216 sting plays on the sense of genitals/sexual urge
219 tails puns on "tales"
220 with ... tail i.e. leaving me with the last word (tail puns on the sense of "vagina") come plays on the sense of "have an orgasm" again back/once more 222 try test
223 cuff hit
224 lose your arms waste your strength/loosen your grip/forfeit your coat of arms (the sign of being a gentleman) 225 strike plays on the sense of "have sex with"
227 books book of heraldry, where gentlemen's coats of arms were recorded (plays on the notion of "good books" and on "vagina") 228 crest identifying feature on a coat of arms/tuft on the head of an animal (with phallic connotations) coxcomb fool's cap (similar in appearance to a cock's crest; plays on "cock"--i.e. penis) 229 combless i.e. unthreatening cock cockerel/penis so provided that hen i.e. wife/harlot 230 craven cock with no fighting spirit
232 fashion manner crab sour crab-apple
236 glass mirror
238 Well ... one well guessed for one so inexperienced
239 young youthful/strong
241 cares troubles
243 scape escape
244 chafe annoy, inflame
246 rough harsh/ unmanageable coy disdainful, unresponsive 248 pleasant merry gamesome sportive, playful
249 slow easygoing, without a quick tongue
250 askance scornfully
252 cross combative/ill-tempered
253 entertain'st receive
254 conference conversation
259 halt limp
260 whom ... command order you servants about (rather than me)
261 Dian Diana, goddess of chastity, the moon and hunting become suit, enhance 262 gait manner, bearing, way of walking
264 sportful lively/playful/amorous
265 study learn/practice goodly splendid (sarcastic)
266 extempore spontaneous, improvised mother-wit natural intelligence 267 A ... son your mother must have had some wit, as left to yourself you would have none at all 268 wise ... warm "he is wise enough that can keep himself warm" (proverbial) 270 mean intend to
274 will ... you whether you will or not
275 for your turn right for you (plays on the sense of "for sex with you") 280 wild Kate puns on "wild-cat"
281 Conformable pliant, obedient
282 Never make denial do not refuse me
284 speed you do you succeed, fare
286 amiss adversely, without progress
287 In your dumps? Down-hearted?
292 face ... out brazenly get his own way
295 policy strategic purposes
297 temperate moderate, gentle
298 Grissel Patient Griselda was, in Boccaccio and Chaucer, a model of wifely obedience 299 Lucrece raped by the Roman king Tarquin, Lucrece was so ashamed she committed suicide 300 'greed got along
304 speeding progress/success goodnight our part our part in this business is over 307 'twixt us twain between we two
312 vied redoubled (gambling term for raising the stakes) protesting declaring 313 twink twinkling
314 a ... see wonderful to see
316 meacock feeble
318 gainst in preparation for
319 bid invite
320 fine finely dressed
321 hands ... witnesses joining of hands in front of witnesses (the "pre-contract") prevented either party from becoming engaged to another 325 apace swiftly
328 clapped up settled
330 desperate mart risky business endeavor
331 'Twas ... you it (Kate) was a piece of merchandise that was losing its value (fretting plays on the sense of "aggravating") 333 quiet peace of mind
334 quiet catch (ironic)
341 freeze possibly implies impotence
342 fry burn lecherously
343 Skipper frivolous wastrel nourisheth sustains life 345 compound settle
346 deeds actions/legal deeds he of both whichever of the two of you 347 dower settlement made to the wife on the death of the husband
351 plate gold or silver tableware
352 lave wash
353 hangings wall coverings Tyrian from Tyre, an ancient trading city on the Mediterranean 354 coffers chests
355 cypress made from cypress wood arras counterpoints tapestried bed coverings from Arras 356 tents hangings for a bed
357 Turkey Turkish bossed embossed, adorned
358 Valance ... needlework valences (borders on the sides or canopy of a bed) embroidered with Venetian gold thread 361 milch-kine dairy cows to the pail (specifically) for milking 363 answerable ... portion appropriate to an estate of this size
364 struck old
367 came well in is to the point list listen
371 walls i.e. the walls forming the city limits
