Note 361 — ACT III.
Reading edition
To affront is to meet directly. As in "Fuimus Troes," act ii. sc. 1—
"Let's then dismiss the legate with a frown; And draw our forces toward the sea, to join With the four kings of Kent, and so affront His first arrival."
And in "Hamlet," act iii. sc. 1—
"That he, as 'twere by accident, may here Affront Ophelia."
See Mr Steevens's note on the last passage.