1. delue: excavation

2. hore: hoary, white or grey with age

4. yblent: obscured

7. maysters: masters

7. experiment: experience

8. apply: steer

6. yode: went

7. reedes: judges

8. wastfull: uninhabited

9. desert: desolate

3. Whereas: where

7. bedight: clothed

5. entayle: ornamental carving

5. mould: fashioning

6. antickes: grotesques

7. told: counted

5. driuen, and distent: smelted and beaten out

6. Ingowes: ingots

5. Thereat: thereupon

5. askaunce: sidelong

8. read: pronounce

4. enuye: refuse

9. hollow: empty or concave; vain

6. thy godheads vaunt: your divinity’s boast; your boasted divinity

1. derdoing: derring-do

2. suit: pursuit

4. witchest: beguile

5. blend: blind or defile

8. rowme: appointed place, office, or position

9. lust: list, i.e. please

1. read: judge

2. confound: bring to ruin; throw into confusion

3. incline: bend; dispose

2. priuate state: private life

6. empeach: hinder

8. annoyes: interferes with

9. accloyes: obstructs, chokes

3. truth: sincerity

4. soueraine: supreme

2. great Grandmother: the earth

4. wage: pledge; sell for wages

3. bereaue: plunder

4. lott: apportioning (of wealth or fortune)

8. mew: hiding-place; prison

3. wonne: abode

4. rayne: realm

7. strayne: grip, wield

1. consort: group

7. shroud: hide

5. dolor: grief, sorrow, or physical pain

4. spoile: plunder

8. stalke: stride

3. likte him: pleased him

6. ruine: collapse

4. hew: color, appearance, or form

3. bends: bands

3. weene: expect

2. Commaunded: assigned

3. weened: believed, supposed

4. take . . . assay: touch

7. decay: downfall

9. wist: knew of

4. raunges: fireplaces or grates

4. pight: placed

3. dying bronds: embers

7. scumd: skimmed

9. swincke: toil

2. battailous: combat-ready

9. Till that: until

8. Auise thee: think it over

9. withstood: refused

6. emprise: enterprise, undertaking

8. mesprise: misprision, scorn

8. weld: wield

3. stomacke: pride, anger, or stubbornness

4. portaunce: bearing

8. deface: discredit, abash, or overshadow

1. glitterand: glittering

3. hurtle: brandish

5. dight: prepare

2. Carle: churl

4. Gyeld: guildhall

7. full deare: richly

1. route: crowd

8. sty: ascend

9. dignity: rank or office

8. lust: wish, but also desire sexually

1. Gramercy: thanks

6. yplight: pledged

8. remoue: disavow

5. redd: declared

2. Heben: black ebony

5. Cicuta: hemlock

3. ouerdight: overspread

5. entreat: occupy herself with

4. sold: derived

3. fee: wealth

4. without: beyond

4. of: by

5. shrightes: shrieks

6. resounden wide: echo into the distance

3. liquour: liquid

8. drouth: thirst

9. couth: could

2. ment: intended; signified

3. againe: in reply

9. dye: i.e., eternally

2. drent: drowned

6. faynd: ‘fained’ (desired) and ‘feigned’ (pretended)

5. doome: verdict

8. lust: appetite or desire

6. outwrought: completed

8. For thy: therefore