[32], [60]. Ript up the quarrell: explained the cause and origin of the quarrel (Dilke).
[32], [63-64]. conclude The others dangers: might put an end to the risks of their companions by making their single combat cover the whole quarrel. Conclude here unites the Elizabethan sense include with the ordinary meaning finish.
[32], [77-80]. And then . . . never kill. An anticipation, as Lamb and others have pointed out, of Milton's description of angelic wounds, Par. Lost, vi, 344-49.
[33], [84-87]. Thrice pluckt . . . scap't. The accumulation of personal pronouns makes the interpretation somewhat difficult: thrice D'Ambois plucked at it, and thrice drew on thrusts from Barrisor who darted hither and thither like flame, and continued thrusting as D'Ambois plucked; yet, incredible to relate, the latter escaped injury.
[33], [90]. only made more horrid with his wound: Barrisor being only rendered fiercer by his wound. The construction is loose, as grammatically the words should qualify D'Ambois.
[33], [92]. redoubled in his danger: thrusting himself into danger for the second time. For this peculiar use of redoubled cf. [l. 190], "on my knees redoubled," and note.
[33], [94]. Arden. Probably to be no more identified here with the Warwickshire district of this name than in As You Like It. Ardennes would be more appropriate on a Frenchman's lips, but the district belongs to the realm of fancy as much as Armenia in [l. 117].
[33], [97]. he gan to nodde. An anacoluthon. The construction should be "begin to nodde" after "I have seene an oke" in [l. 94], but the intervening participial clauses produce irregularity. Similarily in [l. 101] "he fell" should be "fall" and "hid" should be "hide."
[33], [103-104]. Of ten set. . . Navarre. The war between Henry III and Henry of Navarre continued from 1587 to 1589, but the "ten set battles" are without historical foundation.
[34], [105]. [Montsurry.] See [note] on stage direction at beginning of the scene.