M. [Antonie van] Leeuwenhoek fixed his objects, if they were ſolid, to the foregoing point with glue; if they were fluid, he fitted them on a little plate of talc, or exceeding thin blown glaſs, which he afterwards glued to the needle, in the ſame manner as his other objects.

Hugh gave the boy apples or other small apposites[…], but the child was too interested in the bishop to notice the gifts.

A number nine pill was all they could hope for if they went sick.

to put off the evil day