cient metrical graces arranged to be said or sung); I. ii. 23. MOE, more; "moe thousand deaths," i. e. "a thousand more MORTALITY, death; I. i. 45. NATURE, life; II. iv. 43. OBSTRUCTION, stagnation of the blood; III. i. 119. OFFICE, service; V. i. 374. OмIT, pass by; IV. iii. 82. OPPOSITE, Opponent; III. ii. 188. Owe, possess, have; I. iv. 83; II. iv. 123. PACE, to make to go (lit. to teach a horse to move according to the will of the rider); IV. iii. 142. PAIN, penalty; II. iv. 86. PART; "my p. in him,” i. e. "my office delegated to him”; I. i. 42. PARTIAL; "nothing come in p.," i. e. "no partiality be allowed"; II. i. 31. PARTICULAR, private; IV. iv. 30. PASSES, proceedings; V. i. 380. PASSING ON, i. e. passing sentence on; II. i. 19. PEACHES, impeaches; IV. iii. 13. PELTING, paltry; II. ii. 112. Perdurably, everlastingly; III. i. 115. PHILIP AND JACOB, i. e. the fast of St. P. and St. J. (May 1st); III. ii. 228. PILED, "a quibble between piled, peeled, stripped of hair, bald (from the French disease), and piled as applied to velvet; three-piled velvet meaning the finest and costliest"; I. ii. 37. PLANCHED, planked; IV. i. 30. PLUCK ON, draw on; II. iv. 147. POSSESS'D, informed; IV. i. 44. PRACTICE, plot; V. i. 107, 123. PRECEPT, instruction; "in action all of p." "with actions intended to instruct me" (i. e. showing the several turnings of the way with his hand); IV. i. 40. PREFERS ITSELF, places itself before everything else; I. i. 55. PREGNANT, expert; I. i. 12; evi-· dent; II. i. 23. PRENZIE, prim; III. i. 94, 97. PRESENT; "p. shrift," i. e. "imme diate absolution"; IV. ii. 233. PRESENTLY, immediately; IV. iii. 87. PRESERVED, kept pure; II. ii. 153. PRINTS, impressions; II. iv. 130. PROBATION, proof; V. i. 157. PROFANATION, Elbow's blunder for "profession"; II. i. 56. PROFESSION, business; IV. iii. 2. PROFITING, taking advantage; II. iv. 128. PROLIXIOUS, tiresome and hindering; II. iv. 162. PRONE AND SPEECHLESS, probably to be considered as equivalent to "speechlessly prone," i. e. speaking fervently and eagerly without words, (or perhaps "prone" deferential); I. ii. 196. PROPER, OWN; III. i. 30; personally, peculiarly; I. i. 31, REMORSE, pity; II. ii. 54; V. i. 100. REMOVE, absence; I. i. 44. RENOUNCEMENT, renunciation of the world; I. iv. 35. RESOLVE, inform; III. i. 197. RESPECTED, misapplied by Elbow and Pompey (= suspected); II. i. 180, 183. RESTRAINED, forbidden; II. iv. 48. RETORT, "to refer back (to Angelo the cause in which you appealed from Angelo to the Duke)"; V. i. 305. SALT, lustful; V. i. 410. SATISFY YOUR RESOLUTION, sustain your courage; III. i. 172. SAUCY, wanton; II. iv. 45. SCALED, weighed; (or perhaps "stripped" as of scales, unmasked; "foiled" has been suggested as an emendation); III. i. 274. SCOPE, power; I. i. 65; license; SECONDARY, Subordinate; I. i. 47. SERPIGO, a dry eruption on the skin; III. i. 31. SEVERAL, different; II. iv. 2. SHEARS; "there went but a pair of shears between us," i. e. "we are both of the same piece"; I. ii. 30. SHEEP-BITING, thievish; V. i. 363. SHIELD, forefend; "Heaven s. my mother play'd my father fair," i. e. "God grant that thou wert not my father's true son"; III. i. 141. SHREWD, evil, mischievous; II. i. 276. SICLES (the Folios "sickles"), shekels; II. ii. 149. SIEGE, seat; IV. ii. 104. SMACK, have a taste, savor; II. ii. 5. SNATCHES, repartees; IV. ii. 6. SORT AND SUIT, rank and service (i. e. suit-service, due to a superior lord); IV. iv. 19. SOUL, "with special s.," i. e. with special liking; I. i. 18. SPARE, forbear to offend; II. iii. 33. SPLAY, (So first Folio; Steevens "spay"), to castrate; II. i. 255. STAGE, to make a show of; I. i. 69. STAGGER, Waver, hesitate; I. ii. 177. STARKLY, stiffly, as if dead; IV. ii. 74. STAYS UPON, waits for; IV. i. 47. STEAD, be of service to; I. iv. 17. STEAD UP, to supply; III. i. 268. STEW, cauldron; V. i. 