The prefix The Most Noble is a title of quality attached to the names of dukes and duchesses in the United Kingdom. It is usually used on legal documents, where a duke would be described as, for instance, The Most Noble John William, Duke of London, while the prefix His Grace (or Her Grace) is used in less formal situations.
The Most Noble is a contraction of the most formal style of a duke, The Most High, Noble and Potent Prince, which is used only in extremely formal circumstances.
The MostNoble Order of the Garter is an English order of chivalry with a history stretching back to mediæval times; today it is the world's oldest national order of knighthood in continuous existence and the pinnacle of the British honours system.
The most popular one involves the "Countess of Salisbury" (it may refer to Joan of Kent, the King's future daughter-in-law, or to her then mother-in-law, whom Edward is known to have admired).
Most importantly (although hardly visible), the Garter is a buckled velvet strap worn around the left calf by men and on the left arm by women.
It is a play which needs to be seen in order that the masque-like splendour of some of its scenes may be fully realised; but a mere perusal of it suffices to reveal its imaginative power, the ripeness and energy of the thought and the luminous colour of high romance in which it is steeped.
Now, the diction of The Two Noble Kinsmen is of a peculiar nature, and Spalding, in his famous Letter, with others after him, naturally directed his attention to this, above all other things, in attributing these non-Fletcherian scenes to Shakespeare.
In the profusion of striking metaphors, the copious outpouring of profound thoughts and the extreme concision, often involving harshness and obscurity, of the utterance, these scenes bear a marked resemblance to the plays of Shakespeare’s final period, and to nothing else in literature.
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