Chapter XXXIV: Part 34

_Bulbeggers_, _B_ 2. Terrifying goblins. I see no difficulty in the
derivation from _Bul_, a bull, or bull’s face, it being terrifying
enough, especially when, enraged or mad, it is directly opposed to
you; and a bulbegger is an over-bold beggar, etc.

_Bum card._ I believe a card slightly longer or wider than the
rest, so that the trickster, etc., may distinguish it.

_Bum leaf._ A leaf similarly distinguished.

_By and by_, 460. Immediately. Elsewhere he thus translates Wier’s
“mox” and “statim”.

C.

_Carter_, 478. Used, as in “carter’s logic”, for a dull-witted
ignoramus, much in the sense in which we depreciatingly use
costermonger. Carter’s logic is not the logic of physical
persuasion, but the ergo of the first gravedigger in _Hamlet_.

_Castrell_, 302. Kestrel, Tinunculus. The hovering hawk, a wild
kind not tamable, that frightens other hawks (possibly by its loud,
ringing voice), and whose effigy was placed near doves, etc., to
deter other hawks. Hence, probably, arose the fable spoken of in
the text.

_Cautelousness_, 469. Artful caution.

_Censure_, _A_ viii. Sentence, or judgment.

_Chapman_, 485. Generally the seller, but also, as here, the buyer;
he that chaps or cheapens.

_Choine cough_, 211. Chin-cough, the hooping-cough.

_Choler_, 205. One of the supposed four humours. The compound
humour generated in the liver was divided into two parts, one going
to the blood, the other to the gall, as this choler or bile. It
differed from melancholy, or black bile, for the reservoir of this
was the spleen. Cf. _Batman on Barth._, iv, 10, and v, 39.

_Circumstance_, 24. Elsewhere, as 75, used for round-about or
superfluous means. Here it has a greater ill-meaning—a round-about
statement that would evade declaring the truth.

_Clam_, 208. To stick on; various dialects.

_Claweth_, 67. Scratcheth (where he itcheth), pleaseth, and
therefore flattereth. Cf. the proverb, “Claw me, claw thee”, or “K.
me, K. thee”, a polite abbreviation, which, I think, betokens the
odious origin of the phrase.

_Clubhutchins_, 372. Old Kentish, now, I believe, almost obsolete,
for a plain, rough countryman.

_Coate card_, 335. Our court card.

_Cold prophet_, _B_ ii. v. 170. One whose prophecies are far from
the mark, just as children at play are hot or cold, when near or
far from the thing sought. Others say that cold, as in Chaucer =
col.

_Commend_, 134. Commit to, in the sense of giving, entrusting, or
setting forth for his examination. Latinate.

_Complexion_, 461. The four complexions or dispositions were
supposed to be due to the excess of (1) blood, (2) phlegm, (3)
choler, (4) melancholy. Here it is used more generally for
disposition.

_Compline_, 393. Part of the Romish even-song (Cotgrave), which,
said just after sunset, completes the offices of the day.

_Conceipts_, 326. Merry or strange tricks.

_Cone_, 227. I found, I forget where, “to cone findere”, hence
marginal note.

_Confirmed_, 429. Apparently “made firm”; placed or stationed
together, each in his fixed place.

_Constellation._ Is sometimes used in old books, seemingly as
denoting the co-ordination or coposition of the heavenly bodies
(as regards one another) at any particular time. It was from these
constellations that nativities were calculated.

_Constreineth._ In its primary or literal sense of drawn together.

_Contagion of weather_, 269. For = against.

_Convenient (with)._ Coming together with, agreeing with.

_Convented_, 16. Brought together with (_i.e._, before) the judge,
or other.

_Convinced_, 70, 131. Overcome.

_Corrupt_, 16. Corrupted; the “ed” being assimilated by, or made to
coalesce with, the “t”. Cf. note, p. 441.

_Countrie_, _A_ iiii. Used, as occasionally then, for county.

_Cousen_, _A_ vii. v. Used then as a term implying relationship of
any kind, or simply between royal personages as a term of courtesy
and friendliness.

_Credit_, 498. Belief; we should say crediting, etc.

_Croslet_, 357. A crucible.

_Crosse of a coin_, 388. The reverse bore a cross. Now called the
tail in “heads or tails”.

