6 rape seizure

11 Queen of Heaven Juno

14 conceits fancies

16 extremes violent passions
events expression in action

17 counterfeit likeness

19 all … eye all that the moon beholds

31 So Provided that

35 Leave Cease

37 entertainment treatment

40 fancy love

50–1 The nine daughters of King Pierus were defeated by the Muses in a singing contest and transformed into birds.

52 Minerva (Athene, goddess of wisdom) and Neptune (Poseidon, god of the sea) strove for control of Athens.

65 Fearing his love fearing to lose his love

69 astonièd astonished

74 comets signs of disaster

76 Hyades a constellation of seven stars which were supposed to bring rain if they rose at the same time as the sun

77 Cimmerian dark. The Cimmerii were said to live in perpetual darkness.

78 Auster and Aquilon the south and north winds

79 tilt fight

82 sounds the main measures the depth of the waves

87 divine foretell

89 imports. O3, Q (imports. Exit O1–2)

89ff. The precise stage movement is uncertain here. Perhaps Techelles enters alone at 1. 87, menaces Agydas and exits two lines later (as O1 seems to indicate). But O1 has no stage direction indicating re-entry at 1. 106. It seems simpler to imagine both of Tamburlaine’s men entering at 1. 87 and threatening Agydas, who might even take the proffered dagger. Techelles and Usumcasane then step back to observe Agydas’s soliloquy and suicide and come forward at 1. 106 to comment and bear away the body.

90 prove find by experience

99 stay await