Twelfth Night (37 page)

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all one
doesn’t matter

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there’s th’end on’t
that’s all there is to it

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sot
idiot/drunkard

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agone
ago, past

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set
glazed/fixed/closed
(eight i’th’morning
may suggest the manner in which the surgeon’s eyes were fixed, rolling back, like the sun high in the morning sky)

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passy measures pavin
stately dance, i.e. slow

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be dressed
bandaged

206
coxcomb
fool

207
gull
dupe/fool

210
brother … blood
my own brother

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with … safety
in reasonable self-protection

212
strange regard
odd/distant look

216
habit
clothing

217
natural perspective
optical illusion produced by nature

219
racked
tormented

222
Fear’st
doubt

228
deity
godlike quality

229
here and everywhere
omnipresence

230
blind
heedless

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Of charity
(tell me) out of kindness

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suited
dressed

236
form and suit
physical appearance and dress

239
am … clad
my body is clothed with the flesh

240
participate
have in common with all humanity

241
the … even
everything else is in agreement

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record
memory

248
lively
vivid, alive

251
lets
hinders

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jump
coincide

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weeds
clothes

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mistook
mistaken

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to … drew
inclined in the right direction (bowling metaphor)

263
contracted
betrothed

267
glass
mirror/lens of optical instrument
(perspective)

268
happy
fortunate

270
like to
as much as

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overswear
swear again and again

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orbèd continent
spherical container, i.e. as the sun keeps

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action
legal charge

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in durance
imprisoned

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enlarge
release

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remember me
remember

283
distract
mad

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extracting
distracting

284
frenzy
agitation/madness

285
From … his
drove him from my memory

287
Beelzebub
the devil

287
the stave’s end
at a distance

289
today
i.e. this

290
epistles
letters/New Testament letters from the apostles

290
gospels
truths/New Testament records of Christ’s life and teaching

290
skills
matters

291
delivered
handed over

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delivers
speaks the words of

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vox
“voice” (Latin), i.e. the correct manner of delivery (Feste has obviously read the words in a “mad” style)

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read
discern

299
right wits
true state of mind

300
perpend
consider

306
semblance
outward show

306
the which
i.e. the letter

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duty
i.e. respectful behavior of a steward

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out … injury
as a wronged party

314
delivered
released

315
so
may it

315
thought on
considered

316
as … wife
as good a sister-in-law as you’d hoped to regard me as a wife

317
th’alliance
the union (in a double wedding)

318
proper
personal

319
apt
ready

320
quits
releases (from service)

321
mettle
natural disposition

334
hand
handwriting

335
from it
differently

336
invention
composition

338
modesty of honour
name of all that is decent and honorable/restraint befitting your status

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lights
signals

342
lighter
more frivolous/lesser

343
acting
undertaking

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suffered
allowed

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geck
dupe/fool

347
invention played on
trickery sported with

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character
style of writing

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out of
beyond

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cam’st
you came

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presupposed Upon
previously suggested to

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practice
plot/trick

355
shrewdly
mischievously

355
passed
been perpetrated

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condition
(happy) circumstances

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wondered
marveled

365
Upon
because of

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uncourteous
unfriendly/uncivil

365
parts
qualities/actions

366
conceived against
imagined/discerned in

367
importance
urging

369
sportful
playful

369
followed
followed up/carried out

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pluck on
induce

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If that
If

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baffled
tricked/disgraced

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interlude
short play

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whirligig
spinning top/roundabout

385
golden
auspicious

385
convents
comes together/calls us

386
combination
union

388
hence
here, i.e. Olivia’s house

390
habits
clothing

391
fancy’s
love’s

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and a
a very

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foolish
trivial/silly (may play on the sense of “lewd”)

394
thing
may play on the sense of “penis”

394
toy
trifle/useless/fun (may play on a sense of “penis”)

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man’s estate
manhood

397
etc
. indicates repeat of chorus

400
wive
marry

402
swaggering
bullying/quarreling

404
beds
drunk to bed/old age

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With toss-pots
like other drunkards