Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act III: Scene 3

Br'r lakin "By your ladykin"; a referece to the Virgin Mary.

a living drollery probably a puppet-show with live actors.

Wallets here, meaning wattle, the fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored piece of skin that hangs from throat of a turkey.

dowle small feather.

too massy unable to move. Here, through magic, the men are paralyzed.

bass my trespass Here, meaning that the condemnation (my trespass) was uttered in a deep bass voice. The thunder proclaimed his sin, according to Alonso, like a noise from the heavens.

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