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Castellano Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
"Obscured his contemplation"
Hello Everyone,
I am reading Shakespeare's Henry V, and I don't understand this sentence. What does "And so the Prince obscured his contemplation" mean?
It can be found in Act 1, Scene 1, line 64:
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The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:
And so the prince obscured his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
Thank you very much!
Cheers,
James
I am reading Shakespeare's Henry V, and I don't understand this sentence. What does "And so the Prince obscured his contemplation" mean?
It can be found in Act 1, Scene 1, line 64:
ELY
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:
And so the prince obscured his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
Thank you very much!
Cheers,
James
Top answer
the prince obscured his contemplation Under the veil of wildness = The prince hid his intelligence and good sense by pretending to be wild and unruly.
- the prince obscured his contemplation Under the veil of wildness = The prince hid his intelligence and good sense by pretending to be wild and unruly.
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the prince obscured his contemplation Under the veil of wildness = The prince hid his intelligence and good sense by pretending to be wild and unruly.
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Thanks for your reply, but why would the young Henry V hide his intelligence and rationality?
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I'm not entirely sure he hid it on purpose. But his wild ways were what people saw about him, not that he was intelligent. Remember, this was when he was still "Young Prince Hal" and he didn't have responsibilities yet. But he was such a wild one that it made it harder when he became king -- people were used to seeing only the wildness and did not suspect that "underneath" that was someone with
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