science liberal discipline
securely certainly, surely
seen versed, experienced
seething boiling
sensible sensitive
separations extracting separate elements of a substance
serviceable servant-like
set seated
set field battle array
set on set to
several different
shamefastness shamefacedness
sheaths sword sheaths
shelves sand banks
shops places of industry
shrewdly severely, sharply
silly simple
simples things consisting of only one substance (particularly medicinal plants)
simulation pretending to be someone you are not
sindons fine thin linen, used as a wrapper or shroud
skilleth not does not matter
sleight cunning, trick
slenderly weakly, poorly
slides processions of ascending or descending notes
smack in taste for
small less
so that as long as
so as so that; therefore
softly quietly, gently
solemn formal, dignified
somewhat something
sort manner
space time
sparing little
stablished established
stamp seal
stand with agree with
standing still; position; duration
state canopy; ceremony
states statesmen
stay hesitation; state of stability
stayed prevented
stews bath-houses, brothels
stiff-necked unyielding
stirps branch of a family
stomachs dispositions
stonish dull, senseless
strain extract
strait narrow, severe; close
strange foreign; irregular, remarkable
stripes lashes of the whip
strokes blows
strumpets debauched women, harlots
study not don’t try
stuff material
subscription seal, signature to a document
substantive self-sufficient
suffer allow
suitors petitioners
suits disagreements, legal actions against requests
summum bonum supreme good
supported attended
supporters flotation devices
suppositious based on supposition, spurious
surely securely
swam floated
swathing swaddling
sweating toiling
sweet fresh, not salt
swimming girdles lifebelts
symbolize agree with, be at one accord with
tables a board game, like backgammon
tacklings rigging
take the virtue absorb the properties
tears sap
tedder tether, confines
temper kind, type
tender hesitant
think imagine
threads cloths, fibres
throng crowded
tippet narrow slip of cloth, forming part of a hood, head-dress, or sleeve
tipstaff staff with a cap of metal, carried as a badge of officialdom
tissued woven, adorned
tissues cloths
together at the same time; continuously
took us off relieved our embarrassment
touch indication
touch-stone basanite, a variety of quartz
touching concerning
towardness inclination
train something which lures someone on
translating transferring
trapped fitted out, decorated
travail labour
traverse screened apartment
tremblings tremolos
trough-wise like a trough
trunks tubes
tun barrel
turn him to deal with, turn his attention to
turves slabs of turf
tush exclamation of contempt or impatience
unmeet inappropriate
unsearchable inscrutable, unfathomable
uplandish rustic, uncultivated, boorish
use direct knowledge; adopt
vale! farewell!
valiant strong
versions conversions
viands food
victual food
visual visible
vitiate infected, depraved
vitrificated turned into glass
void empty, unoccupied
vouchsafed agreed, bestowed, granted
vulgar plebian, common
wanted lacked
ward look-out
waxed well became better
wayfaring travelling
weal well-being
weal-public commonwealth, state or body politic
wealthily happily, prosperously
well a worth alas!
well-spring source of perennial supply
whereof from what
whether whichever
whole healthy
wickers twigs used for making things like baskets
wile trick
wink at close our eyes to
wiped beside cheated of
withal notwithstanding; likewise, as well
without outside
wittily wisely
workmanship creation
wot knew
wrested strained, twisted
wried contorted
writhen perverted, deflected
writing tables small blocks (of wood) on which to take notes
wrought embroidered
yet just the same
yield give
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1 See Louis Marin, Utopiques: jeux d’espaces (Paris: Minuit, 1973), 145–6.
2 In one version of the text: for the publishing history of The Isle of Pines see Part II of the Introduction.
3 For this argument, see Michael McKeon, The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), 47.
4 Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983), 68.
5 J. C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516–1700 (Cambridge: CUP, 1984), 9
6 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Stephen Orgel (Oxford: OUP, 1987), ii. i. 145–79.
7 See McKeon, Origins, 20–2 for the summary of his argument.
8 See Richard Halpern, The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), 142–3.
9 See Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 40–1.
10 See Elizabeth McCutcheon, ‘Denying the Contrary: More’s Use of Litotes in the Utopia’, in R. S. Sylvester and G. P. Marc’hadour (eds.), Essential Articles for the Study of Thomas More (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1977).
11 Halpern, Poetics of Primitive Accumulation, 141.
12 Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning, 22.
13 Halpern, Poetics of Primitive Accumulation, 144.
14 Francis Bacon, ‘Of Travel’ in Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works, ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 374.
15 Brian Vickers, Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (Cambridge: CUP, 1968), 2.
16 Francis Bacon, ‘Advice to the Earl of Rutland on His Travels’, in Brian Vickers, ed., Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 79.
17 The Great Instauration, in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. J. A. Spedding, R. L. Ellis, and D. D. Hea
th (London, 1857–74), iv. 32.
18 Worthington Chauncey Ford, The Isle of Pines: An Essay in Bibliography (Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1920), 39.