110 country matters sex (country puns on "cunt") 114 Nothing i.e. "no thing" (vagina)

118 your only jig-maker I'm your unrivaled composer of jigs (bawdy playlets) 123 suit of sables luxurious suit trimmed with dark-colored sable fur 126 suffer ... on be forgotten

127 hobby-horse artificial horse fastened around the waist of one of the participants in a morris dance; the hobby-horse is forgot was a popular phrase 128.1 Hautboys oboe-like instruments

128.1 protestation solemn declaration (of love)

128.1 passionate action gestures of extreme grief 128.1 Mutes i.e. other actors

130 miching malicho lurking iniquity, skulking mischief

131 Belike presumably

131 argument plot

133 counsel a secret

135 show sexual display

135 be not you if you are not

137 naught indecent/offensive

141 posy of a ring short (usually cliched) verse motto engraved on a ring 144 Phoebus' cart the sun god's chariot

145 Neptune's salt wash i.e. the sea (of which Neptune was god) 145 Tellus' orbed ground i.e. the earth (of which Tellus was goddess) 146 borrowed sheen reflected radiance

148 Hymen god of marriage

149 bands bonds

154 distrust fear for

155 Discomfort dismay, discourage

156 holds quantity are to be found in the same proportions

157 In ... extremity they are either nonexistent or excessive

158 proof tried and tested experience

159 as ... so my fear is just as great as my love

161 operant vital/active

161 leave to do cease to perform

165 confound destroy (i.e. do not say)

168 None no woman

169 Wormwood i.e. that's bitter (the sharp-tasting plant was also used to purge the digestive tract of worms, so there may also be a suggestion of bringing forth gnawing guilt) 170 instances motives

170 move prompt

171 respects of thrift considerations of personal profit

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