The Only Use of
gambol
in
The Merchant of Venice
- Look on beauty And you shall see 'tis purchas'd by the weight: Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them, in the sepulchre.†
Scene 3.2gambols = frolics (skips, leaps, and/or runs around in a happy, playful manner)
Definitions:
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(1)
(gambol) to frolic (skip, leap, and/or run around in a happy, playful manner)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Gambol references a name.