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[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."
[174] See the last sentence of the next paragraph but one.
[175] Roadstead, an anchoring ground less sheltered than a harbor.
[176] Subst.i.tute "that they would not be visited."
[177] The plague.
[178] St. Margaret's.
[179] _Nota bene_, note well.
[180] Dul'ich. All these places are southward from London. Norwood is six miles distant.
[181] Old form of "dared."
[182] Small vessels, generally schooner-rigged, used for carrying heavy freight on rivers and harbors.
[183] London Bridge.
[184] This incident is so overdone, that it fails to be pathetic, and rather excites our laughter.
[185] Supply "themselves."
[186] Barnet was about eleven miles north-northwest of London.
[187] Holland and Belgium.
[188] See Luke xvii. 11-19.
[189] Well.
[190] With speed, in haste.
[191] This word is misplaced. It should go immediately before "to lodge."
[192] Luck.
[193] Whom.
[194] A small sail set high upon the mast.
[195] "Fetched a long compa.s.s," i.e., went by a circuitous route.
[196] The officers.
[197] Refused.
