Miko: annotations

teach

cousin

Adam's comment might be a reference to a story from Aesop's Fables. In the story, an old dog catches a rabbit, but, being toothless, is unable to hold on to it. The dog's master is angry, but the dog tells the master to remember when the dog was able to hunt better.

settle everything

incite

despised

beloved by people of all ranks, as if by enchantment

purposes, intentions

of gentlemanly character

urge