3 "Bravery"; magnificence or excellence. "Like a stately ship, with all her bravery on, and tackle trim, sails filled," &c.—Samson Agonistes.—Ed.
4 "Bodily pains"; bodily industry or painstaking.—Ed.
5 "Winch"; to wince or kick with impatience. "Shuck"; to shrug up the shoulders, expressive of dislike or aversion.—Ed.
6 "Much"; in a great degree.
7 "Will they, nill they"; nillan, a Saxon word, meaning "not will" or contrary to the will—whether with or against their will. "Need hath no law; will I, or nill I, it must be done."—Damon and Pathias, 1571.
"If now to man and wife to will and nill The self-same thing, a note of concord be, I know no couple better can agree."—Ben Johnson.—Ed.
8 How little do persecutors imagine that they are mere tools for the devil to work with, whether they are harassing Christians by taking their goods, or are hunting down their liberties or lives. All works together for good to the Christian, but for unutterable woe to the persecutor. God give them repentance.—Ed.
9 Wicked men sell themselves to do the devil's work. How degrading to the dignity of man! Enlisting under a foreign prince to destroy their own nation, and in so doing to destroy themselves. For an account of the atrocities and horrors of this war, read the history of the Waldenses.—Ed.
10 This frequently happened. In Bedford, Nic. Hawkins attended a meeting, and was fined two pounds; but when the harpies went to take away his goods, finding that "they had been removed beforehand, and his house visited with the small pox, the officers declined entering."—Persecution in Bedford, 1670, p. 6.—Ed.
11 "Dispose"; power, disposal. "All that is mine, I leave at thy dispose."—Shakespeare.—Ed.