1. Furor: madness fueled by anger

3. vulgar . . . seed: the common people

4. pretence: purpose or intention

5. borne: carried; born;

5. natiue influence: birth rather than training

8. faine: ‘pretend’ (feign), with a play on ‘wish’ (fain)

9. menage: handle

3. yeed: go

5. slide: go astray

4. agree: conciliate

1. walke: ‘move briskly’ (unlike her feet)

5. raught him: ‘brought him’, from ME past tense of ‘reach’ in the sense of ‘give, pass’ (OED).

3. impetuous: rash

9. wist: knew

1. mickle: much

7. blent: blinded

4. nathemoe: not at all

6. more enfierced: provoked to greater fierceness

4. in the place: right then and there

6. emboyling: boiling, agitated

7. vnbrace: loosen

2. amenage: domesticate

5. corage: wrath

7. eath: easy

7. ydle: unoccupied

8. wood: mad

1. emprise: undertaking

2. hent: seized

4. n’ould she stent: she would not cease

7. he: Guyon

6. note: could not

3. defaste: undone

4. at earst: promptly

4. quaild: daunted

5. re’nforst: reinforced

5. strakes: streaks

7. ranck: extreme

5. whelming: engulfing

8. mischiefe: misfortune

8. trech: trick

4. Attonce: together

1. partake: inform

2. priuitie: personal business, intimacy, or secrets

1. grace: favor

4. Affyaunce: betrothal

9. falser: very false

2. toward: approaching

6. assynd: allotted

7. distaind her honorable blood: stained her family’s honor

9. stay: pause

4. engreeued: ‘filled with grief’

1. boorded: approached

2. boulted: sifted

8. that: that which

8. nearer moue: more closely affect

3. embosome: cherish; conceal

9. deface: outshine

3. blent: blinded

3. treachour: traitor; deceiver

4. engin: plot, scheme

3. proper: own

5. weend: supposed

7. assayd: afflicted

9. gealous worme: serpent of jealousy

2. chawing: chewing; ruminating

3. vengeable despight: cruel injury

6. faytour: impostor

1. enforst: compelled; reinforced

7. Sore chauffed: severely chafed; raged

1. me doen to dye: they have almost killed me

2. stubborne handeling: ruthless treatment

5. mortall: deadly

2. affections: passions

5. betimes: speedily; before it is too late

6. perfect: mature or complete

5. filth: lust; sins of the flesh

6. delay: allay; dilute or temper

7. outweed: weed out

6. read: tell

7. aduaunce: bring forth; raise up

2. varlet: male servant

9. Guyons lookes: Guyon’s glances

6. redoubted: dreaded or respected

7. dartes: javelins or light spears

7. flit: swift

8. dight: prepared

6. assay: proven worth

9. stay: wait for

1. race: ancestry

3. Drad: dreaded

5. His am I: i.e. his attendant

8. stead: place

9. confusion: destruction

5. behight: commanded

5. rusty: reddish-brown with dried blood

3. vpbray: reproach (cause to be blamed)

5. silly: defenseless

1. thrillant: piercing

4. intended: guided

5. empight: implanted itself