King John & Henry VIII
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150 model image
150 daughter i.e. Mary
152 breeding upbringing
159 both my fortunes i.e. good and bad, as queen and subsequently
163 honesty chastity/virtue
163 carriage behavior
165 happy fortunate
169 over extra
171 able sufficient
178 fashion form, nature, character
179 honest honorable
187 used treated
188 maiden flowers i.e. those flowers befitting chastity
190 forth i.e. out for burial
192 can i.e. say or do
5.1 Location: the royal court, London
3 necessities essential activities, i.e. sleep
7 Whither where are you going
9 primero gambling card game
11 must must go
14 an if if
15 offence harm
16 touch sense, hint
16 late recent/late night
21 durst commend dare entrust
22 this work i.e. what he has been engaged in
23 feared it is feared
25 fruit i.e. child
25 goes with carries/is in the throes of labor with
27 time delivery, outcome
27 stock tree that bore the fruit, i.e. Anne
28 grubbed up uprooted
30 Cry the amen i.e. agree
35 way of thinking, i.e. Catholic religious views
38 hands i.e. assistants, supporters
41 remarked notable/conspicuous
42 Master O’th’Rolls a high-ranking legal position
44 gap and trade opening and path
45 time age, state of affairs/time to come/opportunity
49 are are those
52 Incensed angered
54 arch-heretic major, principal holder of unorthodox religious views (puns on “archbishop”)
55 moved angered, stirred
56 broken broached (the matter)
58 fell fierce, terrible
58 mischiefs evils, misfortunes
61 convented summoned to appear
61 rank rapidly growing, abundant
64 rest remain
66 hard strong (a player)
69 fancy mind, inclination
78 suff’rance suffering
81 God may God
81 quit release, relieve
82 travail labor
82 gladding delighting
86 estate state, situation
99 attends awaits
101 bishop i.e. Gardiner
102 happily fortunately, opportunely
103 Avoid leave
103 gallery long room used for walking in
106 aspect of terror angry expression
118 grievous serious
120 moved prompted, decided
122 with such freedom so freely, easily
122 purge clear, exonerate
124 take … you be patient
126 Tower Tower of London
126 brother of us being a fellow member of the council
127 fits is fitting
131 throughly thoroughly
131 winnowed i.e. cleared of impurity, as corn is exposed to wind in order to separate it from worthless husks (chaff)
133 stands under endures/is subject to
133 calumnious slanderous
138 my halidom all I consider holy
139 looked anticipated
140 given … petition requested
143 endurance further further hardship/forthcoming imprisonment
144 dread revered
147 triumph exult (at the downfall of)
