127.  Quarry.  The animal hunted; another technical term.  Shakespeare uses it in the sense of a heap of slaughtered game; as in Cor. i. 1. 202: 

    “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 bloody hounds with heads of steel,
     And make the cowards stand aloof at bay;”

and T. of S. v. 2. 56:  " ’T is thought your deer does hold you at a bay,” etc.

137.  For the death-wound, etc.  Scott has the following note here:  “When the stag turned to bay, the ancient hunter had the perilous task of going in upon, and killing or disabling, the desperate animal.  At certain times of the year this was held particularly dangerous, a wound received from a stag’s horn being then deemed poisonous, and more dangerous than one from the tusks of a boar, as the old rhyme testifies: 

   ’If thou be hurt with hart, it bring thee to thy bier,
    But barber’s hand will boar’s hurt heal, therefore thou
       need’st not fear.’

At all times, however, the task was dangerous, and to be adventured upon wisely and warily, either by getting behind the stag while he was gazing on the hounds, or by watching an opportunity to gallop roundly in upon him, and kill him with the sword.  See many directions to this purpose in the Booke of Hunting, chap. 41.  Wilson, the historian, has recorded a providential escape which befell him in the hazardous sport, while a youth, and follower of the Earl of Essex: 

’Sir Peter Lee, of Lime, in Cheshire, invited my lord one summer to hunt the stagg.  And having a great stagg in chase, and many gentlemen in the pursuit, the stag took soyle.  And divers, whereof I was one, alighted, and stood with swords drawne, to have a cut at him, at his coming out of the water.  The staggs there being wonderfully fierce and dangerous, made us youths more eager to be at him.  But he escaped us all.  And it was my misfortune to be hindered of my coming nere him, the way being sliperie, by a falle; which gave occasion to some, who did not know mee, to speak as if I had falne for feare.  Which being told mee, I left the stagg, and followed the gentleman who [first] spake it.  But I found him of that cold temper, that it seems his words made an escape from him; as by his denial and repentance it appeared.  But this made mee more violent in the pursuit of the stagg, to recover