Cleveland seems to have tried in this piece to equal the mystery of the title of 'Smec' by his own matter, and to have succeeded very fairly.
54 1677, &c. 'shall be'. 'at th'' 1647, 1677: 'at the' 1651, 1653.
55 cooped] cooked 1647, 1651.
56 1677, &c. 'the name'.
57 An absurd, but doubtless in the circumstances dangerous, document of the kind was actually disseminated, in which the prentices bold engaged 'to defend his Sacred Majesty against Popish innovations such as archbishops and bishops appear to be'.
63 carrot-bunch] Cant for 'fingers'.
70 'pay' 1653, 1677: 'pays' 1647, 1651. 1677 'and use'.
75 'Banns' 1677: 'Banes' in earlier texts. 1653 'time'.
78 The Convocation which had been guilty of '&c.', and the Commons who mostly sympathized with 'Smec'.
79 foxes' tails] As at Samson's marriage (Judges xv. 4-7.)