45 Instance evidence/give an example
46 still always
46 fells fleeces
49 grease sweat
54 tarred ... sheep tar, having antiseptic properties, was applied to injured sheep 56 civet musky substance used in perfume and obtained from the anal glands of the civet cat 57 worms-meat i.e. rotten flesh
57 respect of comparison with
59 perpend consider
60 flux flow
60 Mend improve
61 rest cease (Touchstone shifts sense to "remain")
63 make incision cut, as raw meat is scored and salted for cooking/cut, for the medical purpose of letting blood (and curing folly)/graft on (wisdom), as a plant is cultivated 63 raw inexperienced/ignorant/uncooked
64 that what
64 get earn
66 content ... harm patient in my own afflictions
68 simple foolish
69 offer presume/venture
70 cattle animals/whores
70 bawd pimp
70 bell-wether leading male sheep of a flock (with a bell around its neck) 71 crooked-pated with crooked/curled horns
72 cuckoldly a cuckold (man with an unfaithful wife) was traditionally said to grow horns 72 out of beyond the limits of
77 Ind Indies
81 lined drawn
82 black to dark-complexioned, foul compared to
84 fair beauty/light complexion
85 together continuously
86 It ... market i.e. the predictable verse resembles either the jogging to market of country women in a cart or the eager lust of a whore to put herself to sale 86 butter-women butter sellers/lecherous women/whores
87 rank movement in line/lustful
90 hart male deer
90 hind female deer
92 after kind act according to its nature (proverbial; plays on the sense of "have sex") 94 Wintered worn in winter/old
94 lined plays on notion of sex between dogs, giving bawdy connotations to the next line (i.e. Rosalind will lose her slenderness to pregnancy) 96 reap perhaps with slang sense of "have sex"
96 sheaf and bind tie the crop into bundles (perhaps with suggestion of pregnancy) 97 cart transport the crop in a cart/punish a prostitute by publicly carrying her in or whipping her behind a cart 98 nut plays on the sense of "vagina"
100 rose plays on the sense of "vagina"
101 prick thorn/penis
102 false gallop canter
105 fruit plays on sense of "genitals"
106 graff graft i.e. make one plant grow onto another (plays on the sense of "have sex") 107 medlar tree bearing applelike fruits/medlar fruit (resembles the vagina)/pun on "meddler" (prostitute) 108 rotten infected with venereal disease
108 right virtue true character
114 For because
116 civil sayings civilized reflections
118 his erring its wandering
119 span distance from thumb to little finger
120 Buckles in encompasses
127 quintessence purest essence/extract
127 sprite spirit
128 in little in miniature (i.e. in the form of Rosalind) 129 Nature charged ordered Nature
131 wide-enlarged (that had been) widely dispersed
132 presently immediately
133 Helen's ... heart i.e. Helen of Troy's beauty but not her deceitful heart; when Paris carried Helen off to Troy war broke out between the Greeks and the Trojans 134 Cleopatra famous Egyptian queen
135 Atalanta's better part presumably her beauty or perhaps athletic skill; Atalanta declared that she would marry only the man who could defeat her in a race, whereas losing suitors would be killed 136 Lucretia's modesty raped by Tarquin, Lucretia was so ashamed she committed suicide 138 synod assembly/conjunction of planets
140 touches features
141 would willed
142 I to that I should
143 Jupiter, king of the gods who carried off the beautiful youth Ganymede 146 Back (to Corin and Touchstone) move back
147 sirrah sir (used to an inferior)
149 bag and baggage collective property of an army
149 scrip and scrippage nonce phrase referring to a shepherd's pouch (scrip) and its contents 153 feet i.e. metrical feet
160 seven ... wonder from the phrase "a nine days' wonder" (so Rosalind has been wondering about the verses for quite a while) 162 Pythagoras Greek philosopher who believed in the transmigration of souls from humans to animals 162 that when
163 Irish rat supposedly the Irish could kill rats with rhyming incantations 164 Trow know
166 And a chain i.e. yes, it is, and one with a chain 167 Change you colour? Are you blushing?
169 friends plays on the sense of "lovers"
169 friends ... encounter inversion of the proverb "friends may meet, but mountains never greet"
169 encounter plays on the sense of "sexual union"
173 possible i.e. that you do not know
174 I ... vehemence I earnestly beg you
176 wonderful incredible
177 out ... whooping beyond what all shouts of astonishment can express 179 Good my complexion! Oh (have mercy on) my temperament/curiosity!
