Note 1. Except, only. This, now a Northern provincialism, is an archaism at least as old as the fourteenth century.
Note 2. Nevertheless. This strictly Lancastrian provincialism is supposed to be a corruption of “choose how.” Its exact pronunciation can hardly be put into English letters.
Note 3. This was a revival; for “persille” is found on the Rolls of Edward II.
Note 4. This is the computation of Sir Edward Coke in his opening speech at the trial of the Gunpowder conspirators.
Note 5. The little manuscript volume wherein this is inscribed, which is in my own possession, consists of sermons—not very legible, and mostly very dry by the Rev. Thomas Stone, their dates ranging from 1622 to 1666, with a few occasional memoranda interspersed.
Chapter Four.
We get into bad Company.
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the fly:
“’Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.”