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    In Elizabethain language, a repulsive person or frog (Hamlet)?

    Question #74850. Asked by Roxychick_10. (Jan 22 07 3:57 PM)


    zbeckabee

    		In case anyone would like to work it out...it is
    26 DOWN.

    http://www.eidnet.org/local/preed/Hamlet2.htm

    Jan 22 07, 6:27 PM
    lanfranco

    		My guess is "Toad".

    Jan 22 07, 6:55 PM
    lanfranco

    		Actually, the crossword may be irrelevant. I think the word is "paddock," and it does appear in "Hamlet," Act III, scene iv. If you're not sure about about that, try the "Shakespeare Lookup" concordance.

    But here's the line:

    For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise
    Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,
    Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so?


    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=paddock

    Jan 22 07, 7:14 PM
    Baloo55th

    		Strictly a paddock was a toad not a frog, but with rural abandon it has been applied to both.

    Jan 23 07, 6:55 AM

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