[II.17] How modest in exception,] How diffident and decent in making objections.
[II.18] ——strain] lineage.
[II.19] That haunted us] To haunt is a word of the utmost horror, which shows that they dreaded the English as goblins and spirits.
[II.20] ——crown’d with the golden sun,—] Shakespeare’s meaning (divested of its poetical fancy) probably is, that the king stood upon an eminence, with the sun shining over his head. —Steevens.
[II.21] ——fate of him.] His fate is what is allotted him by destiny, or what he is fated to perform.
[II.22] Montjoy,] Mont-joie is the title of the principal king-at-arms in France, as Garter is in our country.
[II.23] ——spend their mouths,] That is, bark; the sportsman’s term.
[II.24] ——memorable line,] This genealogy; this deduction of his lineage.
[II.25] Shall chide your trespass,] To chide is to resound, to echo.
[II.26] ——you shall read] i.e., shall find.