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16. that once. We should say that for once.
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13. I had formerly boarded with a surgeon, and so was presumably not a strong man.
14. Put. A Devonshire word, the old wretch.
19. waited upon. Visited.
22. Lion's-Inn. An old Inn of Court, destroyed in 1863.
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5. spindle. Thin like the stick with which the thread is twisted in spinning.
21. the book I had considered last Saturday. The Tenth Book of Paradise Lost. Addison's famous criticism of this poem, which appeared in the Saturday issue of the Spectator from January 5 to May 3, 1712, was written before Milton had come into his kingdom.
23. the following lines. Paradise Lost, x. 888-908.