By Michael Macrone
The San Francisco Chronicle known as this wonderful and informative consultant to the Bard's most renowned and quotable expressions "delightful...a gem." From "salad days" to "strange bedfellows," the amazing legacy of William Shakespeare lives on in our daily vocabulary. every one access comprises the unique that means of the be aware or expression, the play or poem during which apparently, which personality spoke it, and the way it really is used at the present time. Cross-referenced for simple use; black-and-white line drawings by way of Tom Lulevitch.
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As it happens, Shakespeare was thefirstto use "cudgel" as a verb (the noun had been around, in its archaic forms, since at least the ninth century). In the earlier play Henry the Fourth, Part 1, Mistress Quickly reports to Prince Hal that Falstaff had "call'd you Jack, and said he would cudgel 28 Brush Up Your Shakespeare! you" (Act 3, scene 3). As companion to this literal use— meaning, of course, to beat with a club—Shakespeare introduces here thefirstfigurativeuse of the verb. The first clown likens the second clown's brain to a dull ass, a sluggish beast of burden, which cannot move any faster ("mend its pace") even if it's clubbed.
Cry 'Havoc,' " which also surfaces in King John, is derived from the Old French "crier havot"—to send out the signal to begin pillaging. " Dou6le, Double Toil and Troufjfe WITCHES: Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. MACBETH Act 4, scene 1, 10-11, etc. Three Scottish witches are going about their business—tossing poisoned entrails, eye of newt, toe of frog, and such, into a cauldron—while awaiting a visit from the man they said would be king: Macbeth. "Double, double toil and trouble" is part of the refrain to their demonic incantation, an inspiring little number in tetrameter (four accents per line).
Helena never does quicken a rock, nor does Charlemagne dash off any amorous notices, but she does eventually cure the king. Brush Up Your Shakespeare! 1 5 Breathe One"s Lost WARWICK: Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead. " HENRY THE SIXTH, PART 3 Act 5, scene 2, 39-42 When your library card "expires," what it's literally doing is "breathing out" its essence (that is, your borrowing privileges). When the Duke of Somerset reports that Warwick's brother Montague has "breathed his last," he's using "breathe" in this sense of "expire.