2. meere: utter

3. causelesse of her owne accord: through no fault of her own

4. whom I write vpon: about whom I write

9. repriefe: reproof

7. dempt: deemed

9. misledd: elided, ‘himself’

8. so carefully dismayd: so daunted with care.

2. massy mould: solid form

8. vermily: vermilion

3. arret: assign

7. not so yellow thryse: not even a third as yellow

5. Him needed not instruct: he needed no instruction

7. gest: bearing

5. algate: by any means

1. Tho: then

1. fast: suggests both ‘quickly’ and ‘firmly’

4. hight: was called

5. rebutted: repulsed

8. shadowes: false appearances

9. credit: reputation

5. bent: aimed

6. silly clowne: harmless rustic

9. gainesay: deny

4. stay: hindrance; hesitation

7. next to: second to

4. glozing: flattering, coaxing

9. reaue: plunder

4. lay: ‘lea’, the ground

1. weenst: thinks

6. els: something or somewhere else

8. aredd: exhorted

3. tilt: jousting

5. mountenaunce: extent

5. without abode: without delay

7. yode: went

3. carefull: sorrowful

1. droncke with drowsinesse: having slept his fill

9. Assotted: infatuated; fooled.

1. auizing: viewing

7. note: contraction for ‘ne mote’, may not

7. read: ‘tell’, in two senses: to discern and to impart

6. fondly: foolishly

8. lin: leave off

1. congealed: frozen

3. stocke: log, tree-trunk, or stem of a plant

8. spill: spoil

9. fill: also ‘pollute’ (‘file’, aphetic form of ‘defile’)

1. silly: innocent

9. it: rescue

8. Proteus: scans as two syllables, ‘pro-tchus’

9. finny droue: flock of fish

3. hore: ‘hoar’, white with age

2. card: chart or compass-card, used in navigation

4. frayle: tender

5. hayle: hale, drag

9. dismay: daunt

2. raid: arrayed; streaked

5. spoyle: the act of despoiling or plundering

7. fact: deed (from Lfacere, to do)

7. assoyld: delivered

9. shright: shrieked

4. attached: siezed

4. neare: almost; closely

2. accourage: hearten

2. bold: boldly

4. doubt: fear; suspect

9. quayld: overcome

2. frory: frosty

8. charet: chariot

3. cast: resolved

7. engraue: cut into

2. endew: assume

3. exprest: portrayed

6. meed: reward

9. port: carriage or demeanor

9. hardiment: daring

6. Tho: then

6. yode: went (the grammatical subject is elided)

5. parture: departure

5. aread: conclude

9. heuens: monosyllabic

9. crueltie: trisyllabic

5. speaking token: revealing sign

9. Distaynd: defiled

9. relique: physical remains

5. bewray: reveal

5. lose: loosen, unharness

5. wayne: wagon (chariot)

6. Mote not: may it not

8. relate: restore (OEDcites only this instance)

1. yfere: together