Miko: annotations

What are you destroying? Oliver plays on the proverbial phrase “to make or mar”.

poverty

Orlando alludes to the biblical story of the prodigal son. In that story, the son of a wealthy man squanders his inheritance. He then gets a job on a farm, and is so hungry that he wants to eat the food he feeds the pigs.

go away; be quiet

What are you doing? In the next line, Orlando makes a pun by taking it to mean “what are you making”?

stand aside

berate, talk to in an insulting manner

horse trainers

undermines my high social status by keeping education from me

farm workers