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1. 4. Crowner. 'Coroner.'

1. 9. Offendendo.

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1. 12. Argal. Ergo,' 'therefore.'

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1. 53. Unyoke. Quit,' i.e. as at the end of a day's work.'

1. 61. Yaughan. Clearly a local reference; perhaps to the keeper of some alehouse or tavern popular with Shakespeare's audiences or near the theatre.

1. 62. Stoup. 'Drinking cup.'

1. 65. The interjections here are not syllables of the song, but represent the rasping emissions of breath with which the grave-digger accentuates his strokes.

1. 70. Property of easiness. 'Quality, accomplishment of

ease.'

1. 75. Intil. Into."

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1. 78. Jowls. Knocks'; from jowl, 'cheek,' ' jaw.'

1. 91. Mazzard. 'Pate,'

1. 94. Loggats. 'Little logs'; name of a game in which short and tapering billets of wood are thrown, much as in quoits, toward a "Jack."

1. 101. Quiddits.

'Subtle, fine-drawn distinctions.'

1. 102. Quillets.

'Quibbles.'

1. 104. Sconce. Slang or colloquial for 'head.'

1. 107. "Statutes and recognizances" were terms usually coupled in English title deeds, each being essentially equivalent to 'bond.'

1. 108. Fine of. 'End of.'

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1. 112. Indentures. Duplicate agreements.'

1. 120. Assurance. 'Safety,' with play on 'warranty,' the legal sense.

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1. 146. Kibe.

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Chap or crack resulting from chilblain.'

1. 201. Favour. Attractiveness.'

1. 226. Flaw.

'Gust.'

1. 229. Maimed.

1.237. Warrantise.

Reduced,'' defective.'

Authority.'

Doubtful. "Only so far as that she was a lunatic, and had died by her own act; the presumption in such a case being held to be that the act was wilful, and there being always a

doubt whether Christian burial could then be demanded." MOBERLY.

1. 238. Order. Prescribed order of the church.'

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1. 248. Peace-parted. 'Souls that have departed in peace.'

1. 258. Ingenious. Probably 'ingenuous,' 'guileless'; though the sense of acute,' 'keen,' was conveyed in Shakespeare by the same form.

1. 263. Pelion. A mountain in Thessaly, piled by the giants, according to the myth, upon Ossa, as a means of approach to Olympus, reputed the heaven of the gods.

Skyish. Affecting, mingling with, the sky.'

1. 271. Splenitive. 'Ill-tempered,' 'peevish.'

1. 285. Woo't. Contracted for would'st thou,' and used here perhaps as a provincial or nursery word, contemptuously.

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1. 286. Eisel. An ancient word for vinegar'; occurring also in Sonnet 111, 1. 10. Because of the original spelling (Esill in the quartos, Esile in the folios) it has been considered by some editors as a misspelling of " Yssel," a branch of the Rhine.

1. 297. Disclos'd. 'Hatched.' The "couplets at first are yellow.

1. 305. Present push. 'Immediate trial.'

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1. 307. Living. Probably 'out of the living,' 'from a life' (cf. "marble monument as 6 monument of, out of, marble'), as well as 'lasting.' 'Hamlet's death, as wrought by the plan proposed, will be a lasting memorial of Ophelia.'

1. 6. Mutines.

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SCENE II

'Mutineers.'

Bilboes. Stocks,' for keeping several prisoners together; formed by attaching fetters to a bar of iron. From Bilboa, in Spain, once famous for manufactures of iron and steel.

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1. 13. Scarf'd. 'Put on as a scarf,' without use of the sleeves.

1. 20. Larded. Cf. IV., v., 37.

1. 22. Bugs. 'Bugbears.'

1. 23. Supervise. 'Inspection,' 'first reading.'

1. 33. Statists. 'Statesmen.' Blackstone observes: "Most of the great men of Shakespeare's time, whose autographs have been preserved, wrote very bad hands; their secretaries very neat ones."

1. 36. Yeoman's service. Remembered still as the best rendered to Edward III. and the Black Prince in the French wars.

1. 43. Ases. Probably meant to suggest also 'asses. 1. 47. Shriving-time.

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Time for confession to a priest.'

1. 48. Ordinant. 'Ordaining,' 'controlling.'

1. 59. Insinuation. 'Insinuating,' ' meddling.' 1.66. Proper. 'Own.'

1. 79. Bravery. 'Ostentation,' ‘display.'

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1. 89. Chough. Jackdaw'; so called, perhaps, because of his euphuistic chatter.

1. 110. Excellent differences.

'Different excellencies.'

Great showing. 'Fine appearing.'

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1. 111. Feelingly. According to one's feeling,' 'without reserve.'

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1. 113. Continent. Containment,' 'inclusion.'

1. 114. Definement. 'Definition.'

1. 117. Yaw. 'Move unsteadily,'

'' vacillate.'

1. 119. Great article. 'Great array of articles, or qualities.'

1. 120. Semblable. 'Likeness.'

1. 124. Concernancy. 'Pertinency,' 'relevancy.'

1. 129. Nomination.

1. 148. Dagger.

'Mention.'

Sometimes held, in certain forms of fenc

ing, in the left hand, to arrest thrusts aimed at the head.

1. 151. Imponed. 'Staked.'

1. 153. Assigns. 'Belongings.'

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