Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act IV: Scene 1

infected (21) stricken with the plague.

convinced or supplied (28) overcame or gratified.

A horned man's (63) a cuckold's.

ecstasy (80) a trance.

encave (82) hide.

spleen (89) anger.

unbookish (102) uninformed.

caitiff (109) a wretch.

customer (120) here, a prostitute.

hales (140) tugs at; hauls.

fitchew (146) a polecat (meaning "a whore").

hobby-horse (156) a prostitute; harlot.

undertaker (156) a person who undertakes to do something.

crocodile (247) a reference to the false tears supposedly shed by crocodiles.


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