g is a fairly recent (mid 19th century)
imposition, probably coinciding with the various Public Education
Acts. Some spellings may be left over from Middle English, e.g. 'sily'
from 'sely', dialect 'seely', from OE 'saelig' (luck, happiness); thus
'sily' (p. 58) may have meant 'lucky' or 'happy' instead of the modern
'silly'. Or 'sily' may be our modern 'silly', with an undoubled middle
consonant.

Damaged or missing punctuation has been repaired and sundry indents
have been adjusted for consistency.

Errata

Page 96: 'VVidow' corrected to 'Widow'. (Possibly a printer's
error....). ... "Which way to take the Widow Brown,"

Page 103: 'do' corrected to 'to': "They'll hourly study to deceive,"

Page 107: 'VVho' corrected to 'Who': "Who dare not their Grief
declare," (... or maybe the printer was short of 'W's).

Sundry other instances of 'VV' have been corrected to 'W'.

Page 131: 'Ny' corrected to 'My': "My Nose takes the burthen...."

Page 161: 'MORTAL's' corrected to 'MORTALs': "Mortals learn your Lives
to measure,"

Page 238: 'maguanime' corrected to 'magnanime': "Sat notus pro
magnanime"

Page 312: missing 'I' added to last line to complete rhyme: "And
Priest and Victim I."

Page 316: 'I'ye' corrected to "I've": "I've lost a Harry Groat,"

[Note: Harry was King Henry; a groat was an old English silver
coin, first coined by Henry III in 1249, and by Edward III in
1351. Originally worth one penny, it later rose to the value
of fourpence. The groat was revived between 1836 and 1856,
and withdrawn from circulation in 1887 (from Collins New Age
Encyclopedia, 1963)].

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