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Hamlet

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113 Running the image is of urging a horse

113 tender ... fool show yourself up to be a fool/show me to be a fool/present me with an illegitimate baby 114 importuned entreated persistently

116 fashion shifts the sense from Ophelia's "manner" to "mere form/passing fancy"

116 Go to expression of dismissive impatience

117 countenance authority/confirmation

119 springes snares

119 woodcocks birds which were easily caught, hence re

garded as stupid, gullible 120 prodigal prodigally, liberally

122 light and heat are extinguished in such passionate declarations even as they are being uttered 122 extinct ... a-making i.e. both

124 For this time for the time being

125 scanter more sparing

126 entreatments discussions/military negotiations

127 command to parley call from the enemy for the negotiation of terms (i.e. Ophelia is not obliged to meet with and possibly discuss surrender to Hamlet simply because he requests it) 130 in few in short

131 brokers negotiators/go-betweens/pimps

132 investments clothes

133 mere implorators out-and-out pleaders

133 suits requests/courtship (plays on the sense of "clothing") 134 bawds procurers, pimps

135 beguile deceive

135 for all once for all/in sum

137 moment moment of

139 Come your ways come along

Act 1 Scene 4

1.4 Location: the gun terrace of the royal castle at Elsinore

1 shrewdly sharply, keenly

2 eager biting

4 lacks of is just before

7.1 flourish trumpet fanfare accompanying a person in authority 7 held his wont has been accustomed

9 wake stay up/revel

9 takes his rouse carouses

10 Keeps wassail revels/drinks heartily



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