1. frame: structure; system

2. adorned: decorated with honors, perhaps crowned

3. pricke: acme

5. bountyhed: goodness

3. acquight: aquit

1. hideous: immense

3. Depending: hanging down

9. wawes: waves (archaic)

2. ruinate: collapse

5. exanimate: lifeless

9. blent: obscured, destroyed

1. Reproch: disgrace, infamy

4. Meawes: the common gull

8. thrift: savings

3. lustfull luxurie: excessive indulgence, especially sexual excess

7. reliques: remnants; memorials

2. fordonne: ruined or destroyed

3. seeming now and than: ‘appearing now here and then elsewhere’

4. certein wonne: fixed dwelling

5. stragling plots: wandering pieces of land

8. many a: disyllabic, ‘man-ya’

8. recure: recover

4. traueiling that way: traveling; travailing, in labor

9. herried: praised, glorified

3. fleet: float

9. skippet: skiff

1. can: did

8. light: quickly

1. sort: manner

2. bord: accost; nautical sense, ‘come alongside to attack’; also ‘jest’

2. purpose diuersly: make small talk

8. wite: blame

3. gate: path or journey

6. auyse: look around, take thought

7. safety: trisyllabic

4. mesprize: mistake

5. hazardize: predicament

7. recur’d: recovered

9. backe recoyle: drive or force back

3. doole: grief

8. guise: customary manner

9. Monoceros: accented on the first and third syllables

9. immeasured: immense (not previously recorded in English)

4. enrold: rolled up

8. bugs: i.e. bugbears, bogys, bugaboos

9. entrall: entrails

6. vertuous: potent; magical; imbued with moral virtue

9. Tethys: originally a Titaness and sea-goddess; here a name for the sea

1. streight: immediately, with an ironic glance at Guyon’s instruction to steer the boat off-course

3. know: in this context suggesting both to apprehend and to have carnal acquaintance

1. courage: heart

3. embosome: implant

6. stayed: firm, well-supported

7. bayt: rest, with a punning reference to its rhyme-partner in the second line

8. trade: ‘course, way, or manner of life’ (OED)

2. th’Heliconian maides: the Muses

4. moyity: half

5. surquedry: presumption

6. hew: form

2. applyde: addressed

4. magnifyde: praised

4. Meane: an intermediate part in polyphonic music;measured: made proportional

5. Zephyrus: the west wind

4. leueled: aimed

6. desert: uninhabited (‘deserted’) region

3. wastefull: causing ‘devastation, desolation, or ruin’ (OED)

4. For: eliding ‘for fear of’

1. vnfortunate: omens of misfortune

4. ill-faste: ill-faced, ugly.

5. trump: trumpet

5. drere: dreariness, gloom

7. Strich: screech-owl

8. whistler: a nocturnal bird of ill-omen

4. stifly: steadfastly

8. sacred: accursed

3. crooked: curved

8. vpstaring: standing on end

6. fraying: frightening

7. Orcus: another name for Dis or Pluto, the god of the underworld

9. vertue: power

7. aggrate: gratify

9. affluence: profusion

5. fortilage: fortress

7. efforced: forced open or gained by force

4. ywritt: drawn, incised

1. fry: foam

5. sprent: sprinkled

6. vermell: vermillion

7. looser: too loose

8. porter: gatekeeper

8. deuizd: appointed; perhaps also designed; feigned; conceived or imagined

9. for more formalitee: as an emblem of office

3. Mazer: a maple goblet

4. sacrifide: consecrated

2. louely: lovingly

8. disposd: arranged

9. spirit: breath

6. repayre: retire

8. Rubine: ruby

9. Emeraudes: emeralds

3. sappy: succulent

4. scruzd: squeezed

4. daintie: nice, delicate, but also delightful, as at 58.1

4. breach: ‘the action of breaking’ (OED)

5. without fowle empeach: without making a mess

9. guise: custom

2. sober: solemn, serious; also, because he has just refused the wine in st. 57, not drunk

7. christall: streams

8. aggrace: grace; add grace to

3. wantonesse: affectation, naughtiness, playfulness, or extravagance

3. ensude: followed; imitated the example of

4. repine: complain

7. in fine: in conclusion

8. wanton toyes: amorous dallying; playful caresses

9. embay: bathe, soak

6. three cubits: ancient unit of measurement based on the length of the forearm, variable but typically 18-22 inches

1. margent: edge (margin)

3. plong: plunge

8. vnhele: uncover

9. amarous: amorous

1. that faire Starre: Venus, the morning star

3. the Cyprian goddesse: Venus.

2. guise: appearance

4. avise: look at

8. bewrayd: revealed (often with the sense of divulging a secret)

8. lockes: tresses

9. corage cold could reare: could arouse (literally, erect) unaroused sexual appetite

9. all our drift despise: disregard or disdain our entire scheme

3. attonce: at once

6. read: guess, conjecture

1. shrouded: took shelter

2. dight to: prepared for

2. n’ote: ‘ne mote’, i.e. could not

3. languour: weariness, resulting from sexual exertions

4. deface: literally undo, unmake

4. ra’st: razed, scraped out;

8. spend: expend

9. blend: blind; obscure; mingle or combine (i.e., with Acrasia)

5. formally: ‘according to the principles of art or science’ (OED)

8. opprest: subdued

3. distraine: tear apart

8. Verdant: ‘green with vegetation’

7. Cabinets: bowers or summer-houses