243 Les ... France "In France it is not the custom for ladies and young ladies to be kissed before their marriages"
249 entendre ... moi "understands" better "than me"
252 Oui, vraiment "Yes, truly"
253 nice fastidious/coy/trivial
254 list boundary (literally, barrier enclosing a jousting or dueling area) 256 follows our places goes with our high rank
256 find-faults people who seek to criticize
268 apt ready, quick to learn
269 condition disposition
274 conjure i.e. raise up (spirits, but here a penis) 274 make a circle magic circle for conjuring/open her vagina 276 naked and blind like Cupid (Roman god of love, traditionally depicted thus)/in the form of a penis (with its "blind eye") 276 maid virgin
277 rosed ... modesty i.e. blushing in modesty/flushed in sexual excitement 278 in within (emotionally)/inside (sexually)
278 naked seeing emotionally exposed/aware of her physical nakedness 279 hard plays on the idea of penile hardness
279 consign assent
280 wink and yield close their eyes and give in
281 enforces (love/the penis) pushes his way in
283 do plays on the sense of "have sex with"
284 consent winking agree to wink and yield
286 on at
287 know understand (with sexual connotations)
287 summered tended, nurtured
288 warm comfortably, well off/sexually aroused
288 Bartholomew-tide Saint Bartholomew's day, 24 August 288 blind ... eyes sluggish, unaware (from the summer heat) 290 handling with sexual connotations
291 moral lesson
291 ties me over confines me to
292 latter end late summer/lower body
294 before it loves i.e. until it sees the object of its love/before sexual consummation 298 perspectively obliquely, distortedly (through a perspective: either a lens that distorts objects or a painting that only becomes clear when viewed from an angle) 299 maiden unbreached by military/sexual force
300 entered invaded in war/penetrated sexually
303 so so long as
304 wait on her follow her (as a dowry)
305 will political, military desire/sexual desire/penis
306 terms of reason reasonable terms
309 in sequel succession
311 subscribed signed, agreed to
313 matter of grant official conferment of lands or titles 314 addition title
314 Notre ... France "our very dear son Henry, King of England, heir of France"
316 Praeclarissimus ... Franciae "our very dear son Henry, King of England, heir of France"
319 request i.e. to marry Katherine
324 Issue descendants
325 pale due to the chalk cliffs
327 dear tender/costly
328 neighbourhood friendly, neighborly
329 bosoms hearts
329 advance raise
337 spousal marriage, union
338 ill office disservice, poor dealings
338 fell fierce
340 paction pact, contract
341 incorporate united in one body, indivisible
347 surety ... leagues security of our alliance
349 Sennet trumpet signaling a procession
Epilogue
1 rough imperfect, coarse
1 all-unable inadequate
2 bending i.e. over his work/bowing
4 by starts in fits and starts, intermittently
5 Small time Henry died aged thirty-five, after a nine-year reign 7 world's best garden i.e. France
9 infant bands strips of linen babies were wrapped in
11 Whose of whose
13 their i.e. Shakespeare's plays concerning Henry VI 14 this acceptance take this play find favor
William Shakespeare, Henry V
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