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solus: alone.
3.
house: family He: The writer of the letter is never identified.
12.
unsorted: unsuitable.
15.
hind: menial.
21.
lord of York: i.e., Archbishop Scroop.
29.
pagan: unbelieving.
30.
very: veritable.
32.
divide myself and go to buffets: split myself in two and have a boxing-match with myself. "I could kick myself" is a modern (C.E. 2008) equivalent.
41.
stomach: appetite.
47.
faint: light. watch'd: lain awake.
49.
terms of manage: commands [to a horse].
52.
palisadoes: stakes set in the ground for defense. frontiers: ramparts.
53.
basilisks: heavy ordnance; large cannon. culverin: light ordnance; long cannon.
55.
currents: occurrences. heady: headlong.
62.
hest: behest, command.
63.
heavy: (1) weighty; (2) sorrowful.
71.
esperance: Hope. This was the motto of the house of Percy.
78.
spleen: nervous energy, impulsiveness.
82.
title: claim to the throne.
83.
line: support, strengthen.
85.
paraquito: little parrot; term of endearment.
92.
mammets: dolls or, perhaps, breasts.
94.
pass them current: cause them to circulate as legal tender; i.e., give them in exchange. Hotspur is playing on two senses of "crowns": (1) heads; (2) coins. Cracked coins were not normally accepted as currency. God's me: God save me.
101.
a': on.
104.
whereabout: about what.
109.
for: as for.
117.
of force: of necessity.