race

a peasant farmer.

"Let the gachupines die and may the Virgin of Guadalupe live ..."

plural -s. chiefly Southwest, sometimes disparaging. : a Spanish settler in America who immigrated from Spain.

She's had five children already; the last child (George) nearly killed her

Birth control pills

Cleopatra

Middleton Play--women are complicit in maintaining hierarchical structures. The queen (chess piece) is the most powerful, but she serves the least powerful (the king).

A clipper ship in the service of the US military

Echo of Nietzsche, "pity doesn't help the person you're looking at"

Break in meter

Poem is in iambic pentameter

Temptation of dominion

Temptation of fame

Temptation of a domestic wife (angel in the house).

Galahad seeing beyond the "accidents" and into the "substance" of the eucharist.

Cf. Merle

Implying she's undermined the plot

Openly defiant

Foreshadowing

essentially, synecdoche

A general name for a class of white wines formerly imported from Spain and the Canaries. (OED)

A Spanish gold double-escudo dating from the 1530s and surviving into the 19th cent.; (also) any of various coins derived from or resembling this from the 17th and 18th centuries, esp. the louis d'or issued in 1640 (during the reign of Louis XIII), an Irish coin issued in 1642–3 (in the reign of Charles II), and the Scottish twelve pound piece issued in 1701 (during the reign of William III). (OED)

The state or quality of being unmoved in mind; steadfastness, firmness, endurance, fortitude. (OED)

Order of monks. Fun fact: The color of their robes is from where the word "cappuccino" derives.

A bunch of flowers or herbs, esp. ones having a sweet smell; a small bouquet, a posy. Also: an imitation or representation of this. (OED)

A pirate or privateer. Also fig. Now chiefly hist. (OED)

A person in tattered clothing; a ragged or beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin (OED).

cupid

mask (OED)

"interpretation [of] behavior"(?)

Pun: "make her more wrinkled"

An estate settled on a wife for the period during which she survives her husband, in lien of a dower. (OED)

change, influence (OED)

Used with generalizing or emphatic force after words or phrases preceded by how, what, which, whose, etc. (OED) i.e. however near my father thinks...

English

The Battle of Pampeluna (also spelled Pamplona) occurred on May 20, 1521, between French-backed Navarrese and Spanish troops, during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre and in the context of the Italian War of 1521–26. Most Navarrese towns rose at once against the Spanish, who had invaded Navarre in 1512. The Spanish resisted the siege sheltered inside the city castle, but they eventually surrendered and the Navarrese took control of the town and the castle of Pamplona.

It was at this battle that Inigo Lopez de Loyola, better known as St. Ignatius of Loyola, suffered severe injuries, a Navarrese cannonball shattering his leg. It is said that after the battle the Navarrese so admired his bravery that they carried him all the way back to his home in Loyola. His meditations during his long recovery set him on the road of a conversion of life from soldier to priest. He would eventually found the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), and create the Spiritual Exercises, which is the basis for the idea of "retreats" as an experience of prayer as practiced in the Roman Catholic Church.

A pirate

Courtesan

To deceive after holding out hopes in love; to cast off (a lover) capriciously; to be faithless to; to play the jilt towards. Orig. said only of a woman; in later use also of a man.

Cast of Characters

A citizen (in various senses). Usually used more or less contemptuously, for example to denote a person from the town as opposed to the country, or a tradesman or shopkeeper as distinguished from a gentleman

A bout of excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, esp. those of eating and drinking.