Part 21 (1/2)

[148] ”Set up,” i.e., began to play upon.

[149] Constrained.

[150] Because they would have been refused admission to other ports.

[151] Matter. So used by Sheridan in The Rivals, act iii. sc. 2.

[152] Probably a misprint for ”greatly.”

[153] This.

[154] Are.

[155] He has really given two days more than two months.

[156] A count.

[157] Range, limits.

[158] Unknown.

[159] Lying.

[160] Was.

[161] Notice this skillful touch to give verisimilitude to the narrative.

[162] Country.

[163] ”Without the bars,” i.e., outside the old city limits.

[164] Profession.

[165] The plague.

[166] The legal meaning of ”hamlet” in England is a village without a church of its own: ecclesiastically, therefore, it belongs to the parish of some other village.

[167] All Protestant sects other than the Established Church of England.

[168] A groat equals fourpence, about eight cents. It is not coined now.

[169] A farthing equals one quarter of a penny.

[170] About ten miles down the Thames.

[171] The _t_ is silent in this word.

[172] Hard-tack, pilot bread.

[173] Old form for ”rode.”