_Curious_, 333. As frequently in those days, “curiosus”, full of
care, careful; those who would inquire carefully or curiously into
the matter.

_Cushion, missed the_, 490. Nares says it evidently alludes to
archery: an unsupported guess, and not, I think, a probable one.
More likely the reference is to some game, such as a variant of
stool ball, or possibly to the cushion dance. Or it may simply mean
missed his seat.

D.

_Dangerous of_, 146. Fearful of [showing], or, as some say it is in
Chaucer, shy.

_Detected_, 27. Uncovered.

_Determination_, 153. Termination, or ending.

_Detracting_, 94. Drawing out, spinning out.

_Dilection._ A choosing, preferring, loving.

_Diriges_, 439. Dirges; a word derived from the Latin _dirige_.

_Disagreeable to_, 98. Disagreeing with, differing from.

_Dish, laid in my_, 130. For me to chew upon.

_Dismembred_, 313. There being no talk of the members of an animal
being taken away, I take it that he means diversely membered from
what it was naturally, as was the serpent with “manie legs”.

_Dizzards_, 291. Evidently fool or blockhead. That it was a name
for the vice or fool of a play is by no means a proof of its prater
or diseur origin, for he was not so much a prater as a funny lout
who bore himself apishly, and “moved his body as him list”. Rather
cognate to dizzy.

_Donee_, 148. Noted as an early use of the word.

_Doubt in_, 482; _doubted_, 6. Two excellent examples of the then
frequent use of these words for fear and feared.

_Duplex s. s._, 282. Should have been duplicis, but the writer
probably thought that this would be liable to a misrendering.
S[piritus] S[ancti] is of course meant.

E.

_Eager_, 249. Sour; French, _aigre_, as in vinegar.

_Earnest pennie_, 542. The small sum given as part payment in
earnest that, or as assurance that, the bargain had been made.

_Embossed_, 316. [Spoken of glasses in “perspective” devices.]
Convex (?).

_Enabled_, 164. Made able, strengthened.

_Eversed_, 316. [As under _Embossed_.] Possibly concave (?).

_Exchange_, 218. To change or transform.

_Excourse_, 43. Lat. _excursus_, outgoing.

_Expend_, 444. Hang, or rather weigh out.

_Experiment_, 82. Trial, or mode of proof; the verb is similarly
used.

_Exsufflation_, 440. In Roman Catholic baptism the devil is
rejected by exsufflando (blowing him away) and by abrenunciation
(the renouncing) of him and his works.

_Extermination_, 485. A driving out beyond the boundary or terminus.

_Eybitten_, 64. “Master Scot in his _Discovery_ telleth us,
That our English people in Ireland, whose posterity were lately
barbarously cut off, were much given to this Idolatry in the
Queen’s time, insomuch that there being a Disease amongst their
Cattel that grew blind, being a common Disease in that Country,
they did commonly execute people for it, calling them eye biting
witches” (_A Candle in the Dark_, by Th. Ady, M.A., 1656, p. 104).
Scot did not tell him this, but the explanation prevents erroneous
guesses.

F.

_Fautor_, 528. (Lat.) Favourer, supporter.

_Fetches_, 110. Devices, ruses, trickeries.

_Fitten_, 538. Make fit.

_Flawed_, 57. Flayed.

_Foine_, 257. A rapier, or, more generally, the thrust (or parry)
made by a rapier. But see note on passage.

_Fond_, 204. Foolish, as commonly then.

_Footed_, 340. A rather awkward way of describing a box with two
covers (opposite one another) and double-bottomed.

_Foreslowed_, 365. Slowed overmuch, _i.e._, omitted at times. So
we have other words in fore—foregrown, etc. _Forespoken_, has been
said to be a compound of our fore, meaning bespeak or predict
(Rich.). But it is not to predict, but to do. Hence, I rather take
it as equal to speak over-much against, _i.e._, bewitch.

_Frote_ (A. N.). To rub.

G.

_Gissard_, 528. A goose-herd.

_Graffing_, 290. A form, an older form, of “grafting”, and so the
verb graff.

_Griphes_, 202. Vultures here, though in some authors it is the
griffin or dragon.

_Gudgins_, 257. Gudgeons. This fish is a bait, and is easily
caught. From this latter circumstance it is here, as frequently,
and as in Shakespeare, used for a fool.

