| matter | significance |
| unseen | hidden |
| heavy | dreadful |
| answered | justified, explained, satisfied |
| short | on a short leash |
| divulging | coming to light |
| soft | an exclamation here enjoining silence |
| knavish | mischievous |
| progress | royal journey |
| bark | ship |
| tend | attend you; wait for your |
| bent | ready |
| England | King of England |
| cicatrice | scar |
| congruing | agreeing (accent on first syllable) |
| present | immediate |
| imports | demands |
| softly | slowly |
| powers | military forces |
| addition | overstatement. exaggeration |
| impostume | abscess |
| discourse | power of thought |
| fust | become moldy |
| sith | since |
| bloodly | bloodthirsty |
| distract | distraught; perturbed, unsettles; insane, mentally disturbed |
| tricks | plots; deception |
| aim | guess |
| ill-breeding | evil breeding |
| toy | triffle |
| amiss | disaster |
| artless | awkward, stupid |
| jealousy | unreasonable suspicions |
| spills | destroys |
| split | divulged |
| shoon | shoes |
| betime | early |
| dupped | opened |
| maid | virgin |
| Gis | Jesus |
| Cock | a substitution for “God” in oaths |
| author | cause |
| spies | individual soldiers sent by the army to scout out the territory |
| muddied | stirred up, confused |
| wonder | bewilderment, perplexity |
| within | offstage |
| attend | listen, particpate in |
| Switzers | Swiss bodyguards |
| head | armed force |
| counters | in hunting, a dog goes counter when it follows the trail in the wrong direction |
| false | treacherous, faithless |
| without | outside |
| keep | guard |
| cuckold | betrayed husband |
| true | faithful. chaste |
| hedge | surround in order to protect |
| would | ish; wwould like to do |
| throughly | thoroughly |
| certainty/Of | truths or facts about |
| swoopstake | literally. take all the stakes on the gambling table (The metaphoric meaning of line 162 is “are you dtermined to take revenge on friend and enemies both?” |
| sensibly | intensely |
| level | intelligble, plain |
| document | lesson, instruction |
| fennel | in flowery symbolism it symbolizes flattery and deceipt |
| rue | symbol of sorrow or repentance |
| a difference | heraldic term for a variation in a coat of arms |
| daisy | symbol of dissembling |
| violets | symbol of faithfulness |
| thought | melancholy |
| passion | suffering |
| hatchment | tablet displaying his coat of arms |
| ostentation | ceremony |
| th’ ambassador | Hamlet |
| overlooked | read |
| means | means of access |
| way | means of access |
| knowing | intelligent, understanding |
| feats | deeds |
| capital | deadly |
| mainly | greatly |
| unsinewed | weak |
| conjunctive | closely joined |
| count | accounting; judgment |
| reverted | returned |
| terms | condition |
| naked | defenseless |
| pardon | permission |
| abuse | deceit, imposture |
| characters | handwriting |
| so | provided that |
| device | devising. planning |
| uncharge | lift a burden from |
| practice | strategem. treachery |
| organ | agent, instrument |
| sables | furs, or robes with sable trim |
| weeds | garments |
| importing | signifying |
| brave | noble |
| topped | surpassed |
| ‘scrimers | fencers (from French escrimeurs) |
| play | fence |
| qualifies | diminishes, lessens |
| snuff | the burnt part of the wick of a candle |
| That | That which; so that |
| indeed | in fact. also, in action |
| remiss | carelessly indifferent |
| generous | noble-minded |
| contriving | treachery |
| shuffling | shifting of the foils, legerdemain |
| unbated | not blunted (as rapiers for such matches should be) |
| mortal | deadly |
| cataplasm | poultice |
| simples | medicinal plants |
| virtue | medicinal power |
| withal | with it |
| contagion | poision that infects the blood |
| motion | exertion |
| venomed | poisonouse |
| stuck | thrust (a fencing term) |
| askant | aslant |
| hoar | gray |
| Therewith | with willow brances |
| liberal | plainspoken |
| grosser | coarser, less decent |
| cold | chaste |
| pendant | downhanging |
| lauds | hymns |
| endued | naturally adapted |
| lay | song |
| straight | straightaway, immediately |
| crowner | coroner |
| wittingly | deliberately |
| Argal | a mistake for Latin ergo “therefore” |
| goodman | a form of address prefixed, as here, to the name of an occupation |
| ‘quest | inquest |
| count’nance | legal approval, favorable loks |
| even-Christian | fellow Christians |
| unyoke | ie quit as a farmer does when he unyokes his team of oxen |
| Marry | a mild oath |
| Mass | by the Mass (a mild oath) |
| doomsday | last judgment; end of the world |
| behove | benefit |
| jowls | dashes |
| o’erreaches | gets the better of |