180 caparisoned dressed
181 South ... discovery i.e. as lengthy as an exploratory voyage over the South Seas 182 apace swiftly
188 belly stomach/womb (playing on drink in its slang sense of "have sex") 189 of God's making i.e. a real man
193 stay wait for
197 sad ... maid i.e. seriously and truly
204 Wherein went he? What was he wearing?
204 makes he is he doing
208 Gargantua the giant in Francois Rabelais' book Gargantua (1534) 210 particulars details
210 catechism series of set questions and answers used as a form of instruction by the Church 214 atomies motes, atoms
214 resolve the propositions answer the questions
216 relish flavor
216 good observance close attention
218 Jove's tree oak trees were associated with Jove
220 Give me audience listen to me
222 along out
225 "holla" stop (used to a horse)
225 curvets leaps about
226 furnished dressed
227 heart puns on "hart" (male deer)
228 burden chorus
232 bring me out make me forget what I was saying
232 Soft! Wait a moment!
235 lief willingly
237 society company
243 ill-favouredly poorly
245 just exactly
251 pretty clever
252 acquainted plays on the sense of "sexually familiar"
252 conned learned by heart
253 rings which had verses engraved on them (also slang for "vaginas") 254 right painted cloth in the manner of a cheap hanging depicting commonplace mythological scenes 255 questions topics
257 Atalanta famed for her swiftness
259 breather i.e. living being
262 change exchange
264 troth faith
268 figure image (Orlando plays on the sense of "number") 269 cipher zero
274 saucy lackey insolent minion
275 habit appearance
275 play the knave play a boy/trick him
282 detect reveal
286 divers various
291 hard with an uneasy pace, with difficulty
292 contract ... marriage formal betrothal
293 se'nnight week (seven nights)
299 lean unrewarding/thin
299 wasteful time-wasting/causing one to waste away
300 tedious troublesome/painful
304 softly slowly
306 vacation period during which the law courts are suspended 307 term period appointed for the sitting of courts of law 309 skirts outskirts
312 cony rabbit
312 kindled born
314 purchase acquire
314 removed remote
316 religio
us pious/monastic/scrupulous
317 inland of civilized society
317 courtship court life/wooing
319 touched tainted
320 generally without exception
326 his its
328 physic medicine
329 haunts who hangs around
332 fancy-monger dealer in love
334 quotidian daily recurring fever
337 marks signs, symptoms
338 cage of rushes i.e. flimsy prison
341 blue i.e. with dark circles
342 unquestionable unwilling to be questioned
344 your ... revenue your beard is like a younger brother's income (i.e. small) 346 ungartered not tied up
346 unbanded without a colored hatband
349 point-device immaculate
349 accoutrements clothes
349 as as if
353 apter more likely
355 still always
356 sooth truth
362 merely entirely
363 dark ... do imprisonment in the dark and whipping were "treatments" for the insane 365 profess practice, have knowledge in
370 moonish changeable
371 fantastical fanciful, impulsive
372 apish foolish
374 cattle ... colour beasts of this kind
375 entertain welcome, treat well
376 forswear deny, reject
376 that so that
377 drave drove
377 living genuine
379 merely utterly
381 liver thought to be the seat of the passions
381 sound healthy
385 cote cottage
387 by on
Act 3 Scene 3
1 apace quickly
2 how what
3 simple feature plain appearance (Audrey may understand "specific part/penis") 4 warrant protect
6 capricious lascivious, fickle (from the Latin caper meaning "goat"; the wordplay is reinforced by goats/Goths having similar pronunciations) 6 Ovid ... Goths Roman poet Ovid, author of The Art of Love, was banished to live among the Goths; he complained that they did not understand his verses
