[Footnote 6:
(And at this just conclusion will surely arrive,
That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive.)]
[Footnote 7:
Not forgetting their tea and their toast, though, the while.]
[Footnote 8:
Turn back now to page—goodness only knows what,
And take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot.]
[Footnote 9: The reader curious in such matters may refer (if he can
find them) to A sermon preached on the Anniversary of the Dark Day, An
Artillery Election Sermon, A Discourse on the Late Eclipse, Dorcas, A
Funeral Sermon on the Death of Madam Submit Tidd, Relict of the late
Experience Tidd, Esq., &c., &c.]
[Footnote 10: Aut insanit, aut versos facit.
—H.W.]
[Footnote 11: In relation to this expression, I cannot but think that Mr. Biglow has been too hasty in attributing it to me. Though Time be a comparatively innocent personage to swear by, and though Longinus in his discourse [Greek: Peri 'Upsous] have commended timely oaths as not only a useful but sublime figure of speech, yet I have always kept my lips free from that abomination. Odi profanum vulgus, I hate your swearing and hectoring fellows.—H.W.]
[Footnote 12: i hait the Site of a feller with a muskit as I du pizn But their is fun to a cornwallis I aint agoin' to deny it.—H.B.]
[Footnote 13: he means Not quite so fur I guess.—H.B.]
[Footnote 14: the ignerant creeter means Sekketary; but he ollers stuck to his books like cobbler's wax to an ile-stone.—H.B.]
[Footnote 15: it must be aloud that thare's a streak of nater in lovin' sho, but it sartinly is 1 of the curusest things in nater to see a rispecktable dri goods dealer (deekon off a chutch maybe) a riggin' himself out in the Weigh they du and struttin' round in the Reign aspilin' his trowsis and makin' wet goods of himself. Ef any thin's foolisher and moor dicklus than militerry gloary it is milishy gloary.—H.B.]