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Hamlet

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176 Purpose ... validity our intentions are subject to the weakness of memory, being passionate at the outset, but lacking in endurance 178 Which i.e. purpose

180 Most ... debt it is inevitable that we should forget to fulfill our obligations to ourselves 185 enactures fulfillments, performances

187 Grief ... accident i.e. one extreme of emotion turns to its opposite at the slightest event 188 aye ever

192 down fallen in fortune

193 poor advanced poor man who improves his station in life

194 hitherto up to this point (in the argument)

194 tend attend/serve

195 who not needs he who does not lack fortune

196 who in want he who, being in need

196 try test

197 seasons him ripens him into

200 devices plans

200 still continually

201 ends outcomes

204 Nor let neither

205 Sport ... night let me be barred from recreation during the day and rest at night 206 opposite opposing force

206 blanks makes pale

207 Meet ... destroy (may it) encounter and destroy everything that I would like to see prosper 208 here and hence in this and in the next world

212 fain willingly

212 beguile while away

217 protests makes declarations, vows

219 offence offensive matter (Hamlet shifts the sense to "actual injury/real crime") 221 jest pretend, act

224 Tropically figuratively

225 duke's i.e. king's

228 galled jade saddle-sore old horse

228 wince kick out from pain

229 withers part of the horse's back between the shoulder blades 229 unwrung not pinched or chafed

231 chorus actor who narrated or interpreted parts of a play

232 interpret provide dialogue as an actor does in a puppet show/act as a go-between 233 puppets possibly plays on a sense of "breasts/genitals"

233 dallying spending idle time together/flirting/having sex



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