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Romeo and Juliet

Act 5 — INDEX OF WORDS AND PHRASES EXPLAINED

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a (= one), 215

a hall, a hall! 190

a la stoccata, 221

Abraham Cupid, 197

abused (= marred), 247

ache, 216

adventure (verb), 200, 266

advise (= consider), 244

afeard, 202

affections, 169

affray (verb), 238

afore, 214

afore me, 236

against (of time), 236

agate, 186

airy tongue, 203

all (intensive), 170

alligator, 263

amazed, 224

ambling, 183

ambuscadoes, 187

amerce, 225

anatomy, 234

ancient, 168, 206

and there an end, 236

antic, 191

apace, 215

ape, 198

apt to, 219, 235

as (= as if), 216

as (= namely), 254

as (omitted), 170

as (redundant), 272

associate me, 265

aspire (transitive), 223

atomies, 186

attach (= arrest), 271

attending (= attentive), 203

ay, 229

ay me! 197, 262

baked meats, 256

Balthasar (accent), 262

bandying, 216, 222

bankrupt (spelling), 229

banquet (= dessert), 195

bate (in falconry), 227

bear a brain, to, 179

beetle-brows, 183

behoveful, 253

bent (= inclination), 202

be-rhyme, 209

bescreened, 199

beshrew, 216, 244, 265

betossed, 267

better tempered, 234

bills (weapons), 167

bite by the ear, to, 211

bite the thumb, to, 167

blaze, 235

blazon, 218

bons, 209

bosom's lord, my, 262

both our remedies, 206

bound (play upon) 174, 183

bow of lath, 182

boy (contemptuous), 221

brace, 273

bride (masculine), 243

broad (goose), 212

broken music, 220

burn daylight, to, 185

button, 208

butt-shaft, 207

by and by (= presently), 224, 236, 273

candles (night's), 237

canker (= worm), 205

cankered, 168

Capel's, 262, 270

captain of compliments, 207

carries it away, 221

carry coals, to, 166

carry no crotchets, 261

case (play upon), 183, 259

cat, nine lives of, 221

catched, 258

catling, 261

charge, 265

cheerly, 190

cheveril, 212

chinks, 194

choler (play upon), 166

chop-logic, 243

Chorus, 165

circle (magician's), 198

circumstance, 216, 271

civil (= grave), 227

closed (= enclosed), 188

closet (= chamber), 253

clout, 207

clubs, 167

cock-a-hoop, 192

coil (= ado), 216

colliers, 166

come near, 190

comfortable (active), 271

commission, 248

compare (noun), 216, 246

compliment, 200

concealed, 234

conceit, 218

conclude (transitive), 225

conduct (= conductor), 223, 270

conduit, 242

confessor (accent), 218, 233

confidence (= conference), 212

confound (= destroy), 217

confusions, 258

conjurations, 267

conjure (accent), 197

consort (noun), 219

consort (transitive), 223

consort with, 219

content thee, 192

contract (accent), 201

contrary (accent), 229

contrary (verb), 193

convert (intransitive), 193

cot-quean, 257

county(= count), 181, 241

court-cupboard, 189

courtship, 233

cousin (= kinsman), 223

cousin (= uncle), 190

cover (play upon), 180

cross (= perverse), 253

cross (= thwart), 267

crow-keeper, 182

crush a cup, 176

crystal scales, 176

cure (intransitive), 174

curfew-bell, 256

Cynthia, 238

damnation (concrete), 245

dare (play upon), 207

dark heaven, 173

date (= duration), 188

dateless, 269

dear, 232, 265, 267

dear hap, 204

dear mercy, 232

death (concrete), 268

death-darting eye, 229

defy (= refuse), 267

deny (= refuse), 190

depart (= part), 220

depend (impend), 223

desperate, 236

determine of, 229

detestable (accent), 258

devotion (quadrisyllable), 248

Dian's wit, 171

digressing, 235

discover (= reveal), 201, 224

dislike (= displease), 200

displant, 233

dispute (= reason), 233

dissemblers (metre), 230

distemperature, 206

distraught, 255

division (in music), 238

do danger, 265

do disparagement, 192

do hate, 234

doctrine (= instruction), 172

doom thee death, 223

doth (plural), 165

doubt (= distrust), 267

drawn, 167

drift (= scheme), 252

dry-beat, 222, 261

dump, 260

Dun in the mire, 184

dun's the mouse, 184

earth, 173, 196

elf-locks, 187

empty (= hungry), 267

encamp them, 205

encounter, 218

endart, 181

enforce (= force), 267

engrossing, 269

enpierced, 183

entrance (trisyllable), 182

envious (= malicious), 224, 228

Ethiope, 191

evening mass, 247

exile (accent), 225, 232

expire (transitive), 188

