sway to rule over or control.
riv'd split.
wonderful that causes wonder.
not sensible not having appreciation or understanding.
glaz'd gazed.
drawn upon a heap huddled.
ghastly ghostlike, pale, or haggard.
howting hooting.
prodigies extraordinary happenings, thought to foretell good or evil fortune.
unbraced with doublet (a man's closefitting jacket with or without sleeves) open.
want lack.
from quality and kind behaving unnaturally.
ordinance an established or prescribed practice or usage.
performed natural.
thews muscles or sinews.
bondman slave, one who is not entirely free of a master.
hinds female red deer.
offal refuse or garbage.
fleering sneering or jeering.
be factious join our faction.
Pompey's Porch the portico of a theater built in 55 B.C. by Pompey.
element the sky.
close concealed.
incorporate a party to.
praetor a magistrate of ancient Rome, next below a consul in rank. Brutus was the chief praetor.
hie to hurry or hasten.
bade bid.
countenance approval, support, or sanction.
alchymy an early form of chemistry, with philosophic and magical associations, studied in the Middle Ages. Its chief aims were to change base metals into gold and to discover the elixir of perpetual youth.
conceited understood.
