[1.] Next of kin, nearest relative.
[2.] Quoth, said.
[3.] Loon, worthless fellow.
[4.] Eftsoons, at once, immediately; a favorite word with the poet Spenser.
[5.] And listens, etc. Wordsworth wrote this line and the line following.
[6.] Kirk, church.
[7.] The Sun came up upon the left. This would be the case if a vessel were going from England, for instance, toward the equator; and each day the sun would be more nearly overhead.
[8.] And now there came both mist and snow. They were nearing the south pole.
[9.] Clifts, clefts, cracks.
[10.] Ken, discern.