45 high-shoes] Country folk in boots.
termly] = 'when they came up to business'.
51 Crawford] Ludovic, sixteenth Earl, who fought bravely all through the Rebellion, served after the downfall in France and Spain, and died, it is not accurately known when or where, but about 1652.
52 A fine line. 1677 does not improve it by reading 'their land'.
63-4 The central and most often quoted couplet.
65-6 follow 70 in the MS.
67 at rovers] Common for shooting not at a definite mark, but at large.
70 epidemical] In the proper sense of 'travelling from country to country', not doubtless without the transferred one of a 'travelling plague'.
74 States] not the Provinces; but the representative Hogan Mogans themselves.
78 'Ostrich' in 1677: 1647, 1651, and 1653 the older 'estrich'.