t and noblest falconers in the western part of
Europe. The French king sent over his falconers to show that
sport to King James the First.--_See Weldon's Court of King
James._]

[Footnote II.58: _Quality_;] Qualifications, faculty.]

[Footnote II.59: _Caviare to the general_;] Caviare is the spawn
of fish pickled, salted, and dried. It is imported from Russia,
and was considered in the time of Shakespeare a new and
fashionable luxury, not obtained or relished by the vulgar, and
therefore used by him to signify anything above their
comprehension--general is here used for the people.]

[Footnote II.60: _As much modesty as cunning._] As much propriety
and decorum as skill.]

[Footnote II.61: _Falls with the whiff and wind of his fell
sword_] Our author employs the same image in almost the same
phrase:

"The Grecians _fall
Even in the fan and wind of your fair sword._"

_Tr. & Cress. V. 3. Tr._]

[Footnote II.62: _The rack_] The clouds or congregated vapour.]

[Footnote II.63: _The mobled queen?_] Mobled is veiled, muffled,
disguised.]

[Footnote II.64: _All his visage wann'd_;] _i.e._, turned pale or
wan.]

[Footnote II.65: _His whole functions suiting with forms to his
conceit?_] _i.e._, his powers and faculties--the whole energies
of his soul and body giving material forms to his passion, such
as tone of voice, expression of face, requisite action, in
accordance with the ideas that floated in his conceit or
imagination.]

[Footnote II.66: _The cue_] The point--the direction.]

[Footnote II.67: _Like John a-dreams_,] Or dreaming John, a name
apparently coined to suit a dreaming, stupid person; he seems to
have been a well-known character.]

[Footnote II.68: _Unpregnant of my cause_,] _i.e._, not quickened
with a new desire of vengeance; not teeming with revenge.]

[Footnote II.69: _Defeat was made._] Overthrow.]

[Footnote II.70: _Lack gall to make oppression bitter_;] _i.e._,
lack gall to make me feel the bitterness of oppression.]

[Footnote II.71: _Kindless_] Unnatural.]

[Footnote II.72: _About, my brains!_] Wits to work.]

[Footnote II.73: _I'll tent him to the quick:_] _i.e._, probe
him--search his wounds.]

[Footnote II.74: _Blench_,] Shrink, start aside.]

[Footnote II.75: _More relative than this:_] D