[12] Worthless persons.
[13] Smothered.
[14] Put the barnacles on you, as on a restive horse.
[15] So the "Calendar," but Chalmers, in quoting, reads, probably correctly, "stomach."
[16] Word illegible.
[17] It was a mediæval superstition, especially in France, that the English possessed tails, which had been affixed to their persons as a punishment for their ill-treatment of a saint; the names of St. Augustine and St. Thomas of Canterbury were used indifferently in this connection. Cf. Mr. George Neilson's "Caudatus Anglicus: A Mediæval Slander."
[18] German. Black Riders, or heavy cavalry.
[19] Ps. xliii. 1.
E. = English; F.= Published French; L. = Latin.
[20] E. "Considering what the body may without heart, which was cause ... that till dinner I had used little talk." So also French, but Latin as in Scots.