Act 2 Flashcards
(143 cards)
1
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When I kissed the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away
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when I touched the jack, my bowl was hit away by a hurling upward (another player’s throw)!
2
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and then a whoreson jacknapapes must take me up for swearing
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and then a vile, impertinent fellow rebuked me for swearing
3
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as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure
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as if he had loaned me my oaths and so could restrict my expenditure of them
4
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(you have broke his) pate (with your bowl)
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head
5
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nor crop the ears of them
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or cut off the oath’s ears (connects the acts of curtailing one’s oaths with ear cropping)
6
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Would he had been one of my rank
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if only he had been of the same social standing as me (with a pun on strong and unpleasant smell)
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A pox on’t!
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A plague on him”
8
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You are cock and capon too; and you crow,
cock, with your comb on.
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You are a cock and a castrated rooster (i.e. a fool), and you brag as if you were a foolish cockerel
9
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(It is not fit your Lordship should) undertake every companion that you give offence to
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Should fight with every rascal who offends you
10
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commit offence to
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fight with
11
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Is there no derogation in’t
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Would it lower people’s opinions of me?
12
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You are a fool granted
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You are widely acknowledged to be a fool
13
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A woman that bears all down with her brain
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A woman that overwhelms everything with her brain
14
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(this son cannot take two from twenty) from his heart (and leave eighteen)
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To save his life
15
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man’s o’er-laboured sense repairs itself by rest
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man’s tired-out-senses
16
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press the rushes
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tiptoe over the floors
17
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…one kiss. Rubies unparagoned, how dearly they do’t
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…one kiss. Matchless rubies, they kiss (do’t) so delightfully
18
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(the flame o’ the taper
Bows toward her, and would) under-peep (her lids,)
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look underneath
19
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th’enclosed lights, now canopied/under these windows
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the enclosed eyes, covered (as if with a canopy) underneath the eyelids
20
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Such and such pictures; there the window; such
The adornment of her bed; the arras; figures,
Why, such and such; and the contents o’ the story.
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There paintings, there a window, her bed is decorated in this way and has a canopy with these things embroidered on it, and what story is being told.
21
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(some) natural notes (about her body)
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natural distinctive features
22
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above ten thousand meaner moveables
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above 10000 less important furnishings
23
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be her sense but as a monument thus in a chapel lying
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May she feel as little as a carved statue lying in a church!
24
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as slippery as the gordian knot was hard
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as easy as it was famously difficult to unie the Gordian knot
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and this will witness outwardly,
As strongly as the conscience does within,
To the madding of her lord.
Seeing this, added to his own thoughts/internal reflections, will make her husband crazy.
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cinque-spotted
with five spots
27
Swift, Swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning/may bare the raven's eye
ride swiftly you dragons that that pull Medea's chariot, in order that dawn may reveal (bare) the eye of the raven (raven = a bird of prey supposed to roost facing he rising sun, and hence to awaken at dawn)
28
hell is here
1. the dangerous position of Iachimo in Innogen's bedroom
2. Iach's internal hell
3. The position of the trunk on the stage, perhaps over the trapdoor to hell...
29
the most coldest that ever turned up ace
The calmest man to ever throw a low number at dice
30
(I am advised to give her music o'mornings; they say it will) penetrate
(I was advised to give her music in the mornings. They say that'll) touch her to the hear/enter her physically
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fingering
alluding to stringed instruments as well as erotic manipulation
32
first, a very excellent good-conceited thing
first, an ingeniously devised piece (i.e. an instrumental work)
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wonderful sweet air
a vocal song
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Phoebus 'gins arise
Phoebus begins to arise
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His steeds to water at those springs/on chaliced flowers that lies
His horses take water from the dew in cupped flowers
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winking Mary-buds
sleeping marigolds
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horsehairs and calves' guts
bowstrings
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unpaved eunuch
a castrated pale singer (punning on without testicles)
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she vouchsafes no notice
she grants no attention
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You are most bound (to th'king/who lets go by no) vantages (that may)/prefer you (to his daughter)
you are most obliged (to the king) who allows no suitable opportunities to pass which may recommend you to his daughter.
