III.ii.7 (158,8) [Trenched in ice] Cut, carved in ice. Trencher, to cut, French.
III.ii.36 (159,9) [with circumstance] With the addition of such incidental particulars as may induce belief.
III.ii.51 (160,1)
[Therefore as you unwind her love from him,
Lest it should ravel, and be good to none,
You must provide to bottom it on me]
As you wind off her love from him, make me the bottom on which you wind it. The housewife's term for a ball of thread wound upon a central body, is a bottom of thread.
III.ii.68 (160,2) [lime] That is, birdlime.
III.ii.98 (161,4) [Duke. Even now about it. I will pardon you]
I will excuse you from waiting.
IV.i.36 (163,2) [By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar] Robin Hood was captain of a band of robbers, and was much inclined to rob churchmen.
IV.i.46 (163,3) [awful men] Reverend, worshipful, such as magistrates, and other principal members of civil communities.
IV.ii.12 (165,1) [sudden quips] That is, hasty passionate reproaches and scoffs. So Macbeth is in a kindred sense said to be sudden; that is, irascible and impetuous.