2. proper: own

3. indifferent: impartial

8. writing small: scant writing; writing that minimizes

9. deface: efface; extinguish; discredit

6. streight: strict

9. enuy: resent

3. precedent: model

5. Endite: compose

1. with Guyon: an error for the Knight of the Redcrosse

2. purpose: topic for conversation

5. vncouth: unknown

6. inquest: an archaic form of ‘quest’, found in Mallory and Caxton.

7. flake: flash

8. fulmined: flashed (Lfulmenlightning)

3. stowre: conflict

4. affrap: strike

9. Me leuer were: I would rather

7. card: mariner’s card, i.e. a chart or compass rose

2. wonne: dwell

5. voyage: journey

9. wreake: punish

2. missayd: spoken abusively; misspoken

5. misauised: misinformed

9. borne the name: carried away the title

1. For thy: therefore

7. the deare closett: her womb

3. stryfull: full of strife

3. balke: raise objections

9. largely: fully, at length

2. read: declare

2. faytour: impostor

1. to read: to discern

3. ne wonneth: dwells not

1. feeling: emotionally laden

2. molten: melting, softened by the heat of passion

4. allegge: alleviate

8. efforce: resist

3. by which he may appeare: by which I may recognize him

4. parauaunt: perhaps

7. vaunt: proclaim, with a negative connotation imputing boastfulness

9. fashioned: shaped or portrayed

2. fayne: ‘feign’, dissemble

5. engraffed: engrafted

5. dealed right: governed well

7. science: knowledge acquired by study (from Lscientiaknowledge)

8. aguiz’d: equipped

8. For thy: therefore

4. discoure: discover

9. peaze: ‘peise’, a heavy blow

2. gard: defense

5. debar’d: prevented

8. bewray: expose

8. conuince: vanquish

2. repayre: go

6. in vaine: fruitlessly

7. her auizing: reminding herself

7. vertues: properties

4. buxome: submissive

4. prone: inclined

3. ventayle: ‘the lower movable part of the front of a helmet, as distinct from the vizor’ (OED)

4. agrize: terrify

8. Portly: stately, imposing

9. gest: bearing

4. yfretted: decorated

9. azure: blue

9. pouldred: powdered, i.e. spotted

1. Personage: personal appearance

9. weetlesse wofull stound: unconsciously sorrowful predicament

2. Ruffed: ruffled

2. auaile: droop (from Lad vallemto the valley)

4. quaile: become cowed or dispirited

7. silly: innocent

9. closely: privately

2. still: distill

4. keight: caught

5. dight: placed

9. bale: grief

4. infest: to attack or harass; to infect

5. thrilled: pierced

2. For which: refers to ‘mine’

8. gryde: pierced

9. launched: cut

3. th’only shade and semblant: the mere shadow and likeness

8. goodly-hed: handsome appearance

2. bowells: interior of the body

3. fleshly mould: the body

3. vncouth: unfamiliar

4. kinde: nature

3. natiue . . . kynd: parental . . . nature

1. Beldame: ‘good mother’, a respectful address to an older woman

4. relent: moderate

6. vnkinde: unnatural

4. entire: unfeigned; perfect

6. fonder: more foolish; more doting

7. shere: pure, translucent

9. exyld: banished from its proper dwelling-place

2. ydle: useless

8. light: alight, as in dismounting (with a pun on the light that makes a shadow)

9. cyphers: astrological or geomantical figures

5. smott: smitten (past tense of ‘smite’)

4. Church: temple; place of public worship

9. reuerse: remove; divert

2. for why: because

2. breaded: braided

5. sad: solemn

4. brame: longing (from Italbramaavid desire)

8. miscarriage: bad management