Annotation - Chapter 7, Page 41

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  • (41:6) "Now weare coming to the curse roads of it Erny now weare getting down to terpitation"

In a typical example of puns serving to convey the story under the story, "crossroads" and "interpretation" have both been given rather sinister connotations—the latter now resembles "trepidation" and "turpitude."