[Footnote 5: Mettle is spirit—rather in the sense of animal-spirit: mettlesome—spirited, as a horse.]
[Footnote 6: 'unpossessed by my cause'.]
[Footnote 7: personality, proper person.]
[Footnote 8: undoing, destruction—from French défaire.]
[Footnote 9: In this mood he no more understands, and altogether doubts himself, as he has previously come to doubt the world.]
[Footnote 10: 1st Q. 'or twites my nose.']
[Footnote 11: It was supposed that pigeons had no gall—I presume from their livers not tasting bitter like those of perhaps most birds.]
[Footnote 12: pitiless.]
[Footnote 13: unnatural.]
[Footnote 14: This line is not in the Quarto.]