170 foul disease loathsome, festering disease/syphilis
173 recreant traitor
174 That in that, since
175 durst dared
175 strained excessive/unnatural
176 sentences pronouncements, decisions
177 nor … nor neither … nor
177 place status, rank
178 potency power
178 made good being carried into effect/shown to be valid/secured, defended
180 disasters misfortunes
183 trunk body
184 Jupiter supreme Roman god
186 sith since
190 your … approve may your actions prove the truth of your grand statements
193 shape … course behave in his usual manner
1.1 Flourish trumpet fanfare signaling the arrival of an important person
197 rivalled competed
197 in the least at the lowest
198 present dower immediately available dowry
202 tender offer
204 hold her so consider her to be dear (i.e. beloved/worth a great deal)
206 aught anything
206 little seeming substance insignificant (or physically small) thing/one who totally refuses to play a part
207 pieced augmented, increased
208 fitly like justly please
211 infirmities deficiencies
211 owes owns
213 Dowered with given as a dowry
213 strangered made a stranger, disowned
216 Election … up choice is impossible
218 tell you inform you of/enumerate
219 from … stray stray so far from your love as
225 your object your focus, the object of your sight (the apple of your eye)
226 argument theme
226 balm soothing ointment
227 trice mere moment
228 monstrous unnatural
228 dismantle strip off (the folds of the metaphorical cloth of favor)
231 monsters it it becomes monstrous
231 fore-vouched previously sworn
232 Fall into taint (must) come under suspicion
232 which … me i.e. and to believe in all reason that she had committed such a monstrous offense would require a miracle
236 for (your anger is) because
236 want lack
237 purpose not not intend to do what I say
239 foulness wickedness/moral impurity
242 for which i.e. for lack of which
243 still-soliciting constantly entreating, self-seeking
248 tardiness in nature natural slowness
249 history account (of an action)
252 regards … point irrelevant concerns
263 respect and fortunes status and wealth
266 Most choice forsaken most desirable when rejected
267 seize upon take possession of (legal term)
268 be it lawful provided it is lawful
269 their may refer to either the gods or to Lear and Burgundy
270 inflamed glowing, ardent
271 thrown … chance cast to my luck (gambling metaphor)
273 wat’rish well-watered (with rivers)/wet, feeble
274 unprized unvalued (may play on a sense of “priceless”)
275 though unkind though they are cruel (or “lacking in natural familial affection”)
276 where somewhere, place
280 grace favor (with connotations of “divinely sanctioned mercy”)
280 benison blessing
283 washèd i.e. wet with tears
286 as … named by their true names
287 your professèd bosoms i.e. the love you claim to have for him
287 commit entrust; perhaps with connotations of “confine (to prison)”
289 prefer advance, promote
292 study concern, endeavor
294 At fortune’s alms as a charitable gift from fortune
294 scanted stinted, withheld/slighted, neglected
295 are … wanted deserve to be deprived of the love you have failed to show (to others)
296 plighted cunning secret cunning/deceitful promises
297 Who … derides those who hide their faults will in the end be shamed and mocked
300 nearly closely
307 grossly obviously
308 ever always
309 slenderly slightly
310 The … rash even at his best and healthiest he was impulsive
311 look expect
312 long-engrafted condition long-implanted tendencies
312 therewithal in addition to that
313 choleric irascible, hot-tempered, impulsive/bilious; one of the four “humors” or temperaments thought to be related to an excess of bile in the constitution
315 unconstant starts unpredictable fits
317 compliment etiquette, ceremony
318 sit together i.e. get together, confer
319 carry maintain, manage
319 disposition frame of mind
320 last surrender recent yielding (of authority)
320 offend harm
322 i’th’heat immediately
Act 1 Scene 2
1.2 Location: the Earl of Gloucester’s residence
2 Wherefore why
3 Stand in endure/stand still under
4 curiosity scruples, fussiness
4 nations i.e. society
5 moonshines months
6 Lag of behind (i.e. younger than)
6 base illegitimate (also low/unworthy/dishonorable)
7 dimensions physical proportions
7 compact composed
8 generous noble
8 true well-proportioned/authentic, true to his father’s likeness
9 honest madam’s issue a legitimate child