Part 20 (1/2)

[98] This word is misplaced; it should go before ”perish.”

[99] Before ”having,” supply ”the master.”

[100] Fences.

[101] From.

[102] This old form for ”caught” is used frequently by Defoe.

[103] Came to grief.

[104] ”Who, being,” etc., i.e., who, although single men, had yet staid.

[105] The wars of the Commonwealth or of the Puritan Revolution, 1640-52.

[106] Holland and Belgium.

[107] ”Hurt of,” a common form of expression used in Defoe's time.

[108] Manager, economist. This meaning of ”husband” is obsolete.

[109] A participial form of expression very common in Old English, the ”a” being a corruption of ”in” or ”on.”

[110] Were.

[111] ”'Name of G.o.d,” i.e., in the name of G.o.d.

[112] Torches.

[113] ”To and again,” i.e., to and fro.

[114] Were.

[115] As if.

[116] Magpie.

[117] This word is from the same root as ”lamp.” The old form ”lanthorn”

crept in from the custom of making the sides of a lantern of horn.

[118] Supply ”be.”

[119] Inclination.

[120] In expectation of the time when.

[121] Their being checked.

[122] This paragraph could hardly have been more clumsily expressed. It will be found a useful exercise to rewrite it.