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in telling your mind ” —The second folio , fol“ – MONTH'S MIND to them " -A "
month's mind " lowed by Stevens , and others ... says is equivalent to a great
mind or strong inclination : " a month's mind " in its ritual sense , is a month's
reMalone ...
No , I know Anne's mind for that : never a Cuius . Verefore shall I be content - a ?
woman in Windsor knows more of Anne's mind Quick . The young man is an
honest man . than I do , nor can do more than I do with her , I Caius . Vat shall the
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Again : 80 far as “ youthfulness of mind ” is implied in the faculty of creating and
depicting incidents or charac . ters of the broadest humour , and the manifest self
- enjoyment of the author bimself in the exercise of that talent , this is displayed as
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Neither Macbeth nor Hamlet , alone , could give any competent idea of the
character of mind and cast of thought , or of the habitual views of life , of the
author of Othello ; while Lear , with all its wonderful combination of intellect and
passion ...
The contrast of two different moods of thought and manners of expression , here
mixed in the same piece , mis be evident to all who have made the shades and
gradations of Shakespeare's varying and progressive taste a mind at all a subject
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"like a wood woman" might indeed have meant "frantic" or "wild" (with grief) which Launce mentions referring to the "shoe" which he adopts for the sake of illustration. However, Shakespeare, even at his earliest writings, was vastly entertained by double entendres and his love of puns is so well documented. In that time in Italy, women wore platform shoes which were raised to elevate the shoes from the mud and other unpleasant "stuff". These were called "chopines" and the platforms were constructed of wood. The higher the platform, the higher the pretentiousness of the lady. Her height could have put her above many others. Since Launce has his father and mother represented as shoes, this second meaning is certainly not outside of the possibility for Shakespeare's intention. Naturally, it would have had the effect of a rather "localized" and "temporary" idea, but the fact of its having been very popular in that day makes it a candidate for the Bard's delight.