Page 166 of Hamlet


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62 garbage filth/animal entrails

66 secure carefree, unsuspecting

67 hebenon a poisonous substance--possibly "henbane" or "yew" (hebenus) 69 leperous distilment distillation causing leprosy-like symptoms (i.e. corrosion of the skin) 71 quicksilver liquid mercury

73 posset And curd clot, curdle

74 eager sour/acid

76 tetter eruption of the skin

76 barked about covered with a bark-like crust

77 lazar-like leperlike

80 dispatched deprived through death

82 Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled without having received Holy Communion (the "housel"), unprepared, and without having received extreme unction (being anointed with holy oil before death) 83 reckoning settling of debts

83 account i.e. judgment

86 nature natural feeling

88 luxury lust

90 Taint pollute

91 aught anything

94 matin morning

95 'gins begins

95 uneffectual i.e. no longer providing light

97 host angels

98 couple add (to heaven and earth) 102 distracted distressed, agitated

102 globe world/head (plays on the name of the Globe Theatre)

103 table writing tablet, slate

104 fond foolish

104 records memories/written accounts

105 saws sayings, maxims

105 pressures impressions, stamps

110 pernicious destructive/wicked

113 meet fitting

116 word watchword/motto

124 Hillo ... come Hamlet mockingly responds as if Horatio's call were that of a falconer summoning his bird to return 125 How is't how is it with you, how are you

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