[230] See Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 456; Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 39; Tuberville’s “Booke of Falconrie,” 1611, p. 53.
[231] Also in i. 2 we read:
“And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show’d like a rebel’s whore.”
Some read “quarry;” see “Notes to Macbeth.” Clark and Wright, p. 77. It denotes the square-headed bolt of a cross-bow; see Douce’s “Illustrations,” 1839, p. 227; Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 206.
[232] See Spenser’s “Fairy Queen,” book i. canto xi. l. 18:
“Low stooping with unwieldy sway.”
[233] Ed. Dyce, 1857, p. 5.
[234] See “3 Henry VI.” i. 1.
[235] A quibble is perhaps intended between bate, the term of falconry, and abate, i. e., fall off, dwindle. “Bate is a term in falconry, to flutter the wings as preparing for flight, particularly at the sight of prey.” In ‘1 Henry IV.’ (iv. 1):
“‘All plumed like estridges, that with the wind
Bated, like eagles having lately bathed.’”