[Footnote II.18: And more above,] i.e., moreover, besides.
[Footnote II.19: His solicitings,] i.e., his love-making, his tender expressions.
[Footnote II.20: If I had played the desk, or table book;] This line may either mean if I had conveyed intelligence between them, or, known of their love, if I had locked up his secret in my own breast, as closely as it were confined in a desk or table book.
[Footnote II.21: Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb;] i.e., connived at it.