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Hamlet

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64 front forehead/face

65 Mars Roman god of war

66 station manner of standing

66 Mercury winged messenger of the Roman gods

67 New-lighted newly alighted

69 seal i.e. mark of approval

72 ear i.e. of corn

73 Blasting withering

74 leave cease

75 batten feed greedily

75 moor marshland/waste ground (may play on the sense of "dark-skinned person" to contrast with the fair mountain) 77 heyday ... blood (youthful) period of sexual excitement

80 cozened cheated

80 hoodman-blind blind-man's-buff (Hamlet imagines a blindfolded Gertrude being tricked into picking the wrong man) 82 mutine mutiny

82 matron mature married woman

85 compulsive ... charge compelling sexual passion (of youth) attacks 86 frost i.e. age

87 panders acts as a go-between for/ministers to the gratification of 87 will sexual desire

90 grained ingrained, indelible

91 leave their tinct abandon their color

93 enseamed saturated with grease or pig's fat, i.e. soiled from sexual activity 94 Stewed soaked/slowly boiled (puns on "stew"--i.e. brothel)

94 honeying exchanging endearments

94 making love talking amorously/having sex

95 nasty filthy/lewd/repellent

95 sty pigsty/place inhabited by whores and lustful people

100 tithe tenth part

101 precedent lord previous husband (precedent may have connotations of "exemplary/higher ranking") 101 vice epitome of wickedness/buffoon or trickster from morality plays 102 cutpurse pickpocket

103 diadem crown

106 shreds and patches paltry bits and pieces/the multicolored clothing of a fool or clown 112 important urgent, pressing

117 Conceit imagination

122 th'incorporal the insubstantial

123 spirits vital spirits, a bodily fluid thought to be vital for life 124 as ... th'alarm like soldiers awoken abruptly by a call to arms 125 like ... excrements as if growths of hair had lives of their own 130 His ... conjoined the combination of his appearance and his reason (for wanting revenge) 131 capable responsive 132 piteous pity-inspiring



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