[250] go a "love"-making.
[251] fish salted so hard that it had to be softened by beating before cooking.
[252] literally, cat-calling.
[253] Tyb's 'aside' perhaps only means "if he is not scolding nothing can please him," i.e. he likes scolding better than anything else. But Tyb is at present half-afraid, and it is at least possible that she means "if I haven't set him scolding this time, no occasion for being angry will content him."
[254] This saint is not mentioned by the Bollandists; the name may be a contraction for one of the four St. Theodorics.
[255] guess.
[256] God's little wounds; cf. l. 648.
[257] consult, question thee.
[258] excessively.
[259] the one.