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Titus Andronicus & Timon of Athens

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by William Shakespeare


  372 cap top, foremost (playing on the literal sense of "fool's headgear") 375 stand by i.e. are compared to

  378 I'll I would

  379 tongue i.e. speech

  380 issue offspring

  381 Choler ... alive the fact that you are alive kills me with anger 391 But even except

  391 mere necessities absolute fundamentals (basic means to survive, but the dominant sense here is "inevitabilities such as death") 392 presently immediately

  395 That so that

  395 in through

  396 dear costly/beloved

  397 natural blood-related

  397 sire father

  398 Hymen Greek and Roman god of marriage

  398 Mars Roman god of war

  401 Dian i.e. Diana, Roman goddess of hunting and chastity 402 sold'rest unites

  402 impossibilities incompatible things

  403 with every tongue in every language/with the tongue of every person 404 touch touchstone

  405 Think believe that

  406 confounding odds ruinous conflict

  406 beasts ... empire animals will rule

  413 Thy back i.e. turn around and go away

  415 quit finished with, rid of him

  416 Banditti outlaws, bandits

  418 ort scrap, leftover

  418 remainder remaining wealth

  418 mere want utter lack

  419 falling-from falling away, abandonment

  421 noised rumored

  422 assay test/attack

  423 reserve withhold

  424 shall's shall we

  430 save thee God save thee (a standard greeting)

  433 Both too you are both of these

  434 want lack

  435 want ... meat lack much food/desire elaborate food 438 mast acorns

  438 hips rose-hips

  440 mess serving of food

  444 eat i.e. prey upon the wealth of

  444 con offer

  445 professed by trade/declared

  446 shapes guises

  447 limited officially regulated (the sense of "restricted" contrasts with boundless) 448 suck ... o'th'grape i.e. drink wine

  448 subtle cunning

  449 seethe boil/dissipate

  450 scape hanging i.e. by dying of drink-induced fever instead 453 protest profess

  454 example you give you precedent through examples 455 attraction power to draw up

  456 arrant absolute

  458 resolves melts

  460 composture compost

  462 your ... whip i.e. that restrain and punish you 463 Has unchecked theft possess limitless power to steal (or possibly "have failed to limit theft") 467 Steal ... howsoe'er if you steal less because I give you this gold, may gold destroy you in any case 469 Has he has

  471 in ... of out of hatred for

  472 mystery profession

  473 as as I would

  476 true honest

  478 yond yonder, that

  478 ruinous ruined

  479 monument memorial

  480 wonder extraordinary example

  480 evilly bestowed bestowed upon evil people/badly bestowed 485 rarely splendidly

  485 guise fashion, custom

  488 that ... do who make it plain that they intend me harm, rather than those who do harm and pretend friendship 489 Has ... eye he has seen me

  491 Still always

  499 knaves servants/rogues

  502 undone ruined

  504 disclaim'st renounce

  505 Flinty hard-hearted, stony

  505 give weep

  506 thorough through

  508 know recognize, acknowledge

  510 entertain receive/employ

  512 comfortable comforting

  516 exceptless universal, making no exceptions

  517 perpetual sober eternally grave, moderate

  518 but only

  520 fain willingly

  522 fell cut down

  524 oppressing distressing/persecuting/overwhelming 525 service servant's post

  527 Upon ... neck i.e. by standing on and oppressing their previous master 528 though ... sure however sure I am

  529 subtle devious

  530 usuring charging interest

  533 suspect suspicion

  536 merely purely, only

  537 unmatched unequaled

  540 For as for

  541 hope i.e. the future

  543 requite repay

  544 singly uniquely

  547 thus conditioned on this condition

  547 from away from

  552 blasted withered

  Act 5 Scene 1

  6 of from

  9 breaking bankruptcy

  9 try test

  11 palm ... highest "the righteous shall flourish like the palm tree" (Psalms 92:12) 13 tender offer

  14 show ... us show us to be honest

  14 load reward

  15 travail labor/travel

  16 having possessions, wealth

  18 visitation visit

  20 intent planned work, project

  22 Good ... best perfect, excellent

  22 air style, fashion

  24 for his act when put into practice

  24 but except

  25 the ... saying carrying out a promise

  25 use custom

  26 performance ... it acting on a promise is as sure a sign of unhealthy judgment as writing a will is a sign of bodily illness 32 personating of himself representation of him (in his current circumstances) 33 discovery revealing

