The Tempest (33 page)

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Milan … Milan
i.e. the Duke of Milan (Prospero)… the dukedom

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still
always

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his heart
the heart of anyone who

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blasphemy … shore
i.e. the Boatswain, who curses freely on his ship, is uncharacteristically silent

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glasses
hourglasses (i.e. three hours)

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gave out
reported

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tight and yare
efficient and seaworthy

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tricksy
cleverly playful

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clapped under hatches
shut up below deck

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several
various

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at liberty
i.e. released from below deck

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trim
finery/clothes

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Cap’ring
leaping/dancing

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On a trice
instantly

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moping
dazed, bewildered

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conduct
guide/director

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beating
dwelling

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picked leisure
a chosen moment of free time

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be shortly single
soon be undivided (referring to
leisure
)

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Which … probable
in a manner that will convince you

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happened accidents
events that have taken place

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well
easily/cheerfully

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shift
look out for

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fortune
chance, fate

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Coraggio
“have courage” (Italian)

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bully
gallant/my old mate

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spies
i.e. eyes

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like
likely

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One … fish
presumably Caliban

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badges
livery

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true
legitimate/honest

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And … power
could adopt some of the moon’s power without its authority/could operate beyond the reach of the moon’s power

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bastard
illegitimate/hybrid

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reeling ripe
drunk and staggering

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gilded
flushed/enlivened

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pickle
trouble/inebriation/state of being preserved in liquor

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will … bones
(the alcohol) will never leave my body

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fly-blowing
decay (the blow-fly lays eggs in dead flesh)

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cramp
i.e. doubled-up from either the pinches of Ariel’s torment or drunkenness

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sirrah
sir (contemptuous)

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sore
aching/dreadful

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manners
behavior/moral conduct

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trim it handsomely
adorn the cell beautifully

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grace
mercy, direction

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thrice-double
sixfold (three times two)

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waste
pass away

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accidents
events

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solemnized
marked with ceremony

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Every third thought
i.e. I will frequently meditate on death, as a good Christian should

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Take … strangely
be an extraordinary, captivating thing to hear

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expeditious
swift

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catch
catch up with

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draw near
probably an invitation to the others to approach his cell, but the phrase also means “attend,” thus preparing the audience for the epilogue

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charms … o’erthrown
my magic is relinquished (
o’erthrown
plays on the sense of “usurped”)

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you
the audience

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bands
bonds

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hands
i.e. in applause

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Gentle breath
kind words/cries of approval

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want
lack

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prayer
approbation and forgiveness

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pierces … assaults
penetrates so deeply that it moves

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indulgence
approval (playing on the Catholic sense of “official release from sin”)