67 stockfish dried cod; Stephano threatens to beat Trinculo as fish is beaten before cooking; he may also imply that he will take Trinculo's drink away 71 give ... lie accuse me of lying/insult me
75 murrain plague (literally, disease affecting cattle and sheep) 77 forward go on
79 enough thoroughly
83 brain murder, dash out his brains
85 paunch stab in the stomach
86 weasand windpipe
88 sot idiot/drunkard
90 rootedly deep-seatedly
91 utensils instruments of magic or alchemy/household goods 92 deck withal decorate/furnish with
95 nonpareil unsurpassed, one without equal
100 become befit/grace
101 brood offspring
103 'save our graces God save us
104 viceroys deputy rulers
113 jocund joyful
113 troll sing merrily
113 catch musical round
114 while-ere a while ago
115 reason anything within reason
117 Flout ... 'em insult them and mock them
120.1 tabor small drum
122 picture of Nobody i.e. someone invisible
125 take't ... list take it as you will/do as you wish 133 twangling resonant/twanging
143 by and by soon/immediately
143 story scheme
146 this taborer drummer (i.e. Ariel)
147 lays it on i.e. bangs the drum with energy Act 3 Scene 3
1 By'r lakin by our Ladykin (i.e. the Virgin Mary)
2 maze network of tracks, labyrinth
3 forth-rights and meanders straight and winding paths
6 attached seized
8 put off cast off
9 for my flatterer to be my indulgent, flattering courtier 11 frustrate fruitless/frustrated
13 for because of
13 repulse setback
13 forgo give up
17 oppressed worn down
17 travail labor/traveling
23 keepers protecting spirits
24 drollery puppet show/comic entertainment/humorous picture 26 phoenix mythical Arabian bird that was consumed by fire every 500 years, then resurrected from the ashes 29 want credit lack credibility
35 certes certainly
36 monstrous unnatural/unusual
38 generation race
43 muse wonder at
47 Praise in departing keep your praise until the occasion is over (proverbial) 48 strangely surprisingly/unnaturally
50 viands food
50 stomachs appetites
54 mountaineers mountain dwellers
55 Dewlapped with folds of loose skin around the throat 56 Wallets sagging bags
58 putter-out broker/traveler
58 putter-out ... one brokers offered the traveler five times an initial sum deposited if he returned safely from his journey with proof that he had reached his destination 60 stand to come forward/begin eating
61 Although even if (it is to be)
63.1 harpy mythical monster with a woman's face and body and a bird's wings and claws; sometimes agents of divine vengeance 63.1 quaint device ingenious mechanism/contrivance 65 to instrument at its disposal/as its agent
65 lower world i.e. the sublunar, mortal world 65 never-surfeited never satisfied, hungry
70 suchlike valour insane fearlessness
71 proper selves themselves
72 elements ... tempered i.e. fire and earth from which your swords are forged (tempered); these two elements are powerless against the other two (winds and waters) 74 bemocked-at scorned
75 still-closing waters ever-united/self-healing
76 dowl small feather
76 plume plumage
77 like equally
78 massy heavy
80 business purpose
82 requit repaid/avenged
88 perdition ruin (with connotations of "damnation")
90 whose ... ensuing i.e. to guard yourselves from the anger of the powers, which will otherwise befall you on this deserted island, you must live a faultless life of profound repentance 94.1 mocks and mows jeering expressions/grimaces and pouts 95 devouring all-consuming (or possibly Ariel has eaten part of the banquet) 96 bated omitted
97 So likewise
97 good life great realism/much liveliness
98 observation strange particular, careful attention
98 meaner lower ranking
99 several kinds various/individual roles
99 high elevated, sophisticated, powerful
100 knit up tied up, entangled
101 distractions agitation, temporary madness
102 fits attacks, turmoil
108 billows great waves
111 bass pronounce in a deep, resonant voice
111 trespass wrong, crime
112 ooze muddy sand on the sea bed
