5 Larissa a sea-coast town south of Gaza

10 scathe harm

21 amorous loving, gentle

23–4 Being overbalanced in the phlegmatic and sanguine humours (water and blood), the boys lack the bile and choler which might give them courage and wit.

28 Bewrays betrays, reveals

36 list wish, choose

39 Trotting … glove jousting exercises

40 tainted struck (a technical term in tilting)

41 curvet leap, spring

44 proof tested strength
curtle-axe heavy slashing sword

51 virtue manly qualities

76 wroth enraged

79 superficies ed. (superfluities O1) surface

86 prove find out by experience

101 pericranion skull

103 channel throat

110 parcel … empery part of my empire