Twelfth night act 4 and 5 Vocab

Act 4 #1

100

Folly

Foolish or senseless behavior

_{I prythee, vent thy folly somewhere else.}

200

Tarry 

Stay longer than you should

_{I prythee, foolish Greek, depart from me;}

_{There's money for thee; if you tarry longer}

_{I shall give worse payment.}

300

Battery

An assault in which the assailant makes physical contact.

_{Nay, let him alone; I'll go another way to work with him; I'll have an action of battery against him if there be any law in Illyria: though I struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.}

400

Barbarous

Primitive in customs and culture

_{Ungracious wretch,}

_{Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,}

_{Where manners ne'er were preach'd!}

500

Passion

A strong feeling or emotion

_{Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway}

_{In this uncivil and unjust extent}

_{Against thy peace.}

Act 5 #1

100

Grapple

The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat

_{That face of his I do remember well:}

_{Yet when I saw it last it was besmeared}

_{As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war:}

_{A bawbling vessel was he captain of,}

_{For shallow draught and bulk unprizable;}

_{With which such scathful grapple did he make}

_{With the most noble bottom of our fleet}

200

Apprehend

Take into police custody

_{Where being apprehended, his false cunning,—}

_{Not meaning to partake with me in danger,—}

_{Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance}

300

Fulsome

Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating

_{If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,}

_{It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear}

_{As howling after music.}

400

Savage

Wild and menacing

_{Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,}

_{Like to the Egyptian thief, at point of death,}

_{Kill what I love; a savage jealousy}

_{That sometime savours nobly.}

500

Ingrate

A person who shows no thankfulness or appreciation

_{What! to perverseness? you uncivil lady,}

_{To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars}

_{My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out}

_{That e'er devotion tender'd!}

Act 4 #2

100

Fruitless

Unproductive of success

_{Go with me to my house,}

_{And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks}

_{This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby}

_{Mayst smile at this}

200

Relish

Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

_{What relish is in this? how runs the stream?}

300

Dissemble

Hide under a false appearance

_{Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in't; and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown.}

400

Lunatic

An insane person

_{Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic.}

500

Lustrous

Reflecting light

_{Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clear storeys toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?}

Act 5 #2

100

Feign

Make believe with the intent to deceive

_{After him I love}

_{More than I love these eyes, more than my life,}

_{More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife;}

_{If I do feign, you witnesses above}

_{Punish my life for tainting of my love!}

200

Attest

Authenticate; affirm to be true, genuine, or correct

_{A contract of eternal bond of love,}

_{Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands,}

_{Attested by the holy close of lips,}

_{Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;}

_{And all the ceremony of this compact}

_{Sealed in my function, by my testimony}

300

Propriety

Correct behavior

_{Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear}

_{That makes thee strangle thy propriety:}

_{Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up;}

_{Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art}

_{As great as that thou fear'st}

400

Beguile

Influence by slyness

_{Ah me, detested! how am I beguil'd!}

500

Jocund

Full of or showing high-spirited merriment

_{And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,}

_{To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.}

Random

100

Plight

Promise solemnly and formally

_{Now go with me and with this holy man}

_{Into the chantry by: there, before him}

_{And underneath that consecrated roof,}

_{Plight me the full assurance of your faith,}

_{That my most jealous and too doubtful soul}

_{May live at peace.}

200

Wrangle

Quarrel noisily, angrily, or disruptively

_{Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune}

_{So far exceed all instance, all discourse,}

_{That I am ready to distrust mine eyes}

_{And wrangle with my reason, that persuades me}

_{To any other trust but that I am mad}

300

Counterfeit

Aake a copy of with the intent to deceive

_{But tell me true, are you not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit?}

400

Maintain

State or assert

_{Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Who, I, sir? not I, sir. God b' wi' you, good Sir Topas.—Marry, amen.—I will sir, I will.}

500

Upshot

A phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon

_{If he may be conveniently delivered, I would he were; for I am now so far in offence with my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot.}