| A | B |
|---|
| brazen: | marked by contemptuous boldness |
| cormorant: glutinous | greedy, rapacious person |
| troth: | solemn promise |
| beguile: | to deceive by wiles |
| green goose: | goddess, pure idolatry |
| wight: | a most illustrious man |
| welkin: | the celestial abode of the gods |
| vassal: serf | a person who is tied to the land |
| passado: a thrust in fencing | with one foot advanced |
| duello: a set or rules | for one-on-one combat |
| votary: | a person bound by vows |
| foresworn: | guilty of perjury |
| beseemeth: | fitting or becoming |
| madcap: | recklessness |
| lubber: | lazy lout |
| sedge: | a grasslike plant |
| meed: bestowed | in consideration of merit |
| contemning: | treating with contempt |
| paragon: | model |
| Padua: | city in northern Italy |
| tapster: | one who draws draught beer |
| condign: | very worthy |
| intimate: | suggest |
| surety: | a security against loss |
| hackney: | horse |
| l'envoy | conveys the moral of the poem |
| immured: | imprisoned |
| guerdon: | reward |
| trencher: | wooden platter for serving food |
| vara fine: | related to prevaricate |
| fortune de la guerra: | fortune of war |
| pedant: | a person who parades his learning |
| escutcheon: part of a ship's | stern where the name is displayed |
| man of wax: | too perfect to be real |
