^*hardly bestead: hard-pressed. pretend: attempt.

^*sleightly: cunningly.

^*contentation: satisfaction, familiar: inmate.

^*ruinous harbour: painful place where they rest.

^*ceremonious: formally polite. threatened a full purpose: gave promise of a resolved intention, a new traverse: a new tack.

^*silly: ignorant. like: likely.

^*haply: by chance.

^*ill-consorted: inharmonious. plaint boots not: lamenting is of no avail.