Shakespeare's Sonnets (1883)/Index

by William Shakespeare

INDEX OF WORDS AND PHRASES EXPLAINED.

 

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• acceptable (accent), 130.
• action (legal), 152.
• adder's sense, 167.
• admire (=wonder at), 172.
• adulterate, 171.
• advance (=raise), 156.
• advised respects, 146.
• aggravate, 181.
• air and fire (elements), 145.
• alchemy (metaphor), 141.
• all tyrant (vocative), 182.
• allow (=approve), 167.
• amiss (noun), 141, 182.
• anchored (metaphor), 177.
• antique (accent), 135, 150.
• applying fears to hopes, 1 70.
• approve ( =find by experience), 181.
• aray, 180.
• argument (=theme), 157, 164.
• array, 180.
• art (=letters), 152, 156.
• as (;=that), 156.
• aspect (accent), 138.
• astonished, 159.
• attaint (=blame), 157.
• attainted, 159.
• authorizing (accent), 141.
• ay (play upon?), 177.
• ay me ! 144.

 

• bankrupt (spelling), 153.
• bated, 151.
• bath(=Bath?), 183.
• becoming of, 175, 182.
• begetter, 127.
• bereft (=taken away), 130.
• beshrew, 176.
• besides (preposition), 137.
• bestow (=stow), 138.
• bevel, 171.
• bide each check, 150.
• black not counted fair, 174.
• blenches (noun), 166.
• blunt (=clumsy), 164.
• bore the canopy, 172.
• both twain, 144.
• bower, 175.
• brave (=beautiful), 132.
• breathers of this world, 157.
• builded, 172.

 

• came (^became), 176.
• candles (=stars), 136.
• canker (=worm), 141, 154, 161, 163.
• canker-blooms, 148.
• captain (adjective), 147.
• carcanet, 147.
• censures (=judges), 181.
• ceremony (metre), 137.
• cheater, 182.
• check (=rebuff ), 150.
• cherubins, 168.
• chest (metaphor), 152.
• chide with, 167.
• chopped, 151.
• chronicle, 164.
• clean (adverb), 155.
• closure of my breast, 146.
• compare (noun), 136, 141.
• compile (=compose), 156, 158.
• compounded with clay, 154.
• conceit (^conception), 132.
• condemnedforthyhand, 162.
• confined (accent), 165.
• confound (=destroy), 130, 151, 153.
• consecrate, 155.
• converted (^changed), 146.
• converted (=turned away), 130, 131.
• convertest (rhyme), 131, 133.
• count (^account), 129.
• counterfeit (rhyme), 148.
• couplement, 136.
• courses (=years), 150.
• coward conquest of wretch's knife, 155.
• critic (=carper), 167.
• crooked (^malignant), 150.
• curious (^fastidious), 143.

 

• damasked, 175.
• dateless (^endless), 140, 183-
• days outworn, 153.
• dead seeing, 153.
• dear religious love, 140.
• dearest (=most intense), 143.
• debate (=contend), 132.
• debate (=contest), 160.
• dedicated words, 157.
• defeat (=destroy), 151.
• defeated (=defrauded), 135.
• delves the parallels, 151.
• depart (transitive), 131.
• deserts (rhyme), 134, 146, 154- .
• determinate, 159.
• determination (=end), 132.
• disabled (quadrisyllable) ,152.
• discloses (=uncloses), 148.
• dispense with, 167.
• distillation (=perfume), 130.
• doubting (^fearing), 155.
• dressings, 172.
• dullness (^drowsiness), 149.

 

• eager (=tart), 170.
• earth and water (elements), 145-
• edge of doom, 169.
• eisel, 167.
• enlarged (=set free), 154.
• entitled in thy parts, 143.
• envy (accent), 175.
• ever-fixed mark, 169.
• evermore (adjective), 181.
• except (=refuse), 181.
• exchange, 166.
• expense(=expenditure), 161, 75- , x
• expense (=loss), 140.
• expiate (=bring to an end), 136.
• extern, 173.
• eye of heaven, 135.

