act iv. sc. 3--

"O me! with what strict patience have I sat, To see a king transformed _to a knot_!"

[307] Mr Steevens, in his note to "King Richard III.," act v. sc. 3, observes there was anciently a particular kind of candle, called a _watch_ because, being marked out into sections, each of which was a certain portion of time in burning, it supplied the place of the more modern instrument by which we measure the hours. He also says these candles are represented with great nicety in some of the pictures of Albert Durer.

[308] These words, as here printed, may be the pure language of falconry, like _bate_, which follows, and signifies to _flutter_. Yet I suspect that for _brail_ we should read _berail_, and for _hud_ us, _hood_ us.

[309] Latham calls it _bat_, and explains it to be "when a hawke fluttereth with her wings, either from the pearch, or the man's fist, striving, as it were, to flie away or get libertie."