[337] Company or collection.
[338] _Head of hungry wolves_ is the reading of the original copy: a
"_herd_" of hungry wolves would scarcely be proper, but it may have been
so written. [_Head_ may be right, and we have not altered it, as the
word is occasionally used to signify a gathering or force.]
[339] In the old copy the four following lines are given to King John.
[340] [Old copy, _warres_.]
[341] [Escutcheon.]
[342] [Abided.]
[343] [Old copy, _prepare_.]
[344] This word is found in "Henry VI., Part II." act v. sc. 1, where
young Clifford applies it to Richard. Malone observes in a note, that,
according to Bullokar's "English Expositor," 1616, _stugmatick_
originally and properly signified "a person who has been _branded_ with
a hot iron for some crime." The name of the man to whom Hubert here
applies the word, is _Brand_.
Webster, in his "Vittoria Corombona," applies the term
metaphorically:--
"The god of melancholy turn thy gall to poison,
And let the _stigmatic_ wrinkles in thy face.
Like to the boisterous wares in a rough tide,
One still overtake another."
[345] [Are faulty.]
[346] [Old copy, _seld_.]
[347] [The printer has made havoc with the sense here, which can only be
guessed at from the context.
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