| V. 1. | Swollen neck. — A superstition of the ancients was that the neck swelled on the bridal night, and virginity was tested by the proportion of the skull and the neck. See Beverland "Draped Virginity". | |
| VI. | Poor, poor deluded victims of Satan! If they only knew the holy joy of even the least of Jesu's lambs! | |
| VII. 13. | Bull's blood. — Supposed to be a poison by the ancients. Thus Themistocles is said to have died. | |
| IX. 9. | Cypress. — Symbol of death. | |
| 10. | Acacia. — Symbol of resurrection. | |
| X. 1. | The poppy-fields. — They killed themselves with laudanum. | |
| XII. 1. | Yahoos. — See Swift's Voyage to Laputa. It is feared that the mad Dean intended to satirize mankind, the race for which the Lord of Glory died! | |
| XIII. | Rejoice, we conquer. It si really very extraordinary how Satan's blindness and fury possess them to the very end. Even as they died, maybe one fervent cry of repentence to the dear Saviour of all men would have been heard, and the gates of |
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