Notes on the notes:

*. 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.