The Winter's Tale (42 page)

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notes of admiration
marks of wonder   

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cases … eyes
their eyelids (i.e. by staring in amazement)   

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as
as if   

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importance
meaning, import   

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one
one or the other   

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happily
perhaps   

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bonfires
i.e. celebrations   

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ballad-makers
ballads often provided accounts of contemporary scandals and events   

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verity
truth   

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pregnant by circumstance
proven by evidence   

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mantle
loose sleeveless cloak   

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character
handwriting   

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affection of
instinct toward, disposition of   

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countenance
facial expressions/behavior   

distraction
frenzy   

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favour
face/appearance   

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worries he
he harasses   

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clipping
embracing   

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like … reigns
(weeping) like a fountain that has endured the reigns of many kings   

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lames … it
makes any account of it seem deficient   

do
expresess   

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undoes
defies   

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rehearse
recount   

credit
belief   

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with
by   

avouches
vows   

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innocence
simple-mindedness, freedom from cunning   

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bark
small ship   

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one … elevated
i.e. experienced a mixture of happiness and grief   

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losing
being lost   

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prettiest touches
most ingenious/charming aspects   

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caught the water
i.e. provoked tears   

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attentiveness
intent listening   

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dolour
grief   

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fain
be compelled to   

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marble
hard-hearted   

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newly performed
recently completed   

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Julio Romano
Italian painter who died in 1546, infamous for erotic works   

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beguile
cheat   

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custom
business   

ape
mimic   

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done
created   

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removèd
isolated, remote   

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piece
add to   

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thence
away from there   

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grace
wonder   

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unthrifty
unprofitable, i.e. we waste an opportunity to add   

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dash
trace   

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preferment
promotion   

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the
i.e. the ship of the   

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relished
tasted well   

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discredits
misdeeds   

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blossoms
full flowering   

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this
the   

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Give … lie
insult me so that I may challenge you to a duel   

try
find out   

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preposterous
utterly absurd; the Clown means to say “prosperous”   

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give … report
speak well of me   

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gentle
noble/kind   

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boors
peasants   

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franklins
landowners ranking below the gentry   

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ne'er so false
completely false   

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in
on   

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tall … hands
brave/fine man   

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would
wish   

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to my power
as far as I can (perhaps implying his skill at using his
hands
for picking pockets)   

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picture
likeness, statue   

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grave
wise   

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What
whatever   

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paid home
rewarded fully   

vouchsafed
agreed, granted kindly   

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contracted
betrothed   

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One … used
i.e. if I married an inferior woman and treated
her
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better (than Hermione)   

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which … answer
which for all my life I shall not be able to repay   

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trouble
i.e. demands on your hospitality   

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gallery
long, large room   

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content
pleasure   

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singularities
objects of note   

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Lonely
separate (Folio's “Louely” is conceivably correct, but a printer's error much more likely)   

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lively mocked
realistically imitated   

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Still
motionless   

well
well done   

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something near
somewhat close to resembling her   

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As
as if   

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stone
hard-hearted/dead (from grief)   

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admiring
full of wonder   

spirits
vital energies   

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superstition
idolatry   

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fixed
painted   

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sore
painfully/severely   

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So … dry
and an equal number of summers cannot dry up   

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cause
i.e. himself   

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piece up in
add to   

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wrought
moved, affected   

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fancy
imagination   

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verily
truly   

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fixture
fixed setting   

motion
movement, life   

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transported
entranced   

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settled senses
calm state of mind in   

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Let't
leave it   

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cordial
restorative, beneficial to the heart   

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air … her
she seems to breathe   

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ruddiness
rosy color   

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mar
spoil   

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forbear
restrain yourself, withdraw   

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presently
immediately   

chapel
room set aside for worship   

resolve you
prepare yourself   

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wicked powers
witchcraft   

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On
onward   

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strike
strike up (sense then shifts to “affect”)   

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fill … up
i.e. bring you back to life   

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him
i.e. death   

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for … double
by shunning her in this new life, you would kill her again   

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Is … suitor?
i.e. Must she take your hand?   

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pertain to life
is truly alive   

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make it manifest
explain   

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hooted
jeered   

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preserved
kept alive, protected   

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in being
alive   

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issue
outcome/child   

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they … relation
at this crucial moment others trouble your happiness by relating their own stories   

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Partake
extend   

turtle
turtledove, thought to mate for life   

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mate
i.e. Antigonus   

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lost
dead   

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match
contract   

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between's
between us   

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For
as for   

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justified
confirmed, acknowledged   

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troth-plight
betrothed   

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demand
question   

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dissevered
divided