Both Uses of
repent
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- For, hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes Repentance, and with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.†
Scene 2.1repenting = expressing regret for having done something wrong
- For, hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes Repentance, and with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.†
Scene 2.1 *repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future
Definition:
to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future