"To hear and absolutely to determine
Of what conditions we shall stand upon."
See also T.G. of V. ii. 4. 181, Rich. III. iii. 4. 2, etc.
53. [God save the mark!] An exclamation of uncertain origin, commonly = saving your reverence, but sometimes, as here = God have mercy! Cf. 1 Hen. IV. i. 3. 56. So God bless the mark! in M. of V. ii. 2. 25, Oth. i. 1. 33, etc.
56. [Gore-blood.] Clotted blood. Forby remarks that the combination is an East-Anglian provincialism. Halliwell-Phillipps cites Vicars, trans, of Virgil, 1632: "Whose hollow wound vented much black gore-bloud." Swounded is the reading of the 1st quarto; the other early eds. have "sounded," "swouned," and "swooned." In R. of. L. 1486 we have "swounds" rhyming with "wounds."
57. [Bankrupt.] The early eds. have "banckrout" or "bankrout," as often in other passages and other writers of the time.
64. [Contrary.] The adjective is accented by S. on the first or second syllable. Cf. Ham. iii. 2. 221, etc. For the verb, see on i. 5. 87 above.
73. [O serpent heart,] etc. Cf. Macb. i. 5. 66:—
"look like the innocent flower,