¹³The … o’th’world
the world is imaged as a coastline against which darkness and light ebb and flow; there is also suggestion of the world itself being a changeable place

²²importune
urge, entreat (death to delay)

²⁷th’imperious show
the imperial spectacle, i.e. triumphal procession

²⁹brooched
adorned by my presence like a brooch

³⁰operation
power, efficacy

³²still conclusion
silent judgment

³³Demuring
looking demurely/gazing at length

³⁸heaviness
sorrow/weight

³⁹Juno
supreme Roman goddess, Jove’s wife

⁴⁰Mercury
messenger of the Roman gods, traditionally depicted wearing winged sandals

⁴²Wishers … fools
proverbial

⁴³Die … lived
do not die until you have really lived (“die” has orgasmic connotations)

⁴⁴Quicken
come to life

⁴⁶heavy
grievous, pitiful

⁴⁹rail so high
curse so loudly

⁵⁰false housewife
treacherous whore

wheel
the Roman goddess Fortuna was conventionally depicted turning a wheel, which raised men up before casting them down (may pick up on the domestic sense of
housewife
to play on the sense of “spinning wheel”)

⁵¹offence
abusive language

⁵⁴They … together
i.e. honor and safety

⁵⁶None … Proculeius
trust none of Caesar’s officers except Proculeius

⁶⁴Not … countryman
I have not submitted like a coward to Caesar

⁶⁵by a Roman
i.e. by himself;
Roman
signifies the virtues of honor and courage

⁶⁸woo’t
wilt, i.e. will you

⁷¹sty
pigsty/place inhabited by whores and lustful people

⁷³garland
wreath crowning a victorious war hero

⁷⁴pole
battle standard, pole bearing a military flag/Pole Star (phallic connotations are also present)

⁷⁵odds is gone
distinction between great and small

⁷⁶remarkable
wonderful, extraordinary

⁷⁷visiting
i.e. which comes and goes as it waxes and wanes

⁸⁵e’en
only

⁸⁶passion
overpowering emotion/grief/a faint

⁸⁷chares
chores

⁸⁸sceptre
ornamental rod, symbol of royal authority

injurious
harmful/unjust

⁹¹sottish
foolish

⁹⁷Our lamp
i.e. Antony

sirs
valid, if less frequently used, address form for women

⁹⁸brave
splendid/valiant

¹⁰³briefest end
swiftest death

bearing of
carrying

²frustrate
defeated

mocks
makes himself ridiculous in

³pauses
delays

⁶thus
i.e. with drawn sword in the presence of a ruler; in Shakespeare’s time this was a treasonous offense

¹⁰wore … haters
spent my life fighting his enemies

¹⁷breaking
destruction (of Antony)/disclosure (of the news)

¹⁸crack
loud noise/fracture

¹⁹civil
city/orderly

²⁰their dens
their own homes/lions’ dens

²¹single doom
the fate of one individual alone

²²moiety
half

²⁵self
same

³⁶persisted
persistently sought

³⁷waged equal with
battled equally within

³⁹steer humanity
guide a man/govern mankind

⁴⁴launch
lance

⁴⁶shown
i.e. through my own downfall

⁴⁷stall
dwell

⁴⁹sovereign … hearts
potent as heart’s blood

⁵⁰competitor
partner

⁵¹top … design
the loftiest of undertakings

⁵²front
battlefront/forehead

⁵³heart … kindle
my heart took courage from his

⁵⁴stars, Unreconciliable
unreconcilable fortunes

⁵⁵divide … this
separate us, who were so equally matched in everything, to this degree

⁵⁷meeter season
fitter time

⁵⁸looks … him
appears to be urgent judging by his expression

⁶⁰yet
i.e. still not a Roman subject

⁶²intents
intentions

⁶³frame herself
ready herself, adapt herself

⁶⁶by … ours
through my representatives

⁶⁸lean
incline, be disposed

⁶⁹ungentle
unkind/discourteous/ignoble

⁷²purpose
intend

⁷³quality … passion
nature of her grief

⁷⁵her … triumph
her presence at my triumphal procession would make it famous forever

⁷⁷with your speediest
as fast as you can

⁷⁸of her
her to be

⁸⁶hardly
reluctantly

⁸⁷still
always

⁸⁸writings
i.e. to Antony

¹desolation
despair/loneliness/ruin

²better life
more virtuous, unworldly

³knave
servant

⁵that thing
i.e. suicide

⁶shackles … change
prevents the effects of chance and changes of mortality

⁷palates
tastes

dung
the dungy earth

⁸beggar’s … Caesar’s
i.e. sustainer of all men

¹⁰study on
consider

fair
liberal/just

¹¹Thou mean’st
you would wish

¹⁶I … trusting
I’m not concerned whether you deceive me since I have no interest in trust/I do not like being deceived since I know how little value there is in trust

²⁶Make … reference
refer your entire situation

²⁷grace
virtue/mercy

²⁹sweet dependency
willing submissiveness

³⁰pray in aid
crave your assistance (legal phrase)

³³vassal
slave/servant and dependent

send … got
recognize his great achievement and authority

³⁵doctrine
lesson

⁴⁰surprised
ambushed and captured

⁴⁷Relieved
rescued

⁵⁴let come forth
allow to be demonstrated

⁵⁹meat
food

⁶⁰idle … necessary
even if I must engage in idle chatter (in order to stay awake)