Such gallant chiding. The verb chide often meant "to make an incessant noise." Compare As You Like It, ii. 1. 7: "And churlish chiding of the winter's wind"; Henry VIII. iii. 2. 197: "As doth a rock against the chiding flood," etc.
So flew'd, so sanded. Having the same large hanging chaps and the same sandy color.
Like bells. That is, like a chime of bells.
Tender well. Take good care of.
Emboss'd was a hunter's term for foaming at the mouth in consequence of hard running.
Brach. The word properly meant a female hound, but came to be applied to a particular kind of scenting-dog.
Page 147.—In the coldest fault. When the scent was coldest (or faintest), and the hounds most at fault. Compare the quotation from Venus and Adonis, [page 150] below: "the cold fault."
He cried upon it at the merest loss. He gave the cry when the scent seemed utterly lost. See the passage just referred to. Mere was formerly used in the sense of absolute or complete. Compare Othello, ii. 2. 3: "the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet" (its entire destruction); Henry VIII. iii. 2. 329: "the mere undoing of the kingdom" (its utter ruin), etc.
A youthful Work of Shakespeare's. It was first published in 1593, when he was twenty-nine years of age; and some critics believe that it was written several years earlier, perhaps before he went to London.
Page 148.—Glisters. Glistens. Both Shakespeare and Milton use glister several times, glisten not at all.