373 two ... land i.e. the land brings in an annual income of two thousand ducats (gold coins) 374 jointure widow's settlement
375 pinched distressed/belittled
378 argosy large merchant ship
379 Marseillis' road the harbor at Marseilles
383 tight efficient, seaworthy
389 out-vied outbid (card-playing term)
391 let providing assurance (financial) guarantee
392 else otherwise
394 cavil quibble
404 gamester gambler, foolish adventurer were would be 406 Set ... table i.e. become dependent upon you toy piece of nonsense 409 faced ... ten bluffed, brazened it out with a card only worth ten
410 'Tis ... head I have a plan
412 get beget, conceive
415 sire father
1 Fiddler ... sir implies that Hortensio is holding Bianca's fingers as he teaches her the lute 2 entertainment reception
3 withal with
6 prerogative priority
8 lecture lesson
9 Preposterous unreasonable/placing last what should be first
10 ordained created
12 usual pain habitual labor
14 serve in serve up (contemptuous)
15 braves blustering threats
17 resteth ... choice is up to me
18 breeching ... schools schoolboy liable to be whipped (breeched)
19 'pointed appointed
22 the whiles in the meantime
28 'Hic ... senis' "here ran the [river] Simois; here is the Sigeian land [Troy]; here stood the lofty palace of old Priam [King of Troy]" (from Ovid's Heroides) 30 Conster translate/analyze grammatically/expound
35 port station, dignity pantaloon foolish old man (i.e. Gremio) 37 fie expression of impatience or disgust jars sounds discordant 38 Spit ... again possibly a perversion of the proverb "spit in your hands and take a better hold" (sequence instrument's ... spit in the hole ... tune ... fingering may have sexual connotations) 45 jars quarrels
46 pedant schoolmaster/quibbler
48 Pedascule little pedant
50 Aeacides ... grandfather the Greek hero Ajax was also known as Aeacides, after his grandfather Aeacus (Lucentio has moved to the next line of Ovid's Heroides) 52 master tutor
53 doubt point
56 pleasant merry, playful
57 give me leave leave me
58 three parts i.e. the company of three people
59 formal punctilious
60 withal at the same time but unless
63 order method
65 gamut the musical scale briefer sort quicker way
68 fairly drawn neatly set out
71 ground ... accord basis of all harmony
75 one ... I perhaps Hortensio's love (one clef) and his real and assumed personalities (two notes); may also have sexual connotations ("one vagina," "two testicles"--notes playing on "nuts") leading to play on die in next line 78 Old established nice capricious
79 true legitimate, constant
85 pry into spy on, investigate
88 stale decoy (specifically, one that distracts a poorly trained hawk)
89 Seize ... list let those who wan
t you have you ranging straying (like a hawk)/unfaithful 90 quit with rid of/even with
5 want lack
8 forsooth in truth
10 rudesby insolent ruffian spleen temper, passion
11 wooed ... leisure varies the proverbial "he who marries in haste repents at leisure"
12 frantic insane, frenzied
14 noted for known as
19 Lo look
23 fortune ... word event prevents him from keeping his word
29 humour temperament
30 Old plentiful (Baptista plays on the more familiar sense)
40 to of
42 jerkin close-fitting jacket turned i.e. inside out (to make them last longer) 43 candle-cases containers for candle ends (i.e. too worn out to wear)
45 chapeless without a sheath points laces for fastening the doublet to the hose 46 hipped lame, with an injured hip of no kindred that do not match 47 glanders horse disease affecting the nostrils and jaws like ... chine of unclear meaning; perhaps a corruption of "like to mourn in the chine"--i.e. likely to be in the final stages of the glanders--or possibly "likely to have a weak spine (chine)"