| mazard | head (a slang term) |
| loggets | a game played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake |
| quiddities | hair-splitting definitions |
| quillities | quibbles |
| tenures | holdings |
| suffer | allow |
| sconce | head (a slang term) |
| conveyances | deeds |
| inheritor | owner |
| sirrah | term of address to a lower-class male |
| quick | living; quick moving; alived |
| absolute | precise |
| picked | affected |
| pocky | rotten as if infected with syphillis |
| fancy | imagination |
| chapfallen | dejected; without the lower jaw |
| favor | appearance |
| Alexander | Alexander the Great who died in 323 BCE as rule of the known world |
| curiousity | elaborately |
| Imperious | imperial, majestic |
| expel | keep out |
| flaw | gust of wind |
| maimed | impaired. diminished |
| Fordo | destroy |
| mark | observe |
| doubtful | suspicious |
| for | instead of |
| shards | bits of pottery |
| crants | garlands |
| strewments | flowers strewn on a grave |
| howling | in hell |
| decked | adorned. arrayed |
| Pelion | a high mountain on which, in Greek mythology, the giants placed Mount Ossa in their attempt to scale Mount Olympus |
| skyish | lofty |
| spenitive | quick-tempered |
| ‘swounds | by Christ’s wounds (a strong oath) |
| thou’t | thou wilt |
| Woo’t | wilt thou |
| eisel | vinegar |
| Ossa | in Greek mythology, the giants placed Pelion on top of Mount Ossa in their attempt to scale Mount Olympus |
| disclosed | hatched |
| thereby | often replaced by Fs shortly |
| mutines | muntineers |
| bilboes | shackles |
| indiscretion | impulsive action |
| pall | lose strength |
| learn | teach |
| fingered | stole |
| larded | ornamented |
| bugs | bugbears |
| or | before |
| yeoman’s | substantial; loyal |
| effect | substance; purposes, rewards |
| tributary | a national that pays tribute to another nation |
| ordinant | working to control events |
| signet | small seal |
| model | replica |
| changeling | exchance (as fariies substitued elves or imps for human babies, so Hamlet has replace the king’s document with his own forged one.) |
| defeat | destruction |
| insinuation | winding themselves into the affair |
| baser | inferior |
| pass | thrust |
| fell | destructive |
| points | swords |
| hopes | expectations |
| angle | fishhook |
| proper | very |
| quit | requite; pay back |
| canker | sore that eats and spreads; cancer |
| in | into |
| bravery | boastful showiness |
| waterfly | iridescent insect |
| crib | stall of an ox |
| mess | ie table (literally, regular eating companions) |
| chough | ie jackdaw (a chattering birdm and thus a chatterer) |
| indifferent | somewhat; pretty well |
| complexion | temperament |
| differences | distinguishing characteristics |
| continent | container; receptacle |
| definement | definition |
| perdition | loss |
| nomination | naming |
| approve | commend |
| imputation | reputation |
| meed | merit |
| unfellowed | unmatched |
| poniards | daggers |
| assigns | accessories such as girdles, hangers, and swords |
| carriages | literally, wheeled supports on which cannons are mounted |
| responsive | well-matched |
| laid | bet |
| foils | weapons blunted for fencing |
| an | if, a |
| commend | offer (also means prasise a few pages earlier |
| drossy | worthless |
| tune | manner of speaking |
| gaingiving | misgiving |
| repair | coming |
| state | court |
| needs | necessarily |
| sore | severe, grave |
| exception | dislike, dissatisfaction |
| purposed | intended |
| frankly | freely willingly |
| kettle | kettledrum |
| napkin | handkerchief |
| carouses | drinks a toast |
| woodcock | proverbially stupid bird |
| union | pearl; probable pun on union as “pearl” and union in marriage and death |
| tempered | mixed, compounded |
| mutes | actors without speaking parts |
| o’ercrows | triumphs over |
| voice | vote; authority |
| Colors | those carrying flags or standards of Fortinbras’s army |
| toward | in preparation |
| senseless | incapable of sensing |
| him | Claudius |
| stage | platform |
| casual | occuring by chance |
| deliver | tell |
| passage | passing, death |
| field | field of battle |
| drift | conscious direction, steering |
| conference | discourse, conversation |
| grafting | afflicting, vexing |
| assay | tempt |
| rub | obstacle |
| respect | consideration |
| time | the age we live in, life long damages |
| despised | unrequited |
| fardels | burdens, loads |
| bourn | frontier |
| puzzles | paralyzes |
| conscience | knowldege, consciousness |
| cast | shade |
| pitch | height, highest point in falcons flight |
| moment | importance |
| honest | chaste |
| fair | beautiful; in the clear hand of a clerk |
