Chapter 43

"Would the nobility lay aside their ruth, And let me use my sword, I'd make a quarry With thousands of these quarter'd slaves," etc. Cf. Longfellow, Hiawatha: "Seldom stoops the soaring vulture O'er his quarry in the desert." 130. Stock. Tree-stump. Cf. Job, xiv. 8. 133. Turn to bay. Like stand at bay, etc., a term used when the stag, driven to extremity, turns round and faces his pursuers. Cf. Shakespeare, 1. Hen. VI. iv. 2. 52, where it is used figuratively (as in vi. 525 below): "Turn on the blood…