Hamlet - Page 158

67 nightly colour dark mourning clothes/gloomy demeanor

69 veiled lids lowered eyes

71 common universal; in his reply, Hamlet engineers a dig at Gertrude by playing on the senses of "vulgar/whorish"

75 particular specific, personal

78 customary habitual to me/socially conventional

79 suspiration sighing

81 'haviour ... visage facial expression

82 moods outward expressions of mood

83 denote depict

85 passeth surpasses, exceeds

92 obsequious relating to obsequies (commemorative rites for the dead) 92 persever persevere

93 condolement grieving

95 incorrect disobedient

96 impatient unwilling to endure (suffering)

99 any ... sense the most ordinary thing we may experience

100

peevish stubborn, willful

101 Fie expression of disgust or indignation

104 still always

107 unprevailing unavailing, pointless

109 most immediate i.e. heir

112 For as for

113 Wittenberg city in Germany, home to a well-known Protestant university 114 retrograde contrary

115 bend you incline yourself

123 gentle kind/noble

123 accord consent

124 grace whereof thanksgiving for which

125 jocund health merry toast

125 Denmark i.e. himself, king of Denmark

126 tell report/count out (i.e. a celebratory cannon shot will be fired for each toast) 127 rouse (drinking of a) full draught of liquor

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