[Line: 124 steaks] All old editions 'stakes'--a very common spelling, which Mr. Berdan keeps. As he modernizes the rest, his readers may be under the impression that the ogre impaled the infants before devouring them, which was not, I think, alleged by the most savoury professor on the Roundhead side.] [Line: 127 souse] = 'pickle'. 'they have these' _1677_: 'they've several' _1647_, _1651_: 'they have several' _1653_.] [Line: 130 Bishop's] _1677_, _1687_ editions have the apostrophe. Laud is probably referred to in 'Bishop's'. The force of all this, and its application to other times, are admirable.] [Line: 133 The Countess--pretty clearly Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (1599-1660)--beauty, wit, harlot, and traitress (though, too late, she repented). Amsterdam] The religious indifference of the Dutch being a common reproach. _1677_ and its followers read 'with' for 'will', which would alter the sense completely.] [Line: 134 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ have 'religious' in the well-known noun sense, and it is possibly better.] [Line: 144 Sir Arthur Haselrig (died 1661)--a very busy person throughout the troubles, but not considered as exactly a prime mover.] [Line: 148 _1677_ '_the_ cur'.] [Line: 149 'rabble' is _1677_ and seems good, though the earlier 'rebel' might do.] [Line: 152 a fault] _1677_ default--not so technical.] [Line: 153 Serjeants John Glyn[ne] (1607-66) and John Maynard (1602-90) were well-known legal bandogs on the Roundhead side in the earlier stages; but both trimmed cleverly during the later, and sold themselves promptly to the Crown at the Restoration. Glynne died soon. Maynard lived to prosecute the victims of the Popish Plot, and to turn his coat once more, at nearly ninety, for William of Orange.] [Line: 155 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ 'l_a_bels': _1677_ 'Thus libels but amount to him we see T' enjoy'.] [Line: 158 _1677_ 'St. Peter', which looks plausible, though I am not sure that it is better than the genitive. _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ have 'yet' for 'and' as in other cases.] [Line: 167 the accumulative king] Pym? who was nicknamed 'king' Pym, and if not exactly 'accumulative' (for his debts were paid by Parliament) must have been expensive and was probably rapacious. Others think it means 'the Committee', 'accumulative' being = 'cumulative' (or rather 'plural'). They quote, not without force, our poet's prose _Character of a Country Committee man_, 'a Committee man is a name of multitude', the phrase 'accumulative treason' occurring in the context.] [Line: 175 _1677_ transfers 'the' to before 'Nurse'--a great loss, the unarticled and familiar 'Nurse' being far better--and reads 'Sibils charm'.] [Line: 176 'and' _1653_, 1677: 'nay and' _1647_, _1651_, _1687._] [Line: 177 _1677_ 'Clown salutes'.]