147 weigh value
148 Being should it be
148 nothing not at all
152 small insignificant
152 practices plots
153 bear … proportion be correspondingly powerful
153 ever always
155 The dew o’th’verdict i.e. a successful outcome
155 at with
157 swear testify
159 Ween you of do you expect
160 perjured witness false testimony
160 your master i.e. Christ
162 naughty wicked
163 take … danger behave as though jumping off a cliff were not dangerous
164 woo invite, court
167 is that is
169 give way to i.e. allow
171 chance happen
172 commit imprison
186 Now now may
190 Is … delivered? Has the queen given birth?
194 girl may apply either to Anne or to the newly born Elizabeth
195 Promises i.e. who promises to give birth to
196 and and for you
201 marks a mark was a monetary unit (rather than a coin) worth two thirds of a pound
203 groom servingman
203 for suitable for
206 hot “to strike while the iron is hot” was proverbial
207 put … issue undertake it, insist on it (issue may play on the sense of “child”)
3 fast locked up
4 Sure surely
9 So so be it/I see
11 happily fortunately/by chance
12 understand it presently be informed of it at once
16 sound perceive/proclaim
17 laid arranged (like a trap)
18 turn alter
22 attend wait
22.1 above i.e. on the upper staging level or gallery
26 Body o’me upon my body (i.e. life)
29 Who … state who maintains his dignity/is detained according to his status (ironic)
29 pursuivants state messengers
30 footboys boy servants, often assistants to footmen
33 one above ’em i.e. the king/God
34 parted divided
34 honesty integrity/decorum
35 suffer permit
36 place status
37 dance attendance be kept waiting
38 post courier
38 packets i.e. of letters
40 close shut
40.1 state throne
40.2 above next to, at the upper end of the table; the seating arrangements reflect the men’s positions
49 Without outside
56 present present time
57 chair i.e. Cranmer’s vacant chair next to the Lord Chancellor
58 capable Of susceptible to
59 flesh bodily urges, mortal weakness
60 want lack
61 misdemeaned yourself behaved improperly
65 Divers various/different/perverse, cruel
65 heresies views contrary to orthodox religious opinion
66 pernicious destructive
69 Pace … hands do not train them gently, by hand
70 stubborn unyielding
71 obey the manage perform the specific movements correctly (from French manège, “horsemanship”)
71 suffer permit
72 easiness indulgence, leniency
74 physic medicine
75 taint corruption/infection
77 upper higher/inland
77 upper … witness a reference either to the Saxony peasants’ revolt of 1524 or to the rising of the Anabaptists in Münster in 1535
82 course current/series of undertakings
85 single united, honest
87 place official public position
95 urge make allegations
98 by that virtue by virtue of that
99 moment importance
100 short brief
103 private i.e. not exercising public office
105 provided prepared
107 pass be approved, prevail
109 end aim, purpose
111 Become befit, suit
115 doubt i.e. of my innocence
115 conscience i.e. trouble your conscience
118 sectary follower of a heretical sect
119 painted counterfeit/superficial
119 discovers reveals<
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120 words i.e. mere words
122 By … favour if you will permit me (to say so)
127 cry … mercy beg your honor’s pardon
127 worst least
131 sound orthodox, honest
136 bold audacious, impertinent
140 Forbear stop, desist
156 Receive take into custody
157 safe securely confined
161 gripes grips, clutches
163 CHAMBERLAIN some editors reassign this line to the Chancellor
172 in … him of value to the king
173 on’t of it (the present business)
174 gave misgave, prompted fearful doubts (in)
175 informations pieces of intelligence/accusations/tales
175.1 seat throne
183 aim i.e. beneficiary
184 dear respect earnest regard (for the Church)
187 sudden hasty/spontaneous
190 They i.e. the commendations
194 bloody bloodthirsty, destructive
196 He i.e. man
197 starve die
203 discretion prudence, wisdom
209 try put on trial (sense then shifts to “afflict, torment”)
212 mean the means
215 like please
216 purposed intended
219 purgation clearing of his name
222 use treat
226 ado fuss
229 wants lacks
234 spoons a set of spoons was a common christening gift
244 voice opinion
246 shrewd injurious, vicious
249 one united
5.3 Location: by a gate of the royal court, London
5.3 cudgel club
5.3 Man servant
1 leave cease
2 Paris Garden bear-baiting arena on London’s Bankside, near the Globe theater
2 rude rough, uncivilized
3 gaping shouting
4 belong to i.e. work in
6 crab-tree i.e. made from the tough wood of a crab-apple tree
7 these i.e. these cudgels
7 switches slim, flexible shoots cut from a tree
8 scratch i.e. beat
14 May-day morning traditional day of early rising for dawn festivities
15 Paul’s St. Paul’s Cathedral
16 and be hanged an oath
20 made no spare didn’t hold back (when beating the crowd)
22 Samson biblical character possessed of legendary strength
22 Sir … Colbrand Colbrand was a Danish giant killed by Sir Guy of Warwick
25 cuckold man with an unfaithful wife
