III. iv. 7. of the dissembling colour. In that era people with reddish hair were supposed to be of a deceitful nature. III. iv. 9. browner than Judas's. In old paintings and tapestries Judas was usually represented with red hair and beard. III. iv. 16. He hath bought a pair of cast lips. A play upon the two meanings, - cast off, and chaste (Lat. castus). III. iv. 45. quite traverse. To break a lance traverse, or crosswise, was to show extreme awkwardness in manly sport. III. v. 5. falls not. Does not let fall. III. v. 23. capable impressure. Perceptible impression. III. v. 81. Dead shepherd. tion. Marlowe ; see Introduc III. v. 123. mingled damask. The blush color of the damask rose. Mingled describes the changing color of the girl's cheeks. Act Fourth. i. 32. Look you lisp and wear strange suits. Shakespeare satirizes those who affectedly imitate foreign customs. IV. i. 96. Troilus. Son of Priam and hero of many mediæval stories. According to legend, he was slain by Achilles. IV. i. 99. Leander. The hero who swam the Hellespont every night to see his love, Hero. Rosalind wilfully misinterprets the story. IV. i. 140. before the priest. priest. In advance of the IV. i. 151. Barbary cock-pigeon. Barbary perhaps adds a suggestion of Oriental jealousy. IV. i. 155. Diana in the fountain. general reference, although a fountain Diana was set up in Cheapside in 1596. Probably only a with an image of IV. i. 177. her husband's occasion. The woman who cannot excuse herself at her husband's expense is indeed slow of wit. IV. iii. 58. by him seal up thy mind. Express thy mind in a letter carried by him. IV. iii. 172. a passion of earnest. An exhibition of sincere feeling. Act Fifth. ii. 17. all's. All his. V. ii. 41. degrees. A pun follows, for degrees formerly meant steps. V. ii. 45. Clubs. Clubs! was the rallying cry of the London apprentices, who used these weapons in quelling public disturbances. V. ii. 68. not damnable. Not deserving punishment by the law against witchcraft. Begin at once. V. iii. 11. clap into't roundly. V. iv. 67. the fool's bolt. An "the fool's bolt is soon shot." explaining Touchstone's bolt about dulcet diseases. V. iv. 94. by the book. A satire on the popular handbooks of etiquette. V. iv. 107. swore brothers. An allusion to the chivalric custom of swearing eternal brotherhood. Amis and Amile pictures sworn brothers. V. iv. 114. Hymen. The god of marriage. Shakespeare followed the fashion in introducing a classical pageant. V. iv. 147. Juno's crown. Juno was the goddess who presided over the marriage of women. Epilogue. 3. good wine needs no bush. In Elizabethan and earlier days wine shops bore a bush of ivy at the door. Ivy was sacred to Bacchus. 18. If I were a woman. Rosalind's part was played by a boy, for women did not go on the stage until the Restora Tertual Variants The text in the present edition is based upon the first Folio, and the following list records the more important variations from that version. V. iii. 31-34. F places after 22. This order is taken from an early 17th century Ms. iv. 120. her] his F. Glossary abus'd, deceived; III. v. 79. apace, quickly; III. iii. 1. atone, agree; V. iv. 116. bandy, contend; V. i. 61. bars me, excludes me from; I. i. 21. bastinado, punishment, beating with a stick upon the soles of the feet; V. i. 61. batlet, little bat, used by washerwomen; II. iv. 49. beholding, beholden; IV. i. 60. bestows himself, bears himself; IV. iii. 87. bills, see note; I. ii. 131. bob, jest; II. vii. 55. bolt, arrow; V. iv. 67. bonny, valiant; II. iii. 8. bottom, lowland; IV. iii. 79. bravery, finery; II. vii. 80. breath'd, exercised; I. ii. 230. 131 |