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447 total gules entirely red (gules is a heraldic term) 447 tricked adorned/delineated (heraldic term for the sketching of a coat of arms) 449 impasted dried into a crust

449 parching scorching (because burning)

450 tyrannous harsh

452 o'er-sized covered, as if with size (a sticky substance used to treat paper)/rendered larger (through a thick covering of blood) 452 coagulate coagulated, congealed

453 carbuncles red gems supposed to emit light in the dark

454 grandsire grandfather (Priam had fifty sons and numerous grandchildren) 457 discretion judgment

458 Anon shortly

459 too short inadequately (presumably because of his old age)

459 antique old

461 Repugnant resistant

463 whiff and wind i.e. mere slicing through the air

463 fell fierce

464 Th'unnerved the weakened

464 senseless incapable of feeling

464 Ilium Troy/the royal palace at Troy

467 Takes ... ear i.e. the noise arrests him in mid-action 468 declining descending

468 milky white with age

470 painted motionless as if in a painting/blood-covered

471 like ... matter suspended between his will and its effect

473 against in anticipation of/before

474 rack clouds

475 orb i.e. earth

477 region sky

479 Cyclops one-eyed giants who worked for the blacksmith god Vulcan making armor for the gods 480 Mars his Mars' (Roman god of war)

480 proof eterne eternal impenetrability

481 remorse pity

484 synod assembly

485 fellies pieces of wood that form the rim of a wheel

485 wheel the wheel of Fortune, according to the turns of which men rose or fell 486 nave central part of the wheel, the hub

490 jig a light, often bawdy, entertainment that took place after the main play and involved singing and dancing 491 Hecuba wife of King Priam



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