[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 . . .bsp;. . 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.