53 Here] Then 1647, 1651, 1653. God's diggers] = nails or fingers. Commoner in the corruption 'Ods niggers'.
54 'in words at large' 1647 ('at length', one issue of 1647): 'at words in large' 1651, 1653: 'in words at length, and not in figures' MS.
58 Edd. 'Cataline', as usual, but 1677 'Catiline'. 'He swears he'll be the Synod's' MS.
59 'Thus they drink on, not offering to depart' MS.
60 1677 omits 'quite'—no doubt for the old syllabic reason. MS. substitutes 'fully'.
62 Perhaps nowhere is the comic surprise of the symbol more wanted than here, and more of a loss when that symbol is extended.
Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines.
Smectymnuus! The goblin makes me start!
I' th' name of Rabbi Abraham, what art?