Note 231 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
Also in i. 2 we read:
“And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show’d like a rebel’s whore.”
Some read “quarry;” see “Notes to Macbeth.” Clark and Wright, p. 77. It denotes the square-headed bolt of a cross-bow; see Douce’s “Illustrations,” 1839, p. 227; Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 206.