110 country matters sex (country puns on "cunt") 114 Nothing i.e. "no thing" (vagina)
 
 118 your only jig-maker I'm your unrivaled composer of jigs (bawdy playlets) 123 suit of sables luxurious suit trimmed with dark-colored sable fur 126 suffer ... on be forgotten
 
 127 hobby-horse artificial horse fastened around the waist of one of the participants in a morris dance; the hobby-horse is forgot was a popular phrase 128.1 Hautboys oboe-like instruments
 
 128.1 protestation solemn declaration (of love)
 
 128.1 passionate action gestures of extreme grief 128.1 Mutes i.e. other actors
 
 130 miching malicho lurking iniquity, skulking mischief
 
 131 Belike presumably
 
 131 argument plot
 
 133 counsel a secret
 
 135 show sexual display
 
 135 be not you if you are not
 
 137 naught indecent/offensive
 
 141 posy of a ring short (usually cliched) verse motto engraved on a ring 144 Phoebus' cart the sun god's chariot
 
 145 Neptune's salt wash i.e. the sea (of which Neptune was god) 145 Tellus' orbed ground i.e. the earth (of which Tellus was goddess) 146 borrowed sheen reflected radiance
 
 148 Hymen god of marriage
 
 149 bands bonds
 
 154 distrust fear for
 
 155 Discomfort dismay, discourage
 
 156 holds quantity are to be found in the same proportions
 
 157 In ... extremity they are either nonexistent or excessive
 
 158 proof tried and tested experience
 
 159 as ... so my fear is just as great as my love
 
 161 operant vital/active
 
 161 leave to do cease to perform
 
 165 confound destroy (i.e. do not say)
 
 168 None no woman
 
 169 Wormwood i.e. that's bitter (the sharp-tasting plant was also used to purge the digestive tract of worms, so there may also be a suggestion of bringing forth gnawing guilt) 170 instances motives
 
 170 move prompt
 
 171 respects of thrift considerations of personal profit