[370-5] Amazement means anguish and deep distress rather than astonishment.

[370-6] In the time of Shakespeare it was not considered inelegant English to use two forms of the comparative and superlative degrees. More better, most best are good examples.

[370-7] Meddle means mix. Miranda says she never thought of knowing more about herself or her father.

[370-8] Prospero means that with his garment he lays his magic arts aside and becomes the loving, human father.

[370-9] Prospero does not complete his sentence, but expresses the same thought in different form.

[372-10] Bootless inquisition means fruitless questioning. The father has before begun to tell Miranda who she is, but has interrupted himself, and said, “Stay, not yet.”

[372-11] Out means fully.

[372-12] Prospero says, in these two lines, “If you can remember anything that happened before we came here, you may remember how we came here.”

[373-13] Holp is an old form of helped.

[373-14] Teen is an old word that means trouble or anxiety.