perplexed (adj.)
- addled
- baffled
- beat
- bewildered
- bothered
- chaotic
- complex
- complicated
- confounded
- confused
- convoluted
- crabbed
- daedal
- dazed
- devious
- difficult
- discomposed
- disconcerted
- disordered
- disorganized
- disturbed
- elaborate
- embarrassed
- entangled
- floored
- flustered
- fuddled
- garbled
- hard
- implicated
- intricate
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthian
- labyrinthine
- licked
- matted
- mazy
- meandering
- mixed-up
- muddled
- multifarious
- mystified
- nonplussed
- obscure
- perturbed
- puzzled
- rattled
- roundabout
- ruffled
- scrambled
- shaken
- snarled
- stuck
- subtle
- tangled
- thrown
- tough
- twisted
- unsettled
- upset
I have done the state some service, and they know 't.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then, must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum.
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
