by Daniel Defoe
have chosen, etc.
[336] See Rev. vi. 8.
[337] Moved away (into the country).
[338] The duties of headboroughs differed little from those of theconstables. The title is now obsolete.
[339] Count.
[340] "Must." In this sense common in Chaucer. The past tense, "should,"retains something of this force. Compare the German _sollen_.
[341] Otherwise known as _theriac_ (from the Greek [Greek: theriakos],"pertaining to a wild beast," since it was supposed to be an antidotefor poisonous bites). This medicine was compounded of sixty or seventydrugs, and was mixed with honey.
[342] Supply "died."
[343] Supply "of."
[344] Substitute "which."
[345] Those.
[346] A corruption of "benzoin," a resinous juice obtained from a treethat flourishes in Siam and the Malay Archipelago. When heated, it givesoff a pleasant odor. It is one of the ingredients used in court-plaster.
[347] This word should be omitted.
[348] The "press gang" was a naval detachment under the command of anofficer, empowered to seize men and carry them off for service onmen-of-war.
[349] Off Lowestoft, in 1665. Though the Dutch were beaten, they madegood their retreat, and heavily defeated the English the next year inthe battle of The Downs.
[350] See Ps. lx. 11; cviii. 12.
[351] Were.
[352] See Exod. xiv., xv., and xvi. 1-3.
[353] "H.F." is of course fictitious.