H.

_Hagging, went to_, 25. I suppose went to perform her part or duty
as a witch. From hag-ridden, hag-tracks, and hag-worn, hag seems to
have been used as a synonyme for wicked or witch.

_Haggister_, 82. Kentish for the magpie.

_Hailed_, 196. Haled, hauled.

_Hair, against the_, 9. Contrary to the inclination, a phrase which
might readily be drawn as to other animals, but which, I think,
arose from dressing a horse.

_Hair, hang her up by the_, 257. Seems from the word “utterly” to
have been used metaphorically for make away with. Perhaps because
Absalom was, and is popularly supposed to have so died; or possibly
from this it was a civiller synonyme for being hung.

_Hallowe_, 316. Hollow.

_Handle_, 368. Used in one instance for to go about, or carry on,
in a good sense; in the second, as to make a passive instrument of,
as the monkey when he used the cat’s paw for the hot chestnuts.

_Heeles, by the_, 65. Arrested and confined him, because offenders
were often put for safety into the stocks.

_Hickot_, 242. Hiccough.

_Ho_, 501. Our “woa”.

_Honestie_, 81. Chastity. Frequently used of mental as well as
bodily chastity. We still speak in this sense of an “honest woman”.

_Hot_, 255. Preterite of hit. An old, and also frequent, Kentish
form of the past in many verbs.

_Houseled, be_, 265. Receive the Eucharist.

_Hugger mugger_, 433. An early example, explained by “secretlie”;
but it also means, I think, as a consequence of the secrecy, in a
hurried, tumbling, indecorous fashion.

_Hundreth_, 338. A then common variant for hundred.

I.

_Idol_, 390. Ειδωλον, similitude.

_Illuded_, 69. Cozened, deceived.

_Impugnable_, 492. Not able to be imposed. This ——able form not in
our dictionaries.

_Incestuous_, 124. In Latinate sense, full of pollution.

_Indifferent_ (freq.). Impartial.

_Infirnalles_, 426. Used as _s._

_Insensible_, 216. Without sense or meaning.

_Intend_, 430. Attend.

_Intermedled_, 490. Intermingled.

_Intricate_, Entangle.

_Inversed_, 316. Qy., inverted or turned upside down. But several
of these terms I cannot explain.

_Irremissable_, 70. Not able to be sent away, remitted or forgiven.

J.

_Jamme_ (of a window), 91. The jamb, supporter, or side-post of,
here, a window.

_Jetting, a_, 265. Jet, to fling, strut, etc., from the Fr.
_jeter_, and though I have not found a similar phrase, it seems
here used in the sense of having a fling, or a spree.

_John, Sir_, 265. Cf. note.

_Jollie_, 197, 273. We find its use in Scot, explaining, as it
were, how the French _joli_, pretty, became our jolly, as in the
phrase, “a pretty fellow”. Sometimes, as in the last phrase, it
seems to have a somewhat lowering sense. In 273 he seems called
jollie because he drank.

_Jumpe with_, 492. Equally or exactly with.

_Jurat_, 258. One sworn to administer justice, a magistrate or
sheriff.

K.

_Knable_, 346. To nibble.

L.

_Lane_, 340, 357. From the latter reference I gather that it =
layer.

_Lapidaries_, 295. Early use.

_Learne a lewd man_, 359. Chaucer, to teach.

_Leaze_ (asses), 264. Sense pretty evident, but I know not the
word. Qy., same as lees, or leese, losings or leavings.

_Lewd_, _Lewdness_, 19, 358, 359, (Chaucer) 8, etc. Sometimes
ignorant; sometimes in a similar sense as lay, opposed to clerkly
or learned; sometimes wicked or nefarious. Lewdness, in 8, seems to
equal uselessness, or doing nothing for their living.

_Limitors_, 88. Chaucer, Begging friars, because their limits were
appointed.

_Loose_, _lose_. These spellings are used interchangeably in this
work, but, I think, are spelled the more frequently as they now
are. Cf. _Than_ and _Then_. _Naught_ and _Nought_.

M.

_Martinists._ Those who followed Martin Mar-Prelate.

_Masse cake_, 270. As shown by Wier, the Roman Catholic wafer used
in the celebration of the mass.

