158 moral moralizing
160 self-covered self-concealing
161 Bemonster … feature do not make your beauty hideous by revealing your true fiend’s face
161 Were’t my fitness if it were proper for me
162 blood anger
164 howe’er however much, although
166 Marry by the Virgin Mary
166 mew a contemptuous and belittling cat’s meow
168 back i.e. to France
170 imperfect unfinished
171 imports signifies, brings with it
179 trilled trickled
181 passion strong emotion/grief
185 goodliest best, most effectively
187 smilets little smiles, half-smiles
192 so become it grace it so well, make it seem so attractive
198 Let … believed! Put no trust in pity!
200 clamour moistened her the expression of her grief moistened her with tears
200 started hastened, went abruptly
204 mate and make husband and wife
205 issues children
210 sometime sometimes
210 tune i.e. frame of mind
214 sovereign overpowering (plays on the related literal sense of “kingly”)
214 elbows pushes, jostles
216 casualties chance, uncertainties
222 afoot on the move
224 attend wait on, look after
224 dear cause important reason
226 aright rightly, as myself
226 grieve regret
231 deep rumbling, deep-voiced
231 dread-bolted hurling terrifying thunderbolts
233 cross forked
233 watch remain awake/be on guard
234 perdu “lost one” (French), the name given to a guard placed in an extremely open, dangerous position
234 helm helmet/covering of hair
238 conductor … people commander of his forces
242 Report rumor
243 powers … kingdom British forces
243 apace rapidly
244 arbitrament deciding of the dispute
246 point … wrought the conclusion of my aims will be thoroughly brought about
247 Or either
248 abuses dishonors, wrongs
249 doubtful fearful
249 conjunct And bosomed sexually intimate
250 as … hers to the fullest extent
253 honest honorable
254 For as for
255 touches us as i.e. affects our honor insofar as
256 bolds insofar as it emboldens
256 with (who) along with
257 Most … oppose has most just and weighty grounds for hostility
261 the … sharpness i.e. in the heat of emotion even the best grounds for hostility are cursed by those who have suffered the losses and afflictions of battle (Edmund pretends to be anxious that Lear and Cordelia receive a fair trial)
265 period limit, extreme point
266 such … not those who do not love
266 another … extremity to enlarge upon another sorrowful tale (that of Kent) would increase sorrow even further and exceed all limits
269 big in clamour loud in lamentation
270 estate condition
273 fastened … neck i.e. embraced me
274 As as if
277 puissant powerful
277 strings of life i.e. heartstrings
279 ’tranced absorbed by grief/in a faint, unconscious
282 enemy king i.e. the king who had treated him as an enemy
283 Improper for unfitting even for