Part 47

=66=, 84. =great in faction:= active in promoting leagues.

=66=, 86-87. =Be a duke . . . field.= A play, of course, on the original meaning of Duke, as Dux or leader.

=67=, 108. =the Hermean rod:= the caduceus or rod of Hermes, with which he parted two fighting serpents, whereupon they embraced and stuck to the rod.

=69=, 144-47. =and as this . . . pride.= An allusion to the myth of the giant Typhoeus who, according to one version, was created by Hera alone, in anger at the birth of Pallas from the head of Zeus. He was killed by Zeus with a flash of lighting, and was buried in Tartarus under Mt. Etna.

=69=, 154. =make scapes to please advantage:= commit escapades, and thereby give points against themselves.

=69=, 155-56. =women . . . candels:= women who make the worst accomplices to men.

=70=, 157. =their women:= their waiting-women.

=71=, 187-88. =as far as an unkle may.= Guise is uncle to the lady Beaupre. Cf. note on II, 2, 18.

=74=, 243-44. =Come . . . courted.= These words are whispered by Monsieur to Pero. The rest of his speech is spoken aloud as if in disgust at the rejection of advances made by him to Pero.

=74=, 244. =dry palm:= a sign of chastity.

=77=, 311. =I have the blind side of:= I can play on the weakness of.

=78=, 325. =engag'd in some sure plot:= involved in the toils of some plot securely laid against him.

=78=, 330. =Train . . . wreak:= allure D'Ambois within reach of his revenge.

=80=, 375. =angell of my life:= an allusion to the tutelary genius. For a similar use of angel cf. Ant. and Cleop. II, 3, 21.

=81=, 383. =rais'd without a circle.= If a necromancer, before raising a spirit, drew a circle within which he stood, he was secure against its power.

=82=, 406. =which I have still in thought:= which is always with me, as far as my thoughts are concerned.

=84=, 445-46. =to force . . . estates.= With the punctuation adopted And . . . throats is a clause parenthetically inserted in the main statement, and the meaning is: to get possession of estates by foreclosing mortgages, and thus destroying their owners. The Qq have a comma after possessions, and no brackets in the following line.

=84-85=, 448-49. =quarrell . . . Ajax.= A reference to the well-known episode in Sophocles' Ajax.

=85=, 453. =make them of a peece:= make them complete.

=85=, 464-66. =which not to sooth . . . Thou eat'st.= An anacoluthon.

=85=, 465. =And glorifie . . . Hammon.= Probably an allusion to the adoration of Alexander the Great as the son of Jupiter Ammon by the priests of this originally AEthiopian deity, at Thebes in Upper Egypt, in B. C. 331.

=86=, 473. =like a scrich-owle sing.= The screech of the owl was supposed to be an omen of death to the hearer. Cf. Macbeth, II, 2, 3-4.

=87=, 500. =to that wall:= at the distance of that wall.

=87=, 507. =her breathing rock.= Dilke explains this as "the distaff from whence she draws the thread of life," but though this is evidently the meaning required, it is difficult to extract it from this obscure phrase.

=87=, 510. =Defil'd . . . soule.= Another instance of confused imagery, which yields no satisfactory meaning.

=89=, 28. =which=, sc. time.

=90=, 35. =princely mistresse:= the Duchess of Guise.

=90=, 39. =Your servant:= D'Ambois.