_Meane stuff_, 499. Not mean in our sense, but middle or midway, as
explained in the line before. Sacrifices of frankincense are a mean
between sacrifices of the mind and those of cattell. So mean sense,
60, is used for ordinary or middling sense.

_Meere_, _A_ ii. v. Unmixed, therefore pure.

_Melancholie._ See note, p. 182.

_Mends_, 373. Our ’mends, or amends, or rather requital.

_Merchant_, B ii, 368. Dealer or go-between, without reference to
commodities or goods.

_Miser_, 160 (bis). Latinate, a wretched one.

_Moralitie_, 308. The underlying meaning, as in the Moralities.

_Morrowmasse_, 232. See note.

N.

_Nall, a_, 335. An awl.

_Nameles finger_, 273. See note.

_Namelie._ By name, and therefore especially.

_Naught_ and _Nought_. Either is spelled as itself or as the other.

_Neezing_, 201. Sneezing.

_Nephue_, 557. This use of nephew as grandson was then the rule,
just as was the French _neveu_, and the Latin _nepos_. Cf. Minsheu,
Cotgrave, Baret, etc. Grand-child is used by Cotgrave, but hardly
appears to have been in use. Sh. uses grandam, etc., tolerably
frequently, but grand-child only once, in _Coriolanus_, and
grandson, etc., never.

_Netherstocke_, 84. Stocking.

O.

_Obeie_, _s._, 380.

_Obscure_, 380. “Leone obscurior & turpis”, Wier; _i.e._, he
appears _specie angelica_, but not white, but darker than a lion,
and filthy.

_Occupy_, 77; _——ied_, 415. See note.

_Onely_, 114. A good example of the position then commonly given to
the word in a sentence. He does not mean that this is the only work
of God, but the work of God only.

_Orient_, 297. This word was then oddly used. An orient pearl was
so called by the Romans because it was large, and large pearls
generally came from the East. So here, easterly seems to be used as
an equivalent for hot. The eastern regions being in his astronomy
nearer the sun’s rising, they were hotter,—a false explanation of a
true fact.

_Orizons_, 41. Orisons.

_Other._ Frequently here, as contemporarily, used for others.

_Overtaken_, 324. Here, surprised. But in another passage it is
deceived.

P.

_Pack_, 339. Agreement, and though not a mere variant of it, pact.

_Paire of cards_, 335. Our pack. So a pair-royal is composed of
three aces, kings, etc.

_Palme_, 268. See note.

_Passible_, 496. Passable, able to pass away, temporary.

_Peevishness_, 483. Foolishness. Greene seems sometimes to use the
adjective for perverse or rascally, _Planetomachia_, 40, 22—95, 18,
etc., ed. Grosart.

_Perbreake_, 310, or _Parbreak_. Vomit.

_Perceived_, 131. Seen through, truly understood.

_Periapts_, 230. Cf. text. Περιαπτω, I bind, wrap around, attach to.

_Perish_, 407. Causal sense, make to perish.

_Perspective_, 315, etc. Not our perspective, but the arrangement
of glasses and mirrors so as to show other things than you expect
to see, etc.

_Perspicuous_, _A_ v. Perspicacious.

_Philosophie, did_, 454. See note.

_Pile_, 385. Pile and crosse = our heads and tails.

_Pioners._ Diggers. The word is now confined to military diggers.

_Pitie_, 369. Verb used in causal sense.

_Plashes, water_, 64. Pools, puddles.

_Plumme_, 238. Was this word then used in this way? Scot was not
too squeamish. Cf. “etish”, p. 246, etc.

_Podware_, 223. Agricultural produce producing pods.

_Points_, 341. Tags or tying laces.

_Pollusions_, 447. Pollutions.

_Practive_, 326, marg. Able to practise readily, practised.

_Pregnancy_, 358. Ability to conceive or understand.

_Pregnant_, 75. Able to become pregnant.

_Prelacies_, 390. Wier’s _prælaturæ_ seems to have been used by him
generally, but Du Cange makes it specific as the office of a dean,
and Holyokes Rider as that of an archdeacon.

_Present_, 238. Immediate.

_Prest, in_, 360. In readiness, therefore in loan, in advance.

_Pretended_, 474. Latinate, set forth. Under 20 this is its main
meaning, but the sentence shows how it came to mean our pretend.

