| A | B |
|---|
| Yoke: | servitude or bondage |
| Public weal: | healthy prosperous state |
| provender: | cattle feed |
| dastards: | those who commit malicious acts |
| wrought: | overly excited or under stress |
| gimmer: | contrivance |
| Sibyls: | female prophets |
| Dauphin: | eldest son of the king of France |
| deigned: | condescended |
| swart: | black |
| thrall: | a state of complete absorption |
| shrive: | to free from guilt |
| proditor: | traitor |
| recreant: | regarded as conquered |
| contemelious: | contempt arising from arrogance |
| contemporaneously: | occurring at the same time |
| replete: | abundantly fed or satisfaction |
| effeminate: applies to men | having feminine qualities |
| broils | brawls |
| discomfiture: | to put into a state of embarrassment |
| corse: | corpse |
| regent: | one who governs in the minority |
| posterity: | those who come after |
| yield the ghost: | to die |
| intermissive: | an interval between activities |
| mischance: | unpredictable unfortunate happening |
| vaward: | vanguard |
| fain: | rejoice |
| coffer of Darius: | refers to Alexander taking Gaza |
| whelps: | pups or despised persons |