113 plummet instrument used to measure the depth of water 113 sounded sank
114 mudded buried in mud
115 But ... o'er as long as they come one at a time I'll fight whole armies of devilish spirits 117 second supporter/backup fighter in a duel
122 ecstasy frenzy
Act 4 Scene 1
1 austerely severely
2 compensation i.e. Miranda
3 third i.e. a very important part (possibly Miranda is a third of Prospero's age; or she shares his life with his dukedom and his art) 5 tender offer/betroth
5 vexations afflictions
7 strangely admirably, exceptionally
8 ratify formally approve
9 her of of her
11 halt proceed lamely
12 gainst even in the face of
14 purchased obtained/won
16 sanctimonious holy
18 sweet aspersion fragrant shower
20 bestrew cover
21 loathly loathsome
22 Hymen in Greek and Roman mythology, the god of marriage (represented by a young man carrying a lamp) 25 fair issue beautiful children
27 strong'st ... can most powerful temptation/influence that our bad angel (worser genius) can exert on us 31 or either
31 Phoebus the sun god, whose horse-drawn chariot carried the sun across the heavens 31 foundered lame
39 rabble i.e. crowd of more lowly spirits
43 vanity trifling/dazzling display
45 presently immediately
46 with a twink in the wink of an eye
50 mop and mow grimace and pout
54 conceive understand
55 true faithful
55 dalliance frivolity, amorous conversation
57 th'fire i'th'blood passion, lust
58 goodnight farewell to
61 liver thought to be the seat of sexual desire
63 a corollary an extra (spirit)
64 pertly briskly
64 Iris rainbow goddess and messenger of the gods
66 Ceres goddess of the harvest and the earth
66 leas fields
67 vetches coarse crops, often dried for animal feed
68 turfy grassy
69 meads meadows
69 thatched with stover covered with hay, winter animal feed 70 pioned dug, trenched
70 pioned ... brims alluding to the agrarian practice of cutting and laying hedges to border or enclose pasture 70 twilled interwoven, plaited branches
70 brims hedges, borders
71 spongy rainy, damp
71 hest command
71 betrims trims with dew or rain/adorns with blossom 72 cold modest, chaste
72 crowns coronets of flowers
72 broom-groves groves of broom (a yellow-flowered shrub) 73 dismissed rejected
74 lass-lorn forsaken, bereft of a sweetheart
74 poll-clipped pollarded, pruned
75 sea-marge coast
76 air take the air
76 queen o'th'sky i.e. Juno
77 wat'ry arch rainbow
78 these i.e. the la
ndscape described above
80 sport make merry
80 peacocks the sacred birds of Juno who drew her carriage 80 amain swiftly
83 wife of Jupiter Juno, married to the king of the gods 84 saffron orange-red
85 Diffusest honey drops scatters sweet rain/dew
86 bow rainbow
87 bosky bushy, full of thickets
87 unshrubbed down bare, undulating hills
88 proud splendid
91 donation gift, favor
91 estate bestow
94 Venus ... son Cupid was son to Venus, goddess of love 96 means that manner in which
96 dusky Dis dark Pluto, the rich god of the underworld; aided by Venus and Cupid, he kidnapped Ceres' daughter Proserpine, who was forced to spend half of every year with him 97 blind boy's Cupid, god of love, was blind
97 scandaled disgraceful
98 forsworn rejected
101 Paphos city in Cyprus, home to the cult of Venus
102 Dove-drawn doves, the birds of love, pull Venus' chariot 103 wanton mischievous/lascivious
104 bed-right i.e. sex
105 Hymen's ... lighted symbolizing the completion of the marriage ceremony 106 Mars' hot minion i.e. lustful Venus, lover to the god of war 107 waspish-headed peevish, spiteful, and, literally, one who stings (with arrows) 108 sparrows proverbially lecherous birds
109 be ... out behave in all respects like a boy not a god 111 gait bearing, movement
112 bounteous generous
113 twain couple
116 increasing children/fruitfulness
117 still always
119 foison abundance
120 garners granaries
123 Spring ... harvest may spring arrive as soon as the autumn harvest is over (so there is no winter) 128 charmingly enchantingly/melodiously/pleasingly
128 be bold take the liberty, venture
