[14] In Polish, “I love” is one word, “Kocham.”
[15] In the original this forms a rhymed couplet.
[16] That is let me kiss you.
[17] Injured his head.
[18] The Tsar’s city,—Constantinople.
[19] Zagloba refers here to Pavel Sapyeha, voevoda of Vilna, and grand hetman of Lithuania.
[20] Poland.
[21] God is merciful! God is merciful.
[22] The territory governed by a pasha, in this case the lands of the Cossacks.
[23] The Commonwealth.