avaunt - adv - [archaic] Away; hence.
For example, "Avaunt! Hie thee hence!" might be translated as, "Get out, and be quick about it!" This example also shows why translations of Shakespeare into modern English just don't work. As Robert Frost (1874-1963, shown at left) said, "Poetry is what gets lost in the translation." (Tangent: That's why I recommend E. V. Rieu's prose translation of Homer's Iliad, which may still be available as a Penguin Classics paperback.)
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There are many verse translations by everybody from the Elizabethan George Chapman (which inspired a famous poem by John Keats) to such moderns as Robert Fitzgerald. Richard Lattimore's verse translation seems to be the most popular.
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