Act 2 Flashcards
When I kissed the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away
when I touched the jack, my bowl was hit away by a hurling upward (another player’s throw)!
and then a whoreson jacknapapes must take me up for swearing
and then a vile, impertinent fellow rebuked me for swearing
as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure
as if he had loaned me my oaths and so could restrict my expenditure of them
(you have broke his) pate (with your bowl)
head
nor crop the ears of them
or cut off the oath’s ears (connects the acts of curtailing one’s oaths with ear cropping)
Would he had been one of my rank
if only he had been of the same social standing as me (with a pun on strong and unpleasant smell)
A pox on’t!
A plague on him”
You are cock and capon too; and you crow,
cock, with your comb on.
You are a cock and a castrated rooster (i.e. a fool), and you brag as if you were a foolish cockerel
(It is not fit your Lordship should) undertake every companion that you give offence to
Should fight with every rascal who offends you
commit offence to
fight with
Is there no derogation in’t
Would it lower people’s opinions of me?
You are a fool granted
You are widely acknowledged to be a fool
A woman that bears all down with her brain
A woman that overwhelms everything with her brain
(this son cannot take two from twenty) from his heart (and leave eighteen)
To save his life
man’s o’er-laboured sense repairs itself by rest
man’s tired-out-senses
press the rushes
tiptoe over the floors
…one kiss. Rubies unparagoned, how dearly they do’t
…one kiss. Matchless rubies, they kiss (do’t) so delightfully
(the flame o’ the taper
Bows toward her, and would) under-peep (her lids,)
look underneath
th’enclosed lights, now canopied/under these windows
the enclosed eyes, covered (as if with a canopy) underneath the eyelids
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.
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.
(some) natural notes (about her body)
natural distinctive features
above ten thousand meaner moveables
above 10000 less important furnishings
be her sense but as a monument thus in a chapel lying
May she feel as little as a carved statue lying in a church!
as slippery as the gordian knot was hard
as easy as it was famously difficult to unie the Gordian knot
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.
cinque-spotted
with five spots
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)
hell is here
- the dangerous position of Iachimo in Innogen’s bedroom
- Iach’s internal hell
- The position of the trunk on the stage, perhaps over the trapdoor to hell…
the most coldest that ever turned up ace
The calmest man to ever throw a low number at dice
(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
fingering
alluding to stringed instruments as well as erotic manipulation
first, a very excellent good-conceited thing
first, an ingeniously devised piece (i.e. an instrumental work)
wonderful sweet air
a vocal song
Phoebus ‘gins arise
Phoebus begins to arise
His steeds to water at those springs/on chaliced flowers that lies
His horses take water from the dew in cupped flowers
winking Mary-buds
sleeping marigolds
horsehairs and calves’ guts
bowstrings
unpaved eunuch
a castrated pale singer (punning on without testicles)
she vouchsafes no notice
she grants no attention
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.
orderly solicity
proper concern
be friended with aptness of the season
take advantage of appropriate times
make denials increase your services
let her refusals increase your professions of love
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.
his goodness forespent on us/we must extend our notice
his goodness, which was previously spent on us/we must show special attention
makes Diana’s rangers false themselves
makes those who waited upon the goddess of chastity prove false to their duty as Diana’s guardians
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
what can it not do and undo?
Obvious meaning, + the sense of copulate with and copulate with, thereby undoing a woman’s reputation.
I yet not understand the case myself
I do not know how to conduct my suit with her.
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.
sell me your good report
sell me your favourable recommendation
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?
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.
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.
I shall unfold equal discourtesy to your best kindness
I shall display incivility equal to your best kindness.
one of your great knowing (should learn, being taught, forbearance)
someone of your wide social experience, should learn, since you have been taught, restraint
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.
