[13] This word, with pismire and emmet, has become obsolete. 'Ant' is the term now universally used.—Ed.
[14] See Psalm 84:3; Leviticus 11:16; Numbers 20.
[15] A machine used in the manufacture of cloth, on which it is stretched.—Ed.
[16] Spiders being venomous was a vulgar error, universally believed, until modern discoveries have proved the contrary, excepting a few foreign species.—Ed.
[17] This is a scriptural idea of the inhabitants of heaven. Revelation 11:8, saints 'small and great.' Matthew 19:28: 'The Son of man on his throne, and the twelve apostles on their thrones.' Revelation 4:10: 'Four and twenty elders on their thrones.' Revelation 5:11: 'An innumerable company of worshippers.'—Ed.
[18] In an ancient battledore or horn-book, and in one of Henry VIII's primers, both in the editor's possession, this sentence is translated—'And let us not be led into temptation.'—Ed.
[19] When divine light first dawns upon the soul, and reveals sin, O how difficult is it to conclude that sin is pardoned, and the sinner blest!—Ed.
[20] The swallow is remarkably swift in flight; 'their note is a slight twittering, which they seldom if ever exert but upon the wing.'—Goldsmith's Natural History.—Ed.
[21] 'Be in print'; a proverbial expression, to show order and regularity; like type in print.—Ed.
[22] 'Ley'; barren or fallow, uncultivated, generally spelt lea.—Ed.