2. sober: serious, dignified, sedate

7. incontinent: immediately; concupiscent

8. loose: lose

8. his: its

3. yfere: together

6. read: learn, study

7. scord: cut

9. semblaunt: image; countenance

2. vertue: power

6. bounty: goodness; generosity

7. hew: form

2. retraitt: portrait

5. liefe: beloved

5. liege: feudal lord

4. countenaunce: appearance; expression; visage; patronage; repute

7. amenaunce: conduct

1. meed: wages; reward

5. sold: salary (root ofsoldier)

7. remaine: await

1. cheuisaunce: chivalric enterprise

2. wagon: chariot

5. hospitale: hospice

7. auale: dismount

9. loup: loop-hole

3. neare decay: imminent destruction

2. villeins: serfs

8. steares: steers

9. heares: hairs

5. maine: physical force, as in ‘might and main’

7. orders: ranks

8. idle: empty

8. equipaged: furnished; ordered by rank

4. Braunched: embroidered

8. tire: head-dress

9. Rosiere: the branch of a rosebush

5. liberall: bountiful

9. compacted: composed, joined together

3. Iett: black marble

5. Enchaced: ornamented

5. wanton: luxuriant

8. comely compasse: pleasing proportion

8. compacture strong: compact construction

1. Barbican: outer fortification

7. larumbell: alarm

2. warders: guards

4. Tall: handsome; stout

5. enraunged: from ‘rank’, arranged in an orderly fashion

7. obeysaunce: homage

9. lout: bow

9. gestes: gestures

3. drapets: tablecloths

4. Against: in preparation for [when]

4. viaundes: victuals

4. ministred: served

7. menaged: wielded

8. Steward: caterer

6. attone: together (‘at one’)

9. nicenesse: delicacy

1. dispence: expenditure, provision

2. raunges: fireplaces or grates

1. delay: temper

3. ordinaunce: management

4. styre: stir, move

6. accoyld: gathered

5. noyous: harmful

5. nought: worthless, unfit for consumption; nothing

7. close: covertly

9. auoided: expelled; evaded

9. priuily: privately, with a pun on ‘privy’

7. arras: tapestry

3. iolly: amorous; handsome; lively

4. amate: accompany

5. aggrate: gratify

2. consort: harmony; fellowship

6. faund: cringed

7. coy: disdainful

4. dispose: prepare

6. light: settle his choice

6. spill: spoil

7. thus ill apayd: repayed you so evilly; so dissatisfied you

3. aduise: notice

3. demayne: demeanor

5. tyre: attire

1. commoned: kept company

7. Castory: castor, or castoreum

7. deuyse: conjecture

8. discure: discover

5. vncouth: unknown, unfamiliar

8. modestee: temperateness or discretion

3. faynd to ouersee: pretended not to notice

2. compassed around: encompassed, bounded with a circle

4. suruewd: surveyed, overlooked

1. ouer head: literally

2. herbars: arbours

3. in watches stead: in place of watchmen

7. sly: finely crafted

4. that heauenly towre: the New Jerusalem

2. doome: judgment

3. by many parts: many times over

7. praise of pollicies: counsel on the practice of governing

8. sondry: individually

7. quicke preiudize: lively ability to anticipate

8. working: active

3. thin: insubstantially, intangibly

8. Centaurs: mythological creatures, half-human, half-horse

7. Deuices: notions, contrivances of the mind

9. leasings: lies

1. wonned: dwelt

3. gestes: deeds

4. picturals: pictures

7. decretals: decrees

8. science: knowledge

9. ay thought wittily: ever thought wisely

7. personage: appearance

4. they declind: decayed

8. scorse: trade-off

3. fett: fetch

4. auise: examine