Glossary
- A’ t’ other
-
at the other
- Abate
-
lessen
- Abhors
-
hates
- Addled
-
beaten
- Affliction
-
disaster
- Affray
-
tear apart
- Alack
-
(expression of grief)
- Alderman
-
councilman
- Aloof
-
at a distance
- Ambling
-
dancing
- Ambuscados
-
ambushes
- Amerce
-
punish
- Anon
-
right away
- Answer it
-
accept
- Apace
-
quickly
- Aqua-vitae
-
liquor
- Array
-
attire
- Aspired
-
gone up towards
- Asunder
-
apart
- Atomies
-
miniscule creatures
- Attending
-
attentive
- Bad’st
-
advised
- Baggage
-
useless woman
- Bandy
-
throw
- Bark
-
sailboat
- Bauble
-
jester’s baton
- Bawdy
-
indecent
- Be forsworn
-
go back on my word
- Be perverse
-
play hard-to-get
- Be shrived
-
have confession
- Bedaubed
-
smeared
- Bedeck
-
decorate
- Beggarly
-
small
- Beguiled
-
deceived
- Behooveful
-
necessary
- Bent
-
intentions
- Bescreened
-
concealed
- Beseech
-
beg
- Beshrew
-
curse
- Bestrides
-
straddles
- Bethink
-
think hard
- Bier
-
coffin
- Blaze
-
publicize
- Blazon
-
describe
- Bliss
-
heaven
- Bondage
-
familial duties
- Bosom
-
breast
- Bound
-
indebted
- Bower
-
give sanctuary
- Brine
-
salt water; tears
- Broad
-
fat
- Caitiff
-
miserable; vile
- Cankered
-
infested
- Carelessly
-
without care
- Carrion
-
rotting meat
- Challenge
-
claim
- Cheveril
-
stretchy leather
- Chide
-
scold
- Chidest
-
scolded
- Choler
-
anger
- Churl
-
selfish person
- Close
-
concealing
- Clout
-
piece of cloth
- Collar
-
part of a harness
- Colliers
-
coal miners
- Complements
-
good manners
- Conduit
-
fountain
- Confounds
-
destroys
- Confusions
-
yelling; commotion
- Conjure
-
summon (as in a spirit)
- Cordial
-
medicinal drink
- Corns
-
foot calluses
- Counsel
-
private thoughts
- Countervail
-
equal
- Crochet
-
a musical note
- Crow-keeper
-
scarecrow
- Culled
-
selected
- Deal double
-
double cross
- Deck
-
dress
- Demesnes
-
lands owned
- Descry
-
decipher
- Desperate tender
-
risky offer
- Despite
-
spite
- Dirges
-
songs of lamentation
- Discords
-
ugly noise
- Discourses
-
communicates
- Displant
-
displace
- Dissemblers
-
liars
- Distempered
-
troubled
- Division
-
melody
- Doff
-
remove, cast away
- Doting
-
lovesick
- Doublet
-
jacket
- Down
-
in bed
- Dram
-
small drink
- Drawer
-
bartender
- Dry-beat
-
thrash
- Ducats
-
gold coins
- Dug
-
breast
- Dump
-
sad song
- Effeminate
-
womanish; unmanly
- Ell
-
forty-five inches
- Enjoined
-
compelled
- Enmity
-
hostility
- Ensign
-
banner
- Envious
-
malicious
- Environed
-
surrounded; buried
- Ere
-
before
- Ethiop’s
-
Ethiopian’s
- Fain
-
gladly
- Fair
-
with civility
- Faith
-
faithfulness; steadiness
- Fast
-
fast asleep
- Fearful
-
anxious
- Fee-simple
-
ownership
- Feeling
-
devastating
- Fettle
-
prepare
- Fiddlestick
-
sword
- Fie
-
(expression of disgust)
- Field
-
dueling-place
- Flint
-
hardships of life
- Fond
-
foolish
- Form
-
formalities
- Forsooth
-
truly
- Forswear
-
swear off
- Forth
-
gone
- Fortnight
-
two weeks
- Gadding
-
wandering
- Gall
-
bitterness, bile
- Gapes
-
opens
- Ghostly
-
spiritual
- Give
-
name
- Gleek
-
insult
- Good den
-
good afternoon
- Good meaning
-
good intentions
- Goose
-
sex worker
- Gore
-
clotted
- Gossamers
-
spider’s webs
- Gossip
-
good friend
- Grace
-
virtue
- Grandsire
-
old man
- Gravity
-
“serious” things
- Hap
-
happening
- Happy
-
fortunate
- Hark
-
listen
