[185] Construe.
[186] i.e. Bourgeois knights dubbed for civil, not for martial, honours.
[187] i.e. I long.
[188] When he may rob under protection. Barn is a corruption of baron, and in law a wife is said to be under covert baron, being sheltered by marriage under her husband.—Dyce.
[189] Hat.
[190] Handsomest.
[191] See note ante, p. [114].
[192] Simpletons.
[193] Easily, readily.
[194] The siege of Ostend was protracted for three years and ten weeks.—The place was eventually captured by the Marquis of Spinola on Sep. 8, 1604.