Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act II: Scene 2

roundel (1) round dance.

reremice (4) bats.

Philomel (13) the nightingale (Philomela was a princess of Athens raped by Tereseus; the gods change her into a nightingale).

ounce (36) snow leopard.

Pard (37) leopard, or panther.

troth (48) faithfulness; loyalty.

beshrew (60) to curse, usually mildly.

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