1. conning: cunning

1. cancred: ulcerated; figuratively, ‘infected’ with evil

7. caytiues: caitiffs’

5. algates: altogether

7. late ygoe: not long ago

2. offend: injure or attack (in biblical use, to stumble)

4. drifte: purpose

5. engins: contrivances

6. practick: crafty; experienced; concerned with practice (opposed to ‘theoretic’)

8. credit: reputation, credibility

1. stales: decoys

2. traynes: snares or baits

3. priuy spyals: secret spies

5. ketch him at a vauntage: the modern idiom would be ‘catch him at a disadvantage’

4. amate: dismay

6. mickle worship: great honor

7. lists: bounded space of combat

7. debate: armed encounter

1. als: also

2. comely: appropriate or suitable

4. stire: stir

6. aread: conjecture

2. weened well to: thought he would

2. vncouth wyle: unrecognized trick

3. clew: ball of yarn or thread

7. languorous constraynt: sorrowful affliction or compulsion

3. aduaunst: put forth, put into action

5. corps: body

5. sheene: beautiful

6. drew: dragged

7. bent: aimed

4. fact: deed

6. treachour: traitor

7. tract: trace

2. bedight: clothed or furnished

5. For thy: therefore

8. teene: grief

1. bespake: said to her

5. wayment: bewail or lament

9. voluntarie: self-willed (cf. ‘wilfull bent’), but also freely chosen, deliberate

5. reaue: plunder

7. read: judge or pronounce

8. or her wrong: or wrong her

2. read: declare

3. short: speedy

5. ywis: indeed, certainly

7. enterpris: undertake

2. fairely quit him: fully acquit himself

7. saluing: cleansing

5. As: i.e., disguising herself as

9. well aguisd: suitably dressed

1. late: recently

9. habiliments: accessories

4. irrenowmed: not famous

7. engine: stratagem

2. fact: deed

5. do him rew: make him regret it

1. pricke: spur

2. embrace: to mount (a shield) on the arm

5. rencounter: encounter in battle

2. hardiment: daring, or a daring deed

2. inclyning: yielding, bowing, or adopting a favorable disposition

4. me behoueth rather to vpbrayd: ‘it is appropriate to scold me instead’

2. beuers: visors

3. comportaunce: conduct

6. saliaunce: sally or assault

2. fond encheason: silly reason

3. infamous: deserving infamy; detestable

3. faitour: impostor

4. ill bested: badly off

5. red: declared

6. late auizd: recently observed

9. aguizd: arrayed

6. pageant: allegorical tableau or procession

7. mote yee thee: may you thrive

7. as well can wish your thought: Either ‘as well as your thoughts can wish’ or ‘as your thoughts may well wish’.

9. thewes: moral qualities; habits of conduct

1. courteous conge: ceremonious farewell

6. steedy: steady (because held with a firm grip); trusty

1. yfere: together

7. dearnly: dismally

1. carelesse: negligent or uncaring

2. doome: verdict

5. warne death from: forbid death to, order death away from

1. froward: unfavorable; adverse

3. thee deignes to hold in liuing state: sees fit to keep you alive

8. embrewd: soaked; dyed; defiled

5. thrild: pierced

6. Hynd: doe

7. launched: lanced

8. the sad pang: death-spasm

1. straict: straight, immediately

2. the thick: thicket; densest part of the wood

1. smart: sharp physical pain; grief or affliction

7. embay: soak

7. lusty hed: lustiness, exuberant vitality; also lustfulness

2. starke: rigid, unyielding

4. attone: at once

6. grudging: growling or grumbling

9. courage: heart or spirit

9. stoupe: submit

2. sad: heavy

2. sight: sighed

4. foltring: faltering

7. lett: hinder

5. infest: attack

6. priefe: proof; test or trial

8. cast to compas: try to accomplish

3. equall: impartial

4. Vouchsafed: were graciously willing

4. fordonne: put to death

4. forbeare: part with, surrender

2. repriue: redeem

8. well: wellspring, fountain

7. wreath: twist aside

6. her basest part: the passions

8. doome: judgment

9. vouchsafe: allow

3. embraue: adorn

7. vtmost obsequy: final ceremony

9. Bynempt: swore

9. ay: ever