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orderly solicity
proper concern
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be friended with aptness of the season
take advantage of appropriate times
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make denials increase your services
let her refusals increase your professions of love
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save when command to your dismission tends,/and therein you are senseless
except when she orders you to leave (or rejects you), a command to which you are oblivious.
Cloten later interprets senseless as stupid/foolish, even though here it means insensible.
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his goodness forespent on us/we must extend our notice
his goodness, which was previously spent on us/we must show special attention
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makes Diana's rangers false themselves
makes those who waited upon the goddess of chastity prove false to their duty as Diana's guardians
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yield up their deer to th'stand o'th stealer
give up their prey to the fixed, concealed position from which the poacher waits to shoot his targets
48
what can it not do and undo?
Obvious meaning, + the sense of copulate with and copulate with, thereby undoing a woman's reputation.
49
I yet not understand the case myself
I do not know how to conduct my suit with her.
50
That's more than some whose tailors are as dear as yours/can justly boast of
That's more than some people can say who go to the same expensive tailors you do.
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sell me your good report
sell me your favourable recommendation
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How my good name? Or to report of you/what I shall think is good?
What? Are you asking me to sell my reputation? or to tell Innogen what I think is good about you?
53
the thanks I give
Is telling you that I am poor of thanks
And scarce can spare them.
All I can say to thank you is that I don't have much thanks left and can hardly spare any.
54
If you but said so, 'twere as deep with me:
If you swear still, your recompense is still
That I regard it not.
If you only said the words without swearing them, it would mean the same to me. If you keep promising, my answer will always be that I don't care.
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I shall unfold equal discourtesy to your best kindness
I shall display incivility equal to your best kindness.
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one of your great knowing (should learn, being taught, forbearance)
someone of your wide social experience, should learn, since you have been taught, restraint
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To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin; I will not
It would be wrong to let you be this crazy. I won't.
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Fools cure not mad folks
Fools are not crazy i.e. 'I may be a fool to refuse you, but that does not mean I am mad.'
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(Cloten: do you call me a fool?) Innogen: As I am mad, I do
as I am angry (but not mentally deranged) I do
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and learn now, for all,
That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce,
By the very truth of it, I care not for you,
and learn, once and for all, that I, who knows the truth of my own heart, do announce here and now that I do not care for you
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And am so near the lack of charity—
To accuse myself—I hate you; which I had rather
You felt than make't my boast.
I am so close to lack Christian charity as to charge myself with hating you; I wish you could understand that without my having to say it openly.
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one bred of arms and fostered with cold dishes with scraps o'th court
One nurtured through charity and fed cold leftovers with excess food from court meals
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and though it be allowed in meaner parties - yet who than he more mean? - to knit their souls
and although it is allowed in socially inferior people - yet who more socially inferior than him - to marry
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on whom there is no more dependency/but brats and beggary
on whose union nothing of more importance relies than children and extreme poverty
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in self-figured knot
in a marriage contract made by the parties involved and not sanctioned by parents/the church.
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yet you are curbed from that enlargement by/the consequence o' th'crown
yet you are restricted from that freedom of choice by the importance of the monarchy
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The precious note of it
the precious distinction of it
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a hilding for a livery
a 'good-for nothing,' fit only to wear the distinctive dress of his master's servants
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a squire's cloth
a servant's clothing
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a pantler
household servant in charge of bread/pantry
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thou wert dignified enough,
Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made
Comparative for your virtues, to be styled
The under-hangman of his kingdom, and hated
For being preferred so well.
You would be honoured enough, and people would envy you, given your qualities, if you were made his kingdom's hangman's assistant (under hangman), and you would be hated for being promoted so high. (amend this)
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He never can meet more mischance than come
| To be but named of thee.
The worst thing that could happen to him is for you to just say his name.
