5. setting dog. Setter.
made. Trained.
10. humours. Pleasantries.
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4. played with it. Now played it.
9. quail-pipe. A pipe with which quails are lured to the nets.
26. humour. Whim, notion. Cf. Shakespeare, I Henry IV, III. i. 237, 'You are altogether governed by humours.'
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4. turned. Adapted.
8. my twenty-first speculation argues that it is better for a man to go into trade than to enter an over-crowded profession, and reproves 'parents who will not rather choose to place their sons in a way of life where an honest industry cannot but thrive, than in stations where the greatest probity, learning, and good sense may miscarry.'