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1. unkind: This word had a much stronger meaning in Shakespeare's time that it does now. To be "unkind" was to be unnatural, to treat someone who was kin as though that person were a stranger.
2. for: because of.
8. weigh: consider. suffered in your crime: i.e., suffered because of your offense.
9. woe: estrangement. remember'd: reminded.
12. fits: befits.
13. that your trespass: your transgression which I mentioned before. fee: fine; compensation.
14. ransoms: redeems; excuses. Mine: my fee. yours: your fee.