[6] Xeres.
[7] Cadiz.
[8] Span. picaro, a rogue or thief. Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.
[9] It would be an improvement to read "enkindled," or "kindled at the first."
[10] Cf. Heywood's Faire Maid of the West: part one (Works, II. 306), "And joyne with you a ginge of lusty ladds." The meaning is "band, company." The word is not uncommon among Elizabethan writers, and is also found much earlier.
[11] Span. caraca, a ship of large size. Nares quotes from Beaumont and Fletcher.
[12] Halliwell quotes Minsheu: "The Spanish borachoe, or bottle commonly of a pigges skinne, with the haire inward, dressed inwardly with rozen and pitch to keepe wine or liquor sweet." Hence the word came to be applied to a drunkard.
[13] A stately Spanish dance. Nares' article sub. 'Pavan' is full and interesting.
[14] The repetition of the words "such a" is probably a clerical error: the Alexandrine is clumsy.
[15] Skirmishers or sharpshooters.