323. STORY, Subject of mirth; I. iv. 30. STRAITNESS, strictness; III. ii. 289. STRICTURE, strictness; I. iii. 12. SUCCEED, inherit; II. iv. 123. SUFFERANCE, suffering; III. i. 80. SWEAT; the plague was popularly known as "the sweating sickness"; I. ii. 84. SWEETNESS, self-indulgence; II. iv. 45. SWINGED, Whipped; V. i. 130. who TAX, accuse; II. iv. 79. TEMPORARY MEDDLER, one meddles with temporal matters; V. i. 145. TERMS; "the technical language of the courts. An old book called Les Termes de la Ley was in Shakespeare's days, and is now, the accidence of young students in the law" (Blackstone); I. i. 11. TICKLE, unstable; I. ii. 185. TICK-TACK, a sort of backgammon (used equivocally); I. ii. 204. TILTH, tillage; I. iv. 44. TITHE (probably an error for "tilth"); IV. i. 76. TOUCHES, Vices; III. ii. 25. TOUSE, pull, tear; V. i. 315. TRADE, custom, established habit; III. i. 149. TRANSPORT, remove from one world to another; IV. iii. 77. TRICK, fashion; V. i. 514. TROT, a contemptuous name, applied properly to an old woman; III. ii. 54. TRUMPETS, trumpeters; IV. v. 9. TUB, the sweating-tub, used as a cure for certain diseases; III. ii. 62. TUN-DISH, funnel; III. ii. 194. UNFOLDING, releasing from the fold or pen; IV. ii. 227. UNGENITURED, (?) impotent (perhaps "unbegotten"); III. ii. 196. UNGOT, not begotten; V. i. 142. UNSISTING, probably a misprint (in Folios 1, 2, 3) for "insisting" (the reading of Fol. 4), i. e. "persistent"; IV. ii. 95. UNTRUSSING, "untying the points or tagged laces which attached the hose or breeches to the doublet"; III. ii. 203. UNWEIGHING, injudicious; III. ii. 158. USE, practices long countenanced by custom; I. iv. 62. USE, interest, probably with a secondary sense of "exertion"; I. i. 41. VAIL YOUR REGARD, lower your look; V. i. 20. VAIN, "for v." in vain, to no purpose; II. iv. 12. VANTAGE, "denies thee v.," i. e. "will avail thee nothing"; V. i. 422. VASTIDITY, vastness; III. i. 69. VEIL FULL PURPOSE, to cover his full p.; IV. vi. 4. VIEWLESS, invisible; III. i. 124. VIRTUOUS, beneficial; II. ii. 168. VOICE, "in my v."="in my name"; I. ii. 193. VOUCH, affirmation; II. iv. 156. WARP, deviate; I. i. 15. WARPED, crooked, wry, unnatural; III. i. 142. WEAR, fashion; III. ii. 83. WEEDS, "weed is a term still com monly applied to an ill-conditioned horse" (Collier); emendations proposed: "steeds," "wills"; I. iii. 20. WHO which; I. ii. 203. WIDOW, to give as jointure; V. i. 433. WILDERNESS, wildness; III. i. 142. WOODMAN, one who hunts female game; IV. iii. 175. WRONG, "done myself w.," i. e. "put myself in the wrong"; I. ii. 45. STUDY QUESTIONS By ANNE THROOP CRAIG GENERAL 1. What æsthetic and metrical tests assist in fixing the date of the play's composition? 2. Cite the links between this play and Hamlet. What is the difference in the problems with which the two plays deal? 3. What other characters in the plays does Isabella resemble, and in what respects? 4. What are the sources of the plot? 5. In what ways has Shakespeare's version developed and transcended the originals? 6. What are the peculiarly marked features in the manner, cast of thought, and ethics of the play? 7. What religious faction in the time of James I may have led Shakespeare to the composition of this play? Why? Trace the analogy between its sentiments and the theme of the play. 8. Comment upon the selection of the theme for a work of art. What elements of the Poet's handling of it make its selection justifiable? 9. What is the inference to be drawn concerning the underlying motives of the Duke in carrying out his incognito? 10. What constitutes the ethos of the theme? 11. What circumstances make Angelo's severity towards Claudio peculiarly hypocritical in their austerity, even before the cause of Isabella is introduced? 12. Explain what it is in the handling of values in the piece, that make its effect harsh? |