Having grown accustomed to something unpleasant.

Allusion to the Biblical story of the prodigal son, who left home, squandered his inheritance, and finally returned to his father's house in shame, only to be forgiven for his folly (Luke 15:11).

A coastal town in southeast Yorkshire.

Here merely the general action of fleeing, with no associations of secretive marriage.

A river dividing the counties of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire along the east coast of England, far to the north of London.

Propose.

(Shinagel 8, footnote 6)

Apprenticeships in eighteenth century London often began around the age of fourteen, and lasted seven years.

(See De Munck, Bert, and Hugo Soly. "'Learning on the Shop Floor' in Historical Perspective." Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship. Eds. Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan, and Hugo Soly. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007), p. 18)

Relating to manual labor.

(Shinagel 6, footnote 2)

Crusoe's origins reflect the reshaping of the social hierarchy to include an anomalous merchant middle class that belonged to neither the gentry nor the commons, and perhaps the need to create a literary space for readers of this educated class.

Heatedly, vehemently; as opposed to affectionately.

My intended purpose; but also with a possible foreshadowing of the way that the design of fate or Providence will play a role in Crusoe's life.

That such books as this will be read quickly, so that the truth of the narrative has no bearing on its value as entertainment or instruction.

(See Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe Ed. Michael Shinagel. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), p. 3, footnote 1)

Abbreviation for Lat. videlicet, meaning here "namely."

Defoe capitalizes all nouns consistently throughout the novel. Robinson Crusoe is one of several eighteenth century works to do this, although the practice largely died out after the 1750s.

(See Gӧrlach, Manfred. Introduction to Early Modern English. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978), p. 49)