132 present fancies immediate imaginings/whims
134 wondered to be wondered at, extraordinary
137 seriously importantly/solemnly
140 Naiads water nymphs
140 windring winding and wandering
141 sedged made from sedge, a coarse grassy plant growing by rivers 142 crisp channels rippling streams
144 temperate gentle/abstemious
145 be ... late come quickly/arrive before the couple make love 146 sicklemen harvesters (a sickle is a hooked knife used for reaping) 147 furrow i.e. fields (literally, groove made by a plough) 150 country footing rustic dance
150.1 properly habited appropriately clad (i.e. in their harvesting clothes) 150.2 heavily slowly, sadly/suddenly
154 Avoid be gone
155 passion agitation, turmoil
158 distempered disturbed, ill-humored
159 moved sort distressed state
161 revels (courtly) entertainment/masque
162 foretold you told you earlier
164 baseless without a foundation/illusory
164 fabric building/structure
166 globe world (puns on the Globe Theatre)
167 all i.e. all those, all the people
167 it i.e. the globe
168 pageant spectacle/scene
169 rack shred of cloud, fragment of mist (perhaps with play on "wrack"--i.e. wreck) 171 rounded completed/surrounded (perhaps with play on "crowned") 174 cell humble dwelling
178 with a thought quickly, as swiftly as I think of you 179 cleave to adhere to, respond rapidly to
184 varlets rogues
185 red-hot fired up/red in the face
186 smote struck
188 bending turning, proceeding
190 unbacked colts untrained, unbroken young horses
191 Advanced opened
192 As as if
193 lowing mooing
194 Toothed prickly
194 briars ... thorns all types of thorny, coarse shrubs 196 filthy-mantled covered with scum or rotting weeds 197 that so that
197 lake ... feet i.e. being stirred up, the lake stank even more foully than their feet 200 Thy ... still i.e. remain invisible
201 trumpery fancy garments, worthless finery
202 stale bait
206 Humanely as a human/benevolently
206 lost wasted on him/corrupted by him
208 cankers decays, becomes malignant
209 roaring moaning, wailing
209 line clothesline/lind (i.e. lime tree)
209.1 glistering glittering
210 that so that even
213 fairy i.e. Ariel
214 played ... with tricked/played the knave
219 lost ruined, destitute
222 hoodwink this mischance cover up this misfortune
229 fetch off retrieve
229 o'er ears up to my ears (in the stinking lake)
233 mischief evil, wrongdoing
235 aye ever
238 King ... peer allusion to a popular ballad ("King Stephen was a worthy peer") about kings and their clothing 241 frippery second-hand clothes shop
246 dropsy disease in which the body accumulates fluid 247 luggage trappings, encumbrances
250 Make ... stuff transform us into extraordinary material 251 Mistress line i.e. the clothesline/tree
252 jerkin close-fitting jacket
252 under the line off the clothesline or tree/at the equator, or metaphorically, genitals, and thus bald from either a sailor's fever or syphilis 253 hair many jerkins were made from animal fur and cured (i.e. "hairless") leather 254 line and level methodically
254 an't like if it please
258 pass of pate witty thrust
260 lime birdlime, a sticky substance spread on branches to snare birds 263 barnacles sea creatures/type of goose (hence connotations of stupidity, as with apes) 264 villainous villainously/vilely (playing on "villain," a servant or lowly person) 265 lay to your use
266 hogshead large cask
269.1 diverse various
270 Mountain ... Tyrant the names of the spirits as hounds, all of which imply their powerful personalities 273 grind torment/crush
274 dry convulsions painful cramps
274 shorten up contract
275 aged cramps pains of old age
275 pinch-spotted bruised from pinches
276 pard leopard/panther
276 cat o'mountain wild cat
281 air at freedom freedom of the air (i.e. be released) 281 a little short time
Act 5 Scene 1
1 project plan (with associations of "alchemical experiment") 1 gather ... head come to fruition/begin to boil (a vital stage in alchemy) 2 crack not do not fail/do not overboil
