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101bias of nature natural inclination (a bowling image: the bias refers to the curving path taken by a weighted ball)

104it … nothing i.e. it will advantage you

108excellent foppery supreme foolishness

109surfeits excesses

110disasters misfortunes

111on i.e. by

112treachers traitors

113spherical predominance the dominant influence of a particular planet at one’s birth

115divine celestial, supernatural

115evasion shuffling excuse

116whoremaster i.e. lecherous, whore-using

116goatish lustful

117charge responsibility

117compounded had sex

118the dragon’s tail the constellation Draco

118Ursa Major (constellation of) the Great Bear (or Plough)

119rough cruel, violent

120maidenliest most virginal

121firmament sky, heavens

121bastardizing conception out of wedlock

122Pat on cue

122catastrophe conclusion

122comedy play

122my cue could also mean “designated role”

123Tom o’Bedlam i.e. a madman (from the Saint Mary of Bethlehem hospital in London, an institution for the insane)

124divisions conflicts, discords (plays on the sense of “musical variations”)

124Fa … mi Edmund hums a musical scale to himself

127this the

130succeed follow

131unhappily unluckily, by misfortune

136countenance bearing, demeanor/facial expression

139forbear avoid

140qualified cooled, lessened

141mischief … person harm caused by your presence

142allay abate, calm

144have … forbearance i.e. restrain yourself and stay away from him

146fitly at an appropriate time

148abroad out of the house

151meaning intention

153image and horror horrific true picture

154anon soon

155serve help/trick, deceive

159practices plots

160wit intelligence, ingenuity

161meet fitting

161fashion fit shape to my purposes

Act 1 Scene 3

1.3Location: Goneril and the Duke of Albany’s residence

1gentleman man of gentle (i.e. noble) birth attached to a royal household

1chiding rebuking

5flashes breaks out

10come slack fall short

11answer be answerable for

14fellows fellow servants

14question conflict, a dispute

15distaste dislike

21straight straight away

21to i.e. and tell her to

Act 1 Scene 4

1as will I perhaps “as I intend” (but most editors opt for the Quarto “well”- i.e. “as well as being disguised”)

2defuse confuse, disorder

3full issue complete outcome

4razed my likeness erased my true appearance

8stay wait

11What … profess? What is your occupation? (Kent shifts the sense of profess to “claim, declare”)

11wouldst thou do you want

12us Lear continues to use the royal plural pronoun

16judgement i.e. God’s judgment/the judgment of fellow men

16cannot choose have no other option

16to eat … fish i.e. only to eat a hearty diet of meat/not to eat fish on Fridays like a Roman Catholic/not to have sex with prostitutes

31keep honest counsel keep secrets like an honorable man/keep secrets that are honorable

31mar … tale spoil an elaborate story

37anything “thing” plays on the sense of “vagina”

41knave rogue/servant

44So if it

45clotpoll idiot

49slave servant/villain

51roundest bluntest

55entertained received, treated hospitably

56wont accustomed (to receive)

57general dependants servants as a whole

63rememb’rest remind

63conception notion, thought

64faint slight/lazy, half-hearted

65jealous curiosity mistrustful fastidiousness

65very pretence real intention

77cur dog

79bandy exchange looks as an equal (literally, “bat to and fro” as in tennis)

80strucken struck, beaten

81football played by the lower classes (unlike tennis)

84differences class distinctions

85measure … length be knocked flat to the floor

85lubber clumsy lout

86tarry stay

86go to an expression of impatient dismissal

88earnest part-payment in advance

90coxcomb fool’s headgear with a crest like a cock’s comb

91pretty fine-looking/clever

95an … sits i.e. if you cannot please those in power

97on’s of his

98needs necessarily

99nuncle contraction of “mine uncle”

99Would I wish

102living property, possessions

106Brach bitch

107pestilent gall troublesome irritation

110Mark pay attention to

113owest own

114goest walk

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