=82=, 406. =which I have still in thought:= which is always with me, as far as my thoughts are concerned.
=84=, 445-46. =to force . . . estates.= With the punctuation adopted _And . . . throats_ is a clause parenthetically inserted in the main statement, and the meaning is: to get possession of estates by foreclosing mortgages, and thus destroying their owners. The Qq have a comma after _possessions_, and no brackets in the following line.
=84-85=, 448-49. =quarrell . . . Ajax.= A reference to the well-known episode in Sophocles' _Ajax_.
=85=, 453. =make them of a peece:= make them complete.
=85=, 464-66. =which not to sooth . . . Thou eat'st.= An anacoluthon.
=85=, 465. =And glorifie . . . Hammon.= Probably an allusion to the adoration of Alexander the Great as the son of Jupiter Ammon by the priests of this originally Æthiopian deity, at Thebes in Upper Egypt, in B. C. 331.
=86=, 473. =like a scrich-owle sing.= The screech of the owl was supposed to be an omen of death to the hearer. Cf. _Macbeth_, II, 2, 3-4.
=87=, 500. =to that wall:= at the distance of that wall.
=87=, 507. =her breathing rock.= Dilke explains this as "the distaff from whence she draws the thread of life," but though this is evidently the meaning required, it is difficult to extract it from this obscure phrase.
=87=, 510. =Defil'd . . . soule.= Another instance of confused imagery, which yields no satisfactory meaning.
=90=, 35. =princely mistresse:= the Duchess of Guise.
=90=, 52. =in high formes:= on stools of disgrace.
=91=, 55. =great eagles beak.= Cf. III, 2, 4.
=91=, 57. =her . . . liver.= A double allusion, as Dilke has pointed out, to the story of Prometheus, and to the conception of the liver as the seat of the emotions.
=92=, 77. =with a traine:= by a stratagem.
=93=, 84. =gushing.= Used here transitively, qualifying _laws_, and governing _blood_.
=93=, 87. =bare . . . hammes:= the uncovered heads and cringing postures of sycophants.
=93=, 98. =Armenian dragons.= Chapman is fond of locating fabulous monsters in Armenia. Cf. II, 1, 118-19.
=94=, 115. =almighty Æther.= Probably a reminiscence of Virgil, _Georg._ 2, 325, _pater omnipotens Æther_.
=94=, 120. =Nay, they are two.= Monsieur, while saying this, makes two horns with his fingers.