500.  Winded.  Wound; used for the sake of the measure, as in v. 22 below.  We find the participle winded in Much Ado, i. 1. 243; but it is = blown.  The verb in that sense is derived from the noun wind (air in motion), and has no connection with wind, to turn.  Cf.  Wb.

504.  Here for retreat, etc.  Scott has the following note here:  “The Celtic chieftains, whose lives were continually exposed to peril, had usually, in the most retired spot of their domains, some place of retreat for the hour of necessity, which, as circumstances would admit, was a tower, a cavern, or a rustic hut, in a strong and secluded situation.  One of these last gave refuge to the unfortunate Charles Edward, in his perilous wanderings after the battle of Culloden.

’It was situated in the face of a very rough, high, and rocky mountain, called Letternilichk, still a part of Benalder, full of great stones and crevices, and some scattered wood interspersed.  The habitation called the Cage, in the face of that mountain, was within a small thick bush of wood.  There were first some rows of trees laid down, in order to level the floor for a habitation; and as the place was steep, this raised the lower side to an equal height with the other:  and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel.  There were betwixt the trees, growing naturally on their own roots, some stakes fixed in the earth, which, with the trees, were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape; and the whole thatched and covered over with fog.  The whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the one end, all along the roof, to the other, and which gave it the name of the Cage; and by chance there happened to be two stones at a small distance from one another, in the side next the precipice, resembling the pillars of a chimney, where the fire was placed.  The smoke had its vent out here, all along the fall of the rock, which was so much of the same color, that one could discover no difference in the clearest day’ (Home’s History of the Rebellion, Lond. 1802, 4to, p. 381).”

525.  Idoean vine.  Some have taken this to refer to the “red whortleberry,” the botanical name of which is Vaccinium vitis Idoea; but as that is not a climber, it is more probably that the common vine is here meant.  Idoean is from Ida, a mountain near ancient Troy (there was another in Crete), famous for its vines.

526.  Clematis.  The Climatis vitalba, one of the popular English names of which is virgin-bower.

528.  And every favored plant could bear.  That is, which could endure.  This ellipsis of the relative was very common in Elizabethan English.  Cf.  Shakespeare, M. for M. ii. 2. 23:  “I have a brother is condemned to die;” Rich.  II. ii. 2. 128:  “The hate of those love not the king,” etc.  See also John, iii. 11, etc.