 

• fair (=beauty), 134, 135, 153, 158.
• false in rolling (eyes), 135.
• fame (verb), 158.
• famished for a look, 145

• favour (^countenance), 168, 173-
• fell arrest, 155.
• fester (=rot), 161.
• fickle hour, 174.
• filed, 158.
• filled up his line, 159.
• fitted, 170.
• five wits, 178.
• fleets (=fleetest), 135.
• flourish (noun), 151.
• foison, 148.
• fond (=foolish), 129.
• fond on, 158.
• fools of time, 172.
• for(=because), 143, 148, 165.
• for (=for fear of), 147.
• for fear of trust, 137.
• fore, 130.
• forlorn (accent), 141.
• fortify (intransitive), 151.
• free (^liberal), 129.
• frequent (=intimate), 169.
• from (=away from), 180.
• fury (^inspiration), 163.

 

• gaudy (—gay), 128.
• gaze (=object of gaze), 130.
• general of hot desire, 183.
• go (=walk), 147.
• gored mine own thoughts, 166.
• gracious ( =full of grace ), 151-
• gracious (trisyllable), 176.
• greeing, 168.
• grind (=whet), 167.
• gust (=taste), 168.

 

• habit (=bearing), 178.
• happies, 130.
• heavy Saturn, 162.
• hell of time, 170.
• his(=its), 131, 133, 155, 158, 174.
• hope of orphans, 162.
• horse (plural), 160.
• hours (dissyllable), 130.
• hues (=Hughes?), 135.
• hugely politic, 172.
• hungry ocean, 152.
• husbandry, 132.

 

• I hate from hate away she threw, 180.
• idle rank, 171.
• imaginary ( ^imaginative ), 139.
• imprisoned absence of your liberty, 150.
• in their wills, 171.
• incertairrties, 165.
• indigest, 168.
• instinct (accent), 147.
• insults o'er, 166.
• intend, 139.
• invention ( imagination ),

 

• jacks, 175.

 

• keeps (=guards), 176.
• key (pronunciation), 147.
• kindness (=affection), 182.

 

• lace (^embellish), 153.
• lame (figurative?), 142, 159.
• latch (=catch), 168.
• lay (=lay on), 163.
• learned' s wing, 156.
• leese, 130.
• level (=aim), 169.
• like as, 150, 170.
• like of hearsay, 136.
• limbecks, 170.
• lines of life, 134.
• live (=subsist), 129.
• lively (=living), 183.
• lovely argument, 157.
• lover (masculine), 140.
• love's fresh case, 166.

 

• maiden gardens, 134.
• main of light, 150.
• make faults, 141.
• makeless, 131.
• makest waste in niggarding, 128.
• many's looks, 160.
• map of days outworn, 153.
• marigold, 138.
• marjoram, 162.
• Mars his sword, 149.
• master (=possess), 164.
• master-mistress of my passion, 135.
• meetness, 170.
• melancholy (metre), 145.
• minion (=darling), 174.
• misprision, 159.
• mixed with seconds, 173.
• moan the expense, 140.
• mock their own presage, 165. .
• modern (=ordinary), 158.
• moiety, 145.
• more and less, 161.
• motley (=jester), 166.
• mourning (play upon), 176.
• mouthed graves, 156.
• music (personal), 175.
• music to hear, 130.
• mutual render, 173.

• nativity (=child), 150.
• new-fangled, 160.
• no such matter, 159.
• noted weed, 155.

• obsequious (=devoted), 173.
• obsequious (=funereal), 140.
• o'er-green (verb), 167.
• one reckoned none, 177.
• owe (^possess), 135, 154.

 

• pain (=punishment), 178.
• part his function, 168.
• partake (=take part), 182.
• parts of me, 140.
• past cure, past care, 181.
• patent, 159.
• peace of you, 155.
• perfect's):, 147.
• perspective, 137.
• phoenix, 135.
• pointing (= appointing), 133.
• policy, that heretic, 172.
• poverty (concrete), 144.
• present (=instant), 182.
• pressed by these rebel powers, etc., 180.
• pretty, 144.
• prevent (=anticipate), 163.
• pricked (=marked), 136.
• prime (=spring), 162.
• prizing (=regarding), 179.
• proud-pied April, 162.
• prove (=find), 154, 183.
• purge, 170.
• pursuit (accent), 179.

