3. Liberalissimo: most courteous

3. in good soothe: very truly

7. hunt the Letter: practice alliteration

7. belike: probably

10. extra iocum: ‘joking aside’

11. odde: singular

12. allowed: commended

13. hardly: with difficulty

17. in a manner: in some sense

20. dashed . . . Countenaunce: utterly disconcerted

23. like: likely

29. Godbewyes: God-be-with-you’s

37. so clearkly: in so scholarly a fashion

38. Doctours: learned men

40. tush: scoff, react by saying ‘tush!’

40. Paraphrase: translation

41. to: in response to

42. redoubted: estimable, deserving of fear

46. fayne: more than content

60. Lowce: louse

60. wonderous: shocking, provoking wonder

61. Senarie: senarius

77. solempne: solemn

78. sate . . . downe: sat himself right down

80. hansomely: handily

81. placed me: placed

89. autentique: legally authorized

98. ywisse: certainly

100. curious: meticulous

103. doth: doth stumble

103. Iambici: writers of iambic verse

104. spared: spared us

107. of my selfe . . . marked: by me . . . observed

111. Vitia: vices, defects

116. beginning to: pledging (yourself) to

117. gorbellyed: fat-bellied

118. go for: pass for

119. in presence: at hand, publicly available

121. suruiewe: review

123. preiudice of: favourable predisposition towards

128. charge me with: indict me by adducing

132. nighe hande: readily

135. Goddilge yee: may God reward you, ‘God yield ye’

139. Tittles: minute details

141. humors: dispositions, passions

159. linne: leave off

165. Sophister: Sophist

170. Il Pellegrino: pilgrim

178. liuelye and absolute: lifelike and consummate

188. the foresaide Subiect: my Lord’s body and mind

204. ἀκρόστιχα: ‘akrosticha’, acrostic. The first letter of each line yields the acrostic ‘T Sacford’.

213. paraphrastically varied: adapted by means of paraphrase

226-1. bit: bite

229-4. noy: annoy

230-5. for to: worthy of

231-6. state: status

239-3. rage: fervour, wantonness