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Act I: French Scene 12
Or: either
misconsters: misconstrues, misinterprets
humorous: temperamental; Elizabethian medical theory taught that every part of the body was composed of four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) which gave rise to four 'humours' or temperaments
more suits you to conceive, then I to speake of: can be more fittingly imagined by you than expressed by myself
smaller: 'taller' in the Folios; Edmund Malone's correction
his malice 'gainst the Lady: Le Beau swears that soon, Duke Frederick's hatred towards Rosalind will reveal itself suddenly (foreshadowing how Duke Frederick will exile Rosalind in the next scene).
bounden: indebted
smother: slow-burning fire
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