Authors: William Shakespeare
411
shaped Unto
fitted, suited
412
end of
purpose in (to make Cymbeline suffer)
419
service
i.e. in battle
420
Unlike
unlikely, amazing
423
Be pleased awhile
permit me to speak for a few more moments
425
as yours
as your son
427
lapped
wrapped
428
curious
exquisite
429
probation
proof
432
sanguine
bloodred
435
natural stamp
birthmark
436
end … donation
purpose in giving it
440
deliverance
in giving birth
440
pray
I pray
441
starting … orbs
displacement from your spheres
443
Thou … kingdom
because Guiderius and Arviragus are immediate heirs to the throne
447
But
anything other than
455
rare
exceptional
456
fierce abridgement
drastically compressed account
457
branches
details
458
Distinction … in
need to be distinguished fully from one another/should prove plentiful once they have been distinguished from one another
462
your … to
what motives the three of you (Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus) had for joining
463
demanded
asked about
464
by-dependences
side issues, related matters
465
chance
happening, occurrence
465
nor
neither
466
Will serve
are suited to
466
interrogatories
interrogations
467
anchors
concentrates his looks, attention
468
throws her eye
gazes
470
counterchange … all
each reciprocates the looks of the others
471
quit this ground
leave this place
472
smoke
fill with smoke (from incense or sacrificial fires)
473
hold
consider
474
relieve me
help/rescue me
475
gracious season
joyous occasion
477
Save
except
478
taste our comfort
feel, experience our mercy/share in our happiness
482
forlorn
wretched, destitute
483
becomed
become, suited
483
graced
done honor to/made rich
486
company
accompany
487
beseeming
appearance, i.e. his peasant’s garb
487
fitment
preparation
490
you finish
an end of you
492
sinks
makes bend, weighs down
494
often
many times over
501
doomed
judged, sentenced
502
freeness
generosity, benevolence
504
holp
helped
505
As
as if
506
Joyed
overjoyed
509
upon … backed
riding upon his eagle’s back
510
spritely shows
ghostly visions
512
label
sheet of paper (the tablet)
512
containing
contents
513
so … hardness
i.e. hard to understand
514
collection of
deduction, inference from
515
construction
interpretation
516
Philharmonus
i.e. lover of harmony
519
whelp
cub
528
leo-natus
born of a lion
528
import
signify, mean
530
mollis aer
Latin for “soft air”; a false etymology of
mulier
, Latin for “woman”
531
divine
interpret (by divine inspiration)
534
clipped about
embraced
536
seeming
plausibility
537
cedar
the tree was an emblem of sovereignty, especially in the Bible
538
Personates
stands for
538
point … forth
indicate your two sons
541
issue
offspring, descendants
547
wonted
usual, accustomed
549
Whom
on whom
553
stroke
action, onset
557
Lessened herself
i.e. by disappearing into the distance
561
west
understood in classical geography as the location of Britain
562
Laud
praise
563
crookèd
curling
564
Publish
announce
565
Set we forward
let’s set on, begin marching
566
ensign
standard, banner
569
seal
confirm
570
Set on there!
Onward, forward march!