48 lampass horse disease affecting the mouth fashions farcins (horse disease causing tumors) 49 windgalls tumors on a horse's leg sped with spavins rendered useless by swelling of the leg joints rayed disfigured yellows jaundice 50 fives horse disease affecting the parotid glands stark utterly staggers horse disease marked by a staggering movement begnawn gnawed at 51 bots intestinal worms swayed ... back with a bowed spine shoulder-shotten with a dislocated shoulder near-legged before knock-kneed in the front legs 52 half-checked bit restraining bit with a broken sidering (so, ineffective) head-stall part of the horse's bridle that goes over the head 53 sheep's leather i.e. weak leather restrained pulled tight 55 girth leather band that goes under the horse's stomach to hold the saddle in place pieced mended crupper leather strap that prevents the saddle from slipping 56 velure velvet hath ... studs is adorned with her initials in (brass or silver) studs 57 packthread string
59 lackey servant caparisoned dressed
60 stock stocking kersey coarse cloth boot-hose over-stocking covering the whole of the lower leg 61 list strip of cloth
62 humour ... fancies unclear; possibly refers to an old ballad, or to a fanciful ornament--the general sense is that the hat is adorned in an elaborate and whimsical manner pricked ... feather pinned in it in place of 64 footboy page, servant on foot
65 pricks spurs
66 mean-apparelled dressed humbly/ moderately
74 Saint Jamy probably Saint James of Compostella, whose shrine was a popular object of pilgrimage 75 hold bet
79 gallants fashionable, fine young gentlemen
81 come not well am not welcome (Baptista responds to the sense of "walk with difficulty") 82 halt limp
86 Gentles gentlemen
87 wherefore why goodly fine
88 monument portent
89 comet thought to be a bad omen prodigy omen
92 unprovided ill-dressed, unprepared
93 doff take off habit clothing estate rank 94 solemn ceremonious
95 occasion of import important event
104 wears is passing, being wasted
105 unreverent disrespectful
109 Good sooth truly ha' have
111 wear wear out (with sexual connotations)
112 accoutrements clothes
116 lovely loving
120 event outcome
122 liking approval to pass about
125 skills matters fit adapt
132 steps movements narrowly closely
133 steal our marriage marry secretly
137 watch our vantage look for a favorable opportunity
138 overreach outwit
139 narrow-prying inquisitive
140 quaint crafty
145 groom lowly character/servingman
147 Curster more quarrelsome
150 a fool to innocent compared to
151 Sir respectful term of address
153 gogs-wouns God's wounds (a common oath)
154 book i.e. Bible
156 took gave
158 them probably refers to the priest and his book; possibly refers to the hem of Kate's skirt with Petruchio claiming to suspect the priest of peeping at her undergarments any list anyone is listening/wants to 160 for why because
161 cozen cheat
162 many various
165 quaffed off drank up, drained muscadel a sweet wine 166 sops pieces of bread or cake placed in wine
168 hungerly sparsely
169 him him for
174 rout company
176 minstrels musicians
178 think expect
179 cheer food and drink
184 Make ... wonder don't be surprised
186 honest worthy, kind
199 not stay not content to stay
202 oats ... horses i.e. the horses are more than ready to gallop (as they have been so well fed) 207 be ... green go while your boots are still fresh
209 jolly self-confident, arrogant
210 take ... roundly behaves so presumptuously from the start
212 hast ... do is it to do with you
213 stay my leisure wait until I'm ready
214 it ... work things are beginning to happen
220 domineer feast riotously
221 Carouse full measure drink heartily maidenhead virginity 222 mad high-spirited
224 big threatening, irate
226 my ... anything an echo of the Tenth Commandment, which lists the possessions one should not covet chattels movable possessions 227 stuff furnishings
230 bring mine action take legal action against/respond with physical force proudest he bravest/most self-assured man 235 buckler defend (a buckler was a small round shield)
237 Went they not if they had not gone
241 Kated mated with Kate/infected with "the Kate"
242 wants For to are lacking to
244 junkets sweetmeats
246 room place
247 bride it play the bride
2 foul ways muddy roads rayed dirtied
4 little ... hot small pot that boils rapidly--i.e. small man who is quick to become angry (proverbial) 8 taller braver/ nobler/less short
10 coldly unenthusiastically/like one who is physically chilly
12 run running start
15 fire ... water refers to the musical round "Scotland's burning, Scotland's burning See yonder! See yonder! Fire, fire! Fire, fire! / Cast on water! Cast on water!"
