2. cross: frustrate.

3. spite: harm; injury. make me bow: humiliate me.

4. drop in for an after-loss: come in unexpectedly to inflict a second loss on me.

5. 'scaped: escaped.

6. in the rearward of a conquer'd woe: following a woe I managed to survive.

7. Give not a windy night a rainy morrow: i.e., don't make it so that sighs are followed by tears.

8. linger out: protract.   purposed overthrow: deliberate defeat.

10. spite: harm; injury.

11. in the onset: right away.

13. strains: kinds and degrees.