[144] They could no longer give them regular funerals, but had to bury them promiscuously in pits.
[145] Evidently a repetition.
[146] In old and middle English two negatives did not make an affirmative, as they do in modern English.
[147] It is now well known that rue has no qualities that are useful for warding off contagion.
[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.