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this left shoe is my father " -A passage in KING JOHN also shows that each foot was formerly ( as now ) fitted with its shoe ; a fashion which was lost during the last century , and allusions to it puzzled the commentators until it was ...
All that was mine in Silvia I give thee " - " This passage has much perplexed the commentators . Pope , naturally enough , thinks it very odd , that Valentine should give up his mistress at once , without any reason alleged ...
This is the light in which Charles Lamb and his sister understood the passage , which is thus paraphrased in the " Tales from Shakespeare : "" Proteus was courting Silvia , and he was so much ashamed of being caught by his friend ...
... Now in the stirring passage of the day , A vulgar comment will be made of it ; And that supposed by the common route , Against your yet ungalled estimation , That may with foul intrusion enter in , And dwell upon your grave when you ...
461 · corruption doth it SHAME " -In the folio of 1623 , this passage stands literatim as follows :- I see the lewell best enameled Will loose his beautie : yet the gold bides still That others touch , and often touching will , Where ...
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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.