_Prevent_, 417. Latinate, come or go before. Its lapse into our
sense is well shown in 30.

_Progeny_, 32. Offspring. Noted because Shakespeare and others
sometimes used it as progenitors.

_Proposeth_, 361. Setteth forth.

_Proprieties_, 210, 303. Properties. So _Trevisa on Barthol._ 1379
(t. page, I think).

_Prove_, 255. _Proved_, 21. Try, attempt.

_Purchase_, 430. Obtain. The same usage (found in other authors)
shows that the thieves’ cant ridiculed in Shakespeare was but an
appropriation of this.

Q.

_Question be made_, 25. Torture applied.

_Quezie_, 239. Squeamish, apt to vomit.

_Quick_, 415. Live, springing, running.

R.

_Rank_, 279. Thick, full, abundantly fertile.

_Rath_, 441, Early.

_Reall_, sometimes = _Royal_.

_Recount_, 170. Qy., to say (or esteem), in reference to the
spelling, etc.; or is it equal to account?

_Recreations_, 93. Re-creations, creations over again.

_Reere banquet_, 66 = a rere-supper, or eating and drinking after
supper.

_Regiment_, 378. Rule, as often then.

_Remorse_, 171. Pity, as often then.

_Remove_, 242. Used as our move, the joint being looked on as
passive, and different from the moving power.

_Resiant_, 476. Fr. _reseant_, resident, Cotgrave, who gives also
the Engl. resiant.

_Resistance_, 445. Not resistance of or from, but resistance [to
God] proceeding from, or belonging to, spirituall iniquitie.

_Rest_, 344. Remain, but here unusually used.

_Rish_, 341. Rush.

_Roome, made_, 275. Made way, _i.e._, gave opportunity.

S.

_Saccaring_, etc., 95. Sacring, consecrating. The sacring bell is
the bell rung at the time of consecrating and elevating the host.

_Safeguard_, 51. A skirt or outside petticoat worn when riding.

_Scantling_, 358. Dimension. Nautical; is properly dimensions of
timber when reduced to its proper size, but sometimes the piece so
reduced.

_Scot free_, 71. Primarily, free from charge; secondarily, from
punishment.

_Seelie_, 35. Harmless, thence simple.

_Severall_, 527. Separate.

_Shepens_, 88. Stalls for cows. Some say also for sheep.

_Shouldered_, _A_ vi. v. Here, supported, as when one shoulders
another for that purpose.

_Shrewdly_, 79. Maliciously or keenly.

_Sinewes_, 47, 241. Probably from the want of knowledge of anatomy,
this was used both for our sinews, but more generally, I think,
for nerves. We find it, certainly in this, and, I think, in both
senses, in Batman, or rather _Trevisa upon Barth._, and for nerves
in medical writers, as in Boord, and in the translation of Vigo. In
248, where “marrow” precedes, it is most probably = nerves. Wier in
the same passage has “a nervis”.

_Sir John_, 265, etc. See note.

_Sithens_, 458. Since.

_Skils not, it_, 335. It matters not.

_So._ Frequently used where we use as.

_Sock a corpse_, 42, 124. To sew a corpse in its winding sheet.
Kentish.

_Sort_, 374. Set, or company.

_Spie him_, 46. Spy him out.

_Spoil a witch_, 269. Injure a witch.

_Square_, 410. Used for an unequal-sided parallelogram ▯.

_Sterne_, _A_ iii. Used, as not unfrequently then, for helm.

_Sterven._ Punished by any means, though not intentionally killed.
_Starved up_, 124, is used for starved to death.

_Straught_, 144. Our distraught.

_Strumpet_, 145. Used as a term of reproach without reference to
its sexual sense. So he uses incestuous.

_Success_, 196, 197, 272. Event or sequel, whether bad or good.
Hence we still speak of “good success”.

_Suffocate_, 223. Qy., to choke with weeds.

_Suffrages_, 434, 444. Du Cange (8). Prayers by which the help of
God is implored.

T.

_Temper with them_, 20. May be variant or error for tamper; may
perhaps be our temper them, work them up fittingly, etc.

_Temporall_, _B_ v. Carnally or materially bodied.

_Tester_, or _Testor_, 340. Sixpence.

_Testifie_, 374. Not to testifie to, but to make themselves
witnesses of.