16 hot fiery tempered
18 winter ... beast "winter and wedlock tame both man and beast" (proverbial) 21 beast Curtis objects to the implication that he is Grumio's fellow after Grumio compares himself to a beast
22 horn cuckold's horn (the sign of a man with an unfaithful wife)
23 so ... least i.e. I/my penis must be at least as long to have made you a cuckold (picking up on the three-inch insult) 26 hot office fire-making duty
29 do ... duty do your duty and take your dues (wages)
33 Jack ... news alludes to the musical round "Jack boy, ho boy, News: / The cat is in the well"
35 cony-catching trickery (puns on "catch"--i.e. a musical round, such as that quoted by Grumio) 37 trimmed decked out, prepared
38 strewed i.e. on the floor, the usual Elizabethan practice
39 fustian type of coarse cloth
40 jacks male servants/leather drinking vessels jills female servants/metal drinking vessels (which would need polishing without) 41 laid usually on tables or hung on walls
48 ha't have it, hear it
53 sensible felt by the senses/easily understood
55 Imprimis first (Latin)
57 of on
60 crossed interrupted/irritated
62 miry boggy
63 bemoiled covered with mud
67 burst broken
68 worthy memory worth remembering
69 unexperienced in ignorance
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bsp; 72 proudest bravest
73 what why
75 blue traditional color of a servant's livery
76 indifferent knit modest/matching pattern
77 curtsy bow left legs as a show of subservience (to put your right foot forward was considered arrogant) 78 kiss their hands to kiss your own hand was a mark of respect to a superior 83 countenance honor (in the next line Grumio puns on the sense of "face") 88 credit respect (in the next line Grumio puns on the sense of "provide financial credit for") 97 spruce lively/smart
98 neat spotless/elegant
100 this this time
101 Cock's passion by God's passion
107 logger-headed stupid
111 swain yokel whoreson rogue, son-of-a-whore malt-horse drudge plodding idiot (literally, heavy brewer's horse used to grind malt by working a treadmill) 112 park enclosed hunting ground
114 made finished
115 unpinked lacking ornamentation
116 link blacking (from a burnt torch)
117 come from sheathing returned from being fitted with a scabbard
118 fine properly dressed
122 "Where ... those--" lines from of an old (lost) ballad
124 Soud unclear; possibly an exclamation of impatience or despair (many editors emend to "Food") 126 when exclamation of impatience
127 "It ... way" fragment of a ballad (possibly bawdy, now lost) friar ... grey Gray friar or Franciscan 129 Out exclamation of anger pluck ... awry pull my foot the wrong way (as you remove my boot) 130 mend make a better job of
131 water for handwashing
132 Troilus a name associated with fidelity
133 Ferdinand no such character ever appears
139 beetle-headed thick-headed (a "beetle" is a heavy wooden mallet) flap-eared with long hanging ears 140 stomach appetite
141 give thanks say grace
148 dresser kitchen table on which food was prepared/sideboard from which food was served 150 trenchers plates
151 joltheads blockheads unmannered insolent
152 be ... straight deal with you immediately
154 well satisfactory
157 choler anger (associated with heat and dryness)
159 of ourselves by our natures
162 for company together
165 kills ... humour defeats her with her own temperament
167 continency moderation, self-restraint
169 rates scolds
171 new-risen newly woken
173 politicly shrewdly, strategically
175 falcon i.e. Kate; methods used in training a wild hawk involved continual observation, sleep deprivation and hunger sharp keenly hungry 176 stoop swoops directly to the prey/submits full-gorged fully fed 177 looks upon takes notice of lure bait used in training a hawk 178 man control haggard female hawk/wild woman
180 watch her keep her awake kites birds of prey
181 bate and beat flutter and flap
182 eat ate
188 hurly commotion intend pretend
190 watch remain awake
196 charity to show public duty to reveal it
3 bears ... hand encourages me