  34 opulency affluence

  35 stand for model as

  36 whip punish

  39 Then ... late we damage our own fortunes if we arrive too late to benefit from Timon's wealth 42 serves is available

  44 meet ... turn play you at your own game/meet you at the turning (Timon may have been concealed by a stage pillar and is about to emerge as if from around a corner) 47 thou i.e. gold

  47 rigg'st the bark sets the rigging on a ship

  48 Settlest establishes

  49 thy saints may your devotees

  49 aye ever

  51 Fit aptly, at the right time

  53 late former

  54 once really

  56 open generous

  57 retired withdrawn

  61 influence astrological influence over human destiny (an invisible substance thought to stream from stars and planets supposedly governed one's fate) 62 rapt absorbed by emotion

  64 size quantity/glue applied to canvas before painting 67 them ungrateful men

  69 shower heavenly downfall (continues astrological imagery) 78 therefore for that reason

  80 counterfeit image, likeness (plays on the senses of "forgery/deception") 82 lively lifelike

  83 So, so passably

  84 E'en so exactly, just

  84 fiction literary creation/lies

  85 smooth elegantly flowing/flattering, deceitful

  86 thou ... art your imitations of nature seem like the real thing/you show your true self in your deceit (natural may also have the sense of "foolish") 89 monstrous overly large/unnatural

  93 ill badly

  97 never ... but i.e. both of you

  100 cog cheat

  100 dissemble disguise the truth

  101 patchery trickery

  102 Keep keep him

  102 bosom heart

  103 made-up complete

  108 draught sewer, cesspool

  109 Confound destroy

  109 course method, course of action

  112 You ... company even if you part company, neither of you is alone (as each man has a dual identity: honest man and villain) 115 thou ... thou Timon addresses first one man, then the other 116 him i.e. the other man

  118 pack be off

  120 alchemist i.e. poet who transforms his subjects into something more splendid than they are in reality (and whose creations elicit payment); an alchemist seeks to turn base metals into gold 123 set ... himself so self-absorbed
r />   127 part role

  130 still always

  131 framed made

  131 fairer kinder/more favorable

  133 The ... him may restore Timon to his former self 134 chance ... may let things fall out as they will 142 cantherizing blistering and burning

  145 Of ... Timon i.e. we are worthy of nothing better than one another 150 What ... thee the wrongs that we regret having done to you 151 one consent unanimous agreement

  153 dignities high offices

  154 wearing possession, employment

  156 general gross publicly obvious

  158 recanter one who retracts

  159 withal moreover, with it

  160 restraining in withholding

  161 sorrowed sorrowful

  161 render acknowledgment, apology (literally "payment of account") 163 weigh ... dram outweigh when measured with great accuracy 163 dram one eighth of an ounce

  166 write in thee i.e. as if in an account book 168 witch bewitch

  169 Surprise overpower (emotionally)

  171 beweep weep at

  175 Allowed endowed

  177 of ... wild Alcibiades' fierce attacks

  186 sack plunder, pillage

  188 stain i.e. pollution of rape

  189 contumelious insolent, contemptuous

  193 take't at worst put the worst interpretation on it 194 answer i.e. be cut (plays on the sense of "utter a reply") 195 whittle knife

  196 prize ... before love and value it more than

  199 keepers jailers

  204 nothing i.e. the oblivion of death

  206 last ... enough remain in that suffering state for a long time 210 bruit report, rumor

  213 become befit

  215 triumphers victorious warriors returning to the city in triumph 220 throes naturally occurring pains

  221 nature's fragile vessel i.e. the body

  225 close enclosure

  226 use need

  228 sequence of degree order of social rank

  229 whoso please whoever wishes

  230 take his haste hurry

  233 still always

  235 everlasting mansion eternal dwelling, i.e. grave 236 beached verge beach at the edge

  236 salt flood the sea

  237 Who refers either to Timon or to his grave

  237 embossed foaming

  239 be your oracle i.e. impart wisdom to you 245 Coupled to nature part of his character

