Cormorant - A Greedy person
Edict - A decree issued by a sovereign or authority
Vicegerent - An officer appointed as deputy to and by a sovereign or supreme chief.
Immaculate - Free from spot or stain; pure
The humor in this story is quite funny if you are able to understand what is happening. I think it would help to understand the period language and slang better, but there are some very funny parts in here. It seems like a lot of it is dry, obvious, oblivious humor. An example would be when Ferdinand is reading the letter, and Costard keeps interrupting him, claiming that every person the letter mentions is him, even the derrogative names. Another hilarious part is when Costard kept trying to one up himself when he was describing the woman he was with. It is also ironic at the end of the Act when Armado has a soliloquey about the woman he loves after he condemns Costard for loving someone just a few minutes before. So far the play is quite funny, but I feel afraid that some of the humor is lost through the aging of the language.
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