12. sits. Couches in her form or seat.
18. Doctor Sydenham, the celebrated physician, who died in 1689.
22. Medicina Gymnastica, by Francis Fuller, was printed in 1705.
24. dumb bell. An apparatus resembling that used for ringing a church bell, but wanting the bell itself. The use of the modern form of dumb-bell was introduced into England in Elizabeth's reign. It is described in the next paragraph under the name of skiomachia.
33. a Latin treatise. Artis Gymnastica apud Antiquos, by Hieronymus Mercurialis, 1569.
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2. loaden. The verb has now become weak; loaded.
9. uneasy. Troublesome.
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