GLOSSARY
Disdain To look on with scorn
Brandish’d (Brandish) To shake or wave menacingly
Valour (Valor) Courage, bravery
Battlement A parapet with open spaces that surmounts a wall and is used for defense or decoration
Kern A light-armed foot soldier
Golgotha The site of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
Thane A Scottish feudal lord
Rapt Lifted up and carried away
Prophetic Predictive
Enkindle To set on fire
Chastise To inflict punishment on
Beguile To lead by deception
Trammel To catch or hold
Surcease A temporary or final ceasing
Shoal Shallow
Franchised Free
Knell To ring, especially for death, funeral, or disaster
Surfeit To indulge
Infirm Weak of mind will or character
Equivocate To avoid committing oneself in what one says
Carousing To drink liquor freely or excessively
God’s Benison God’s Prayer
Indissoluble Incapable of being annulled, undone or broken
Rancor Bitter deep-seated ill will
Charnel-houses A building where bones or bodies are deposited
Perturbation A disturbance of equilibrium
Niggard A meanly covetous and stingy person
Epicure One devoted to sensual pleasures
Skirr To leave hastily
Intrenchant Not to be gashed or marked by furrows