[222] Poultry.
[223] A corruption of certiorari.
[224] Like.
[225] It has been suggested that quarled is equivalent to guarelled; and that it alludes to poison put on arrows. The sound of the word seems to point at some synonym for curdled.
[226] Alluding to the 5th Commandment.
[227] i.e. Incite, encourage her.
[228] The reality and life of this dialogue passes any scenical illusion I ever felt. I never read it but my ears tingle, and I feel a hot flush spread my cheeks, as if I were presently about to "proclaim" some such "malefactions" of myself as the brothers here rebuke in this unnatural parent, in words more keen and dagger-like than those which Hamlet speaks to his mother. Such power has the passion of shame, truly personated, not only to "strike guilty creatures unto the soul," but to "appal" even those that are "free."—Lamb.
[229] Michaelmas term now has but four returns.
[230] In secret.
[231] Hands.