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447 total gules entirely red (gules is a heraldic term) 447 tricked adorned/delineated (heraldic term for the sketching of a coat of arms) 449 impasted dried into a crust
449 parching scorching (because burning)
450 tyrannous harsh
452 o'er-sized covered, as if with size (a sticky substance used to treat paper)/rendered larger (through a thick covering of blood) 452 coagulate coagulated, congealed
453 carbuncles red gems supposed to emit light in the dark
454 grandsire grandfather (Priam had fifty sons and numerous grandchildren) 457 discretion judgment
458 Anon shortly
459 too short inadequately (presumably because of his old age)
459 antique old
461 Repugnant resistant
463 whiff and wind i.e. mere slicing through the air
463 fell fierce
464 Th'unnerved the weakened
464 senseless incapable of feeling
464 Ilium Troy/the royal palace at Troy
467 Takes ... ear i.e. the noise arrests him in mid-action 468 declining descending
468 milky white with age
470 painted motionless as if in a painting/blood-covered
471 like ... matter suspended between his will and its effect
473 against in anticipation of/before
474 rack clouds
475 orb i.e. earth
477 region sky
479 Cyclops one-eyed giants who worked for the blacksmith god Vulcan making armor for the gods 480 Mars his Mars' (Roman god of war)
480 proof eterne eternal impenetrability
481 remorse pity
484 synod assembly
485 fellies pieces of wood that form the rim of a wheel
485 wheel the wheel of Fortune, according to the turns of which men rose or fell 486 nave central part of the wheel, the hub
490 jig a light, often bawdy, entertainment that took place after the main play and involved singing and dancing 491 Hecuba wife of King Priam
