Shakepear
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- Alack
- expression of regret, dismay, alarm, sorrow
- Anon
- now, at once, shortly
- Atomies
- tiny creatures
- Avaunt
- go away, depart, withdraw
- Belike
- probably, most likel
- Beseech
- implore, beg, ask
- Betimes
- immediately, at once
- Betwixt
- between
- Bombard
- leather jug
- Bourn
- boundary
- Bruit
- echo, noise, clamor, to make a report or pread a rumor
- Buckram
- stiff cotton cloth used to line clothing
- Cap-a-Pie
- completely, entirely, in everyway
- cozen
- cheat, trick, decieve
- cuckhold
- man married to an adultress
- durst
- dared, had the courage to
- ere
- before, previous, sooner than
- fain
- ready, willing, eager
- fardel
- burden, pack, bundle
- fie
- for shame, nonsense (expressed disagreement, annoyance, mild disgust)
- fool
- a comic figure with a quick tongue, entertained the queen king and their guests, allowed/expected to criticize anyone at the court, many were dwarfs or cripples
- fordo
- ruin, kill, destroy
- forsooth
- indeed, in truth, verily, in fact
- gaoler
- jailer
- gramercy
- thanks, thank you
- gules
- in heraldry, the color red
- haply
- perhaps, by accident or chance, by happenstance
- Hautboy (or hautbois)
- oboe, a woodwind instrument
- holp
- help or helped
- hugger mugger
- secret act peformed in confusion or haste
- incarnadine
- blood-red
- liege
- lord, king, sovereign
- marry
- by the virgin mary (i swear by the virgin mary), the meaning and force are similar to those of the word well
- meed
- merit, worth, exellence
- methinks
- i think, it seems to me, it appears as if
- misprise
- undervalue, underestimate, belittle, disparage
- moe
- more
- morris
- dance in which costume performers act out a story
- morrow
- morning
- mote
- dust particle, speck
- nonce
- occasion
- orison
- prayer
- palter
- talk insincerely, mislead, equivocate, leave the meaning open to interprtation
- prithee
- please, i pray thee
- reck
- concern, take heed of
- rede
- advice, counsel, guidance
- rheum
- tears, eye discharge
- rood
- cross on which christ was crucified, crrucifix (cross with a sculpted christ), character swore the truth to the rood
- shrive
- absolve from sins, obtain forgiveness by confessing sins
- sirrah
- fellow, mister, (the word is used contemptously)
- soft
- stop, be quiet, hold up
- sooth
- truth, fact
- swain
- young fellow, country boy
- thee, thy, thine, thou, thyself
- thee (you) thy (your) thine (yours) thou (you) thyself (yourself)
- verily
- truly, in truth, indeed, really
- vouchsafe
- grant, bestow
- welkin
- sky, heavenly, vault
- whence
- from where, from what source, from what place
- wherefore
- why
- withal
- in addition, not withstanding, besides
- wonted
- accustomed, usual, ordinary
- zounds
- expression of surprise, disappointment, anger, amazement *word is a corruption of "by his wounds" after people said it so quickly is sounded like a single word- zoons*