[429-26] Sometime is again used for sometimes.
[430-1] By our lady! was a common exclamation. A diminutive form of this was by our ladykin which was contracted into by our lakin.
[430-2] Forth-rights are straight lines.
[430-3] Meanders are crooked lines.
[430-4] Attach’d with means seized by.
[430-5] Frustrate means defeated or baffled.
[430-6] Throughly means the same as through. Sebastian means that the next time he will carry his purpose through.
[431-7] A drollery was an amusing show of the Punch and Judy kind, where the characters were puppets. In a living drollery, the characters would be alive instead of puppets.
[431-8] The phoenix was a fabled bird of antiquity which lived a hundred years and then died in flames, only to rise young and strong again from its ashes. There was but one such bird in the world, and somewhere in Arabia was a tree, different from any other in the world, in which the phœnix built its nest.
[431-9] Certes means for a certainty.