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(is dearer in my respect than) all the hairs above thee/were they made such men
all the hairs on your head, were they all turned into men
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I am sprited with a fool
I am tormented (as by a spirit) with a fool
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(search for a jewel that too) casually (hath left mine arm)
accidentally
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shrew me,
If I would lose it for a revenue
Of any king's in Europe.
Beshrew me/the devil take me if I would lose it for the income of any king in Europe
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If you will make't an action, call witness to't.
If you want to bring legal action against me, call a witness to support your suit.
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She's my good lady and will conceive, I hope, but the worst of me
She's my good friend (ironic) and will think, I expect, only the worst of me
79
Quake in the present winter's state and wish
| That warmer days would come
like when you shiver with cold in winter and wish that warmer days would come
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in these seared hopes,
I barely gratify your love; they failing,
I must die much your debtor.
It is only by placing my hopes in this withered prospect that I can just about repay your love; failing this, I must die considerably in your debt
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By this, your King hath heard of great Augustus
By this time, your King will have heard from great Augusts
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He'll grant the tribute, send th'arrearages
And I think the king will pay the emperor his tribute and send his overdue payments (of tribute)
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Or look upon our Romans, whose remembrance
| Is yet fresh in their grief.
before confronting our Romans, whose memory (of the last Roman invasion) is still a fresh grief for the Britons
84
statist
politician
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Our countrymen are men more ordered than when Julius Caesar smiled at their lack of skill but found their courage worthy his frowning at
Our countrymen are more disciplined than that time when Julius Caesar smiled at their inadequacies but found that their courage was not so amusing.
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their discipline now wing-led with their courage (very difficult one, think carefully)
their discipline, now led in wings (i.e.a disciplined formation) by their commanders
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that mend upon the world
who improve in the world's estimation
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(the swiftest) harts (have) posted (you by land)
male deer, conveyed - symbolises speed of Iachimo's horses
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and therewithal the best
and in addition, the most virtuous
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or let her beauty
Look through a casement to allure false hearts
And be false with them.
or her beauty would be like a woman staring out of a window to trap disloyal hearts and betray them. Posthumus is quick to associate her with a prostitute if she is not virtuous.
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their tenor good, I trust
their content good, I trust
92
Sparkles this stone as it was wont? or is't not
| Too dull for your good wearing?
So is this jewel as bright as it used to be? Or has it grown too dull to wear? (Posthumus connects the diamond's brightness to the results of Iachimo's attempts on Innogen, revealing how fully it has come to function as a metonymy for her)
93
Make not, sir, your loss your sport
Do not, sir, make a joke of your loss
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Had I not brought/the knowledge of your mistress home
Had I not brought the carnal knowledge of your mistress back home...
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(I grant we were to) question (further)
dispute/debate
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if not, the foul opinion
You had of her pure honour gains or loses
Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both
To who shall find them.
If not, we'll fight over the fact that you had such a bad opinion of her reputation until one or the other or both of us is dead and our swords are left lying on the ground for whoever finds them.
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(Had that was well worth) watching
Staying awake for
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And Cydnus swell'd above the banks, or for
| The press of boats or pride
when the river Cydnus flooded either because of the weight of so many boats on it or because it was proud to carry them.
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It did strive in workmanship and value
It was debatable whether the craftsman of the monetary worth was greater
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A chimney piece
A carving above the chimney
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Never saw I figures so likely to report themselves
I never saw figures so able to speak about (and commend) themselves as works of art (i.e. so lifelike)
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the cutter/Was as another nature, dumb; outwent her,
| Motion and breath left out.
The sculptor made figures as natural as living ones but without speech, surpassing nature except for the absence of movement or breath.
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(with golden cherubims is) fretted
elaborately adorned with carvings (of golden cherubims) in decorative patterns
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Her andirons
The irons in her fireplace
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Depending on their brands
Leaning on their torches
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This is her honour!
This is all you can produce to prove you have taken her honour!