  247 strain stretch to their limits

  248 dear extreme

  Act 5 Scene 2

  5.2 Location: Athens, seemingly just outside the city walls

  1 painfully discovered revealed painful news

  1 files ranks of troops

  3 least lowest estimate

  4 his ... approach the speed of his march suggests that he will arrive imminently 6 stand much hazard are at great risk

  7 one one who is

  7 ancient long-established

  8 in ... opposed i.e. we were on opposite sides in this conflict 9 particular personal

  12 imported concerned/communicated

  13 fellowship partnership

  14 in ... moved undertaken, in part, for Timon's sake 15 brothers fellow senators

  17 fearful inducing fear

  17 scouring swift movement of troops/cleaning of guns with scouring-rods 19 fall defeat/capture

  19 the snare are the trap we will be caught by

  Act 5 Scene 3

  5.3 Location: woods near Athens

  3 outstretched his span i.e. lived beyond his desired time 4 there ... man i.e. all men are beasts

  6 character lettering

  6 take with wax take a wax impression of it/copy it onto a wax tablet 7 figure kind of writing

  8 aged i.e. experienced

  9 set down encamped

  9 this this time, now

  10 Whose fall the fall of which

  10 mark goal, target

  Act 5 Scene 4

  5.4 Location: outside the walls of Athens powers troops 1 Sound proclaim by trumpet

  2 terrible terrifying

  2 parley trumpet summons to negotiation, during which a ceasefire was observed 2 above i.e. on the upper staging level, or gallery 4 all licentious measure every kind of licentiousness/extremes of licentiousness 4 wills desires

  5 scope measure

  6 slept dwelt/remained passive

  7 traversed arms folded arms/weapons held crossed (as in a military drill--i.e. not being used in active warfare) 7 breathed expressed, uttered

  8 vainly in vain

  8 flush in full flood

  9 crouching marrow previously inactive vitality

  10 of itself of its own accord

  10 breathless wrong i.e. wrongdoers who are out of breath from fear or through running away 12 pursy fat/short of breath

  12 break his wind gasp for breath/fart

  15 griefs grievances

  15 conceit idea, thought

  17 sent i.e. sent messages

  17 balm soothing relief

  19 Above their quantity greater than your rages (or griefs) 20 So in the same manner

  20 woo entreat

  22 means terms of peace/wealth

  24 common indiscriminate

  27 they i.e. those that have caused you grief 28 trophies and schools monuments and public buildings 29 private individual, personal

  31 motives ... out instigators behind your banishment 32 Shame ... excess excessive shame for their lack of skill and effective policy 35 decimation ... death the death of every tenth person 36 food ... loathes i.e. death

  38 hazard ... die throw of a die (the singular of "dice" puns on the verb "to die") 39 spotted tainted, guilty (shifting the sense away from "marked with dots") 41 were were alive at the time (and did offend)

  41 square just, fair

  42 are are alive now

  44 without outside (the city walls)

  46 bluster violent storm

  48 fold sheep-pen

  48 cull select

  50 wilt will, want

  54 rampired reinforced/blocked

  54 ope open

  55 So provided

  55 gentle peaceful/honorable

  57 Throw if you throw

  58 token pledge

  60 confusion ruin

  60 powers troops

  61 make their harbour have safe lodging

  62 sealed completed, satisfied, ratified

  64 uncharged ports unassailed gates

  66 set ... reproof pick out for punishment and disgrace 67 atone appease

  68 With ... meaning by telling you of my nobler intentions 69 pass leave

  69 quarter designated military lodgings

  71 But ... to without being dealt with by

  72 heaviest answer strictest penalty

  77 insculpture inscription

  79 Interprets serves as an interpreter

  81 caitiffs wretches

  83 stay ... gait do not pause as you walk by

  84 These i.e. these words

  84 latter recent

  86 brains' flow tears

  87 niggard miserly

  87 conceit imagination

  88 Neptune Roman god of the sea

  88 aye ever

  89 low near to the edge of the sea/humble

  89 faults forgiven either the wrongs done to Timon (forgiven by Alcibiades as he agrees peace with the senators) or Timon's own loathing and abuse of humanity 90 memory memorial

  92 olive olive branch, an emblem of peace

  93 stint stop

  94 leech doctor/cure, literally the parasitic worm used to treat various ailments, hence also possibly "bloodsucker"

 

 

 
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