9 forty pound] Still the regular doctorate fee, though relatively three or four times heavier then than now.
10 stammel] Properly a stuff; but, as generally or often red in colour, the colour itself.
11 I am not certain of the meaning of this line though I could conjecture.
13 nor t'other for speeches] MS. 'that for his breeches'.
15 1677 inserts 'the' before 'teaching', but the absence of the article is much more characteristic.
18 The 'Vindicators', in the new bondage of grammar, 'come'.
Placets] both MSS.: places 1653: placers 1677. 'Placets', evidently right, would baffle a non-university printer; probably the editors of 1677 attempted to correct it, but were again baffled by the printer.
22 1677 'they do not come up'—a natural but unnecessary patching of the line.
23 old] 1677 own—less well, I think.
Both MSS. read in ll. 22-3: