Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act II: Scene 1

lob (16) a big, slow, clumsy person.

quern (36) a primitive hand mill, especially for grinding grain.

bootless (37) in vain.

barm (38) the yeast foam that appears on the surface of malt liquors as they ferment.

dewlap (50) a loose fold of skin hanging from the throat of cattle and certain other animals, or a similar loose fold under the chin of a person.

neeze (56) sneeze.

Corin, Phillida (66, 68) conventional names of pastoral lovers.

buskin'd (71) wearing boots reaching to the calf or knee.

Perigouna (78) one of Theseus' lovers.

Aegles (79) the woman for whom Theseus abandoned Ariadne.

Ariadne (80) King Minos' daughter, who gives Theseus the thread by which he finds his way out of the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur.

Antiopa (80) Queen of the Amazons, often identified with Hippolyta, but here they are viewed as separate women.

nine-men's morris (98) pattern cut in the turf when this game was played outside with nine pebbles.

old Hiems (109) the winter god.

childing (112) pregnant.

wonted liveries (113) accustomed attire.

mazed (113) bewildered.

love-in-idleness (116) pansy, heartsease.

wood (192) insane.

adamant (195) lodestone, a hard stone or substance that was supposedly unbreakable.

Apollo (231) the god of music, poetry, prophecy, and medicine, represented as exemplifying manly youth and beauty.

Daphne (231) a nymph who is changed into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's unwanted advances.

hind (232) the female of the red deer.

oxlips (250) a perennial plant of the primrose family.

woodbine (251) a European climbing honeysuckle with fragrant, yellowish-white flowers.

muskroses (252) Mediterranean roses with fragrant, usually white, flowers.

eglantine (252) European rose with hooked spines, sweet-scented leaves, and usually pink flowers.


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