2 Time ... carriage Time walks more easily with his burden 3 How's the day? What time is it?
10 gave in charge instructed
12 line-grove grove of lime trees
12 weather-fends shelters
14 abide remain
14 distracted distressed/maddened
17 termed called
18 winter's ... reeds winter rain from thatched roofs
20 affections feelings
27 relish ... Passion feel the force of emotion/suffering as acutely 28 kindlier moved affected with more compassion
29 high extreme
29 th'quick most tender part
31 take part join forces
31 rarer more unusual/profound
32 than rather than
33 drift aim
38 standing still/stagnant
39 with printless foot leaving no trace
40 fly flee
41 demi-puppets tiny creatures
42 sour ringlets fairy rings, darker circles of grass supposedly caused by fairies dancing 43 ewe not bites sheep will not eat the grass because it is sour 44 midnight mushrooms mushrooms that grow overnight; toadstools were particularly associated with fairies 45 solemn curfew nine o'clock bell; after the evening curfew, the spirits were free until dawn 46 masters ministers/magicians
46 bedimmed eclipsed/clouded over
48 azured vault blue sky
49 roaring war i.e. caused a storm
50 fire i.e. lightning
50 rifted split
50 oak a tree particularly associated with the king of the gods 51 strong-based promontory sturdy headland
52 spurs i.e. roots
54 oped opened
55 rough violent/imperfect
56 abjure solemnly reject
56 required summoned
58 end purpose
60 certain a certain number of
60 fathoms a fathom was about six feet
61 plummet instrument used to measure the depth of water 61 sound penetrate
62.1 frantic mad
63 air melody
64 fancy imagination
65 boil that boil
66 spell-stopped motionless, arrested by the spell
68 sociable sympathetic
68 show sight (Gonzalo is weeping)
69 Fall fellowly let fall compassionate
69 apace swiftly
71 rising awakening
72 ignorant dull/befuddled
72 mantle cloak
74 true honest
75 follow'st serve
75 pay ... Home repay the debt in full
78 furtherer enabler
80 entertain court/welcome
81 remorse and nature pity and kinship
82 inward pinches inner turmoil/tortures of conscience
85 the ... shore i.e. their awakening senses begin to move them toward understanding 89 hat and rapier signs of a gentleman
89 rapier sword
90 discase undress/change costume
91 As ... Milan as I looked when I was Duke of Milan
94 cowslip's bell the bell-shaped petals that form the flower 95 couch rest/conceal myself
105 enforce urge/drive
106 presently immediately
107 drink the air i.e. devour the way, travel quickly 108 Or ere before
111 fearful terrifying/awe-inspiring
119 trifle illusion, trick
119 abuse deceive/harm
122 amends improves
124 be at all is even real
125 Thy ... resign Alonso gives up his claims over Milan, a tributary state to Naples 131 be ... not is or is not real
134 subtleties illusions, magical contrivances (plays on sense of "sugar confections") 136 brace pair
138 you you as
144 rankest most grievous
145 perforce of necessity
153 woe sorry
158 the like a similar
158 sovereign excellent/healing
159 content satisfied/resigned
161 as late recent
161 supportable ... weaker I have far fewer means at my disposal with which to make my grief bearable 167 That i.e. were it necessary in order for that to be the case 171 do ... admire are so astonished
172 devour their reason their reason is consumed
172 think ... truth believe their eyes
173 their ... breath they are speechless
175 justled jostled
179 on't of it
180 chronicle ... day a narrative to be told over many days/one day at a time 181 relation report
184 abroad elsewhere
186 requite repay/respond to
187 wonder puns on Miranda's name
189 play me false are cheating
192 a score twenty
192 wrangle wage war
197 miracle continues wordplay on Miranda's name