Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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[391-114] _Control_ means here _confute_, that is, _tell you
differently_.
[391-115] Prospero notices the interest the two young people have taken
in each other, and as this furthers his plan he feels more grateful to
Ariel.
[391-116] What Prospero says is, "I fear that in claiming to be the King
of Naples you have done some wrong to your character."
[392-117] Prospero wishes to test the love he sees in Ferdinand, and
make him earn his prize. So he charges the young man with deceit and
threatens him.
[392-118] _Fearful_ here means _timid_.
[393-119] _Ward_ is his position of defense to ward off a blow.
[393-120] _Nerves_ is here used for _muscles_ and _sinews_.
[394-1] This word means a ship--the _merchantman_.
[395-2] A _visitor_ in this sense is one who visits the sick to comfort
them. Antonio and Sebastian are ridiculing Gonzalo for his efforts to
cheer and console them.
[395-3] _Tell_ means _keep tally_. Sebastian means that the clock of
Gonzalo's wit has struck one.
[395-4] _Dolour_ means _grief_ or _sadness_.
[395-5] Instead of _of he or Adrian_, we would say merely _he or
Adrian_. Antonio offers to bet a good sum on which will speak first,
Gonzalo or Adrian.
[395-6] Gonzalo.
[395-7] _A match_ means _I take the bet_.
[396-8] Sebastian has lost his bet, and he pays with a laugh.
[396-9] Adrian means _temperature_ when he says _temperance_.
[396-10] People often named their girls _Temperance_, _Prudence_,
_Faith, etc._ It is to this fact that Antonio jokingly alludes.
[396-11] _Lush_ means _juicy_.
[396-12] _Eye_ here means _tint_ or _shade_.
[397-13] We would now say _for_ instead of _to_.
[397-14] Tunis is near the supposed site of Carthage. The story of Dido
and Æneas is told in Virgil's _Æneid_.
[397-15] One of the stories of the god Mercury is that he gave to
Amphion, King of Thebes, a magic harp upon which the king played and so
charmed the stones that they sprang into place to make the walls of his
city.
[398-16] The meaning of _stomach_ in this line is _appetite_ or
_desire_. Alonso says they crowd their words into his ears when his
feelings do not relish such nonsense.
[398-17] _Rate_ means _estimation_.
[398-18] _His_ is used for _its_ and refers to _shore_.
[398-19] For _as_, read _as if_.
[399-20] _Who_ is used for _which_. This is but another illustration of
the changes that have taken place in the use of words since
Shakespeare's time.
[399-21] Sebastian tells the King that he alone is responsible for the
loss. Even his daughter weighed her wish to be obedient against her
loathing of the match.
[399-22] _Dearest_ here means the same as _heaviest_ or _worst_.
[399-23] _Chirurgeon_ is the old word for _surgeon_. Antonio says, "And
in the most surgeon-like manner."
[400-24] Gonzalo says, literally. "When you are sad, we all share your
sorrow."
[400-25] "Had I the colonizing" is what Gonzalo means. Antonio makes it
appear that Gonzalo was speaking of _planting_ the island.
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