Authors: William Shakespeare
108
room
empty space
110
staggers
makes stagger
my person
my royal person
112
seat
royal throne/place in heaven
113
gross
earthly, fleshy, lowly
3
Cicester
Cirencester
4
ta’en
taken, captured
7
next
most pressing
9
taking
capture
10
at large discoursèd
related in full
12
worthy
well-deserved/valuable
16
dire
dangerous, dreadful
18
wot
know
19
grand
chief
20
clog
burden
22
abide
await
23
doom
judgment, punishment
25
reverend room
holy place (i.e. monastery)
26
More
i.e. more worthy of reverence/larger than your prison cell
joy
enjoy
29
High
noble
33
Bordeaux
Richard’s birthplace
34
wrought
created, fashioned
40
love … murderèd
love him who has been murdered/love the fact that he has been murdered
43
Cain
in the Bible, the world’s first murderer
48
sullen
mournful, somber
incontinent
immediately
49
Holy Land
i.e. Jerusalem
51
sadly
solemnly/sorrowfully
grace
dignify
52
after
as you follow
bier
stretcher-like structure on which a corpse is carried to the grave