[368-11] Gonzalo still thinks the boatswain was born to be hanged, and warrants that he will not be drowned. [368-12] The boatswain is still trying to bring her to the wind, so she may get out to sea. The _courses_ are the largest lower sails. [368-13] _Merely_, here, means _entirely_ or _absolutely_. [368-14] _Glut_ means _swallow_. [369-15] These are all plants that grow in England, and were to Shakespeare the familiar signs of barren ground. [369-16] _The wills above be done_ means _the will of the Powers above be done_. Gonzalo interests us from the start by his rather humorous view of everything. [369-1] _Welkin_ means _sky_. [369-2] _Brave_ means _fine_. [369-3] _Or e'er_ means _before_ or _sooner than_. [370-4] _Fraughting_ means _freighting_. The human souls were the freight of the ship. [370-5] _Amazement_ means _anguish_ and _deep distress_ rather than astonishment. [370-6] In the time of Shakespeare it was not considered inelegant English to use two forms of the comparative and superlative degrees. _More better_, _most best_ are good examples. [370-7] _Meddle_ means _mix_. Miranda says she never thought of knowing more about herself or her father. [370-8] Prospero means that with his garment he lays his magic arts aside and becomes the loving, human father. [370-9] Prospero does not complete his sentence, but expresses the same thought in different form. [372-10] _Bootless inquisition_ means _fruitless questioning_. The father has before begun to tell Miranda who she is, but has interrupted himself, and said, "Stay, not yet." [372-11] _Out_ means _fully_. [372-12] Prospero says, in these two lines, "If you can remember anything that happened before we came here, you may remember _how_ we came here." [373-13] _Holp_ is an old form of _helped_. [373-14] _Teen_ is an old word that means _trouble_ or _anxiety_. [373-15] _Please you, further_, means _Please you, tell me further_. [373-16] _Manage_ means _management_. [373-17] _Signiories_ is a name for _principalities_. [373-18] _Prime_ means _first_ or _leading_. [374-19] _Who_ is used for _whom_, as it was not considered ungrammatical in Shakespeare's day. [374-20] _Trash_ means _check_ or _set back_. [374-21] _Over-topping_ means _rising too high_. Prospero means that his brother knew what persons to check when they tried to rise too high, to gain too much power. [374-22] The brother understood the _key_ that kept officer and office in tune, and so set the minds of all Prospero's subjects thinking as the usurper wished. That is, Antonio took Prospero's friends away from him. [374-23] We would say _so that_ instead of merely _that_. [374-24] _To closeness_ means _to privacy_, to studies in his own home. [374-25] _But_ in this sense means _except_.