 

• qualify (=temper), 166.
• quest (=inquest), 145.
• question make, 132.
• quietus, 174.

 

• rack (=clouds), 141.
• ragged (=rugged), 130.
• rank (=sick), 170.
• rearward, 160.
• record (accent), 150, 172.
• recured, 145.
• region (=air), 141.
• remembered ( ^reminded ), 170.
• render (noun), 173.
• render (= surrender), 174.
• reserve (= preserve), 140.
• reserve their character, 158.
• respect (= affection), 142.
• respect ( ^consideration ), 139, 146.
• resty, 163.
• retention, 171.
• revolt (=faithlessness), 160.
• rondure, 137.
• ruinate, 131.
• ruined choirs, 154.
• ruth (—pity), 176. * satire (=satirist), 163.
• scarlet ornaments, 179.
• sealed false bonds of love, 179.
• seat, 144.
• seconds (=flour), 173.
• self-substantial fuel, 128.
• sense (plural), 160, 167.
• sense (=reason). 141.
• sensual feast, 178.
• separable spite, 142.
• sessions of thought, 140.
• set a form upon, 159.
• set me light, 159.
• several plot, 177.
• shady stealth, 156.
• she (=woman), 175.
• simplicity (=folly), 152.
• slandering creation, 175.
• soil (=solution), 153.
• spacious (trisyllable), 176.
• special (adverb), 147.
• spirit (monosyllable), 157.
• sportive (=amorous), 171.
• stain (intransitive), 141.
• state (noun), 161, 172.
• statute, 176.
• steal from his figure, 164.
• steepy night, 151.
• stelled, 137.
• strained (=overwrought), 157.
• strains of woe, 160.
• strange (=stranger), 148.
• strangely, 166.
• strangle (acquaintance), 159.
• store, 132, 133, 153, 177.
• stretched metre, 134.
• suborned informer, 174.
• subscribe (=yield), 165.
• successive, 175.
• sufferance (=suffering), 150.
• suggest (=tempt), 180.
• suit thy pity like, 176.
• suited (=clad), 175.
• sum my count, 129.
• summer's front, 164.
• summer's story, 162.
• supposed as forfeit, 165.
• surly, sullen bell, 154.
• suspect (noun), 153.
• swart-complexioned, 139.
• sweet thief, 142.
• swift extremity, 147.
• sympathized, 157.

 

• table (=tablet), 137.
• tables (=note-book), 171.
• tallies (noun), 171.
• tame to sufferance, 150.
• tasters, 168.
• tell (=count), 140.
• terms (legal), 181.
• that (=so that), 155, 172.
• thorns, standing on, 163.
• thought (=melancholy), 142, 145.
• thrall (=bondman), 184.
• thriftless (=unprofitable), 129.
• tie up envy, 154.
• time (=the world), 169.
• time removed, 161.
• Time's chest, 152.
• Time's fool, 169.
• time's pencil, 134.
• times (=generations), 132.
• times in hope, 151.
• tires (=head-dresses), 148.
• took (=taken), 155.
• tottered (=tattered), 128, 139.
• translate (=transform), 161.
• travail (spelling), 157.
• triumphant prize, 182.
• twire, 139.

 

• uneared, 129.
• unfair (verb), 130.
• unkind (noun?), 177.
• unknown minds, 169.
• unperfect, 137.
• unrespected, 144, 148.
• unthrift, 131, 132.
• use (=interest), 130, 176.
• user (=possessor), 131.

 

• vade, 148.
• violet past prime, 132.

 

• warrantise of skill, 182.
• weed (=dress), 155.
• whenas, 146.
• where (=to where), 145.
• where-through, 138.
• whether (monosyllable), 150.
• Will (play upon), 149, 176, 179.
• wink (=shut the eyes), 144, 149.
• without all, 153.
• wooed of time, 153.
• world-without-end, 149.
• worth (=stellar influence), 169.
• wrack (rhyme), 174.
• wracked, 157.
• wrackful, 152.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end (Sonn. 60).