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Hamlet

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119 foils light swords, blunted for use in fencing

121 unbated not blunted

121 pass of practice treacherous thrust/deliberately planned thrust 122 Requite repay, have revenge on

125 unction ointment

125 mountebank quack doctor who traveled around selling various remedies 126 I ... it Laertes leaves unfinished the account of what happened when he did this; or perhaps he means "one need but dip a knife in it"; some editors prefer Quarto's "so mortal that, but dip"

127 cataplasm medicated plaster, poultice

127 rare excellent

128 simples medicinal herbs

129 Under the moon i.e. anywhere, though gathering herbs by moonlight was thought to lend them extra potency 130 withal with it

131 contagion poison

131 gall graze

135 fit ... shape suit our plan/fit us for the roles we are going to play 136 drift scheme, intention

136 look becomes visible

139 blast in proof explode when put to the test

140 cunnings skills (i.e. Laertes' and Hamlet's)

141 ha't have it

143 As i.e. you should

143 bouts rounds in a fight

145 nonce purpose

146 stuck thrust

151 willow a tree associated with sadness and fo

rsaken love 152 hoar grayish white

153 fantastic elaborate/fanciful

154 crow-flowers buttercups/ragged robins (both types of wildflower) 154 long purples a type of purple orchid; the roots resemble testicles, hence the grosser name

155 liberal freely spoken/licentious

155 grosser coarser/more vulgar

156 cold chaste

157 pendent drooping, overhanging

158 envious sliver malicious part of a branch

159 weedy made of wildflowers



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