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What does this insult mean in modern English As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you both?
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∙ 10y ago
It's a quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest, and is said by Caliban, the monstrous son of the witch Sycorax. It's already in modern English. Does the word mother cause you trouble? Or feather? You may possibly be unfamiliar with the word fen, which means a swamp, or raven, which is a large black bird, or the dialectical habit of sometimes leaving out the v in ever or the e in brushed, but basically every word here is perfectly familiar to any English speaker in the world today.
What makes it hard to understand is not knowing that Caliban's mother was a witch, and therefore the sort of person who would scrape dew from a swamp with a raven's feather, for one of those wicked purposes known only to witches.
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