[337] Company or collection.
[338] Head of hungry wolves is the reading of the original copy: a "herd" of hungry wolves would scarcely be proper, but it may have been so written. [Head may be right, and we have not altered it, as the word is occasionally used to signify a gathering or force.]
[339] In the old copy the four following lines are given to King John.
[340] [Old copy, warres.]
[341] [Escutcheon.]
[342] [Abided.]
[343] [Old copy, prepare.]
[344] This word is found in "Henry VI., Part II." act v. sc. 1, where young Clifford applies it to Richard. Malone observes in a note, that, according to Bullokar's "English Expositor," 1616, stugmatick originally and properly signified "a person who has been branded with a hot iron for some crime." The name of the man to whom Hubert here applies the word, is Brand.
Webster, in his "Vittoria Corombona," applies the term metaphorically:—
"The god of melancholy turn thy gall to poison,
And let the stigmatic wrinkles in thy face.
Like to the boisterous wares in a rough tide,
One still overtake another."