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Be pale
Then turn pale in shock
108
And now 'tis up again
And now it is concealed again
109
It must be married to that your diamond
it must be joined to your diamond; promotes and symbolises the undoing of marriage
110
Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
| And yet enrich'd it too
Her gesture in giving the bracelet was worth more to me than its monetary worth, but it also made the gift itself more valuable.
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It is a basilisk unto mine eye,/kills me to look on't.
Looking at that ring is like looking a basilisk in the eye: looking at it kills me.
112
the vows of women
Of no more bondage be, to where they are made,
Than they are to their virtues; which is nothing.
The promises of women shouldn't be trusted any more than women can be trusted to act virtuously, which is not at all.
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Above measure false
False beyond proportion
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It may be *probable* she lost it
It may be *provable* that she lost it
115
corporal sign
bodily or material proof
116
Her attendants are all sworn
Her attendants are all bound by an oath of loyalty
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The cognizance of her incontinency is this
The badge of her infidelity is this (i.e. it is the ring)
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She hath bought the name of whore thus dearly.
She has bought the label of a whore at great expense (i.e. because of the loss of Posthumus's ring, and because of the loss of his trust)
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take thy hire
take your reward
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all the fiends of hell/divide themselves between you
may you and Innogen suffer equal torments in hell
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(This is not strong enough to be believed) of one persuaded well of
(This is not strong enough to be believed) about one who is thought well of
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Worthy the pressing
worth the squeezing (could refer to Innogen or her breast)
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Stain
Comes to mean mark, and moral disgrace
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Were there no more but it
Were there no other evidence of her sin but this
125
Spare your arithmetic: never count the turns;
| Once, and a million!
That's enough maths. Don't count your sexual encounters in bed (turns), whether there were one or a million!
126
If you will swear you have not done't, you lie;
And I will kill thee, if thou dost deny
Thou'st made me cuckold.
If you promise you didn't do it, you're lying. And I'll kill you if you deny you slept with my wife.
'The field has been won by passing off a variable sign as epistemological truth; the field has been lost by taking slippery signification for unimpeachable fact' (Menon)
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Quite besides/the government of patience
Quite out of control
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Is there no way for men to be, but women must be half-workers?
I there no way to generate men without the participation of women
129
We are all bastards
We're all illegitimate (because our mothers have been unfaithful to our fathers)
130
my father was I know not where when I was stamped
my father wasn't present (in the room) when I was engendered (with a word play on having an image stamped on a coin)
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Some coiner with his tools/made me a counterfeit
I was a fake made by some forger.
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so doth my wife
| The nonpareil of this.
my wife appears equally astounding now.
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My lawful pleasure she restrained/and prayed me oft forbearance
she moderated the pleasure to which I was entitled and often entreated me to refrain
134
A pudency so rosy
1. A modesty reflected in a rose coloured bush
| 2. Genitalia rosy from sexual arousal
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Yellow Iachimo
Envy, sallow complexion, and jealousy are all intertwined here
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Like a full-acorned boar
1. A boar well-fattened with acorns
2. Suggesting a fully erect penis
n.b. the woman having sex with a boar occurs in T&C/Venus and Adonis - in each instance, associated with the act of betrayal
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Found no opposition/but what he looked for should oppose, and she should from encounter guard
the resistance to penetration/was no more than he anticipated, and what was needed to protect herself during the encounter
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Could I find out
| The woman's part in me!
If only I could find that part in me that's made out of a woman
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For there's no motion that tends to vice in man but I affirm it is the woman's part
For there's no impulse that tends towards vice in man. but I affirm it is the part of him that is female
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Lust and rank thoughts
The thoughts Posthumus exhibits here are so lascivious that his claim that they originate with women is contradicted by the projections of his own mind and culture
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nice longings
lascivious desire
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slanders, mutability
defamation, inconstancy
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Yet 'tis greater skill/in a true hate to pray they have their will./The very devils cannot plague them better.
But it's a better revenge to pray that they get what they want. Devils cannot make them suffer more than the consequences of their own desires.