extremes, 248

extremities, 196

faintly, 182

fairies' midwife, 186

familiar (metre), 232

fantasticoes, 208

fashion-mongers, 209

fay (= faith), 195

fearful (= afraid), 232

feeling (= heartfelt), 240

festering, 254

fettle, 243

fine (= penance), 193

fire drives out fire, 174

five wits, 185, 211

flattering (= illusive), 261

flecked, 204

fleer, 191

flirt-gills, 213

flowered (pump), 211

fond (= foolish), 233, 259

fool, 179

foolish, 195

fool's paradise, 214

for (repeated), 196

form (play upon), 209

forth, 169

fortune's fool, 224

frank (= bountiful), 201

Freetown, 169

fret, 237

friend (= lover), 239

from forth, 204

gapes, 196

garish, 228

gear (= matter), 212, 264

ghostly, 204

give leave awhile, 178

give me, 252

give me leave, 216

gleek, 260

glooming, 273

God save the mark! 229

God shall mend my soul! 192

God shield, 248

God ye good morrow! 212

good-den (or god-den), 170, 175, 219, 243

good goose, bite not, 211

good hap, 235

good morrow, 170, 205

good thou, 189

gore-blood, 229

gossamer, 217

grandsire, 209

grave (play upon), 223

grave beseeming, 168

green (eyes), 245

green (= fresh), 254

grey-eyed, 204, 209

haggard (noun), 203

hap, 204

harlotry, 253

have at thee, 167, 261

haviour, 200

hay (in fencing), 208

he (= him), 240

he (= man), 264

healthsome, 254

heartless (= cowardly), 167

Heart's-ease, 260

heavy (play upon), 170

held him carelessly, 236

highmost, 216

high-top-gallant, 214

hilding, 209, 243

his (= its), 259, 270

hoar (= mouldy), 213

hold the candle, to, 184

holp, 174

homely in thy drift, 206

honey (adjective), 216

hood, 227

hour (dissyllable), 216, 225

house (= sheath), 270

humorous, 198

humours, 197

hunts-up, 238

I (repeated), 220

idle worms, 186

ill-beseeming, 234

importuned (accent), 170

in (= into), 262, 267

in extremity, 181

in happy time, 241

in his view, 170

in post, 273

in spite, 168, 192

inconstant, 252

indite (= invite), 213

infection (quadrisyllable), 265

inherit (= possess), 173

it fits, 192

Jack, 213, 219, 261

jealous (= suspicious), 267

jealous-hood, 257

joint-stools, 188

keep ado, 236

kindly, 211, 271

king of cats, 221

knife (worn by ladies), 248, 254

label, 248

labour (of time), 258

lace, 210, 237

Lady, lady, lady, 213

lady-bird, 177

lamentation (metre), 235

Lammas-tide, 178

languish (noun), 174

lantern, 267

lay (= wager), 178

lay along, 266

learn (= teach), 227, 253

leaves, 218

let (noun), 200

level (= aim), 234

lieve, 215

light (play upon), 183

lightning before death, 268

like (= likely), 254

like of, 181

living (noun), 258

loggerhead, 257

long sword, 168

love (= Venus), 215

loving-jealous, 204

Mab, 185

made (= did), 273

maidenhead, 177

make and mar, 172

makes dainty, 190

mammet, 244

man of wax, 179

manage (noun), 224

mandrake, 254

manners (number), 272

many's, 181

marchpane, 189

margent, 180

mark (= appoint), 179

mark-man, 171

marriage (trisyllable), 196, 247, 272

married (figurative), 180

married and marred, 172

masks (ladies'), 172

me (ethical dative), 208, 219

mean (noun), 233

measure (= dance), 182

merchant (contemptuous), 213

mewed up, 236

mickle, 205

minion, 243

misadventure, 262

mistempered, 168

mistress (trisyllable), 214

modern (= trite), 231

moody (= angry), 219

mouse-hunt, 257

moved, 168

much upon these years, 179

muffle, 267

natural (= fool), 212

naught, 230

needly, 231

needy, 241

neighbour-stained, 168

new (adverbial), 170

news (number), 216, 242

nice (= petty, trifling), 224, 265

nightgown, 168

nor ... not, 238, 241

nothing (adverb), 169

nuptial, 191

O (= grief), 233

o'er-perch, 200

of (= on), 167, 216

of the very first house, 208

old (= practised), 234

one is no number, 173

operation (= effect), 219

opposition (metre), 253

orchard (= garden), 197

osier cage, 204

outrage (= outcry), 272

outrage (trisyllable), 222

overwhelming, 263

owe (= possess), 199

pale as a clout, 215

paly, 249

pardonnez-mois, 209

partisan, 167

parts (= gifts), 232, 244

passado, 208, 222

passing (adverbial), 172

pastry, 256

patience (trisyllable), 262, 272

patience perforce, 193

pay that doctrine, 172

