[114] Were.
[115] As if.
[116] Magpie.
[117] This word is from the same root as "lamp." The old form "lanthorn" crept in from the custom of making the sides of a lantern of horn.
[118] Supply "be."
[119] Inclination.
[120] In expectation of the time when.
[121] Their being checked.
[122] This paragraph could hardly have been more clumsily expressed. It will be found a useful exercise to rewrite it.
[123] "To have gone," i.e., to go.