[182] Years must be read yearës.
[183] This is not a name of syphilis, but a comparison only of it to a mole, on account of the effects it sometimes produces in occasioning the loss of hair.—Pegge.
[184] Disembowelled.
[185] She means from the highest to the lowest of her sex. At this time women of the inferior order wore hats. See Hollar's Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus, 1640.—Hazlitt.
[186] "Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride a gallop."
[187] That part of a ring in which the stone is set.
[188] Old copy, "Met."
[189] Bonds.
[190] i.e. Sand it, to prevent it from blotting, while the ink was wet.—Steevens.
[191] i.e. Embrace.