Midsummer: Pyramus and Thisbe

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  1. blameful
    deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
    Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,
    And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:
    Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
    He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;
    And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,
    His dag
  2. moonshine
    the light of the Moon
    This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn,
    Presenteth Moonshine; for, if you will know,
    By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
    To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo.
  3. crannied
    having small chinks or crannies
    Wall

    In this same interlude it doth befall
    That I, one Snout by name, present a wall;
    And such a wall, as I would have you think,
    That had in it a crannied hole or chink,
    Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby,
    Did wh
  4. imbrue
    saturate or stain
    Tongue, not a word:
    Come, trusty sword;
    Come, blade, my breast imbrue:

    Stabs herself
    And, farewell, friends;
    Thus Thisby ends:
    Adieu, adieu, adieu.
  5. aweary
    physically and mentally fatigued
    HIPPOLYTA

    I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!
  6. videlicet
    as follows
    DEMETRIUS

    And thus she means, videlicet:--

    Thisbe

    Asleep, my love?
  7. beshrew
    wish harm or evil upon
    HIPPOLYTA

    Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.
  8. chink
    a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
    This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present
    Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;
    And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content
    To whisper.
  9. ninny
    a stupid foolish person
    Pyramus

    Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?
  10. pap
    a diet that does not require chewing
    Come, tears, confound;
    Out, sword, and wound
    The pap of Pyramus;
    Ay, that left pap,
    Where heart doth hop:

    Stabs himself
    Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
  11. discretion
    power of making choices unconstrained by external agencies
    THESEUS

    True; and a goose for his discretion.
  12. horned
    having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind
    Moonshine

    This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;--

    DEMETRIUS

    He should have worn the horns on his head.
  13. vile
    morally reprehensible
    This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present
    Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;
    And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content
    To whisper.
  14. adieu
    a farewell remark
    Tongue, not a word:
    Come, trusty sword;
    Come, blade, my breast imbrue:

    Stabs herself
    And, farewell, friends;
    Thus Thisby ends:
    Adieu, adieu, adieu.
  15. leek
    plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
    These My lips,
    This cherry nose,
    These yellow cowslip cheeks,
    Are gone, are gone:
    Lovers, make moan:
    His eyes were green as leeks.
  16. cranny
    a small opening or crevice
    This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show
    That I am that same wall; the truth is so:
    And this the cranny is, right and sinister,
    Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.
  17. epilogue
    a short speech by an actor at the end of a play
    Will it please you to see the
    epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two
    of our company?
  18. perchance
    through chance
    Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;
    But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.
  19. mulberry
    any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry
    Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,
    And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:
    Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
    He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;
    And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,
    His dagger drew, and died.
  20. affright
    cause fear in
    This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name,
    The trusty Thisby, coming first by night,
    Did scare away, or rather did affright;
    And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall,
    Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
  21. beauteous
    (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight
    This man is Pyramus, if you would know;
    This beauteous lady Thisby is certain.
  22. quell
    suppress or crush completely
    O Fates, come, come,
    Cut thread and thrum;
    Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!
  23. circumference
    the length of the closed curve of a circle
    THESEUS

    He is no crescent, and his horns are
    invisible within the circumference.
  24. tarry
    leave slowly and hesitantly
    Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,
    And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:
    Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
    He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;
    And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,
    His dagger drew, and died.
  25. straightway
    in a direct course
    Pyramus

    Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?
  26. sinister
    wicked, evil, or dishonorable
    This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show
    That I am that same wall; the truth is so:
    And this the cranny is, right and sinister,
    Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.
  27. amend
    make revisions to
    THESEUS

    The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst
    are no worse, if imagination amend them.
  28. dainty
    something considered choice to eat
    O dainty duck!
  29. monstrous
    distorted and unnatural in shape or size
    Enter Lion and Moonshine

    Lion

    You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear
    The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,
    May now perchance both quake and tremble here,
    When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.
  30. wherefore
    the cause or intention underlying an action or situation
    Pyramus

    O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?
  31. confound
    be confusing or perplexing to
    Come, tears, confound;
    Out, sword, and wound
    The pap of Pyramus;
    Ay, that left pap,
    Where heart doth hop:

    Stabs himself
    Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
Created on Wed Jun 09 11:34:57 EDT 2010 (updated Wed Jun 09 11:40:16 EDT 2010)

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