7 ill-inhabited poorly lodged
7 Jove ... house having been turned away by others, the disguised Jove and his son Mercury were welcomed into the humble dwelling of Philemon and Baucis 10 seconded backed, supported
10 forward precocious
11 great ... room large bill for insubstantial accommodation; some critics see a reference to the 1593 tavern murder of playwright Christopher Marlowe, supposedly the result of a dispute about the bill 14 honest respectable/genuine
17 feigning imaginative/deceitful
21 honest truthful/chaste
25 hard-favoured ugly
27 material meaningful, full of matter/concerned with earthly things 30 foul loathsome/filthy/ugly
30 slut woman of slovenly habits/kitchen maid/whore
31 meat food (plays on the sense of "penis")
31 dish plays on the sense of "vagina"
35 Sir Oliver Martext "Sir" was sometimes used for priests who were not university graduates; 36 Martext (mar-text) suggests an uneducated priest who could not expound upon the Scriptures 36 next nearest
37 couple marry (plays on the sense of "get us to have sex") 38 fain willingly
38 meeting encounter/sexual union
41 stagger falter
42 assembly congregation
42 horn-beasts suggestive of cuckolds
42 what though what of it
43 necessary inevitable
44 knows ... goods i.e. is very well off
47 deer plays on the sense of "dear"
48 rascal young or inferior deer in a herd/ordinary husband 49 walled i.e. fortified
51 defence possibly plays on type of fortification known as "hornwork"
52 to want be lacking
55 dispatch us settle (i.e. marry)
58 on as the
62 What-ye-call't probably a joking reluctance to say "Jaques" (i.e. "jakes" meaning "lavatory") 63 'ild yield (i.e. reward)
63 last most recent (i.e. present)
64 toy in hand trifle to attend to
65 covered i.e. put on your (respectfully removed) hat 67 bow yoke
67 curb restraining strap attached to the bit
68 bells attached to the falcon's leg
69 bill stroke beak with beak
69 nibbling having sex/seizing
73 wainscot wooden paneling
74 green not dried thoroughly/unseasoned
75 warp shrink/go wrong
76 I ... but I am inclined to think that
77 of by
77 like likely
78 well properly
82 bawdry lewdness
84 "O ... thee" lines from a lost Elizabethan ballad, originally paired with a reply; Touchstone rejects the lines of the abandoned woman, in favor of the dismissive answer 84 brave fine, worthy
87 Wind wend, go
90 fantastical capricious, mad
91 flout mock/jeer
Act 3 Scene 4
6 dissembling deceitful
6 dissembling ... Judas i.e. reddish, traditionally the hair color of Judas, the disciple who betrayed Christ with a kiss 7 his ... children refers to the kiss with which Judas betrayed Christ 10 your this
11 only i.e. most desirable
13 holy bread bread blessed and distributed to those who had not taken Communion; after the Reformation, bread provided for the Eucharist 14 cast sculpted/cast-off/chaste
14 Diana goddess of chastity
15 of winter's sisterhood i.e. sworn to coldness
22 verity sincerity
22 concave hollow
23 covered goblet empty drinking vessel (covered when not in use) 28 tapster barman, tavern keeper
29 reckonings personal esteem/bills
31 question conversation
37 traverse crosswise/poorly aimed and broken across (jousting term) 37 puny tilter insignificant, petty jouster
39 goose fool
42 complained of lamented over
47 pageant spectacle, scene
51 mark observe
52 remove move
Act 3 Scene 5
5 Falls lets fall
6 But ... pardon without begging pardon first (a traditional practice) 7 he ... lives the executioner who earns his living until he dies 11 pretty ingenious
13 coward gates i.e. eyelids
13 atomies atoms, specks
17 counterfeit pretend
22 rush waterside plant
23 cicatrice scar
23 capable impressure palpable impression
29 fancy love
31 keen sharp
38 What though what does it matter