_Than_, _then_. See note, p. 158.

_Therefore_, 528. On that account, or for that thing.

_Thomas_, 233. Anyone, as John, or N. or M.

_Thropes_, 88. Thorps or villages.

_Travel_, _A_ ii. Travel and travail were both so spelled.

_Treene_, _A_ vi. Tree-en, wooden.

_Trench master._ He—says G. Markham, _Soldier’s Grammar_, p.
128—“hath command over all the pyoners ... and by his [the master
general of the ordnance] directions seeth all manner of trenches
cast up, whether it be for guard and inclosing of the campe, or for
other particular annoyance to the enemye, or for the building of
sconces or other defence or offence, as directions shall be given.”
Grose, _Mil. Antiq._, i, 223-4, who adds, “This officer seems
sometimes to have been stiled Devisour of the fortifications to be
made.”

_Tried_, 66, 211, 453. Proved, as gold is tried by touchstone, etc.

_Trish trash_, 523. A reduplicate, and therefore emphatic, form.

_Tuition_, 415. Defence. Lat. _tuere_.

_Turbinall_, 316. Qy., top-shaped, from Lat. _turbo_.

U.

_Undermeales_, 88. Intermediate meals after dinner, and thence, as
here = in the afternoon.

_Unproper_, 371.

_Untame_, 252.

V.

_Vade_, 169. Used contemporarily as fade, but generally as a
strengthened or more emphatic form, as shown here by “utterly
wither”.

_Valure_, 130. Valour.

_Virtutes._ Virtues, _i.e._, the order of angels so called. Pl. of
Lat. _virtus_.

_Void_ = Avoid, and so Trevisa, 1397.

W.

_Wag_, 324. Probably used in an ill sense, as a chatterer who makes
himself conspicuous by his interference.

_Wax_, 249. To increase and thence to grow, and to grow or become,
whether the growth be increase or not.

_Wealth_, _A_ iii. Weal.

_Wheeking_, 301. An onomatopæic word.

_Where_, 429. Whether.

_Whereas_, 419. Whereat, at which.

_Whitmeats_, 281. Milk-whitepots, custards, cheese-cakes, butter,
cheese (Bailey). In fact, any thing or any dish made of milk.
_Lactucaria_ (Th. Cooper, Holyokes Rider).

_Wist, had I_, 374. See note.

_Witch._ Used by Scot and others for both wizards and witches,
though the former word was known in English in 1582 (_Witches at
St. Osees_, by W. W.). So used till at least 1670.

_Witchmonger._ (_a_) Those who dealt with witches, as with wise
women. (_b_) Those who sought them out for punishment.

_Wreath_, 225. Translation of Lat. _vertere_, to wrest or twist
violently.

_Wrote_, 199. Wrought.

X.

_Xenophilus_, 378. Wier’s Zenophilus. A friend suggests same as
φιλοξενος, a friend to strangers, hospitable. The difficulty is,
what is such a one’s outwardly distinctive form?

Y.

_Yaw_, 228. To go, or stray, out of their course. Now nautical only.

_Yer_, _A_ vii. Ere.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

- Blank pages have been removed. - Redundant title page has been removed. - A few obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. - Otherwise spelling and hyphenation variations remain unchanged. - In the replications of earlier title pages at the beginning, use of the long s ‘ſ’ and ‘VV’ for W are retained. - Listed “ERRATA” left uncorrected, as done by the editor. - Footnotes: After the first 10, they appear as sidenotes, as in the book. Some have multiple references. - “The Epistle” chapter heading inserted to match page headings of that section. - The V like arrangement of the lines at the end of some chapters has not been followed, as it was unreliable and unsightly with variable viewer widths, and according to the editor in the preface: “they do not indicate a division of the text or matter, but were simply compositors’ devices to fill up a page...”. - The Unicode flower symbol ‘❈’ is identical to that used in the original, but is rotated 45°.

Text version only: - Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). - Text enclosed by equals is in bold (=bold=). - Text enclosed by ‘►◄’ is in blackletter font (►blackletter◄). - Text enclosed by ‘♦’ is a sidenote. - Text marked as ‘s̶a̶y̶d̶e̶’ is struck through. - Purely decorative illustrations have been removed. - Sidenote references to page numbers in earlier editions have been removed.

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