[24] Denial.
[25] The civil war between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, 1642-51.
[26] Whom.
[27] This argument is neatly introduced to account for the narrator's staying in the city at all, when he could easily have escaped.
[28] Explained by the two following phrases.
[29] Whom.
[30] "Lay close to me," i.e., was constantly in my mind.
[31] Kept safe from the plague.
[32] "My times are in thy hand" (Ps. xxxi. 15).
[33] Dorking is about twenty miles southwest of London.