stepdame (5) stepmother.
dowager (5) an elderly woman of wealth and dignity.
faining voice (31) desirous voice.
gauds (33) cheap, showy trinkets, playthings.
filch'd (36) to steal, pilfer.
mew'd (71) to confine in or as in a cage; shut up or conceal.
Diana's altar (89) the altar belonging to the virgin goddess of the moon and of hunting: identified with the Greek Artemis.
spotted (110) morally stained.
Beteem (131) grant.
misgraffed (137) ill-matched.
collied (145) blackened, as with coal dust.
Carthage queen (173) Dido; founder and queen of Carthage: in the Aeneid she falls in love with Aeneas and kills herself when he leaves her.
false Trojan (174) Aeneas, son of Anchises and Venus, and hero of Virgil's Aeneid: escaping from ruined Troy, Aeneas wanders for years before coming to Latium: he is considered the forefather of the Romans.
lode-stars (183) stars by which one directs one's course.
translated (191) transformed.
Phoebe (209) Artemis as goddess of the moon: identified with the Roman Diana.
waggish (240) playful.
eyne (242) eye.