26 chine cut of meat from the backbone of an animal (possibly quibbles on the sense of “chink, fissure,” i.e. “vagina”)
27 for a cow a slightly obscure phrase, apparently meaning “for anything,” though cow may play on the sense of “prostitute”
29 presently shortly
29 puppy impertinent young man
30 close closed tightly
30 sirrah sir (used to an inferior)
33 Moorfields an area of open ground just outside London’s city walls, at one point used for training militia
33 muster assemble (soldiers)
34 strange foreign
34 Indian native Americans had been known to be exhibited to London’s paying public (although “Indian” could also signify a person from the East or West Indies, or the Far East)
34 great tool large penis
35 fry seething brood
38 spoons spoons given as christening presents/penises
39 brazier brass-worker (working in high temperatures)
40 dog-days hottest days of the year, associated with the dog-star Sirius
40 in’s nose i.e. his nose is red as if from heat (presumably from drinking)
41 under the line at the Equator
42 fire-drake dragon/fiery meteor
43 discharged fired off (like a gun)
44 mortar-piece small cannon
44 blow us blow us up/blow his nose all over us
45 haberdasher seller of small items relating to clothing, such as thread and ribbon
45 railed upon ranted at
46 pinked ornamented with small holes or slits
46 porringer hat shaped like a soup dish
46 kindling … combustion provoking such a tumult/lighting such a fire
47 meteor i.e. the red-nosed brazier
48 ‘Clubs!’ rallying cry to summon apprentices to a fight
49 truncheoners cudgel-carriers
49 succour aid, assistance
50 hope o’th’Strand strapping apprentices from workshops on the Strand, a London street near the Thames
50 was quartered lodged/lived
51 fell on attacked
51 made good secured, defended
51 came … me fought at close quarters with me (literally, close enough to use broomsticks)
53 loose shot marksmen not attached to a company
54 fain obliged
55 work earthwork, i.e. fort
56 youths i.e. apprentices
58 tribulation troublemakers, rabble
58 Tower Hill site of public executions and a rough residential area
58 limbs members, residents/fighters, fists
58 Limehouse rough dockyard area in London’s East End (puns on limb)
59 limbo patrum i.e. prison (literally, the name of the dwelling place for the souls of the unbaptized and of those who had died before Christ’s coming; continues the pun on limb)
60 like likely
61 running banquet i.e. a whipping through the streets (literally, hasty meal)
61 beadles parish constables
65 made … hand done a fine job (sarcastic)
66 trim fine/smartly dressed (sarcastic)
67 friends plays on the sense of “lovers” (i.e. whores)
67 o’th’suburbs in the areas outside the City walls and its jurisdiction, known for lawlessness and prostitution
68 Great … room plenty of space
70 An’t if it
73 rule control
75 lay … th’heels put you in the stocks or shackles
76 suddenly straight away
77 round heavy
78 baiting of bombards drinking from leather jugs/harassing drunkards/giving drinks to drunkards
79 service your job
81 break among push through
81 press crowd
82 troop christening procession
82 fairly easily
83 Marshalsea prison in Southwark
83 hold ye play keep you from amusement
86 close up i.e. back
87 camlet fabric made from silk and goat hair
87 o’th’rail off the railing (possibly the rail around the stage, suggesting that the groundlings in the yard took the part of the crowd)
88 peck fling
88 pales railings
5.4 Trumpets trumpeters
5.4 Garter i.e. Garter King-at-Arms, an important ceremonial post
5.4 Marshal’s staff the rod of office belonging to the Earl Marshal, a high-ranking state official
5.4 standing bowls bowls supported by legs or a base
5.4 habited clothed
5 partners fellow godparents
7 laid stored
16 gossips godparents
16 prodigal lavish (with christening gifts)
22 heaven … her may God always be at her side
27 pattern exemplary model
28 Saba the Queen of Sheba, who tested Solomon’s wisdom with difficult questions (1 Kings 10:1–10)
31 mould up form, make up
31 piece masterpiece, work of art
33 still always
35 own own people
36 beaten (presumably) wind-beaten
41 God i.e. religion
42 read learn
43 greatness power/honor/nobility
43 blood inheritance
44 sleep i.e. di
e
45 maiden phoenix mythical Arabian bird that was consumed by fire every five hundred years, then resurrected from the ashes; only one existed at a time
47 admiration the inspiring of wonder
48 one i.e. James I, who succeeded Elizabeth in 1603
49 cloud of darkness i.e. earthly life
52 fixed constant/established/unswayed by varying fortune
52 terror the power to inspire awe
64 deed beneficial action
65 Would I wish
71 get beget, conceive/gain, achieve
76 beholding indebted
80 sick unhappy, hurt
81 H’as he has
81 stay remain/cease (work)
82 holiday derived from “Holy-day” (as originally spelled in the Folio), emphasizing the word’s origins as a spiritual as well as celebratory time
5 nought worthless
5 city London and its citizens
7 that so that
10 construction interpretation, judgment, appraisal
11 such a one could refer to either Katherine, Anne, or Elizabeth
13 ill hap bad luck
14 hold refrain, refuse