3. rolls: registry

8. disparaged: overmatched

1. quill: plectrum, pipe, or reed pen

6. some relish: a little taste

7. His learned daughters: the muses

9. blazon: proclaim

2. this renowmed Prince: Arthur

3. mace: scepter

5. paysd: poised, balanced

6. safety: trisyllabic

2. to wene: to comprehend or believe

3. assott: besot, make foolish

4. shene: lovely

6. companing: copulating

3. fone: foes

6. parted: divided

4. quart: portion, fourth

9. ouerhent: overtook

4. attached: seized

2. fild: filled; defiled.

4. being consorted: i.e., sharing rule

6. salued: remedied

7. warreyd: made war

8. Henault: Hainaut, a province in southern Belgium

9. enuies: resents

4. recur’d: repaired

9. spoiles: acts of plunder

5. Henalois: men of Henault

3. Cairleill: Carlisle

3. Cairleon: Caerleon, site of a Roman legionary fortress

7. preace: press, i.e. crowd

9. science: knowledge

1. wondrous faculty: the ‘artes’ mentioned at 25.6

2. Cairbadon: the city of Bath

4. quick Brimston: naturally-occurring sulphur

2. Cambria: Wales

5. Celtica: France

7. Albania: Scotland

2. weeke: wick

3. regiment: rule

4. drouping day: declining years

9. cheare: entertainment

1. auise: consider

8. leau’d: levied

3. after wild: Afterward willed, in that after he died his will decreed that Cordelia should succeed; or willed that Cordelia should succeed afterward (which amounts to the same thing).

4. weld: wield

3. Cæcily: Sisillius

8. Arraught: obtained (ppl of ‘areach’)

8. drew: withdrew (allegiance)

8. oppresse: attack; take by surprise

8. moniment: trace, record

3. stressed: distressed

6. loose: scattered, not unified

4. Albany: accented on the second syllable

4. periured: trisyllabic, accented on the second syllable

4. foy: fealty

1. hayre: heir

5. found: discovered; devised

5. layes: laws

7. Fayes: Faeries

9. disthronized: dethroned

2. outraigned: reigned to the limit of

7. dew successe: rightful succession

4. reædifye: rebuild

6. that gate: Ludgate

1. Eme: uncle

8. blazed: trumpeted

9. dominion: power to rule

9. foyle: overthrow; defile

9. swayd: moved against in a hostile manner

2. with him: with Kimbeline

3. Treachetour: traitor

7. by that draught: bowshot

1. magnifide: praised

8. gent: gentle, noble

5. Euangely: Gospel

8. streight: promptly

4. Paulinus: Roman emperor who led his army to battle against Bunduca

7. on the victor seru’d: used ironically

1. moniment: memorable instance

1. reliques: surviving remnant of her forces

2. mickle might: great power

6. thewes: good qualities—habits, attributes, personal characteristics

7. hight: called

9. curious: demanding skill

9. laies: songs

4. roome: place, office

5. doome: judgment

1. war-hable: able to fight

2. spoylefull: plundering

5. Scatterlings: wanderers or refugees

7. outbarre: keep out

7. pyonings: earthworks, dug by ‘pioneers’.

9. Alcluid: disyllabic, ‘Al-clewd’

3. pupillage: minority

4. gathering to feare: inferring reason to fear

7. He: Vortigere

7. straunge: foreign

8. hoyes: small boats used to ferry goods and passengers

4. their: between Vortigere and his sons’ partisans

4. ciuile iarre: domestic conflict

9. aband: abandon

2. Quick: living

2. author: progenitor

2. desire: i.e., desire to know