ISC TEMPEST ACT I SCENE II

 

TEMPEST ACT I SCENE II

 Allay - set them to rest

Stinking - foul smelling

Welkin's cheek = sky's surface

Brave vessel - a fine ship

Dashed - reduced to piece

Dashed..... Pieces - the vessel split on rock

Perished - died by drowning

Ere - before

Swallowed - destroyed

Fraughting soul - creature who made up the freight of the vessel

Be collected - be calm

amazement - utter bewilderment

Piteous heart - pitying heart

O woe the day-O, what a woeful day it is!

Naught - nothing

Poor cell - wretched small room

Meddle with - interfere

Pluck-remove

Magic garment - the dress of magician

Direful spectacle - dreadful sight

Wreck - the destruction of the ship

Touched - moved

Very virtue of-, the most effective quality

Compassion - pity

 

Provision in mine art-by the provident care belonging to my magic

 

Perdition - injury

Hair - even the little harm

Betid-happened

Bootless inquisition-fruitless questioning enquiry

Bids thee- asks you

Ope-open

Out three years old-fully three years old

Like a dream-as vague and shadowy as a dream

Assurance - a fact, certainty

Warrants - justifies, make sure of

Tended - looked after

Dark backward-the dim past

Abysm- bottomless depth

Prince of power - powerful Prince

Piece of virtue - excellently virtuous

No worse issued - not the offspring of any inferior parents

The heavens - O God

Foul play-treachery

Thence - from Milan

Holp-old form of helped

My heart bleeds-I feel a great pain in me

Teen-sorrow

From my remembrance = out of or away from my recollection

 

Perfidious - treacherous

Signories - principalities

Prime Duke - the foremost duke

Liberal Arts-cultural and refined arts a gentleman

Without a parallel - perfect, unequalled

Grew stranger - became indifferent

Transported - carried away by

Rapt-wholly

Secret studies =occult studies : study of books dealing with magic

 

 

Heedfully- carefully

Perfected- well versed

Suits- petition

Deny- refuse

Advance-to promote

Trash- to restrain

Over topping- harbouruing excessive ambition (behaving too arrogantly)

New form’d ‘em- re moulded them

Ivy- an evergreen climbing plant

Verdure- greenery

Worldly ends- pursuit of worldly aims

Dedicated- entirely devoted

Closeness- secrecy or privacy

Bettering of- life of seclusion

Retired- aloof

Over prized- were worth more than

Popular rate- public esteem

False- treacherous

Awakened an evil nature- stirred un scrupulous ambition in him

Beget- produce

Sansbound- without limit

Thus lorded- thus became supreme

Revenue yielded – annual state income gave

Exact- demand payment of money

A sinner…….memory- that is , he made his memory sinful or false to truth

Credit- believe

Outward face of royalty- the external marks of royal authority

Prerogative- privilege

Temporal royalties - secular as distinct from spiritual powers

Confederate - conspires comes to an agreement

Dry-thirsty or desirous of

Annual tribute - annual paid by one state to another acknowledging its submission

Homage - honour

Subject - surrender, yield

Coronet - a small crown worn by a noble

Stooping - bending low: subservience

Condition - contract