- Harlotry
-
unprincipled behavior
- Haughty
-
arrogant
- Heaviness
-
sadness
- Hie
-
hurry
- Hilding
-
worthless person
- Hinds
-
peasants; servants
- Ho
-
now
- Homely
-
simple
- Humorous
-
humid
- Idolatry
-
worship
- Ill
-
unskilled
- Ill-beseeming
-
unnatural
- Import
-
imply
- In faith
-
truly
- In post
-
by horseback
- In twain
-
in half
- Inundation
-
overflowing abundance
- Invocation
-
appeal
- Jack
-
fellow
- Jealous
-
curious
- Jesu
-
Jesus
- Jocund
-
cheerful
- Joiner
-
carpenter
- Jointure
-
dowry
- Knaves
-
fools
- Like
-
likely
- Livery
-
servant’s uniform
- Lolling
-
loose
- Look
-
be careful
- Lustier
-
energetic
- Maidenheads
-
virginities
- Maidenhoods
-
virginities
- Mammet
-
doll
- Mantle
-
cloak
- Marry
-
really
- Martial
-
soldier-like
- Masque
-
masquerade
- Mattock
-
pickaxe
- Maw
-
mouth
- Misadventure
-
accident, or failed attempt
- Modern
-
ordinary
- Monument
-
Capulet family tomb
- Mousehunt
-
a ladies’ man
- Moved
-
provoked
- Naught
-
evil
- Near ally
-
close relative
- Needly
-
necessarily
- Nice
-
unimportant
- Nothing
-
no wounds
- Numbers
-
verse
- Nuptial
-
wedding
- Nuts
-
hazelnuts
- O’erperch
-
fly over
- Office
-
duty
- Ope
-
open
- Orisons
-
prayers
- Overthrows
-
destruction
- Paramour
-
lover
- Parts
-
qualities
- Pate
-
head
- Pennyworths
-
money’s worth
- Penury
-
extreme poverty
- Peppered
-
done for
- Perforce
-
by force
- Peruse
-
examine
- Philome
-
Film; fine thread
- Physic
-
remedy
- Poor
-
modest
- Portentous
-
of a warning
- Posterity
-
future children
- Poultice
-
homemade ointment
- Powder
-
gunpowder
- Practice stratagems
-
play tricks
- Prates
-
a stupid answer
- Prating thing
-
burbling baby
- Presage
-
foreshadow
- Press
-
hurry
- Procures
-
sends
- Proof
-
immune
- Provision
-
food and drink
- Puling
-
whimpering
- Pureblind
-
blind
- Quince
-
fruit
- Quit
-
pay you for
- Quite
-
entirely
- Rails
-
complains
- Redress
-
relief
- Resign
-
return
- Resort
-
haunt
- Roared
-
used
- Rood
-
cross
- Ropery
-
trickery
- Rude will
-
desire
- Rushes
-
the floor
- Sack
-
destroy
- Saucy merchant
-
con man
- Scant
-
hardly
- Sepulcher
-
burial place
- Set
-
praised
- Severing
-
parting
- Shadows
-
dreams
- Shape
-
body
- Show
-
appearance
- Shrift
-
absolution, confession
- Simpleness
-
nonsense
- Simples
-
herbs
- Slip
-
counterfeit coin
- Slugabed
-
sleepyhead
- Small
-
not much
- Soft
-
wait
- Sojourn
-
stay awhile
- Sped
-
done for
- Spinners’ legs
-
spider legs
- Spit
-
impale
- Spring
-
source
- Steads
-
benefits
- Stifled
-
suffocated
- Stock
-
breeding; pedigree
- Sunder
-
cut off
- Surcease
-
cease
- Sweetmeats
-
candy
- Ta'en
-
taken
- Tallow
-
pale
- Teen
-
misery
- Temper
-
mix, or dilute
- Thither
-
there
- Traces
-
reins
- True
-
honest
- Trunk
-
chest
- Tut
-
(expresses disapproval)
- Unattainted
-
impartial
- Unfurnished
-
unprepared
- Unruly spleen
-
bad temper
- Untaught
-
rude
- Unthrifty
-
unfortunate
- Validity
-
value
- Vestal
-
virginal
- Vexed
-
distressed; frustrated
- Visage
-
face; expression
- Visor
-
mask
- Wanton
-
child or careless person
- Ward
-
a child
- Weak dealing
-
poor behavior
- Weal
-
happiness
- Weeds
-
clothes
- Welladay
-
woe the day
- Wherefore
-
why
- Whither
-
where
- Wink
-
shut
- Wot
-
know
- Wrenching iron
-
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