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10 the ... reels drunkenly dances the upspring, a German dance

11 Rhenish German wine from the area around the River Rhine

12 kettledrum type of drum often associated with the Danes

12 bray ... pledge i.e. raucously celebrate the king's fulfillment of his earlier promise to drain a full draught of liquor 17 manner custom

18 More ... observance better being broken than observed

20 ministers of grace God's messengers, angels

21 Be thou whether you are

21 health benevolence/salvation

21 goblin demon

24 questionable shape form that invites question

28 canonized consecrated, buried according to Christian rite (three syllables, stress on second) 28 hearsed entombed

29 cerements grave clothes

29 sepulchre tomb

30 inurned enclosed/buried

31 ponderous weighty

32 cast vomit

33 complete steel full armor

34 glimpses ... moon earth by moonlight, literally "flashes of moonlight"

35 hideous frightening, full of horror

35 fools of nature ignorant mortals/playthings of nature

36 horridly dreadfully/with horror

36 disposition ordinary temperaments/mental composure

38 Wherefore? Why?

40 impartment communication

43 wafts waves, beckons

49 a pin's fee the (tiny) worth of a pin

53 flood sea

55 beetles o'er overhangs (like frowning eyebrows)

57 deprive ... reason remove your reason from its position of control 64 artery thought not to convey blood, but the ethereal fluid known as "vital spirits"

65 Nemean lion supposedly invincible beast strangled by Hercules as one of his twelve labors 65 nerve sinew, tendon



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