peace (metre), 243

perforce (= by force), 272

peruse (= scan), 267

pestilent, 261

Phaethon, 225

pilcher, 222

pin (in archery), 207

pinked, 211

plantain, 174

pluck, 204

portly, 192

poor my lord, 230

pothecary, 273

pout'st upon, 235

powerful grace, 205

predominant, 205

presence, 268

present(= immediate), 264

presently, 262

pretty, 261

prevails (= avails), 233

prick of noon, 212

prick-song, 208

prince of cats, 207

princox, 193

procure, 239

prodigious, 196

proof (= experience), 171

proof (of armour), 171

properer, 215

prorogued, 200, 248

proverbed, 184

pump (= shoe), 211

punto reverso, 208

purchase out, 225

question (= conversation), 172

quit (= requite), 214

quote (= note), 183

quoth, 179

R, the dog's letter, 215

rearward, 231

reason coldly, 220

rebeck, 261

receipt, 241

receptacle (accent), 254

reckoning, 172

reeky, 249

remember (reflexive), 178

respective, 223

rest you merry! 175

retort (= throw back), 224

riddling, 206

roe (play upon), 209

rood (= cross), 179

ropery, 213

rosemary, 259

round (= whisper), 195

runaways' eyes, 225

rushed aside the law, 232

rushes, 183

sadly (= seriously), 171

sadness, 171

savage wild, 267

scales (singular), 176

scant, 176

scape, 219

scathe, 192

scorn at, 192

season, 206

set abroach, 169

set up my rest, 269

sick and green, 199

siege (figurative), 171, 272

silver-sweet, 203

simpleness, 216, 233

simples (= herbs), 216, 263

single-soled, 211

sir-reverence, 185

skains-mates, 213

slip (= counterfeit), 210

slops, 210

slow (verb), 247

smooth (verb), 231

so (omitted), 241

so brief to part, 235

so ho! 213

solemnity, 192

some minute, 273

some other where, 171

something (adverb), 266

sometime, 187

soon-speeding, 264

sorrow drinks our blood, 239

sort (= select), 253

sorted out, 241

soul (play upon), 183, 211

sound (= utter), 231

sour, 232, 267

sped, 222

speed, be my, 270

spinners, 186

spite, 198, 247

spleen, 224

spoke him fair, 224

stand on sudden haste, 206

star-crossed, 165

starved, 171

starveth, 264

stay (= wait for), 261

stay the circumstance, 216

steads, 206

still (= always), 269, 273

strained, 205

strange, 200, 227

strucken, 172

stumbling at graves, 270

substantial (quadrisyllable), 202

surcease, 249

swashing blow, 167

sweet my mother, 244

sweet water, 266

sweet-heart (accent), 257

sweeting, 211

sweetmeats, 187

swounded, 229

sycamore, 169

tables (turned up), 190

tackled stair, 214

take me with you, 242

take the wall, 166

take truce, 224

tassel-gentle, 203

teen, 178

temper (= mix), 241

tender (noun), 244

tender (= regard), 221

tetchy, 179

thank me no thankings, 243

that (affix), 233

therewithal, 273

this three hours, 265

thorough (= through), 207

thought(= hoped), 258

thou's, 178

thumb, rings for, 186

tidings (number), 241

timeless, 271

't is an ill cook, etc., 252

Titan, 204

toes, 190

to-night (= last night), 185, 207

torch-bearer, 182, 237

towards (= ready), 195

toy (= caprice), 252

trencher, 188

tried (= proved), 254

truckle-bed, 198

tutor me from, 219

two and forty hours, 249

two hours (of a play), 166

two may keep counsel, 214

Tybalt, 207

unattainted, 176

uncomfortable, 259

uneven (= indirect), 247

unfirm, 266

unkind (accent, etc.), 270

unmanned, 227

unsavoury, 270

unstuffed, 205

untimely (adverb), 223, 273

up (transposed), 253

use (tense), 196

utters (= sells), 264

validity, 233

vanished, 232

vanity, 218

vaulty (heaven), 238

Verona, 165

versal, 215

very (adjective), 222

view (= appearance), 170

volume (figurative), 180

volume (figurative), 180

wanton (masculine), 203

ware (= aware), 169, 200

was I with you? 211

weeds (= garments), 263

well (of the dead), 258, 262

well said (= well done), 193

what (= how, why), 191

what (= who), 194

wherefore (accent), 200

who (= which), 169, 188, 233, 242

wild-goose chase, 211

will none, 242

wit, 235, 240

with (= by), 170, 267

withal, 169

wits, five, 185

worm (in fingers), 186

wormwood, 178

worser, 205, 221

worshipped sun, 169

worth (= wealth), 218

wot, 232

wrought (= effected), 242

yet not, 199

zounds, 220

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