[267], [37-9]. Hast thou . . . Reimes. Cf. [Appendix B]. "At the Barricades this voice was heard: 'It is no longer time to dally, let us lead my lord to Reimes.'"
[268], [53]. The cause alike doth. The same cause doth.
[268], [55-61]. which . . . counsailes. Cf. [Appendix B]. "Advertisements were come to him from all parts, both within and without the realme, from Rome, Spaine, Lorraine, and Savoye, that a bloodie catastrophe would dissolve the assemblie."
[268-69], [62-8]. Retyre . . . exhale. Cf. [Appendix B]. "The Archbishop of Lion . . . 'Retyring yourselfe from the Estates' (said he unto him) 'you shall beare the blame to have abandoned France in so important an occasion, and your enemies, making their profit of your absence, wil sone overthrowe al that which you have with so much paine effected for the assurance of religion.'"
[270], [89-91]. To be . . . eternitie: to be His image is to do the deeds that confer immortality, which, owing to the existence of death, consists only in doing the deeds that befit eternal life.
[270], [102]. Thou dream'st awake now. Guise here turns Clermont's own words in [l. 41] against him.
[272], [144-8]. those loveliest eyes . . . teares. A much more overwhelming calamity than that which befell the lady in the original narrative, where it is stated that owing to her "passion . . . she lost the sight of one eye for a tyme."
[276], [18-19]. for not . . . neglect: for the counsels that you disclose you do not render of no account.
[278], [29]. this mortal quarrie: this deadly attack. Quarry is generally used of slaughtered game, but it also signifies the attack or swoop of the bird or beast of prey on its victim, and here we have an extension of this sense.
[280], [3-6]. I . . . enter. Chapman here combines two episodes assigned by De Serres to different days. Cf. [Appendix B]. "The eve before his death, the Duke himselfe sitting down to dinner, found a scroule under his napkin, advertising him of this secret ambush." On the following morning "the Duke of Guise comes, and attending the beginning of the councell sends for a handkercher. . . . Pericart, his secretarie . . . ties a note to one of the corners thereof, saying, 'Come forth and save your selfe, else you are but a dead man.'"