| A | B |
| gleze: | to use flattery or cajolery |
| swounded: (archaic) | swooned |
| habiliment: | clothing |
| Hyperion: | father of Eos |
| giddy: | dizzy |
| obsequious: | engaging in fawning attentiveness |
| execrable: | utterly detestable |
| ruinate: | involved in ruin |
| servile: behavior | befitting a menial worker |
| shive: (archaic) | slice |
| venereal: | relating to sexual pleasure |
| espied: | caught sight of |
| baleful: | pernicious in influence |
| poniard: | a dagger |
| swarth: | dark in complexion |
| lascivious: | lewd, lustful |
| eunuch: | a castrated man |
| obdurate: stubbornly | persistent in wrong doing |
| complot: | conspiracy |
| beholding: | gazing upon |
| possest: (archaic) | possessed |
| forfend: | avert or prevent |
| patricians: | rich Roman landowners |
| heinous: | odious, abominable |
| churl: | rude, boorish person |
| hart: | adult deer |
| Prometheus: | Greek Titan god |
| Caucasus: one of the pillars | supporting the world |
| over-ween: egotistic, | arrogant, rash |
| broacht: (archaic) | broached |
| wots: | wits |
| accited: | summoned |
| affy: v. | to trust |
| Styx River: forming the boundary | between Earth and the Underword |
| Solon: | respected Greek lawmaker |
| Candidatus: | candidate for a Roman office |
| suffrages: those who have the | right to vote |
| Sith (archaic) | since |
| sumptuously: | excessively rich or luxurious |
| Tribune: | Roman official under the monarchy |
| faggots: | bundle of sticks |
| spurn: | reject |
| Perchance: | perhaps |
| Welkin: | the sky or heaven |
| Goths: | east Germanic tribe |
| requite: | to make repayment or return |
| grandsire: | grandfather |
| Hecuba of Troy | wife of Priam |
| conceit: an elaborate | or constrained metaphor |
| caterwauling: | quarreling noisily |
| maugre: (archaic) | in spite of |
| Jove | Roman god of the sky |
| supplication: | common form of prayer |