Shakespeare: Protean Plays Final
Tyler Stoltenberg
English 339: Special Topics
Professor Wendy Wall
June 2008
Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1 Lines 168-223
pocky-corses
OED Definitions:
Pocky
1. a. Full of or marked with pocks or pustules; pitted; spec. infected with the pox, usually syphilis (now hist.).
b. Chiefly colloq. Contemptible, worthless, poor. Also as an intensifier (also as adv.). Cf. LOUSY adj. 2, MANGY adj. 3.
Corse
2. A dead body; = CORPSE 2. Now chiefly poet. or arch. a. with epithet dead, lifeless, etc.
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