3. as did befall: 'as it happened', 'as luck would have it'

4. ypent: penned up

9. care: sorrow, anxiety

9. tooke: suffered

10. couth: E.K.

11. faynting: feeble, faint-hearted

29. spring: youth

37. sere: E.K.

42. depend: be suspended

44. euill: unwholesome

45. ill gouernement: poor care

48. pyne: waste from grief or suffering

50. neighbour towne: E.K.

51. stoure: E.K.

53. bane: woe; ruin

57. clownish: rustic

57. curtsies: courteous acts, gifts

58. cracknelles: light, crisp biscuits of hollow shape

59. bene: are

60. Rosalind: E.K.

63. deignes not: refuses to accept graciously

66. make: compose

67. rude: rustic

73. welked: faded, diminished in brightness

73. availe: E.K.

74. waine: wagon

75. ouerhaile: E.K.

76. pensife: melancholy, reflective

7. vnlikelyhoode: dissimilarity, discrepancy

32. pæderastice: love of boys

32. gynerastice: love of women

46. Asteris: star

46. Ianthis: violet