Yeah, there are a few that modern scholars haven't figured out because of what they are describing. The Merchant of Venice has a line about a 'fawning publican' which nobody can agree what it means. And the line in King Lear about 'square of sense' has had entire articles written about it by dozens of scholars, each vehemently arguing for their interpretation. We can applaud Shakespeare for his inventiveness in his visual imagery, but that doesn't mean every attempt he made was good, much less perfect. Hell, even in Macbeth, I remember an annotated copy that pointed out how the intro line about two 'spent swimmers who choke their art' was a very contrived image to get across the point.
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