7. These lines, and those on the next page, 'The eye's the light o' th' body,' remind one of Bunyan's style in his Apology for the Pilgrim's Progress,—
'Dost thou love picking meat? Or would'st thou see A man i' th' clouds, and hear him speak to thee?'—Ed.
8. A cover, a booth, bower, or hut made of the boughs of trees.—Ed.
9. 'He owes,' a contraction for 'he owneth.'—Ed.
10. The word translated 'divine,' means to eye subtly, to search, to try. Verse 5 may be rendered, 'And he will search deeply for it'; and in verse 15, 'Know ye not that a man like me would search deeply,' alluding to the certainty of detection, but not by divination.—Ed.
11. 'So naught,' so corrupt, bad, or worthless.—Ed.
12. The mourning of Egypt.—Ed.
13. By a typographical error, in the original edition, it is misprinted CHAP. XLVI.
14. How admirably does Bunyan enlarge upon this in his 'Peaceable principles yet true.'
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