| paradox | contradiction |
| nunnery | convent or brothel |
| monsters | cuckolds (man whose wife was unfaithful grew horns on his forehead) |
| expectancy | hope |
| rose | paragon |
| blown | vigorous, fresh |
| affections | emotion, mental state, artificiality |
| robustious | noisy, boisterous |
| groundlings | spectators who stood in the theater yard rather than sitting in gallrgy seats or around the stage- cheaper tickets |
| termagant | figure who medievel christians wrongly believed was worshipped by muslims |
| herod | a raging tyrant |
| modesty | moderation, absence of excess, restraint |
| from | opposite to |
| pressure | shape |
| allowance | estimation |
| christians | respectabele human beings |
| journeymen | hirelings who work for daily wages |
| clowns | comic roles |
| barren | dull, uninteligent |
| question | matter, subject, problem |
| election | choice; selection of a ruler |
| blood | emotions, passions |
| commeddled | mixed together |
| pipe | small win instrument like a fluete |
| stop | hole that a musician finger covers to make a certain sound |
| comment | observation |
| occulted | deliberatel hidden |
| unkennel | a term describing the driving of a fox from its lair |
| seeming | appearance, behavior |
| idle | delerious, crazy |
| fares | does, eats |
| black | mourning garments |
| belike | perhaps… |
| imports | makes known |
| argument | plot |
| naught | naught, indecent |
| mark | pay attention to |
| hymen | god of marriage |
| commutual | mutal, recpirocal |
| confound | destroy |
| wormwood | bitter, harsh |
| instances | causes |
| thrift | worldly profit |
| enactures | enactments |
| aye | ever |
| down | fallen in esteem |
| favorite | chosen companion |
| flies | deserts him |
| hitherto | thus far |
| try | test |
| ends | outcome, result |
| fain | gladly |
| beguile | while away |
| rock | soothe |
| methinks | it seems to me |
| anon | soon |
| kavish | impertinent |
| free | innocent |
| witers | ridge between the horses shoulders |
| unwrung | not chafed |
| blasted | cursed, blighted |
| feathers | worn on actors hats |
| razed | slashed decoratively |
| damon | renonwed in roman mythology for the depht of his friendship for pythias |
| dismantled | stripped |
| Jove | king of the roman gods |
| pajock | peacock |
| recorders | wind instruments like a flute with seven holes |
| perdy | by God in french |
| retirement | withdrawal into seclusion |
| distempered | upset, ill, drunk |
| choler | biliousness, anger |
| signify | announce, tell |
| purgation | medical cleansing, spiritual purfication |
| start | shy away |
| wholesome | sane |
| admiration | wonder |
| ventages | finger hols or stops |
| compass | full range of an insturments sound, limits, scope |
| fret | annoy, tormen, provide a stringed instrument adorned with raised parts on the fingerbaord that guid the fingers |
| fool | trifle with |
| nero | murderer of his mother Agrippina |
| shent | punished |
| brows | forehead |
| fear | apprehension, solicitude, concern |
| noyance | injury |
| cess | cessaition, decease |
| gulf | whirlpool |
| mortise | securely fastened |
| boistrous | violent, savage |
| convey | conveal |
| process | discussion |
| meet | appropriate; suitable |
| currents | course of events |
| rests | remains |
| limed | trapped |
| engaged | entangled |
| pat | opportunely |
| audit | final acount |
| pranks | malicious deeds |
| round | blunt, plainspoken |
| rood | cross |
| glass | mirror |
| leave | end, cease |
| proff | invulnerable |
| sense | feeling |
| blurs | stains, defiles |
| contraction | marriage contract |
| rhapsody | jumble |
| hyperions | name for the sun god, most beuatiful of the pagan gods |
| front | forehead |
| combinations | group of features |
| ear | of a cereal plant like wheat |
| batten | glut yourself |
| moor | barren land |
| heyday | state of excitement |
| apoplexed | suffering from paralysis |
| cozened | tricked |
| mutine | incite rebellion |
| grained | indelible,permanent dye |
| enseamed | greasy |
| cutpurse | thief |
| important | urgent |
| conceit | imagination |
| incorporal | immaterial |
| capables | responsive |
| want | lack |
| reword | repeat word for word |
| ranker | more coarsely luxuriant; higher |
| fatness | grossness |
| pursy | flat, glabby |
| curb | bow |
| use | habit |
| aptly | easily |
| potency | strength |
| reechy | filthy |
| paddock | toad |
| gib | tomcat |
| unpeg | unfasten |
| mines | tunnels dug under a fortress wall, undermine |
| packing | leaving the country, carrying off a burden |
| tempt | entice |
| mouth | orate pompously |
Hamlet Act 3 and 4 and 5
September 8, 2019