40 Than ... bed i.e. than ought to go to bed in darkness so that your lover will not see you 43 ordinary common condition
44 sale-work ready-made goods of inferior quality
44.'Od's (may) God save
45 tangle ensnare
48 bugle glass beads, usually black
51 south south wind
51 wind and rain i.e. sighs and tears
52 properer more handsome, finer
55 glass mirror
57 lineaments facial features
62 Cry beg
63 Foul ... scoffer ugliness is most hideous when it is rough and abusive 65 together uninterruptedly
70 sauce rebuke
74 in wine when drunk
76 tuft of olives clump of olive trees
76 hard close
77 ply urge
80 abused in sight deceived in his perception
82 Dead Shepherd i.e. Christopher Marlowe (murdered in 1593), from whose poem Hero and Leander the ensuing quotation is taken 82 saw maxim, saying
82 of might powerful, convincing
91 extermined exterminated
92 love ... neighbourly refers to the biblical instruction to "love thy neighbor as thyself"
94 covetousness
refers to the Tenth Commandment, which prohibits coveting one's neighbor's goods 98 erst formerly
103 poverty deficiency
105 ears i.e. of corn
108 erewhile a short time ago
110 bounds land
111 carlot churl, peasant
113 peevish silly, foolish/spiteful
119 complexion face/appearance
124 lusty lively
126 constant unchanging
126 damask pink or light red
128 parcels bits, parts
134 am remembered remember
135 again back
136 omittance ... quittance not having done so does not mean I never shall 140 straight straight away
142 passing excessively
Act 4 Scene 1
6 betray expose
6 modern censure commonplace judgment
8 sad Rosalind quibbles on the sense of "massive, solid"
9 post stout pole
11 emulation envy of those who are superior
11 fantastical fanciful, extravagant
13 politic crafty
14 nice fastidious
15 simples ingredients (literally, medicinal herbs)
16 sundry varied
17 often frequent
18 humorous moody
26 travel voyage/take pains
28 an if
29 lisp put on a foreign accent
30 strange suits foreign clothes
30 disable disparage
31 nativity birth (i.e. nationality)
33 swam floated, traveled
41 clapped him o'th'shoulder merely tapped him/arrested him 42 heart-whole essentially unaffected, with the heart unengaged 48 jointure marriage settlement that provided for the wife in the event of her husband's death 51 horns of a snail/of a cuckold
51 fain obliged
52 beholding indebted
52 armed ... fortune i.e. as a snail, naturally possessed of horns 53 prevents the slander forestalls the disrepute
58 leer complexion, appearance
59 holiday humour festive mood
61 very true
64 gravelled stumped
65 out at a loss for words
66 warn protect, warrant
66 cleanliest shift most skillful measure
71 Who ... out Rosalind goes on to play with the sense of "denied vaginal entry"
73 honesty chastity
73 ranker more corrupt
74 of my suit out of my courtship/clothing
81 by attorney by proxy (as opposed to "in person")
83 videlicet "namely" (Latin)
83 Troilus lover of Cressida, who proved faithless to him; he was killed by Achilles during the Trojan war 85 die may play on the sense of "experience orgasm"
85 patterns models
86 Leander in classical mythology, Leander regularly swam across the river Hellespont to see his lover Hero of Sestos, until one night he drowned 86 though even if
90 found it concluded the cause
94 right real
97 coming-on agreeable, encouraging
100 Fridays and Saturdays days on which Christians abstained from eating meat 102 twenty twenty more
112 Go to expression of impatient dismissal
115 fast firmly/quickly
118 commission authority
119 goes ... priest proceeds with the service more quickly than the priest 124 possessed married/had sex with
130 Barbary cock-pigeon male pigeon thought to be from Barbary (north Africa) 131 against before, in anticipation of