e rivals of my watch_,] _Rivals_, for partners
or associates.]

[Footnote I.5: _And liegemen to the Dane._] _i.e._, owing
allegiance to Denmark.]

[Footnote I.6: _A piece of him._] Probably a cant expression.]

[Footnote I.7: _To watch the minutes of this night_; This seems
to have been an expression common in Shakespeare's time.]

[Footnote I.8: _Approve our eyes_,] To _approve_, in
Shakespeare's age, signified to make good or establish.]

[Footnote I.9: _What we have seen._] We must here supply "with,"
or "by relating" before "what we have seen."]

[Footnote I.10: _It harrows me with fear and wonder._] _i.e._, it
confounds and overwhelms me.]

[Footnote I.11: _Usurp'st this time of night_,] _i.e._, abuses,
uses against right, and the order of things.]

[Footnote I.12: _I might not this believe, &c._] I _could_ not:
it had not been permitted me, &c., without the full and perfect
evidence, &c.]

[Footnote I.13: _Jump at this dead hour_,] _Jump_ and _just_ were
synonymous in Shakespeare's time.]

[Footnote I.14: _In what particular thought to work_,] In what
particular course to set my thoughts at work: in what particular
train to direct the mind and exercise it in conjecture.]

[Footnote I.15: _Gross and scope_] Upon the whole, and in a
general view.]

[Footnote I.16: _Bodes some strange eruption to our state_,]
_i.e._, some political distemper, which will break out in
dangerous consequences.]

[Footnote I.17: _Palmy state_] Outspread, flourishing. Palm
branches were the emblem of victory.]

[Footnote I.18: _Sound, or use of voice_,] Articulation.]

[Footnote I.19:

_Uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth_,]

So in Decker's Knight's Conjuring, &c. "If any of them had bound
the spirit of gold by any charmes _in cares_, or in iron fetters,
_under the ground_, they should, _for their own soule's quiet
(which, questionless, else would whine up and down_,) not for the
good of their children, release it."]

[Footnote I.20:

_And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons._]

Apparitions were supposed to fly from the crowing of the cock,
because it indicated the approach of day.]

[Footnote I.21: _Lofty_] High and loud.]

[Footnote I.22: _The extravagant and erring spir