165 centre i.e. of the earth
166 try test
170 loose set loose (often used of an animal; sometimes with the sense of releasing the female to the male for sex, which would lend sexual connotations to encounter) 171 arras large tapestry wall-hanging
173 thereon on that account
174 assistant ... state policy adviser
175 carters cart drivers
177 sadly solemnly
180 board accost
180 presently immediately
180 give me leave a polite way of asking to be left alone
182 God-a-mercy God have mercy (i.e. thank you)
184 fishmonger plays on slang senses of "lecher" and "pimp"
192 good kissing carrion good piece of rotting flesh to kiss (carrion also suggests "whore") 194 i'th'sun in public/in the sun (or "son") that causes breeding 194 conception understanding/becoming pregnant
202 matter content (Hamlet plays on sense of "cause of a dispute") 207 purging discharging
207 amber ... gum tree resin
208 hams legs
210 honesty decent/honorable
211 old as old
217 pregnant meaningful/quick-witted (with childbearing connotations, continued in delivered of) 217 happiness fortuitousness
219 suddenly immediately
224 withal with
233 indifferent ordinary, average
234 Happy fortunate
235 button i.e. point at the very top of the cap
239 favours sexual favors (middle has vaginal connotations) 240 privates ordinary citizens/genitals
242 strumpet prostitute
245 particular detail
251 confines places of confinement
252 wards prison cells
263 substance ... ambitious material that fuels ambition/stuff ambitious men are made of 267 Then ... shadows i.e. if ambition is nothing but shadow, then only unambitious beggars have bodily substance; their shadows must then be made up of ambitious people such as monarchs and heroes