802 bombast ... time i.e. ways of filling time

  803 devout committed/earnest

  803 respects deliberation/attention

  804 met responded to

  808 quote regard

  812 world-without-end everlasting

  814 dear dire/costly, valuable

  815 as although

  815 such cause reason (for you to)

  816 aught anything

  818 forlorn desolate

  818 naked austere

  820 until ... reckoning i.e. a year

  820 signs i.e. of the zodiac

  822 insociable unsociable

  824 hard lodging uncomfortable living conditions

  824 weeds clothes

  825 Nip not inhibit not the growth of

  825 gaudy flourishing, colorful

  826 last remain

  827 expiration end

  828 challenge claim

  828 deserts deserving actions

  835 entitled in having legal claim to

  837 flatter up pamper

  838 The may the

  840 And ... sick these six lines are enclosed within solidi because they seem to be the first draft of the subsequent longer exchange between Berowne and Rosaline; they should be cut in performance 851 mark no pay no attention to

  851 smooth-faced plausible/youthful

  858 friend i.e. lover/husband

  859 stay wait

  860 The liker that's more like; plays on long in "Longaville"

  860 taller braver; puns on sense of long

  861 Studies reflects, muses

  863 attends awaits

  866 world's large tongue i.e. widely distributed report 867 replete with full of

  868 comparisons scoffing analogies

  868 flouts insults

  869 estates classes of people

  869 execute inflict

  871 weed root out

  871 wormwood bitterness (medicinal herb)

  872 therewithal along with that

  874 term period of time

  875 still converse continually associate

  877 fierce vigorous/keen

  878 enforce compel

  878 pained impotent helpless distressed

  879 move arouse

  879 the ... death i.e. the dying

  882 gibing scoffing

  883 loose grace easy charm (with possible oxymoronic joke since loose can mean "sinful" while grace often signifies "virtue") 885 prosperity success

  888 Deafed deafened

  888 dear dire, terrible

  890 withal as well

  894 befall ... befall what will be will be

  897 bring escort

  899 courtesy courteous behavior

  908 hold the plough become a farmer (with sexual connotations) 910 dialogue scholarly debate

  910 two learned men i.e. Sir Nathaniel and Holofernes 916 maintained defended/represented

  917 pied multicolored

  919 lady-smocks cuckooflowers

  920 paint adorn

  922 Mocks married men i.e. because his call sounds like "cuckold" and because the cuckoo usurps the nests of other birds 926 oaten straws straws from oat plants

  927 larks ... clocks because ploughmen rise early and larks are dawn birds 928 turtles turtledoves

  928 tread mate

  928 daws jackdaws

  936 blows his nail i.e. warms his hands by blowing on them/has nothing much to do 939 nipped chilled

  939 ways be foul paths are muddy

  943 greasy covered with grease/fat/sweaty

  943 keel stir/cool

  945 parson's saw clergyman's maxims

  946 brooding incubating eggs

  948 crabs crab apples

  948 bowl i.e. bowl of ale

  953 Mercury messenger of the gods

  953 harsh disagreeable, discordant

  954 Apollo Greek god of music

  954 You may refer either to the audience, ladies, or actors 954 we may refer either to the actors, lords, or Armado and Jaquenetta

 


 

  William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (Arden Shakespeare)

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