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Rh 1530, page 39. I set it down word for word in the old orthography, and shall take leave to subjoin a few explanatory notes.

, This line describes the year when these events shall happen. Seven and ten make seventeen, which I explain seventeen hundred, and this number added to nine, makes the year we are now in ; for it must be understood of the natural year, which begins the first of January. , &c. The river Thames frozen twice in one year, so as men to walk on it, is