[12] The rod, made of a willow-wand.
[13] Old copy, how.
[14] [Old copies, laid.]
[15] [A quotation.]
[16] Christ-cross, the alphabet.
[17] [The sense appears to be, for this not being perfect poison, as his (the pedant's) meaning is to poison himself, some covetous slave will sell him real poison.]
[18] [Old copies, seem'd.]
[19] [Old copies, First.]
[20] [Massinger, in his "City Madam," 1658, uses this word in the sense of above the law. Perhaps Young Arthur may intend to distinguish between a civil and religious contract.]
[21] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 90.]